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Very good article. Thanks for posting it.
The article indicates model S is going to be a hatchback.
Some stuff I learned from that article that I didn't know before:
[ I supposed that is a good thing considering that the price of so many things has been going up, and expecting everything to still be available at the last minute would have been risky. They must have quite a warehouse somewhere to store all that stuff. ]
- 80% of the parts for hundreds of cars already purchased.
...plus lots of anecdotes of the company history so far, which is interesting to know, but painful to contemplate...
Thats the nightmare every car-producer (small or big) must avoid by all means.
Flabby - those were pseudo SUVs...
I doubt that lithium ion cells are included in the 80%-parts-inventory thing. There's no need to horde those, they're being built by the millions every year; laptops aren't going away anytime soonI wonder about the Li-Ion batteries that have a lifespan in calendar years that starts ticking away as soon as they are manufactured. You wouldn't want to create new battery packs with 2 or 3 year old cells. The packs are a significant part of the car price, and supposedly the price of cells drops over time so you would think that they would want to wait until the last minute there.
Martin sez:
This article has a disappointing number of factual errors, many of them significant errors. For example, I did not advocate using the Lotus Elise body for the Roadster - rather, I advocated using the same fiberglass technology and supplier as the Elise body, but with our own body design. (I advocated this because almost every other car company that tried to make carbon fiber bodies got in trouble doing so.) This nuance was somehow lost on Mr. Copeland. And it is a huge stretch to describe this site as a “tell all blog!” There are many other errors in the article. But at least Mr. Copeland understood who was and who was not a founder of Tesla Motors