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I'm buying an EV so I can drive like a knob and not feel bad about it, no hypermiling for me.

Not getting EAP, I like the idea but the car is already expensive.

I am blown away by the amount of hate in this thread over a difference of opinion.

Ah, you are correct. I was reading the Test weight from the EPA report which lists the 4,250 number as the Equivalent Test Weight. The EPA actual weight of an unloaded 3 was 3,837 lbs.

2017 Tesla Model S 75 Curb weigh: 4,490 lbs Model 3 Long Range Curb weight: 4,250 lb

With a similar battery to the base S, a more advanced motor, and similar curb weight, I really don't see how there could not be performance left on the table.

Using Chrome, no luck.

Pics are broke for me

Most nav screens only permit limited functions out of voice commands while driving due to liability concerns. The EULA for Google Maps even has a chunk in there telling you to expressly NOT interact manually with Google maps while driving. The fatality rate decreased during the vast majority...

Car dashboards that act like smart phones raise safety issues From the above: “You can’t be looking at a screen and be looking at the road at the same time,” said David Strayer, a professor of cognition and neural science at the University of Utah, who has written several studies on distracted...

That comment is a little harsh confronted with the reality that a touchscreen is more dangerous to operate than physical controls while driving. I know the 3 is a incredibly safe car, and is intended to be the next step towards autonomous vehicles, but the added danger of the touchscreen...

So, that is $1,000 in addition to the cost of the charger? No thanks, I can get a licensed electrician who has done a few already to do it for $200.

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Sad but true. I have lived in a few places like this and I loved the people and places but could do without that flavour of government.

Reference on a the aerodynamics not being effected? Im not an aerodynamicist [but I do like to hold my hand out of the car and pretend it is an airplane] but I'm not sure how bolting a box onto the front of a car would go unnoticed by the laws of nature.

I think we will find many people polarized by the touch screen. While driving, a tactile experience helps you keep your eyes on the road and your focus where it needs to be. When not driving, touchscreens allow us to generate Human to Machine interfaces that can do almost anything. With the...

I agree with your frustration on the surface, but have spoken to a few engineers and it does take a bit more math to figure out how to make something that looks good actually perform well. Does it cost $1,500 more in math per car?? Hell no! ... but it does cost more.

They give precisely 7,500 'rips'

If the EV was being produced offshore I would agree that this administration would probably nix it in short order; however, as a "Made in the USA" vehicle I just don't see that happening until Tesla, and probably GM, have made it through all of the available credits. For some context...

The turbine wheels look great! The only catch is being able to undercut the price of the factory options. Considering I will take delivery with the stock wheels, I am looking at needing new tires as well. If the wheels could come in close to $1000 a set, I think you would have trouble keeping...

Power!

Just want to point out that hammers will kill more people in 5 years than all nuclear reactor failures ever.

Joke?

I'm not super sharp on induction motors, mind giving a quick explanation on this?

No.

But why not let the people vote on it with their bank accounts? The purpose of the federal government is to do things that the state governments can't do, the purpose of the state governments is to do what our local governments can't do, and the purpose of the local governments is to do...

So If I have $5 and you have 3 apples we can't do business without regulation?

Wrong forum, post this over in the environmental issues part of the TMC forum.

I love the thought, but a roadster is just out of my price range. I have been a fan ever since the Top Gear UK episode and I hope to own one someday when I'm a few rungs higher on the ladder. I'll have fingers crossed that they make it adjustable.

I have infact, at the Decatur location in ATL. It is the best car I have ever driven, I actually feel let down by my DD after doing so. That being said, I loved the one pedal solution when I was putsing around town or on the highway, but when I grabbed a big bunch of "go" in an off-ramp I was...

Then you are doing it right! Slowish in faster out; however, as a few posts after yours pointed out, most people don't do that but instead brake in the turns. 90-95% of the time it wont bite you. Some of that is due to ESC and some of that is due to good modern tires. It seems that the more...

According to Tesla, the Model S has a 48% front 52% rear weight distribution, it is a reverse pendulum-but not much of one. An F-150 has a heavy engine up front, a large cabin, and then an empty box at the back. I could not find anything on it's weight distribution (because no one cares about...

Lol, I point out that you need to use science when arguing so instead of providing a counter point people just dislike my post. Translation: "1+1=7" "I apologize but it does not, can you tell me why 1+1=7?" "I don't like you"

They just hired a new battery engineer...they are trying to get away from batter swaps.

OMFG, the math isn't that hard. It would be $993.96

Yeah, agree with everyone on running from the Leaf. It looked neat at the time but in retrospect it was a crap half-a$$ed attempt by Nissan and will be worth less than a new TV after the M3 comes out.

I am blown away buy the amount of arrogant and willfully ignorant hate over a guy pointing out the practical effects of regen on the throttle. If your "rebuttal" doesn't include an empirical rebuke of the science at hand, the it holds no relevance but feel free to exercise your freedom of...

I run Hankook rubber for street and track. If they use S1 Noble2s for the car you can expect 40k regardless of any wheel size.

Great news! It will be nice to have a supercharger in town for when my 3 gets here sometime late next year.

Regen braking can either create great brake feel or make a car into a death machine. I think that the more they make it feel like a regular car the better. From what I hear about the budget EV/Hybrids above is that they skimped on the programming of their ABS logic Also, I replaced the...

Where industry and innovation goes, the government will be sure to be right behind with taxes and regulations.

Probably S1 Noble2's

The problem is that you still have weight transfer - hence the 70% is inescapable...because physics. Go ahead and disconnect the front brakes on someones car and see how long it takes them to put it into a ditch. Without the aid of any friction brakes the effect on vehicle dynamics is essential...

Engineers doing the ride-alongs at the reveal referenced differing efficiency bands for the motors on the M3. Your references are dated and incorrect.

70% of braking force is generated by the front axle. With a single motor M3 you will be wasting all of this as heat on a traditional brake disk, with a D you will be able to recoup some of it. Also, the regen will be much better as it will feel a lot more like traditional braking as opposed to...

So you are saying that Rep. Patrick Lee "Pat" Garofalo is a woman?

Right? The fact that this go so damn political so fast over a guy's tongue-in-cheek tweet is absurd.

It's embarrassing that Biden didn't know about the Tesla or it's performance but somehow knew that Cadillac had crawled out of their 10 year "old-people-mobile" slump. This is why we cant have nice things...err...competent politicians.

It looks like I'll have to just load up more options to get the credit...poor me. #firstworldproblems

Just like they have ludicrous mode for performance, I want a D-bag mode for the autopilot. Tailgating, brake stomping, cutting people off, loud music, that sort of thing.