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One question. Should I be swapping out my Tesla 110v plug for the nema 5-20 plug? I do have a nema 5-20 receptacle.

Haha! Thanks! Bald is beautiful!!

Thanks for watching!!! 😀

@@goingelectric7826 My 2021 57k mile MY Standard Range is getting a new LFP HV battery right now. I should get it back on Tuesday. 😊

@@RayNLA Nice!!

Thanks for watching the video and reaching out. Yep, one can lock one's car with the app. However, one would first have to check one's app before one could know one's car isn't locked when one's car shouldn't be unlocked. 😜

That is correct: in my case the battery replacement cost me nothing as it was covered by the 8yr/120,000mi warranty likely because it was deemed a manufacturing defect. I don't know the particulars of rock or debris damage, but I imagine that would not be covered by the warranty as that is outside the control of the manufacturer. Presumably the vehicle's car insurance policy would cover that to some degree or another. Perhaps someone reading this comment who has experienced that can chime in.

@@goingelectric7826 thank you for your kind response. But, I’m trying to buy a car now, but i don’t have anybody to ask how to buy a car. I’m afraid to ask a dealer because i feel they won’t say honestly. I’m sad that i don’t have anybody to ask for help

It was a good time! Thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching and reaching out. 120,000 miles is reasonable enough as a basic warranty, but I do think companies offering longer warranties will find some eager customers willing to pay a bit more for such vehicles.

Thanks for watching and reaching out. I plugged into the outlet directly with the mobile connector rather than an extension cord. I imagine that may have something to do with it. Cool tho that you have a 12 gauge extension cord and can get electricity farther out to your car.

Yep, expecting brand new replacement parts isn't exactly realistic in many cases. Definitely looking forward to battery manufacturing ramping up and repair/refurb/replacement costs coming down. Thanks for watching and reaching out!

Hi, please be more specific with your opinion and reasoning. Thanks!

Thanks for the kind words! 🙏

Sorry to hear that! Has the Service Center gotten back to you yet on timing? Good news so far with my new battery though: it's functioning perfectly a year on and hasn't experienced any degradation. Fingers crossed it outperforms my first battery!

Thanks for reaching out. CARB states 10yr/150,000mi only for PZEVs rather than BEVs. There seems to be some debate online whether or not a BEV is a subset of PZEVs per CARB, but proposals have been made to clarify this issue and extend the 10yr/150,000mi warranty to include BEVs although that seems to not kick in until 2026. Feel free to share any documentation or lawsuit rulings you might have come across showing the 10yr/150,000mi rule being currently applied/enforced above and beyond Tesla's current documentation showing 8yr/120,000mi. Thanks!

Thanks for watching and reaching out. I definitely think the future will be quite positive for batteries, including battery repairs. However, over the next several tens of months there's still going to be quite a bit of uncertainty in the market and that will have some decent impacts on consumers. Best of luck to us all!

I welcome everyone to have whatever opinions they like. Curious though: what did you object to in my video regarding my dead high voltage battery + replacement for $0?

Haha. Right!! 🤣

Thanks for watching and reaching out! Yep, I actually pay for FSD now. 😀🤖🚘

I'm not a mechanic, but wondering if something could be wound around an axel or caught in one of your wheels.

Thanks for watching and sorry for the late reply. 😳 After 85,000 miles, Tesla service techs always seem to hear something with my suspension but then store managers get involved and suddenly they don't hear anything. It has been looked at by numerous text and they all seem to come to their own conclusions on things but it never gets repaired. The only thing I can think of is a fundamental manufacturing flaw which no store wants to repair or even could repair. My 2020 was built before the simplified/reduced castings went into production in 2021. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Thanks for watching!!! 🥶 I'm happy to report that various software upgrades have significantly improved winter performance over the past 2 winters.

Thanks! The 13,000mi video was a lot of fun to make and I feel like I was such a newbie back in 2021! Haha. At 85,000mi now and BlueLightning is still chugging along. However, I did drive over a nail last night so I'll need to get that patched later today.

Thanks for reaching out and sharing your kind words. I'm glad you enjoyed the video. One of these days I may make an updated version but I think the basic information would remain the same. I did make another video shortly after this one about 25% faster charging with the 120V 20A NEMA 5-20 adapter. If you have that outlet at home, you might want to check out that video. Good luck!

Thanks for watching the video and reaching out. And apologies for not getting back to you sooner. How has your car been coming along? Did you end up needing a battery replacement?

Hi! You need a couple variables: • Projected range in miles • Wh/mi > kWh/mi (decimal) • Battery charge as a decimal So: (Projected miles * kWh/mi) / % battery charge as decimal Therefore: If: Projected range = 219mi Wh/mi = 214 (becomes 0.214kWh/mi) % = 62% = 0.62 Therefore: 219mi*0.214 = 46.87kWh 46.87kWh/0.62 = 75.6kWh @ 100% charge Be aware: battery numbers fluctuate up and down a bit depending on various conditions so don't focus too much on a single calculation at a single point in time. Instead, focus more on your averages over time. Let me know if you have any questions!

Glad it was helpful! NEMA 5-20 can actually work for many EV owners who don't drive all that much every day especially if they have a DC charger in the area for those occasions when they need a bit more range and faster than typical daily charging. Thanks for watching!

Realistically even going up to a 20A 240v circuit would be far better it's even faster than 50a at 120

@@KiRiTO72987 Hi, thanks for watching. 20A*240V = 4.8kW vs 50A*120V = 6kW. Very technically, the 120V option you mentioned delivers more energy than the 240V option. However, most consumers don't have access to 50A 120V outlets/service, whereas higher amp 240V circuits often already exist and/are much more comment to install. So yes, 240V is better in most cases and EV owners should install them if at all possible. But for those who can't, or whose driving needs are quite low, *some* EV owners can actually live on 120V (15-20A).

Thanks for watching. The good news is that Tesla provides a 120,000mi/8yr warranty which insignificantly better than a typical ICE 50,000-60,000mi warranty; and if anything went wrong Tesla may well provide a flat bed tow and loaner car so that's helpful (you'd have to confirm with Tesla). Lastly, while my video may seem a bit dramatic, as I mentioned in it, very very few people online are experiencing HV battery failures so it's likely the overall rate of failure is low and your chances of having one are also low. It'll be interesting over time to see what the failure rate is compared to ICEs within 120,000mi. Only time will tell. Best of luck!

I typically stay within 5-10mph of the posted speed limit. 😉

Hey! Thanks for watching. I definitely saw your profile on the FB group. 😃 You're very kind to binge all 45 videos. I have to laugh because the first year was super "beginner". All just shot on my phone and barely edited, but then I got a bit more sophisticated in my most recent videos. Interestingly, once the pandemic wound down and I returned to the office I had much less time to make videos so they're far and few between. I had begun the dead battery video in May '23 but then summer work got in the way and I didn't publish it until October once RUclips sent me a nastygram telling me to feed the beast or be demonetized! 😳 (I make about $35/mo. Woo hoo!!) So I got that video out the door asap. I'm actually working on a 5,000mi road trip/FSD/Supercharger video that's hogging up all my Mac's memory at the moment but work and family care issues are taking my focus again. Ahhhh... life! Once I get the road trip video out I'd like to crank out a 90,000mi review video as well. Fingers crossed!! 🤞 Thank you for your very kind words and encouragement, that'll light a fire for me!

Glad it was helpful! It's interesting that NEMA 5-20 outlets seem so unknown to use all - I didn't even know myself until someone pointed it out to me. It's pretty crazy that many people can actually live on a 120V 16A alone, especially if there's a DC charger in the area for the occasional faster charge if necessary. Best of luck and thanks for watching!

Hi, as best I've seen from various EV battery recyclers posted online, the process is that the entire battery is put into a (liquid) shredder, the various metals and plastics are easily separated out and then resold on different markets, especially the "black mass" market. With those processes, a good 90% of the battery can be recycled, which is a vastly higher rate that what most trash/waste gets recycled across our economies currently. Whether or not EV recycling actually occurs will largely be the result of national/state laws, and the economics involved. But technologically, EV battery recycling already happens and is a fully proven technology/process.

It's great to see all the growing competition. Looking forward to better and cheaper solutions over the upcoming years!

Thanks for reaching watching! It’s an interesting topic: it appears that no EV or battery manufacturer is keen to release specific data on their battery performance. I suppose that makes sense because it’s all highly sensitive, proprietary information that they wouldn’t want to release to competitors… but this lack of data is a real problem for late-adopters & laggards in the EV market (and even potential early adopters!) to make the switch. Some people are *extremely* risk averse and the lack of data feeds into that. The good news is that growing numbers of EVs are now starting to exit their warranties so 3rd party battery resellers and repair shops are beginning to get access to some of that data, but it’s going to take years to make its way to the general car buying public. I suppose it’s all a giant Catch-22 in 2024. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Here’s to hoping the situation improves among all EV/battery manufacturers sooner than later.

Thanks for watching and reaching out! That’s certainly not a bad idea. To Tesla’s credit (and other EV manufacturers as well), the typical ICE power/drivetrain warranty is around 50,000-60,000 miles, so Tesla’s 120,000mi battery warranty is actually spectacular. That said, the ICE market has a hundred years of 3rd party repair data so consumers have a decent sense of what repairs, refurbs and replacements will cost - and perhaps even more important - how to get their ICEs fixed. The 3rd party battery repair industry is only now just ramping up and it’s anybody’s guess to who’s good, how much it costs, and how long batteries function after repairs. It’s a whole lot of question marks that EV/battery manufacturers would do well to address instead of waiting 30-60 years for the market to figure it out. Frankly, I’d happily spend $2,000 on an extended warranty that covered my Y up to 180,000mi (i.e. +60,000mi). That would be helpful not just to me, but also to the resale value of my Y to anyone who’d think about buying it when it comes time to sell it as I get close to 120,000mi.

HI! Thanks for watching and reaching out. (Just getting to comments now. Eeek!) I don’t have any experience with NEMA 14-50 other than what Tesla has published on their website: “The recommended home charging installation for Tesla vehicles is a 240 volt NEMA 14-50 outlet. This outlet is commonly used for electric ranges and large recreational vehicles. Installed with a 50-amp circuit breaker, this outlet enables a recharge rate of about 25 miles per hour.” - Voltage: Single phase, 208-250 volt AC supply, 60 hertz - Circuit Breaker: 50 amp (125% overcurrent protection) - Operating Current: 40 amp (maximum continuous current) - Conductors: 6 AWG, Copper Wire Only. Upsize wiring for installations over 150 feet - Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter: Not required - Service Disconnect: Not required - Receptacle Recommendation: High quality, industrial grade receptacle Examples: Hubbell part # HBL9450A, Cooper part #5754N - Ventilation: Not required - Outdoors: Install with NEMA 3R rainproof enclosure If you have the ability to install it on your property, it appears to be a good option. In terms of time to charge: since its peak performance is 240V 40A, that means that it would charge in a best case scenario at 240*40 = 9.6kW. To charge a 78kWh Model Y battery from 0% to 100% would take 78kWh/9.6kW = 8 hours 7 minutes 30 seconds, or 0.81h or 49 minutes per 10%, which is a very nice charging speed. You’d easily wake up to a full (80%?) battery every morning no matter how much to drove the car the day before. Best of luck!!

Thanks for watching and reaching out. My personal view is that each person should buy whatever they feel most comfortable with. Right now, EVs and all this electricity & battery stuff are pretty unfamiliar for a lot of people, so many car buyers should sit out this generation of EVs until the entire market and technology get mainstreamed. That might not happen until the 2030-2035 timeframe. In the mean time, you might be better served by a plug-in electric hybrid. Best of luck!

Hi! Thanks for watching and reaching out. In reality, ICEs have been breaking down for nearly two centuries now, so videos don’t need to be made about it. We all know that ICEs eventually break down and need to be repaired, refurbed or replaced, and because we have over a century of really good cost data on it, consumers have a good sense of what to expect. And if they don’t know the details, they can ask around or just look it up. Also, we should always be aware that most people with no battery problems don’t make videos about how great their batteries continue to function, so we run the risk of a confirmation/sample bias with the larger number of battery issue videos compared to the absence of videos about good batteries. The current data coming out on modern EV battery degradation and sudden battery death/repair/refurb/replacement *appears* to be positive, or rather, quite low. Despite that, there’s a major lack of clear data in terms of frequency and cost for repairs, and so that’s why I made this video. My goal isn’t to make it look like EV batteries are unusually unreliable compared to ICEs (it’s currently unknown one way or the other), but rather, just to let viewers know that it does happen (on occasion) and also what my in-warranty experience was like, which was really good. However, out-of-warranty repair costs are going to be anyone’s guess. We’re about to find that out as millions of EVs start exiting their warranties and 3rd party repair shops get their hands on ‘em. My sense is that the results will actually be quite positive based on what I’ve seen over the past 4 years (or not seen!) from other EV owners, but that’s still going to take a good 5-10 years for the market to shake out. If you’re hesitant to buy an EV currently, that makes sense. You might do better with a plug-in hybrid battery gasoline ICE for your next car until all this EV battery data gets mainstreamed by the early 2030s. Then again, if you’re the sort of person who tends to replace their ICE in under 120,000 miles anyways, then a Tesla (or other EV) might be great for you since any rare battery malfunction would be covered under warranty anyways. Best of luck!

Haha… thanks! I decided to go dramatic on this one. ;) I actually had a bunch of different thumbnails that I made but this one seemed the most fun.