An 8 year old Telsa with a new battery pack is going to sell for between $50,000 and $100,000. It provides the same utility as a new one.
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They didn’t fail. It’s simply that there is a better version available. Read up on what “continuous delivery” means.
Replaced because they would only last as long as a gasoline car, and this is a categorically different appliance. It’s a startup and it’s operating at pre-scale. I don’t know how else to explain that.
You do have a lottery ticket to an earthquake. But no snowstorms, deadly heat waves, hurricanes, tornadoes, lightning strikes, wet weather to drive in weekly, no serious terrorism concerns, etc.
There’s a home depot in SF city limits closer to the airport.
Yes, to ship cars early and ship them often they went with the best design they had at the time. Some of those may not have not been good for the full million miles. So on a regular annual service visit they replaced them without fanfare. It’s about as easy as changing the fuel filter on a normal car. No charge, no…
Electric motors aren’t combustion engines. They don’t really burn out. It’s just copper wire wrapped around a piece of ferrous metal. I suppose the bearings could fail. The car will go to the landfill with the original motor. The useful life should be in excess of 500,000 miles.
It’s because you’re not just programming from a well defined specification. You have to get to know people in other roles like product, sales and support. Then you figure out what to build on the fly. And if that doesn’t work you go talk to them again and start over. You have to develop some of those relationships…
Because it’s one of the nicest places to live in the country. It’s 70 degrees 12 months a year. It’s next to the ocean and Napa and Monterrey. It has 3 great airports and redundant forms of public transportation and commuter rail lines. The restaurants are all top notch. And if you live there you get the best of…
Penny wise and pound foolish.
Any Tesla shortcoming has been fixed by the manufacturer for $0 with door to door service says a lot. It’s not like regular cars where there are repair shops in every business district. The fact is, Tesla is a continuously deliverable car. They’re shipping product and fixing the cars they’ve sold as they become a…
If the Ferrari IPO goes off well, VW will probably spin off a few marques under one luxury brand. The wildcard is there’s a lot of shareholder groups and holding companies that have to coordinate on a move like that, so it’s less likely even if it makes sense.
The boxster redlines at 7800 but the PDK lets it overrev to 8200. It’s an incredible transmission. Whenever someone posts about a “proper manual transmission” I laugh because 95% of global cars have improper manual transmissions with junky clutches and notchy gears. The PDK is a proper automatic transmission because…
Whatever ISIS uses.
The A3/TT aren’t great for quality. But the B8 and the A6/A7/A8 exceed BMW quality and finish. It’s most visible in standard equipment on “stripper” models and in leather/trim quality, but it’s where you can’t see it also.
I’m unclear on why this M car even has a back seat.
Porsche doesn’t compare to BMW. BMW quality is somewhere between VW and Audi (frankly it’s a lot closer to VW). Porsche is the highest initial quality sold. It’s like the Apple of cars. Every detail you can see and can’t see is covered. It’s tough to imagine why they cost so much until you have a new one for a year…
BMW stays remarkably consistent over time with their cars. Orange peel on the paint. Battery failure within 48 months. iDrive version 0.x. “Free” dealer service every month.