the Model X is among the range. It really makes you wonder why you wouldn’t just get the S.

Our rural interstates are designed fine for relatively high average speeds. I’ve ran some longish 100+mph stints on the ones I know well. The problems are poor maintenance, shitty drivers that will cross over in front of you when not another car is near, and the real danger of center-punching a deer (or worse) at…

Agreed. The older I get, the more the balance of fascination shifts towards being uncomfortable with people going that fast on public highways.

 I have never been able to fuel up anywhere in Oregon in less than 10 minutes. Gas stations always have lines in Portland for some reason. 

Regarding that last point. Tesla actually cooperates with existing businesses already to position the superchargers at locations that already have a restaurant or at least a convenience store. In Texas, they seem to have a deal with the Love’s gas station chain to put the superchargers at the same locations (the one…

Yeah but the Tesla owners were probably proud to be waiting in line. Looks like ~20 cars in line for ~15 charging stations and there aren’t even any overcompensating lifted diesels blocking any. That’s nothing - ever been to a Chick Fil A drive through?

A little surprised Tesla hasn’t rebranded it or spun it off and started selling licenses already.

They need to make Tesla’s supercharger an SAE standard so other companies don’t feel like they are losing face by adopting a competitor’s system.

Brooks at Drag Times noticed some shady things with the video:

Did they test using the same tires?

Well you need to figure out which parameter you really care about.

Counter-counterpoint, we’re not talking about CO2 we’re talking about nitrogen oxides and particulates which are extremely toxic to humans. we’re not talking about greenhouse gases we’re talking about things that literally kill human beings when they are inhaled

You’ve got understand, these things weren’t putting out double or even triple the amount of pollution. They were putting out tens to hundreds of times the amount of pollution that they should’ve been! And the specific types of pollution they emit are extremely toxic to humans not CO2 that causes warming  like gas…

Because FCA at least had EGR, DPF’s, urea, etc on their engines here in the US. They can’t have been cheating THAT bad. VW somehow mysteriously had none(well EGR) of that and could magically pass emissions and make great power like they had these magic diesel design skills no one else could even touch.

I wish I could be there, but I’m in Pennsylvania.

So very, very many things to go wrong.

All of this Technology and Stuff is cool... But, man. I would wait a few model years for GM to sort this all out on the early adapters.

Passing acceleration is a great metric. Tying it to a specific gear makes it horrible. 

10/10 will have this project meeting again.  

This sounds like the classic finger-pointing exercise you’d expect from a company with an software development (or any IT function) mentality.