There is an enormous amount of excess generating capacity starting around 8. No reason why you can’t set your chargers to not start charging up until 10... or 12... and still have a full charge in the AM.

Why do you think the grid cannot support them?

If you look at electricity demand curves, you’d see a huge amount of unutilized capacity at night, which is when charging demand would be highest.

The significant issue they might face would be neighborhood service being able to handle the increased demand - but we’d also…

Throw in a picture of them drooling over Tesla, and you’ve saved all of the reading.

Or at least underwrite it.

If I owned a gas station and Toyota came to me and asked me to add a hydrogen fueling pump, I’d be happy to if they guaranteed (contractually) that I would get at least x% profit margin on it. That way Toyota avoids the capital cost, but I’d avoid the risk.

I do. Because it was a perfect example of a car company doing almost nothing, then bragging about everything being improved. Tesla is VERY close to doing the same thing here. Extremely minor changes, and they’re making a big deal about it.

Thankfully their advertising budget is nil, so we won’t see commercials about…

Well, to be fair, the 35,000 euro SLC they sell there is much slower and lower in content than you can get one here.

When you look at the base trim available in the US, you’re looking at a 46,000 euro car there.

And the Mustang sold there starts with more equipment than you get standard here - comparably equipped, it is…

To be fair, the Henry Ford Museum is fascinating. And the DIA is a world-class art museum. And the DSO is considered to be one of the best in the world.... and the local music scene is still phenomenal.

And you’re not far from some beautiful scenery that could easily become part of a tour of the state with the…

Can’t tell if that’s sarcasm or not....

Precious few 3s will likely ever be sold anywhere near $35k. Tesla expects most to sell in the mid 40s at a minimum. The $35k model 3 will likely be like the sub $10k Nissan Versa of a few years ago. Yeah, possible, but good luck ever finding one (especially since Tesla has said they will prioritize based on trim, so…

Every manufacturer does do them. And generally they make a more significant change. Actually, most do a restyle every 4 or 5 model years. We’re going to be on 7 or 8 model years here with the same styling.

And when was the last time you saw so many stories about Honda tweaking the front bumper on the Accord?

You totally missed the point, didn’t you? Tesla has come out with a refresh so small that they might as well have done nothing. Just like the Camry, which the company sold as all-new... and Tesla is honestly not far from claiming that here. Why give them a pass on letting a design languish when we blast others when…

“No one” would have claimed that about that Camry, except Toyota actually did...

Completely underwhelmed.

This is on par with Toyota’s “refresh” of the Camry in 2000 - which they labeled as “the all-new Camry”, despite changes so microscopic the vast majority of the public didn’t recognize anything had happened.

Wonder if Tesla will try to claim this as all new, too...

Dual front airbags became mandatory in September 1998.
People were told to keep kids out of the front seats in the late 90s.
Side airbags became far more common in the mid 2000s.
ABS became much more common
ESC became standard on most trucks and SUVs

All sorts of things - and all of these take a few years to phase in and…

No one said it did.

I think you missed the part where he said “across the center divider”... so if you’re doing 171, and there’s another vehicle on the other side poking along at 49, you have a 220 mph closing speed and instant death for everyone involved.

The bolt is ugly. No argument there.

But GM’s reliability on the Volt is actually better than Tesla on the S or X... so not sure you want to compare there.

As for sales, the Bolt isn’t on sale yet, so Bolt+Prius = Prius. And the Prius sales were 1.288 million for 2011-2014 (just 4 years). That’s more than model 3…

So will we need two operators for cars to process all the information? Yes, glass cockpits are clean, but aircraft are built with the concept of two pilots working together and with air traffic control helping in separation so you don’t rear end the plane in front of you while you’re looking down at the glass touch…

HUD via bluetooth on Google Glass? That would make sense from a cost perspective.

The lack of tactile buttons I simply don’t trust, though - no one has come up with a good solution there yet. I don’t think Tesla will be any different. Even when they work, touch screens are obscenely distracting, and voice tech is still…

2nd: If Tesla thinks large numbers of model 3 customers will get the credit, this implies to me that they’re tacitly admitting that Model S and X sales will be soft, combined with plans for very, very rapid scale up in production volumes on the 3 (along with hoping to get it out on time, which they’ve never come close…