Recent content by pdxrob

RE: TCO, let’s look at only fuel costs which is a massive portion of truck ownership, and let’s make rosy assumptions for the truck. Let’s assume 15000 miles per year for 15 years of ownership and do NPV at 3%. Gas: $3.50/gallon, 22.5 mpg = 10k gallons = $35k raw costs = ~$28k NPV EV...

Here's my shitty Microsoft Paint attempt. My main issue is the triangle roof, and I feel that a flat roof/trapezoid solves this. Both of these alternatives keeps triangulation through the body (although through the B and C pillars instead of through a giant C pillar/roof combo) and maintains...

Minor point that auto-wiping is available now and single wipe action is available on the stalk. I still would prefer to see more options via the stalk. Agreed, but since I only use Android Auto for navigation I don't have this issue. I do have the issue that you can't turn off Sirius traffic...

It's probably not worth talking about it on a forum dedicated to one of the two brands :), but personally I think it depends on your priorities. Things that I like more on the Volt Premier (keeping in mind that I've only played with a showroom Model 3): Google Play Music / Apple CarPlay are...

The rear seating position in both vehicles is quite compromised. In the Volt the hatchback glass/frame extends too far forward so folks who are ~6'0" start to hit their head. However the seats are fairly comfortable though cramped. In the 3 Tesla seems to have "solved" the headroom issue in...

The TMC forums - where you'll be told that all design decisions are okay if they're centered around full autonomy but to always keep your hands at 10 and 2 :)

I'm not against Care By Volvo, and was recently even considering it, but it's worth talking about a few points: Maintenance is not a major concern on a 2-3 year lease You can negotiate $0 down on a lease too Insurance is included - IMO this is the only significant financial difference from a...

Or "What Moore giveth and Gates taketh away" (Referencing Moore's law)

Petition to change this forum to a micro-house, car-free, vegan, child-free, locavore discussion board, because if those aren't your only priorities you're a climate change denier.

I think saying "this is good for Tesla since they're maximizing profits" is considering Tesla in a vacuum. First off, it ignores opportunity cost. I'm willing to bet that consumer "stickiness" is largely correlated with preferred configuration cost e.g. customers who wanted the base model...

Yes, and then the board will be friendly to a merger, no? They certainly still have legal fiduciary duties for the minority shareholders, but what prevents a sale/merger at this point? Or is this where freeze-out laws apply (which vary by state)?

@run-the-joules - If you have time, I would love to see this done on rough highways given that I live in a state with cement highways :/ Great post!

To clarify, both S's and your Model 3 are all worse than a Volt? At all speeds? On both rough and smooth surfaces?

There are hybrid versions of all of those SUVs AFAIK. The XC60 T8 even has 15-20 miles plug-in range and is a beast. Also, the XC40 just came out, and while it's a little too uber-trendy-urban for me, it looks like a great smaller SUV (although the front suspension is worse than the XC60 and...

This ignores the secondary market. Presumably buying new is correlated with higher household income (I hope :/ ).