Recent content by JimmWilks

Crikey. Robert really does sound a bit ranty in that BBC piece, I think he extrapolated a little too much.

The storage space info is on the Tesla site somewhere I think.

Where is this photo from TEG? 98mph with no driver?

I'm glad I don't understand what's going on.

5.6s at the moment, apparently the test rides weren't sports, :)

I agree, not much detail, and all the pictures they have aren't actually of the betas?

Pretty enormous energy consumption, but I guess they had been going from about 10-70mph with a car full of people ALL day. I think they used the friction brakes at the end of the run too so they would get max regen.

Parts of the Tesla website, possibly everything but the homepage is down for maintenance. The message has a picture of some roadsters on jacks!

Did you get a look at what's under the "driving" section of the car controls on the touch screen UI?

Great to know they're definitely thinking about it. Although it obviously isn't necessary, I think it's something that is really useful for motorway/highway/A-road driving, and seeing as the new Ford Focus has it...Why not you're 50-80k luxury sedan...

The Sun delivers over 1kW of power per square meter on the surface on a sunny day. I had to work it out a few times for an astro exam in January and I think the simplistic theoretical figure was 1.4kW. Solar panels are however only roughly 15%? ish efficient, so that's why a small area has such...

Here's hoping Nikki has clumsy fingers and they were just typos...

I suppose it all depends on what you care most about. If I were in the market for a Model S I would have to shell out for those lovely turbines, even if they didn't improve range.Here in the UK if it snows just a tiny bit nobody goes anywhere so it's easy to forget the snow/ice issue sometimes.

Is there confirmation of that then? If so, why would you get the 19-inchers? Turbines look better with 7% or so more range!

Sorry it does, what with all the new info coming in and wanting to get to sleep I put it up quickly in the news section. Personally I wouldn't pay for it as 5.6s is fast enough for me, but I am glad they're doing it purely to see some genuinely interesting and innovative competition for the...