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Pretty amusing and biting criticism of Tesla on Conan last night Enjoy - and don't take life too seriously!

seems someone had the same idea as I did and wrote an article The 6 Automakers Closest To Losing Federal Tax Credit

I'm not sure why the question posed in the title has to match the poll question... However, I someone explains how I can edit the post title I'll fix it...

I see your point, but also remember people being concerned that people would stop wearing seat belts and/or drive more recklessly because airbags would save them, seems similar to being lulled by autopilot being so good most of the time...

There have been lots of discussions of the cases in where Autopilot has been implicated/blamed for the death of a occupant. I recently realized that I have yet to see anyone make a comparison to deaths caused by airbags. When they first came out, short/small people were being injured/killed...

I'm interested in everyone's opinion. Hoping that there will be some official news about how many US cars have been sold and/or when they estimate they will hit 200,000

They also make bike racks that hook onto the trunk too... Edit - not specifically for the Model 3 but I would imagine they would work

Received my invite on 4/13 at 5:03pm EST!! I am a non-Tesla owner from Maine who ordered online once right after it opened - 1 hour before reveal

don't forget 800-1000kWh of battery weight (8000lbs???) over the rear wheels to help with traction...

While its great to see the model 3 on the top of this chart what is the real meaning of this stat ($/mile range)??? Has anyone every created a $/range for ICE cars? or more likely a $/0-60mph or $/quarter mile comparison? In my opinion it is $/whatever is a meaningless stat because the total...

The car is more than just the battery so I don't think a straight price/range comparision makes sense. Here are the numbers I calculated: Model S 75D (259mi) - $74,500 100D (335mi) - $97,500 133% capacity, 129% range for 130% of cost Model 3 220mi - $35,000 310mi - $44,000...

I'm not thrilled by the price difference either. 90 miles for $9000 would make the price (not cost) of the base battery $22,000. Which means the price of everything else is only $13,000... This is like Apple charging $100 to go from 32G to 64g when a 64G chip only costs $5 more... It...

Shipping details available now under this link Tesla SSO - Login (requires login) First Production 310 mile range with Rear Wheel Drive $49,000 Dec 2017 - Feb 2018 Standard Battery 220 mile range with Rear Wheel Drive $35,000 Feb - Apr 2018 Dual Motor All-Wheel Drive Choice of 220 or 310...

I said REAR drive was better for traction during acceleration. The basic reason is pure physics. Weight transfer causes the front end to lift reducing amount of weight pressing the tire to the road. In front wheel drive this reduces traction (torque steer is when one wheel has better...

To be clear L2 and HWPC are NOT chargers, they are simply safety switches that communicate with the charger in the car to assure a safe connection before allowing AC power to flow. I remember descriptions that the early supercharges were built by wiring up 12 of the chargers from the car in...

Telsa reports actual car with customer deliveries as their official number and usually talks about number built in the shareholder letter or on the call. There is no benefit in the current quarter for them to push for orders...

1) Bolt implements 1 part of Tesla's strategy missing many others. Certainly haven't reached a pinnacle. 2) Front drive is an optimization of packaging for an ICE vehicle. Rear motor/drive Tesla are supposedly very good in slippery conditions and suffers no space penalty. Rear drive is the...

Looking the attributes for inventory cars at EV-CPO you will see that all cars listed have autopilot "1.0", "2.0" or "FSD". What I was wondering is if the autopilot and 75Kwh options can be turned off and the price of the car dropped accordingly. Basically turning a 75D with FSD into a 60D...

As an existing owner it doesn't affect you so I'm not sure how it limits you in any way...

remember that the AP2 hardware comes for FREE. You don't have to enable full functionality at delivery if you don't want to but you CAN add it later (assuming they do the same thing they are currently doing with the S/X) Another bonus: excise tax is based on sticker price, so you will save...

$2500 at time of purchase, $3,000 after - from new order pages I wonder how that will work for people who have auto-pilot hardware but didn't have to pay for it. Hopefully they do the right thing and enable it at no cost...

I think I have those three choices in the poll at the top of the page. Which one do you think is most likely?

What do you think?

Tesla should at least offer a front end that looks that good.

KPIX-5: 3 Workers Injured In Accident At Fremont Tesla Factory 3 Workers Injured In Accident At Fremont Tesla Factory CBS San Francisco "FREMONT (CBS SF) – An industrial accident at the Tesla factory in Fremont injured three workers Wednesday. Just after noon, Chopper 5 captured images of...

I would love to see an "official" picture of the "curved object" as well.`

Given that the fire is spreading on the ground downhill I would say the car got caught a gas fire of the vehicle that it struck... Battery fires don't produce streams of burning liquid

hard to tell from the picture but is the red stuff a protective film that can be peeled off? As a non-owner I don't know what its supposed to look like but I was just wondering...

I remember an article that stated the Model S uses an accelerometer to activate the break lights when the deceleration rate exceeds the amount of some government standard. I tried to find a reference but didn't have any luck...

You need to look at the size of the breaker in the main panel that feeds to the sub panel you pictured. The size of this breaker will indicate the load the how much current the wires between the panels was meant to handle - ie they pick the main breaker so that it will trip before the panel...

+1 While its unclear if its bad etiquette to do delayed charging on a public EVSE you have clearly demonstrated why its a bad idea !

Is the formula for figuring out the cost to purchase the loaner the same?

The main reason to keep moving in an ICE car is to prevent water from reaching the fan. When you are moving the water is pushed out in front and the level in the engine compartment is lower. If the water level gets high enough the fan will turn into a propeller. As the fan blades not stiff...

IOS 7 car integration or at least hands-free Siri button Heads up display (example)

My read is this is simply a way to get the iphone to display on a remote screen and handle remote button/touch events. Tesla could implement this by making a new "half screen" I will be shocked if they don't offer this. They already make a big deal about firmware updates. Imagine if they...

Enjoyed the talk last night. There were some interesting slides that I hadn't seen elsewhere (like the discussion of traction of front motor/front drive, front motor/rear drive and model S (not sure what call it mid battery/rear motor/rear drive) I especially enjoyed hearing from real Model S...

That just meant that his comment that was being quoted AT THAT TIME were not meant to be a big announcement... He could make an autopilot announcement today and that wouldn't make his previous statement untrue... - - - Updated - - - Paying off the loan early is not necessary. The warrants...

According to the latest tesla offical blog tesla produced 500 Model S cars this week. If they keep that up for the next 9 months that will be an extra 3,750 cars made this year! This should also help them meet or exceed this quarters build estimate of 4,500 too

To clarify - he has a 100amp 240V main and 335amp in 110V loads. So he can draw up to 200amps at 120V (assuming the load is equally distributed over each leg) before tripping the main... I don't know the rules but my 100Amp panel runs an electric range, electric stove top, central air and a...

But have you made sure that it is off? My theory is that the bug is that the setting after upgrading to 4.3 is random and not always off as you would expect... If its off maybe turn it on and see if you can schedule something 2 minutes in the future??? - - - Updated - - - That is if the...

Isn't all of this just that scheduled charging is turned on? Isn't all of this just that scheduled charging is turned on? I thought I read somewhere that the car uses GPS to know where to enable scheduled charging and uses immediate charging everywhere else. When you plug it at home it...

It seems like the ideal solution would be to allow you to type in a driver created password on the touch screen that would power up the car without the FOB. To make it extra secure you could use two-factor authentication. First you'd have to call to give an operator your tesla account access...

It sounds to me that the "open door" switches from the inside and outside handles go to a single input, thus allowing a faulty exterior switch to trigger the behavior of the inside door handle. In hindsight it seems that the exterior unlock should be two mechanical switches in series, one...