Any specific questions I should ask them?
Or items I should check to be sure that they are physically included?
Something you wish you had asked?
Thanks
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Congratulations!
I can’t think of anything. Take the time to adjust things to your liking. Seat position, steering wheel position, how the air flows in the climate control. When you get home, set Home in the navigation system. I have set my side mirrors to fold when I hit my driveway so that the garage is that wee bit easier to enter/exit. If it is a Y, adjust how far the hatch opens so it doesn’t hit anything in the garage.
And get familiar with the app. I particularly appreciate being able to see the interior temperature, and turn on the AC/heat, remotely before I get in. And the Locate feature is handy.
The largest adaptation I’ve made is that I hardly ever use the brake pedal. That was not hard to get used to, and I love it, but it is different.
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Look in the sub trunk (you lift the flat part up to access it) to make sure they included the J1772-to-NACS adapter for AC charging at non-NACS sites. I use that thing a few times a week - at the grocery store, at the movie theater, at the library, etc.
It looks like this, and usually comes in a plastic bag.
If you don’t see it in the sub-trunk, look in the glovebox (open it by pressing the “voice” button and saying “open glovebox” after the beep), look in the center console storage areas, look in the seatback pockets, look in the frunk (to open frunk, either press the “frunk open” button on the main screen while in Park, or press the voice button and say “open frunk”).
Also, BEFORE you drive anywhere, go into the menu structure on the screen and:
- Familiarize yourself somewhat with the menus.
- Setup your phone as a key, your mirror positions, your seat positions, etc.
- Change the driving mode from “Standard” to “Chill”. Later on, after you’ve gotten used to the car, and after you’ve gotten used to the massive instant torque and acceleration, and after you’ve gotten used to one pedal driving, you can go back to standard and try out the maximum acceleration. But I don’t recommend it immediately.
When I took delivery of my first Tesla, I stayed there for well over an hour playing with the settings, and checking all the stuff inside and outside the car. Luckily it was plugged in, so it was charging a bit anyway while I waited. Yours probably won’t be plugged in because they now do many tens of deliveries each day, unlike back in 2021 when they had much fewer per day.
Yep, I use the brake pedal perhaps once every week or two. And as you say, it’s easy to get used to (and hard to get un-used to).
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One pedal control is a revolution. All cars will be like this one day.
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I don’t know … many people are saying that all cars will be zero pedal one day. 
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