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A customer here, a customer there.Tesla is kinda relentless on eliminating parts - not just for materials cost, but for assembly and maintenance reasons. And yeah, it feels petty at times, but I suspect it adds up as you get rid of a thing here, a bracket there, no mounting hole needed there, no more wire on that...
You can't say that! Musk has already copyrighted those exact words for use on his headstone.Not much point getting worked up over total speculation, to be honest. There's no real evidence for any of it.
A customer here, a customer there.
This is ridiculous. You just invented a very specific scenario for which you appear to have no evidence. You then criticise Elon Musk on the basis of a response to the scenario that you just imagined! You made something up and made yourself angry about it ...
And someone got too defensive over criticism to another person. Says more about you than me.
I was just laughing, you seem to have taken it a bit too personally.
Are you one of the fanboys defending Tesla vision, the wipers, or the removal of USS? LOL.
I think you're missing the bigger picture here.....Really! FFS how much does a temperature sensor cost? we have to trust the weather forecast + internet connectivity now to see if it might be icy
The button on the inside?and for when you want to get out of the car...
That is the point its just a button. One which triggers an actuator to open the door. The actuarors were there long before the option to pop the door from the app.The button on the inside?
I think that might miss the critical big picture though. I'm sure all of us would love to have Tesla sharing more of that $9,500 with us but the bottom line in all this is that this means Tesla can drop the price even further than they have and still make money while the competition is losing money on their EV lines. Only BYD is making money on electric vehicles and it's pennies compared to the nearly $10,000 Tesla is making per car. It also means with further economies and streamlining and consolidating of manufacturing which Tesla is doing faster and better than anybody that the $25,000 electric vehicle with decent range is right around the corner and not some unicorn at the end of the rainbow like the fossil fuel folks have been saying. That measly $25,000 means the Tesla is able to create a much larger addressable market. Virtually everybody who can afford a car can afford one of these. This is all part of truly accelerating the transition to sustainable energy and transportation.Especially when "Tesla made a profit of just over $9,500 for every car sold, compared to roughly $1,300 for Toyota, according to disclosures by both companies."
I'd like to see them get to a real world range of 400 miles at least, will need larger battery capacity I think.
My own reason for questioning the image is that the front looks too simple aerodynamically. The side slots on Teslas and on other makes where air is channelled from inboard via the wheel well have been vaunted as significant contributors to aerodynamic efficiency. If a simple front end like the one pictured works just as well then you wonder why the more sophisticated version was ever developed.Also, like it if true. If not I still expect them to change the front to reduce drag.
I'd prefer a range extender (lawn mower engine/generator to top up battery), but they seem to have gone out of fashion. I could have a battery half the size, and weight, and car makers could make 2x as many cars with the currently available batteries, and I could go anywhere with a gallon or two of petrol. Doesn't look like I'm going to get that wish though ... so I'm lugging a tonne of battery with me when I just nip to the shops.