Model s refresh

Black on white Model S refresh

Another refreshed Model S found in the wild, this one seems to be at the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, CA. This car looks fantastic 🤩🤩🤩

Ceramic coating a wrapped Model Y with Feynlab's PPF & Vinyl V2

Should you do ceramic coating on your wrapped Tesla? Watch a freshly wrapped Model Y being treated with Feynlab’s PPF & Vinyl and decide for yourself.

Delivery estimate from Model S Plaid+ changes to mid 2022

It used to say end of 2021 and now it’s mid 2022. I’m not sure if demand is really high or if they are just delaying it, interesting nonetheless.

First look at Tesla’s adaptive suspension for the Model S and X refresh

One of the recent additions for the Model S and X is the adaptive suspension. According to Tesla, this new suspension uses a predictive model to anticipate how the damping will need to be adjusted based on the road, speed, and other vehicle and driver inputs. Now that new owners are getting their hands on these new cars, greater information about it is going out. Here is a table of how the new suspension compares in terms of efficiency to the old one.

One of the recent additions for the Model S and X is the adaptive suspension. According to Tesla, this new suspension uses a predictive model to anticipate how the damping will need to be adjusted based on the road, speed, and other vehicle and driver inputs. Now that new owners are getting their hands on these new cars, greater information about it is going out. Here is a table of how the new suspension compares in terms of efficiency to the old one. [Watch the video on Youtube]
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhGVTJ_FWAM)

Read more: Teslarati

FSD subscription will require HW3

Up until now, you could purchase FSD and the price would include the hardware upgrade. However, it looks like the subscription won’t behave the same way and it will require HW3. We’ve also seen folks getting the HW3 upgrade ‘for free’ when purchasing the MCU 2 retrofit so… who knows? We can only wait and see.

Gear selection under the wireless charger

If Smart Shift isn’t your thing and the central screen fails, there is a way of always selecting the gear, the car comes with P R N D capacitive buttons right under the wireless charger.

Giveaway Alert: Win a Frunk Cooler for your Tesla

It’s giveaway week again! Going out and about with your Tesla? Need a cooler to take snacks and drinks with you while keeping them at the right temperature? Participate in this week’s giveaway (on Twitter) and win this awesome frunk cooler by Evannex.

Great photos and videos from one of the 25 first Plaid S

Beautiful, thank you Omar for sharing!

Is the redesigned 2021 Tesla Model S all that different?

The refreshed Model S isn’t that different on the outside, but the inside has completely being reimagined. This article goes through all the differences, take a look!

Model S tutorial video showing selecting gears & using yoke steering controls

Love the visualization on the screen, it seems really intuitive, although I’m sure it will take time to get used to it.

Model S/X is available to order in Europe

It was about time! Finally, folks in Europe can order the new Model S and Model X, with estimated deliveries starting around Christmas. I wonder if my friend Lars from Todos Electricos will get a new Model S, what do you think Lars?

Model S/X refresh: you can activate the center console shifter by briefly pressing both scroll wheels

The new Model S and X don’t come with a stalk to select gears, instead, they come with what Tesla calls a “smart shift”. This system tries to understand your car’s surroundings to pick the right gear for you, if the car is wrong you can override that using the center console. In the case the center console isn’t working correctly, there are other selectors that turn on under the wireless phone charging area, and in case those don’t turn on, you can activate them by briefly pressing both scroll wheels.

New hatch, diffused LED tail lights, and larger charge port

Tesla keeps evolving their latest car, as they do with all cars. Here you can see some clean shots of the near rear end of the refreshed Model S. What do you think of how it looks?

New Model S center console

This cool gif shows how good-looking and configurable the new Model S center console is.

New Model S refresh OS

I have to admin that I like it very much. I wonder how Tesla is going to adapt this (if at all) for the 3 and Y given that they need to leave room for the car visualization there.

New Model S the new badging, new rear, and new headlights

Another look, also by our friends at the Kilowatts, of the new new Model S.

No 'refresh' for Model X or Model S anytime soon

There have been a lot of rumors about a major refresh for the Model S and X for a while now. However, Elon just made clear on Twitter that they aren’t doing a refresh and that Tesla is constantly changing small (sometimes bigger) parts of the car. In my opinion, this doesn’t mean that it isn’t possible that they change something like the dash or something else, but they aren’t going to do it as a full refresh. Also, timing is something that no one knows. Honestly, if you like a current model just get it now, don’t wait because Tesla keeps on improving their cars constantly.

Read more: Twitter

Plaid Model S walk around

Really cool to see another one of these! This one has handles that are the same color as the car, I don’t think I’ve seen that in any of the other prototypes spotted in the wild, I wonder if that is going to be an option.

Push the right side of the Yoke to honk

This isn’t the first time we talk about this, but I think the first time Elon tweeted about it wasn’t out yet. If you press on the right side of the Yoke, not directly aiming at the honk button, the car detects it and hoks as well. Good addition.

Refreshed Model S interior video

Check out the interior of the new Model S, this one doesn’t have the yoke but it’s equally beautiful. Looking forward to seeing it in person!

Refreshed Model S yoke pictures

I don’t know about the ergonomics, but the more pictures I see, the more I like it. 😍

Second row screen in S/X refresh will allow watching videos while driving

I mean… taxis, kids,… I can see many use cases in which allowing watching videos while driving (in the second row) is going to be a great experience without compromising safety. What do you think?

See how to change gears in the refreshed S and X

Refreshed S and X are coming without a gear stalk and instead, they have what Tesla calls ‘smart shift’. With the smart shift, the car will try to predict the gear that you want, which sounds great but, what if you want to override it? Well, it seems that you can just slide the car on the screen for it to change from D to R.

Tesla Model S Plaid tilting display mechanism analyzed and confirmed in teardown

The tilting of the refreshed Model S was one of the highly anticipated features, but so far it hasn’t been delivered to users. In the recent teardown done by Sandy Munro, he shows that the screen actually comes with the tilting mechanism, and they analyzed it. It seems to be functional, except for the missing motors. Maybe this can be retrofitted in the future?

Tesla MS refresh with minimalist interior and M3 motors coming this year

I’ve been hearing about a Model S interior refresh since I got mine in Dec 2017. I guess if we keep saying it one day it will happen 😉. We love our Model S but definitely the interior has some room for a more modern design although I’m not sure that the mono screen - ala M3 - is going to make everyone happy. Definitely excited to see how Tesla can evolve a vehicle so beautiful as the MS.

Read more: Jalopnik

Tesla updates its mobile app to add refresh Model S

In what one would assume means the refresh Model S deliveries will start soon, Tesla just released a new version of its mobile app that contains the assets to display the new version of a car. Have you ordered one? Do you have a delivery date? Let us know!

Yoke adventures

As folks get more time with the Yoke they are now developing new habits that make using the Yoke second nature. As bonus points, go to 2:30 to see shifting gears on the screen as well as a gorgeous full-screen backup camera.

Yoke Adventures #4

Omar talks about his experiences 2 weeks into the Yoke. Take a look!