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What do people think about the 30% (now a conservative estimate) savings in battery costs from the Gigafactory trickling "up" to the model S and X in addition to the just gen 3?

One of the most interesting bits from the Q2 conference call was about the Gen 3 battery chemistry (very last question of the Q&A): I'm reading this as Tesla plans to transition ALL it's battery packs to the next chemistry advance. With reservations on Model S being a year out and Model X...

if i had an early S # i would surely be anxious, but let's be honest, we can't expect weekly blog updates with video and press releases telling us what is happening moving forward. It would be sad if our enthusiasm became muddled into negative undertones because we didn't get our...

I seem to remember the biggest advantages of the Model X 2nd motor being: - more regen - better traction, performance, speed - higher torque curve on 2nd motor equalling better efficiency at higher speeds - this seems like a pretty big deal no?

I'm only finding it listed on June 4th and June 6th on Wealth on Wheels.

On principle I agree that an artificial engine/warning noise is sad news....if it sounded like this http://youtu.be/n17B_uFF4cA I might be totally for it.

What about Boston Power? Before Saab bit the dust I read an article about some really interesting battery tech collaboration, and now there's just an article on green autoblog about one of the bidders on Saab in bankruptcy want to make a big push into electrification...All that aside, anyone...

Sure thing. Though we have a LONG way to go before anything becomes final at this point. Here is the most relevant portion (with a link to the entire Green Book, see page 32,33 for the entire section): Here is the Treasury Dept. link, click on the FY 2013 proposal Honestly the best thing to...

The treasury proposal we are talking about here does NOT apply to ANY car with a MSRP above $45k. So unless things change, we are still at $7.5K

This is why Tesla's upcoming interactive range tool needs to toggle up to 75 MPH and also allow for 2-3 industry standard ICE comparisons. People need to see the range decrease of "average ICE car" drop at faster speeds just like electric cars. We need to talk and see apples to apples. Range vs...

+1 Mycroft

This makes me wonder about the falcon door mechanisms...besides slowly opening and closing electrically, I wonder if one could manually raise or lower them (effectively speeding up either the open or close action) while having the electric action immediately take over where the manual...

Well in this case crowd wisdom prevails. After some thought I agree with everyone about the functional advantages.

One of the only design decisions I have second thoughts about is the presence of floor dividers that come down from the center of the dash/display. One of the cleanest design decisions of the upcoming BMW i series was to make the front have uninhibited floor space. I think this would look...

looking at the skateboard with the 4WD option, I'm a bit disappointed when looking @ the front 150HP motor...I love the compact nature of the PEM/Motor inline with the back axle. It looks like they went another way up front and didn't incorporate the same compact design and instead suspended the...

The mist thins...slightly Here's a new hint as to the Model X doors! Quote from Mercury News article (don't see a quote formatting function here, sorry!): "Theo O'Neill, a cleantech analyst at Wunderlich Securities, has seen photographs of the Model X but has yet to ride in it. As a...

Sounds great, but this brings up somewhat of a puzzling thought for me. Am I the only one who has a bit of a hard time picturing Tesla launching an aluminum intensive car line and then 3 years later ramping up a completely different model R composites manufacturing line (that can also work with...

What about taking a stab at depreciation cost projections?