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When we are talking about the anticipated 1500 produced for September, we really don't know what the run rates were supposed to be going in to and coming out of September. My guess is that the vast majority of cars of those 1500 were expected be produced in the last 2 weeks, as part of a steep...

Interesting, but it just looks like a station for training the assembly line personnel. For instance, there are two stands with what looks like informational signage (This station will teach you the following steps.. yada yada). I don't think it is something earth shattering, apart from that...

Videoconferencing might be another use, but security cam or gaze control are more likely.

Wow! That was cool, and the footage of the landing phase was super crisp except for some small clouds here and there. Bulls-eye!

That was intense, It was the most exciting nervous launch/landing ever, almost more than the first one :-) Congrats, Elon and the Team! Now go party!

Probably going to shift out our other model 3, Mazda that is. I'm guessing it has kept more of it's value than our VW Passat that we still need for hauling *sugar* in. :-)

Let's just restart the simulation with different starting parameters and see... (I have to remind myself almost every day that I haven't woken up from some strange feverish dream)

The "why do anything in space when we have problems here" rhetoric is as annoying and unoriginal as always. Especially since Elon has financed it more or less out of his own money, and for cheaper than anyone else in the industry. Why would the moral burden for eradicating poverty and disease...

As they say in the twitter thread, it's produced by a separate company called EVAnnex that makes 3rd party accessories for Tesla cars...

Hi, welcome to the forum! Nice effort with the estimator! As it usually is with great ideas, there is something much alike it already :-) Perhaps you could provide input and feedback to this thread for the Model3Tracker regarding the pricing structure here in Sweden. Model3Tracker.info I...

Denmark, the Scandinavian riviera? :-) You must be meaning Norway. But that aside, I believe that we have some of the most used winter proving grounds here in Sweden, Arjeplog.

You are right of course. I should have prefaced my post with a qualifier like "potentially". But the patent is on the other hand not that groundbreaking or beyond the fray, but a rather practical, incremental improvement. So perhaps more likely to be used in real life, in contrast to (on the...

That is perhaps even more interesting/exciting than if the X/MS100 pack would have the new features discussed in this thread. That would mean... that the new design will first surface with the model 3. Who will be the first to wreck their Model 3 for wk057 to examine it?

Thanks for plugging in the figures! It seems about right, but who knows. Most options prices seem realistic, but for example the premium wheels are half the price of model S wheels (but on the other hand, those are ridiculously expensive)... The tow hitch package is slightly less on the X...

Ok, then: 918000 SEK : Base Model S 60 977000 SEK : Base Model S 6 with AWD 994300 SEK : Base Model S 75 1164700 SEK : Base Model S 90 (AWD, Rear wheel drive n/a) 929700 SEK : Base Model S 60 with Deep Blue 936500 SEK : Base Model S 60 with Multi Coat Pearl White...

Any plans for Swedish Krona (SEK) conversion? As of now the form looks a bit weird:

Why they think that this would threaten Tesla in any way escapes me? Tesla is not in the business of selling batteries, they sell products containing batteries - that they produce in partnership with Panasonic on a massive scale. Teslas profit-margins remain. So other EV-manufacturers (with no...

Hamsters?

... --That Tesla and SpaceX is seriously undervalued, or at least that Facebook is equally overvalued when considering the respective worth of those companies to Humanity. Anyways, regarding the meeting, it is at least some positive news that Tesla/SpaceX is held forth as important. Let's...

Yes, so I'm agreeing with you then :-) Not sure who suggested the spot-weld as a fuse? It is more likely that the traces on the flexible circuit board are constricted at certain points thereby acting as built in fuses. Or perhaps surface mounted micro-fuses, but that would be less elegant and...

My impression from looking at pictures of the Tesla battery packs was that the wire welded to the cell is the fuse, not the weld itself... And wires can be produced in fine tolerances.

Yeah, I know, I know :-) But since they have to place the AP 2.0 cameras/sensors somewhere, the window frame might be a good place apart from the B-pillar like on the X/S.

Well, no, the section I meant is on the outside bottom window frame, and apart from that I would think that electrochromic glass would be a more elegant and less error-prone approach than mechanical blinders?

But as this is a separate thread, we might as well discuss details about those photos here, I noticed this image i particular: The section of different material (the glossy part) used in the lower window frame looks like it could be a place for sensors/cameras? What do you think?

O dear, I'm sorry but that was the ugliest interior I've seen in a while. Perhaps because it has that beige/brown retirement home reclining couch combined with the "louis vuitton bag" styling that makes it feel dated and decadent. But everyone has their own taste.

Or the machine that makes the machine that makes the machine.

They might seem interesting to thieves, and later just being dumped when they realize that it is not an attack vector for gaining access to a vehicle. But, yeah other than that, no: there are a couple of hundred thousand of the prints so outside of those that Elon really signed, they are...

Does anyone know the title/artist of the music played at the end of the Model 3 reveal? I tried to Shazam it, but It wasn't able to recognize it...

....and: Elon Musk on Twitter " Elon Musk ‏@elonmusk 3m3 minutes ago Will get back to Autopilot update blog tomorrow. "

I see Elons announcements as just stating his intentions, and if some bigger/more important stuff comes in the way it may fall to the wayside. But he obviously honestly is wanting to make his intentions into reality, but the order and timing might not come about as said. He's excited about...

Still a nice find. Have yet to see a Model X in real life, but I've heard that there is one in the showroom in central Gothenburg. Got to have a look-see in the week... :)

You surely meant Model X?

It is photographed in an odd angle for a short lens (almost a fisheye) with strong distortion. In real life it wouldn't look like that. -Look at the window frames in the foreground and the scaffolding in the back-

Yeah, it's a rather profound thought. Although the majority of the source material would be plain old boring plants. --So more like a big dinosaur Caesar salad, probably tastes like chicken anyways.

I must have got it in the mail yesterday, but didn't check the mailbox until today. It was in pristine condition, seems like it has been posted here from Sweden. Whohoo!

Thanks for the video, I was not able to watch it live (middle of the night here :-) ), so doubly thanks for making the recording available! I'm no investor, but I appreciate your analysis and general fact-collecting, for me this is another input for learning about Tesla, their plans, their...

Until Panasonic has shifted their production in their original plant to 2170, they have to make use of the old format cells somewhere, and with the cells being specific for Tesla (no protection circuit and the rest) they would have some trouble selling them on the open market. Guessing that they...

Whaaa? I stood in line for three hours, got refreshments and snacks and had a pretty good time chatting with the folks next to me in the queue. Then I entered my info and deposited a bit of money (that is refundable). Yes, we are part of a historic event on some level, but not anything...

IKEA is pretty cool about spare parts, and have containers with nuts, bolts and such at the returns/pickup desk. Just pick what you need and leave a suggested donation that goes to charity. Or you can order the whole set of screws et c. needed for a particular article and they will mail it to...

Found this video of the booster returning on a trailer, cool: ..And this one of the booster being loaded on the trailer:

Well, as I understand it: except for the battery and motor(s) you've got the same components as a ICE car, so there we're even. Compared to an ICE engine the AC induction motor should be less costly --and in overall complexity there's no contest. The battery pack, on the other hand is one thing...

-Ohh, would not think so. Is it not just Version 2? A reference to the V2 would be ...unfortunate, right?

Curiously they are working on removing the landing legs rather than retracting them for transport: They have removed the pistons and seem to be ready to remove the legs. Does anyone know if this has been the normal procedure for the previous landing? And what is the reason behind dismantling it...

Welcome to the forum! I have about the same reason for reserving the Model 3 as you. I'm thinking about being able to tell my children that I was part of this pivotal moment in history (albeit not as early as the Roadster folks, but still). This is the kind of thing I've waited for 30 years to...

We've come a long way since WvB and his team let the rockets land wherever they fell. Perhaps not as quickly as the pioneers imagined, but still. I'm quite happy to live today when so much exciting stuff happens, almost to the point that I can ignore the fact that I was too young to experience...

Tiny, tiny people :)

The booster is just now dangling a few feet up from the crane...

That, and most important of all -to enable decent Supercharger charging times. I don't believe Tesla will settle for "good enough" when it comes to key features like that.

Pretty good week for Elon, first the spectacular launch of Model 3, and now this one! Whohoo!