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Actually in cold weather aero performance is even more important as the air is thicker. Yes speeds are lower on average, but there is no reason to assume that a more efficient car with a smaller battery will do worse than a less efficient one with a bigger battery once cold weather and snow come...

The car is a little too tall for my taste. Even just an inch lower would have made a big difference.

i expect the highest end models to have over 300 mile EPA range and ~500hp. The one thing they need to fix is the cooling. Now probably it won't be a problem for the base model, but it will be embarrassing if the performance versions suffer from the same overheating problems as the Model S does.

Jabbing FCEV can have explosive results.

215 mile range should be doable with 50-55kwh battery. It also depends on how much of the battery capacity is usable. It might be an 50kwh battery but with bigger usable percentage of that, so at the end it will not have much less energy than the old 60kwh battery.

The tires are the only thing that "suspends" unsprung mass. If all else is equal a taller sidewall should offer better traction, especially on rougher surfaces. The biggest difference is the ride quality though.

One thing you are forgetting that the motor and inverter should me more efficient too. I would also expect more than 60kw regen being available. The Model 3 will be lighter so it should also have narrower tires. Combining lower weight with narrower tires will equal a substantial reduction of...

I will just say that if right now every car company begins to make bespoke electric cars, there won't be many FWD cars on the market.

It looks like no one can convince you. Thankfully you are in the minority.

We get plenty of snow here. Power oversteer is very easy to manage, you just can't expect to slam the accelerator and catch the car. A FWD car will just understeer if you do that while a RWD will spin, but you should never really stomp on the accelerator. All new cars have ESP + Traction...

As was said earlier a lift off oversteer (a problem that occurs mostly with front heavy cars) is much more dangerous than power induced oversteer from a RWD. It is also counter intuitive as i drive a FWD car in the winter in a corner you should never slow down to prevent nose dive which unloads...

True. The only reason FWD is used in production cars is that it's cheaper to package the whole drivetrain at the front + it saves space. Never used in a performance applications, Nissan tried it and failed miserably.

Can't believe some people prefer FWD:rolleyes: It only gives you more traction initially and only if you have a front weight bias. If the car is 50/50 as i would think the Model 3 is RWD will give you better traction since the car will squat during acceleration giving more weight to the rear...

No. It probably is around the same as Model S. Maybe even higher.

WTH? It is taller than the Model S. For me that's very disappoint as i hate tall cars with a passion.

It would be interesting if they will be able to get more regen out of the new battery (it's battery limited afterall). If they manage to keep the same 60kw obviously the car will break much harder because it will be ~30% lighter. Inverter efficiency is key to extracting more energy from regen...

220-240 mile EPA range with a 50kwh pack. More efficient powertrain (motor + inverter) and bigger portion of the battery will be usable. That's my prediction.

Better SoC. It's kind of shocking that the Model S and even more puzzling the Model X still use the Tegra 2. The interface lags more than legacy android phones. I hope they will use modern technology, and not gimp it just so that the cheaper car isn't better than the premium one

It won't scale linearly, since the weight will go up, most likely the pricier versions will have wider tires and/or stickier compound. But i expect that for around 50k $ you will be able to get a Model 3 with range that tops any current model s variant.

The car will as barebones as they can make it. Not so much because they it would save them so much money, but because car manufactures make the most killing on the options (the profit margins are insane). The base car will be bad enough to force most people to spend at least 5k more to make it...

Your example is of the worst case scenario (open wheel, open cockpit) car. LMP1 cars have much more DF than F1 and are ~0.45. Anyway i would take a smaller battery with better aero (for the same range) everytime, because it will reduce the penalty of more spiritual driving, also better aero...