Tesla totally designed a car to do a bunch of dumb shit nobody ever actually does. Though in their case it’s ‘play Atari games in your car’ instead of ‘go to track’.
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I don't know if it is "cutting corners" to not design a car to do a bunch of dumb shit nobody ever actually does.
Sure, that would be great if all you ever used your vehicle for was commuting AND never missed a charge at night AND vampire drain didn’t exist, AND the Earth’s geography was perfectly flat AND the weather was always warm AND the EPAs range estimation techniques were perfect.
Motor and inverter efficiency are the biggest advantages Tesla has over newcomers and neither was mentioned.
One thing the British youtubers from Fully Charged heard from Porsche: “Repeatable Performance”.
“if gas stations were allowed to...” - This is America, the ARE allowed to do this. They’d sell less gas if they did. Go back 100 years and you’d have cars that ran on proprietary fuel blends (ethanol, various ratios of oil mixtures, various octanes, etc.). A dominant standard will emerge at a given level of…
So you want to nationalize the Supercharger Network, a private asset financed by Tesla investors as a strategic advantage? That would be a perfect way to destroy it (see history of all nationalized assets ever). If VW, etc. want their own network, build it. If the US wants a nationwide charging network, build it.…
Don't apologise for shit Hogan. You spoke the truth and Audi fed you marketing garbage. Tesla for all their faults, has absolutely destroyed in battery and motor tech.
You’re comparing a hot lap to a standing start?
They used the same driver for both cars. Get a better driver and you’ll get better times for both cars, but are unlikely to change the ranking.
Tesla has most of what’s been outlined here. Their battery packs monitor/cool/heat on per cell level. You can’t replace specific modules as easily, but who has needed to? (Tesla degradation is <1% per year and the packs built in the last few years have been /very/ solid) Teslas also have heat pumps on the motors as,…
The Model 3 has routinely beat the BMW M3 at head to head track matchups for auto magazines. The delta grows the more tight and technical the track is.
They may have better motor cooling but that one sided cooling on gel cells is super lame. There is no way they are properly temperature controlling fat gel cells when only one surface has contact. Even the first gen volt had better cell cooling then that with thinner gel packs and two sided cooling on the large sides. …
I call BS. Audi is taking the most current version of Model S and saying that it has more battery so what do you expect. But the reality is that the e-Tron has worse numbers even when comparing to the older versions of S or X that had battery capacity parity. Tesla has better overall energy management, period.
A mechanic named Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani was pegged as the suspect...
The most offensive fucking part of this entire charade is that the Federal gov’t... especially a conservative federal gov’t, should be calling this a win. It’s a poster child for the concept of not needing to regulate to get companies to behave. I’m fairly certain any previous republican administration would have…
The party of small government, y’all! States rights!
Fuck the GOP. Fuck every single one of them.
No. There’s no legal framework for any state to adopt unique safety standards.
Current Republican idiology: Smaller Federal government with more power given to local governments, except when we don’t want that.