Tesla needs the money that higher-spec cars provide. I’d rather wait a bit for the standard battery Model 3 and have Tesla still be a company that have the base Model 3 now and Tesla be bankrupt soon.
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It’s fun watching disruptive companies shuffle the old-school stuff around them and then watch people point out little pieces of that as a kind-of reason against progress and disruption.
Hydrogen... that is extracted from petroleum? Ok.
...they don’t even offer dividends and I seriously doubt shareholders are making *anything* at the moment.
How are lithium batteries polluting? Lithium is so safe that doctors prescribe it to patients as an antidepressant! Also, lithium isn’t really even mined. It’s taken out of places like salt flats on the surface of the Earth. Also, when the battery is depleted, it’s nearly 100% recyclable. All that lithium goes right…
Sure GM, Audi, VW, BMW and others have charging solutions planned. But they’re not currently widely available and certainly not in the USA in any amount. Tesla’s Supercharger network is already here, ready to use. There’s one by my house! Also, their cars have this information built-in to their navigation systems. Can…
Unrelated? Range and charging are so you can go on trips, right? They’re so related it isn’t even funny.
DC fast charging is indeed a thing on the Bolt, albeit it’s way slower. A bolt can technically get about 9o miles of range in 30 minutes. The Model 3 can get nearly double that in the same amount of time: 170 miles on the LR battery. 130 miles in 30 minutes for the Standard Range model.
I never said that. Once again, a lack of understanding is the problem here. Teslas put an on-board computer in each of their cars that tell you where to go to charge, and how long to stay there charging. Rarely will it tell you to stay the entire time until the battery is 100% full. Instead, it will intelligently…
Saying better range means you might not fully know what you’re talking about. The Bolt’s 238 mile range is indeed ‘better’ than the base Model 3's proported 220 mile range, but there’s one thing that makes the Tesla far better for long-distance drives: the Supercharger.
15 year-old car company has more trouble than a 109 year-old car company? Shocker.
You’re spot on. The only thing I would add is that wrecks likely happen all the time due to plain-old cruise control - but we don’t know because it’s not a Tesla and there are no logs that can be pulled easily to tell.
Meanwhile people in non-Teslas wreck all. the. time. with their cruise control engaged, yet this isn’t even a blip on the news because it’s not something that happened in a Tesla. Stop getting caught up in the media frenzy and letting it decide your opinion for you.
Thank you for the title of this article. It’s the first title that included the fact that Autopilot warned the driver multiple times.
I know, right? Stop trying to move us to a sustainable, renewable energy system and please stop trying to prevent Global Warming, Elon! What a prick!
I hope you’re right if it comes to that. I do NOT want Tesla to be bought be a car manufacturer.
Guys, a lot of people aren’t taking delivery of the initial batch of RWD LR Model 3s because they are waiting for the standard range model, the AWD model, the Ludicrous model or a white interior.
A little bit, sure. But I rarely go 40 or above for more than a minute in Austin. The lights here catch you every time, 100% of the time, 7 days a week, 365 days a year and it’s such a beat down. :-)