all the stars here. 

A perfect example of why “stroads” are bad. 

Yeah, user not paying attention. If you turn the wheel, you can take over easily. He wasn’t paying attention. 

The cars don’t go into drive when a charge cable is plugged in. 

Doubtful. There is some reduction in battery life, but it is still well over 200,000 miles. There’s a Tesla taxi service that only uses supercharging and drives their cars all day. They’ve put well over 200k miles on each car. 

So far the data is that the batteries in Teslas will last between 300k and 500k miles. Far more than most cars are used for. And even then they can be pulled and used for other things because they will still have 80% of their original capacity.

same number of cells are needed for a regular model S. The battery isn’t any different for the plaid. 

fair. I’m sure 116 mph comes up way faster than you expect with 1020 HP. 0-100 mph in this car is 4 seconds.

oy. bad information in the facebook posts, bad information in the article... yikes. 

What’s wrong with ethanol? E85 is monster juice. 100+ octane, we made huge HP on it. 

indeed. even better visibility in the Model 3 than the S. 

The tetanus is free with the car.

Modern ICE vehicles also have electronic parking brakes, so this isn’t just an EV problem. It’s the same on ICE cars. Check out modern ICE cars. They use the same electronic parking brakes for whatever reason. You can’t disengage them without 12V power.

It’s much harder to have the car detect when it is ok to leave the traffic lane and pull to the side of the road. For now, I think that’s the only way it can bring the car to a stop safely.

The problem is range. Everyone wants more range. To deliver 300+ mile range, you need 800 - 1000 lbs of battery. When you have large batteries, HP is essentially free. The extra motor weight is nothing compared to the batteries. 

Most cars are around 250 whr / mi, so those 2.5 kwhr batteries are only good for 10 miles each, at best. And they are 23 lbs. Not enjoyable to swap four of them every 40 miles on a road trip...

Focus on highway driving for now. If I could get on the highway and watch Netflix during a long trip or in traffic, that would be a huge benefit. I don’t mind city driving.

Someone is lying about HP numbers here. You can plug the numbers into a 1/4 mile calculator. 1914 HP should yield a faster ET than this... 

GTFO.

GTFO.

Doesn’t matter that much when you can fast charge at up to 1000 mph.