Does the phrase “Reserve not met” have any meaning to you?

Well... there goes all your taste credibility.

In a rush to get to market, they won’t be ready for launch. Tesla will make them available as downloadable content for the appropriate season.

Are you sure Mexico has cheap enough labor for a Trump factory?

I have a feeling Tesla will go to a subscription model for access to the SuperCharger network on the lower-priced cars. Something like a $500 fee at the time of sale, and then $5 - $10 per SuperCharger use.

Of course adapters would work. Every Tesla vehicle coming off the assembly is design to use Chademo for instance. Owners just have to by a $450 adapter. Other carmakers just have to make adapters to use Tesla’s superchargers in the same manner that Tesla support other standards.

Once again, though, I’m not saying they’ve won the value game. I’m saying they won the marketing game. They’re compared to Apple all the time, and this is accurate. Apple stuff is super overpriced, deeply unreliable, and stuffy in its propriety. But it sells like mad.

but if the Model 3 is fully autonomous maybe it may actually be better for the blind :)

Marie Curie? (Physics and Chemistry)

...or by temporarily shifting delivery priorities to other regions for a few weeks. If demand is high enough around the world, they could do this without impacting global delivery numbers. And make a few people in Australia and China very happy. :)

I wouldn’t be surprised if Tesla delivers car #200K in the US right at the start of a new quarter (Maybe October 1, 2018?). If they do that, then all of the cars they deliver in Q4 2018 and Q1 2019 would be eligible for the full credit and cars they deliver for the next year would get the partial credit.

I managed to find a picture of the purported “real” steering system. You saw it first here on Kinjalopnik.

Wait until you see the real steering controls and system for the 3. It feels like a spaceship.

Real interior will look like this:

Depreciation is high because of government incentives. The car might be $35,000, but the real price is $27,500 after a $7,500 incentive. The depreciation curve thus starts at $27,500, but it is reported against the $35,000 figure in terms if rate of depreciation. The same trend can be seen in the used Volt and Leaf…

The Teslas hype is out of control at the moment. Many believe they have supercar performance, never break down, will last forever as if even the suspension is some sort of solid-state electronics, and that Tesla has some sort of monopoly on battery manufacturing that no one else can compete with.

Neutral: What Will Happen With Insurance On Autonomous Cars?

Except what’s truly booming are not SUVs, but CUVs. Honda’s best seller, the CR-V, is built on a Civic platform. Yes, it’s a bit taller and heavier - putting it (in terms of interior space - and also in price) right up there with the Accord, a mid-sized car (and what you’d traditionally think of as a family vehicle).…

Took her to a Sizzler restaurant for dinner. They had a special if you buy steak and shrimp, you get free refills on shrimp, she ordered that and so I did too. I had never eaten shrimp before, but I tried them and they were great. Loved the flavor, but they were pretty crunchy. In fact after eating my first serving of…

Oh man, all these angry old guys here at work are going to bore me to death the next couple days. Obama bashing turned up to... a healthy 8/10