Recent content by Giampigua

you don’t need to imagine: just read their explanations.

100 kWh battery is available in Tesla since 7 / 8 years. No battery improvements since then? Elon believes that this is the optimal battery / range. My conclusion is that if they wanted, they could offer a better battery with same weight. Others (see audi/mercedes, for example) improved their...

In my country (Italy) is not available yet. But sooner or later will be and it is one alternative I am considering next year if Tesla remains as is now. Other are EQS, zeekr, Nio

In a long trip (say 600 miles) at high speed (in Europe limit is generally 81 mph) the first leg would be 250 miles. Following legs of 100/150 miles. This results in a 3 hours + 1,5 + 1,5 + 1,5 hours driving legs. Add to this the very expensive charging costs (here can be 90 to 100 cents per kWh...

I appreciate what you say... Of course it all depends on personal situation. A real world range of 400 miles would be perfect to me. The point is that when we refer to EPA or WLTP based range (or as someone here sarcastically called "Tesla range") we need a kind of "conversion rate" ,which stays...

I appreciate in general some things reported in the article. Here are my pros and cons PRO Tesla started a new way to design car and made a revolution on the business model: direct sale, no need to bargain the price, new production processes, Superchargers, state of the art batteries, best range...

The same for me. And the same thought: so stupid not to offer a choice. I guess the sale reduction of model S is due to it

Agree! One is me... If they do not change it, it will be a "no go" for me as I will look for a replacement next year or so. I also agree with tallypwner on the range increase: In one year there will be a number of cars that offer more range, and Model S is still at the same level of 2018/2019.

I don't think so... charging speed decreases as the SOC % increases. Thus, the bigger is the battery, the more kWh can be charged at higher speed before charging speed decreases... Anyway, we should not consider that a bigger battery capacity is simply obtained with a bigger battery with the...

My cent: the huge discount recently granted on MS is a clear sign that something "major" is going to happen. Those discounts happened in the past: remember when they were on the point to sell the MS Refresh two years ago?. Thus, excluding that discounts are in relation to minor refresh, I...

This is true, assuming that batteries do not improve... Considering improvements meantime achieved, it is defintively possible for Tesla to offer a range increase of 20/30% with the same battery weight. Some people do not care. some other like me would appreciate and ready to buy it. Let's...

Given that anyone has its own preferences, and that (unfortunately, from the efficiency point of view) people tend to prefer SUVs, to my opinion EVs are much better as sedan rather than SUVs due to efficiency reason. Model S has an enormous cargo space, and driving a car with a lower gravity...

Specially the battery range boost! A + 20% should be possible, considering that 100 kWh (or so) are there since years now

here is a first real drive test. https://www.arenaev.com/zeekr_001_with_qilin_battery_road_tested_with_surprising_results-news-1871.php At 120 km/h it reached 864 km. It seems better than Lucid. Once again: will Tesla react?

I think they should. This is what I hope. Better to say: more energy dense options exist. What I don’t know is if they are simply waiting for competitors to offer more range before increasing theirs, or if they deny the argument. Till 2/3 years ago Tesla was emphasising each small range...