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Last month the Model 3 AWD Long Range model received an update allowing owners to pay $2000 to increase its performance 0-60 from 4.4 seconds down to 3.9 seconds. Has anyone heard any word on a similar option being there for the Model Y? Maybe improving the AWD Long Range from 4.8 seconds to...

Full credit goes to a NASA Space Flight forum member with the username jclishman. See his thread over on the NSF forum: SpaceX Landing Montage Video www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikJ3S1J9P7k

Ok, I put together some numbers after looking around a bit online. These seem to be ball-park correct, but finding cost was sometimes hard. The below table is sorted by kg to LEO (so basically how powerful the rocket is). I think that's important because when a company wants to launch a...

Elon recently retweeted this video on the future of robotics & automation and its impact on humanity. I just thought I'd share it here for those that don't follow Elon's twitter: Humans Need Not Apply - YouTube

I pulled this quote from austinEV from the Q4 2013 thread. It always seemed to me that Tesla was aspiring to more of a BMW-sized automaker, rather than the largest automaker in the world. I was wondering what the people on this forum thought. Will Tesla grow to be that large? Has Tesla ever...

My Dad emailed me this article regarding Ford (F) vs. Tesla (TSLA) and asked what I thought: Ford Motor Company (F): Ford Vs. Tesla... Which Stock Should You Buy? - Seeking Alpha Here's my response. What do you guys think? Dad, That was an interesting article. With regard to...

A while back I got an email regarding all the Tech Talks and Test Drive events in the north east. Here's the email: I attended the tech talk last Thursday at the Natick Mall, and today I got to test drive the Model S for the first time! I drove a multicoat red P85: Here's the route...

Hypothetical question: A genie tells you that he will give you one car for free that you're not allowed to give away or sell. It could be any car at all. An Enzo Ferrari, a Bugatti Veyron, a Ford Model T… anything. What car do you choose? Personally, I would choose the Tesla Model S. I...

I've found that this site loads much slower on Google Chrome than on Firefox. It's mostly on loading actual threads rather than the menus. I've tested this on two separate computers. I think it all started around the time the "Tweet" option was added to the bottom of each post, which was a...

On the Main Page of this forum, there's a typo that's been there for a few months now. When a Sub-Forum is listed, the follow text is shown (for example): Sub-Forums: Sub-Forums: Performance Discussion, , Technical Discussion Note that "Sub-Forums" is shown twice, and there are two commas...

The idea for this thread is taken from a few posts in the Predictions thread (mostly from posts 28-31) that got slightly off topic. There are a lot of car companies out there that have multiple brand names for their vehicles. Mercedes has Smart, BMW has Mini, Audi has VW, Chrysler has Dodge...

Space X to announce "Something Big" today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th6HQ9RtVCE Link to the live announcement at 11:15 ET here: http://www.visualwebcaster.com/event.asp?id=78041

I just created my account a couple of days ago, and I can't seem to access my account settings. Whenever I click on "General Settings" for example, it just says: JRod0802, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons: 1. Your user account...