FredTMC
Model S VIN #4925
I'm at the Costa Mesa CA service center today. There is a Model D here. Window sticker and all. VIN 55126. Pics to follow
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Tracking P85D delivery thread
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lolachampcar
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MarcG
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VIN 55126 is likely not a customer car. Engineering vehicle perhaps, but given the lowest VIN we're tracking here is in the 62,000 I'd say no customer delivery of a P85D has yet taken place.
Unless they put it on a plane (unlikely) the fastest route I know of would be an auto transport with two truck drivers getting 20 hours (max legal for two, 10 each I think) of driving in per day... which still puts them about 3 days out.
55xxx Vins are perhaps Betas. There is one like that too near me on the east coast.
Re Mr Musk tweeting SciFi, the topics he's reading are vital to his present business, and besides that, may additionally (possibly) be both a respite and indication of some of the issues the production are handling. Or not. But to blame someone for having a full life that includes what they must do is silly. Tweeting that Asimov is great is not any sort of dereliction of duties.
breser
AutoPilot Nostradamus
Or a car that was originally going to be something else that was converted into a P85D without changing the serial.
dennis
Model S Plaid
And a very short time in automobiles. The next youngest car company is Lamborghini (51 years old). The next youngest US car company is Chrysler (89 years old). While Tesla has brought more technology to automobiles and their manufacture, it is still a car company having to meet regulatory and safety requirements (people can die!) that technology companies would find hard to fathom.
lolachampcar
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dennis
Model S Plaid
I don't want delivery until March so I am waiting for things to settle down. I expect to place the order right around Jan 1.
FredTMC
Model S VIN #4925
breser
AutoPilot Nostradamus
I just don't buy this. At the end of Q3 they reordered deliveries in order to minimize inventory across the end of the quarter. Specifically, vehicles that could made at the end of the quarter and then still delivered were made while vehicles that were ordered much earlier, but had farther to go, were either made earlier or later. From my conversations with Tesla employees this is the norm for the end of the quarter. So I just don't buy that Tesla doesn't care about any of this stuff.
I agree that Tesla is trying to build a company and not deliver shareholder value, but that does not mean they can avoid executing to the plan they presented to shareholders. If Tesla doesn't execute their plan (or darn close to it) that could have catastrophic results for the company with respect to their ability to raise further capital, should they need to do so.
dennis
Model S Plaid
There is an entire thread on this but the short answer is that the 285 number was at a constant 65 mph, not the EPA test cycle, which hadn't been completed at the time of announcement. Plus they had never had to do An EPA test on a car with 21 inch wheels and performance tires. But the consensus is that since the P85D has better MPGe on the highway, range will be at least as good when you actually care about it.
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