Recent content by SammichLover

This is where the roughly 70% I mentioned above comes from. An estimate of the round trip by .92 wheels to motor * .94 on the motor * .95 battery (round trip in and out) * .94 motor * .92 motor to wheels = estimate of 71% efficiency. Those are guesses, the motor to wheels could be lower even...

"Long tailpipe!!!" *drink* Bad news, somebody has lied to you and it isn't who you think it is. Your post is archetypal "self-righteous, misinformed, BS". "Some studies" = "[dated] nonsense spewed by hacks as part of a massive misinformation campaign", there's no real legitimate basis for...

The full cycle of wheel-battery-wheel is +/-70% efficient. In other words of the kinetic energy you'd normally expend using friction brakes about 70% of that is regained when you speed up again, and 30% is lost to heat in the battery, heat in the motor (AKA generator), imperfect tire grip, and...

The Model 3's floors are very thin. Try taking the mat out of the back and then from just seat height drop a shoe on it. It sounds like it should be in the drum line of the orchestra. :p There is a large cavity underneath that keeps space between your feet and the battery pack, so it really...

I'm largely indifferent to your narcissism, as long as you make a better choice in the end for whatever reason. :p

This is likely road database driven. If so, how often it happens depends on how good the database is populated for where you drive. There are actually some AP/FSD features that at first seem to be driven by perception but around the edges you can see it is actually melding a road feature...

As @SigNC put on display above, fixating on the A/C being NOT a heat pump [which is moving heat from the cabin into the coolant lines] leads them to being incorrectly convinced (to the point of denial of the text right in the official parts manuals) that there isn't a refrigerant compressor in...

Exactly. Plenty of little stuff that has been pulled. Deadman pedal (wow, for me that'd be a big one if I hadn't got that), Homelink, little hooks in the back (not a big thing but there it is), the frunk mat, the ochre rear window (this was dropped ahead of mine getting built, unfortunately)...

Yeah, that was part of the appeal (see the last paragraph for the other part). And that's why the Model 3 killed any nostalgic feeling for manual transmissions because I've got the fine control responsiveness in spades now. "Rowing" up and down the gears does give you something to do but I find...

Gaffe??? Anyone that bought an AWD with a 990 DU got exactly what the paid for. And then Tesla bumped up their HP, and offered to sell them the Boost. This wouldn’t be a “gaffe” in any meaning of the word.

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It is what happens when you drive your Model 3 through a car wash, causing Baby Jesus to cry from the sky.

A few hundred pounds, it absolutely will. And it'll feel very different to drive and make it a lot harder to rotate the vehicle through corners. "Don't let the door hit you on the way out." - basic physics and the field of automobile design

Thanks for help making my point. There is nowhere in this world where the Challenger is considered a nimble car. :p Also, I'm not sure where those Camaro's numbers are coming from??? 4,120lb is an SS with 3 dead bodies in the trunk?

And their curb weight? The Model 3 gets away with the mass it has largely because it is located roughly “mid-engine” style.