I usually just feel for the knobs.
This is key here. Muscle memory with get you close but without look at the screen you will surely slide across the glass triggering all sorts of wacky results.
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I usually just feel for the knobs.
I'm sure tactile response can be supplemented with sound and clever touch algorithms.This is key here. Muscle memory with get you close but without look at the screen you will surely slide across the glass triggering all sorts of wacky results.
First Look at Tesla's Stunning Model S:
Amazing what some additional cooling brings. 300kW is a lot, even by today's sport luxury sedan's standards. Feeding it from 42kWh pack could mean some very short meals, like 8 minutes. Of course, you cannot constantly draw peak power under realistic driving conditions, even by constantly flooring it up the hill.
So I'm no engineer, but can we assume that if these batteries were put into a battery pack for the Roadster, the range could go from 244 miles to nearly 300 miles just like that? (244*1.2 = 292.8 miles)
Nine inch electric motor is not what I'd call a giant. Nine inch, 22 centimeters.justifies the giant motor
I imagine they may have a prototype Roadster with these cells, but would need to test it for a long time to know if the new batteries can work well with revised software.
My guess would be they offer them as an option on the Roadster someday.
From my discussing this with Tesla employees, the Roadster battery pack could be completely different when it is replaced. I have heard that the replacement in 5 to 7 years will likely have a range of 300 to 400 miles and may even be lighter than the current battery pack. There may even be different options based on a Roadster owner wanting more range or more performance.
But the current Roadster will never have a fast swap battery. It would take a complete redesign.
Here is an old picture that someone seems to have put on Tesla's Facebook page:
Is that box in front a PEM or battery pack? In any case it seems to have been some sort of prototype just for the Model S Concept car.
We now know the Alpha solution is much more elegant and space efficient.
The "alphas" are still prototypes. I know that picture was from the original "concept car" which is the one they had been showing for quite some time until the alphas were made ready.I think that was just for the prototype.
That was the first drivable prototype Model S. My guess is that it was not built by Tesla from the ground up.
If I am correct, and it was built off of a prevously ICE car then it would not be capable of holding the full battery pack under the floor as the final Model S will.
The "alphas" are still prototypes. I know that picture was from the original "concept car" which is the one they had been showing for quite some time until the alphas were made ready.
I think it started out silver-gray then was later repainted red.