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Tag: Tesla

  • Green Technology Tour

    Charles and I are going to participate in the WAVE (world advanced vehicle expedition) along the Grand Tour of Switzerland. This years tour will take place from June 8th to 16th and is titled “Green Technology Tour”. We enter the trophy as Team Bitcoin with a big BTC logo on the frunk. The tour will […]

  • Why I deactivated Tesla app access

    The official Tesla App is unfortunately not available for Ubuntu Phone. And there is no indication that it will be on my next phone, the Librem5 from Purism. On the bright side, from the computer I can control my car using the VisibleTesla desktop app running inside a docker container. But the best part about […]

  • Road trip to Norway with the Tesla

    Our last road trip was a while back. After we returned from South America, we planned that our next big trip with the Büssli would be to Scandinavia. But we figured that family holidays with small kids are better stationary at one camp ground. Now that the kids are old enough, we didn’t trust the […]

  • Driving the Tesla

    It is now almost three months and 7’000 kilometers. So I thought, I write a small review for my Tesla S85. Silence The immediate most notable difference when driving an electric car is the absence of the engine noise. People who drive big engine gasoline cars often assure how essential this is to their driving […]

  • Choose your bleeding edge

    Are early adopters usually interested in only one new technology, or generally forward looking and open to innovation? I encountered multiple startups that seem to assume the former. As a company you want to make your product available for a large number of potential users. But who are your potential users? Sometimes you have to […]

  • Charging electric vehicles with Bitcoin

    In my last post I ranted about the current payment methods for charging E.V.s. The electricity for a full charge of an electric car costs something in the range of $2 to $20. But most of the time, we only need a partial charge. Credit cards impose enormous fees on low value transactions, and require […]

  • Charging electric vehicles

    First experience In a month of driving the Tesla, I collected some experiences but I feel I’m still a newbie. Charging is obviously very different from fueling a car. I gathered some information before buying the car, but it turned out I still had some misconceptions. The first thing I realized on the day after […]

  • Buying a Tesla with Bitcoin

    The first car that I bought at age twenty was dirt cheap, and didn’t last for more than two years. Then followed some Rover cars that were better, but also didn’t last very long. I was always the last one to own a car before it was no longer economic to fix it. After a […]