Recent content by richkae

I've owned a Prius for 12 years, and a Tesla for almost 7. I am very familiar with both. Tesla's system is superior. The throttle pedal is for controlling your speed. The brake pedal is for when you need to stop. It is very easy to coast by controlling the throttle pedal. For years when...

100% solar power just does not make sense. Even if solar cells were free, the batteries would be a bottleneck. For an average day in Seattle you would need about 18 hours worth of stored energy to make it through the day. But the average day is not the problem - the several week stretches of...

Clearly the crossover version of the Model 3 is next. After that Tesla should make ( not in order ): 1. a pickup truck 2. a more affordable electric car with 200 mile range. ( In the $15000 ballpark ) 3. a commercial van for small businesses/deliveries 4. a new Model S/X with the technology...

Why do you think that? I think he views the Model S as the first true Tesla, and he would prefer to forget the Roadster.

I think you should always push the message that the car is made in America with American technology by American workers and is fueled by American electricity. That should defuse the situation.

Taking each point in turn: First: slow 0-60. It is probably difficult to make an EV that is very slow. If you try to save money by putting in the weakest possible motor - the weak motor reduces your regen, which reduces your range, but then you have to add batteries back in to meet your range...

Need to know the ages/heights of the kids to know how long the rear seats will be useful and if that matches how long you plan to keep the car. Even though we only have 2 kids we added the rear seats to our S because it is convenient for playdates. Fitting 3 kids in the back seat ( with one...

Most of these just don't work because Tesla will lose money. High markup on options is how Tesla makes money, I want them to make more money, not less. They need to succeed, not scrape by. The initial install prices you listed for the subzero weather package, dual motors, towing package, and...

I think the mobile generator supercharger solution is misguided. Anyone with access to all the supercharging data and all the sales data ( Tesla ) could have predicted this exact event at this exact location many months ago. The margin for error would likely have been only a few cars. Why go...

I would rather pay a fee to supercharge every time than ever wait in a line like that.

There are many reasons that I have reduced my use of animal products, a primary one is resource utilization. I believe that it takes more resources to produce meat than grains. Many countries import animal feed from less developed nations, and are effectively taking food out of peoples mouths...

Because then you could use that energy to destroy entire planets.

When I was a kid, dinner consisted of some carefully chosen meat that was artfully seasoned and lovingly prepared and some afterthought stuff that was boiled in a pot. Now I eat a lot of roots and shoots, and when they are carefully chosen, artfully seasoned and lovingly prepared - they are...

I find it amazing that Tesla didn't apply the lessons of the Model S performance option to this exercise. The lesson is that people will pay a lot for acceleration. They are spending $30K on the P+L option for the Model S! If the new battery offered any significant performance increase it would...

I like to tell people that it cost 20 million dollars per gigabyte to upgrade the ram in our first computer. ( We had an Apple 2 and a 16K card was 300 dollars ) I frequently slip and say megabyte when I mean gigabyte ( or terabyte ) and the youngsters look at me funny.