{"id":10804,"date":"2016-07-08T07:32:22","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T11:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/?p=10804"},"modified":"2016-07-08T07:34:33","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T11:34:33","slug":"new-plates-and-a-new-transponder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/new-plates-and-a-new-transponder\/","title":{"rendered":"New plates and a new transponder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_6470.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 6470\" title=\"IMG_6470.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"598\" height=\"319\" style=\"left\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/><em>Odometer: 1,349<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t taken any trips lately, so I haven&#8217;t had much to write about in Driving Lightning. That said, Lightning is settling into our household nicely. Recent milestones include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A new EZ-Pass transponder<\/strong>. The Massachusetts EZ-Pass office in Boston <a href=\"http:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/ez-pass-is-not-always-ez\/\">wouldn&#8217;t replace my 12-year-old FastLane transponder until it registered as &#8220;failed&#8221; on its tester<\/a>. However, the Natick office on the Mass Pike recognized that 11-year-old batteries probably weren&#8217;t going to cut it with the Tesla&#8217;s windshield attenuation, and gave me one of the new transponders. I mounted it on the windshield, and so far  it has been read by the Mass Pike toll readers realiably.<\/li>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_6443.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 6443\" title=\"IMG_6443.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"299\" height=\"226\" style=\"float:right;\" \/><\/p>\n<li><strong>My new ham radio plates<\/strong>. I received notification in June that my ham radio plates were delivered to the RMV, so I traded in my old plates for my new ones as shown. I&#8217;m thrilled with both the short license code (I can now actually remember my license plate when asked!) and the all-important lightning bolt logo for Lightning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I do have a couple of minor issues that I&#8217;m going to have the service center address July 11: I get some resonant buzzing from the AC unit at low speed, and there&#8217;s a leather defect on one of the rear seats. Overall, though, Lightning is fully operational now. I&#8217;ve driven it into Boston, to the grocery, to Geeks Who Drink (Tuesday night Trivia in Waltham), and it is performing flawlessly. I&#8217;m seeing better efficiency (i.e., fewer watts per mile) than the car itself predicts, and that means more battery range than advertised.<\/p>\n<p>Because I&#8217;m not driving much, I&#8217;m continuing to schedule my battery charging during peak solar power generation times. So on those rare occasions when I am driving my Tesla, I really am driving on sunshine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Odometer: 1,349 I haven&#8217;t taken any trips lately, so I haven&#8217;t had much to write about in Driving Lightning. That said, Lightning is settling into our household nicely. Recent milestones include: A new EZ-Pass transponder. The Massachusetts EZ-Pass office in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/new-plates-and-a-new-transponder\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[839],"tags":[840],"class_list":["post-10804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electric-cars","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10806,"href":"https:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10804\/revisions\/10806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}