Recent content by RealUlli

I'd hope for a van. There's lots of workmen and small businesses out there that would love to get a van that doesn't need to be fueled all the time. Also, they don't even need all that much range - they start from their office, go to a work site, maybe two or three, then back to the office...

Actually, they can't. They are on a fixed gear that connects them directly to the wheels. (There might be a differential gear to distribute the power to the wheels, but I'm not sure about that) N only means, the accelerator will do nothing. For reverse, the motors will just spin backwards. For...

If my new Model 3 does that, the SC gets the car back with less than 10 miles. I live in Germany, and if the steering wheel is not pointed straight when steering straight, the car is considered non-roadworthy. (AFAIK) However, I assume everything will be perfect.

I have the suspicion that Tesla either has a 20% rule like Google or 3M has (that's what gave us GMail and Post-it notes) and the games and easter eggs are coded in that time or they're using the implementation of these gimmicks as on-boarding process for new developers. I think the latter one...

I work in IT at a company that makes software for cars. A colleague once told me a story about a Windows CE-based device we developed for a large customer that took 55s to boot from power off. This only needed to happen every once in a while, but during the final check of the car before it...