What $25,000 cars offer the features of Tesla? OTA updates, supercharging (when compared to EVs), Autopilot, and FSD?

This should not be news, Tesla reported for Q4 update that they would produce 10,000 fewer Model 3 cars than they could sell. nothing in the update yesterday was new information, it was all reported in their Q4 results.

Tesla already has charging figured out, the Model 3 LR will charge about 180 miles in 15 mins on v3 superchargers. Drive for over 2 hours, stop for a bathroom break, leg stretch, etc. Continue. Porsche Taycan is even faster. Swappable packs and such are a silly diversion.

Let’s see, for the next 6 months they will be making $50 to $80k Model 3 cars at a rate of around 4000 to 6000 per week. Lets say the average price of the Model 3 is $60,000 and the average rate is 5000 per week for the next 6 months. That is almost $8B. They don’t have the money problems some of you think.

Also remember that Li-Ion should be as hot as possible for best power, but not hot enough to cause thermal runaway.

Electric motors are around 80% thermally efficient, whereas the absolute best ICE running in perfect conditions is maybe 50%. Realistically, your ICE is around 25%. So 75% of your energy density doesn’t matter.

When the CX9 was released I sat in one, essentially a minivan. Lots of room and I am large.

I actually wish TVs would drop the processors and go back to being monitors as I really don’t like paying extra for that functionality in the TV. My experience is Amazon keeps updating my Fire TV for many years now (original Fire TV) and the TV stopped getting updates after maybe 6 months or a year.

Unfortunately, humans are limited by vision. Although we have incredibly good image processing relative to computer terms, if we can’t see something we are blind. An autonomous vehicle can include sensing technologies that we don’t have, like highly accurate maps that the car can use to know where the road is even…

BMW is mostly Automatic these days, and I hate to say it, but I think Kia out-did BMW with this car. I look at this and I want it more than any BMW in the same price range.

I like the tweaked look. Nice improvements over the original and the bright red is nice. Would be great next to the ‘97 bright red Z3. I know the styling isn’t for everyone, but I like it.

No, the Model S has positive margins, the loss is not per car sold, but rather all Tesla’s expenses factored into how many cars sold. The Model S would be a very “profitable” car if that was all they made.

It is crazy that they have taken 65k deposits for $1k each ($65 million) and only have $100k in the bank? Sounds like a scam. They must be paying themselves pretty well.

What do transaxles or transmissions have to do with engine layout? Really, there are two engine positions, in front of the driver or behind the driver. Rear-Mid vs rear is not an important distinction.

As much as I liked the Z31, the car is incredibly dated (I have owned two). Now 28 years later, the Z32 is still not overly dated looking and is really a beautiful car. Even though it loses some of the light weight aspects of the 240Z, I felt like it was the first car to really reinvent the Z. It is unfortunate that…

I saw one driving when I was in S. Korea for work. It is a damn fine car, only explanation you would need is to take them for a ride.

Most of the reviews I have seen are favorable and performance is generally like a hot hatch (like VW GTI). Personally, I really like the looks of hatchbacks, including the Bolt EV.

The Cruze Hatch is basically a wagon.

Exactly, my brother was nearly killed in a collision just like this when he was 16 driving a similar early 80s Sentra (probably not that different chassis than the old design red one pictured). The car crumpled just like that (even more) and if he wasn’t built like a bear he we wouldn’t be here now. I would start kids…

As soon as you have power doors, you have to have safety mechanisms. With a manual door it is much harder to close it on yourself, although I have seen someone lose a finger by a manual door blowing closed on it. Nasty. Don’t leave your hands in the door jamb.