Month: March 2026

Tesla × atg (#E28)

Quick change of plans for today: Tesla uploaded a short video to Youtube this morning called TERAFAB.

While it’s not exactly going viral at 200k views within 20 hours, it’s doing reasonably well given Tesla has 2.9 million subscribers as of now. Clearly, there’s room for more.

The interesting part (for me) however is 0:37. Out of all the Tesla and SpaceX products and factory equipment shown, there’s something that is NOT made by Tesla. Not shown for a terribly long time and also unlabelled, but it does stand out:

That is a purchased machine. […]

22nd March 2026 23rd March 2026 By Bzzz In No Comment

Tesla Model S Grounding Stud (#P52)

[tiny update in #P52F1]
*IT Crowd emergency services voice* Has this…ever happened to you?

Well, probably not, nobody is driving old Tesla Model S’es. If however you do, and you get a sudden influx of weird and wonderful warnings that include the following, this blog post might help you out.

  • frunk sensor suddenly shouts at you with MCU_u005_FrunkOpen, despite the frunk clearly being closed correctly – starts off with sub-second warnings that can barely be read on the screen, progresses to super-annoying intermittent contact where it beeps at you every second for a new event, up to full failure where the fault can be ignored once via button and then just persists
  • low beams (Xenon) on passenger side are out, including a BC_W006_rightHeadLightFail warning about their malfunction – in advanced stages also the Xenon high beams might be unavailable and the LED daytime running lights may flicker or are off entirely
  • horn isn’t working anymore, silent (ha!)
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8th March 2026 6th April 2026 By Bzzz In 1 Comment