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While Elon defenitely lead Tesla to it's success, the grand masterplan Sports Car (for few rich) - Limousine (for more) - Affordabel EV (for many) has ben around since the beginning, long long before the Roadster was halfway finished. How much of this is from Elon himself I don't know, but back...

I'm pretty sure I remember Elon talking about how 6.0 will update the Navigationsoftware quiet drastically, but that was back in march or so. So it's the best guess that you might be able to do a lot more of the standard features of other navigation system and hopefully some new cool ones too...

I agree with the OP that the UI can use some improvments. sure its good generally but I think it's not thought throu in details sometimes. Many of those can be adressed with some new voice commands, more possible functions on the stearing wheel buttons or UI changes. They already did it with...

So in other words you don't develop clean technics because then some 'poorer' countries will use more of the cheaper and dirty techniques? Wshould try and make a cleaner grid, cleaner factories and a sustainable society.. right now that's in many ways just not true. If you wait for the perfect...

It's funny how everybody knows what the energy lifecicle is on every part of a car as soon as it's electric, but nobody ever questions where gasoline comes from... And how much electricity is used while refining Gasoline: How much electricity is used refine a gallon of Gasoline? So...

Fair enough, with a lightweight car you are the weak one in traffic, true.. but none of those get pushed away each time a truck passes.. Well my main issue with the handles is that there is no mechical way to get them out and open the door. The confort comes mostly from the keyless door unlock...

Another tribute to him :)... aaaan funny! Nikola Tesla vs Thomas Edison. Epic Rap Battles of History Season 2. - YouTube

While some reviews of the pirellis are saying it's not very good in snow none of them say they are very bad either. It's hard to believe it's such an imense difference as like I said I had often a hard time to get the car moving in flat terrain. Unfortunately trying the difference out by myself...

Hello, I just returned from a one day winter driving course in the swiss mountains. It was snowing in the morning and raining in the afternoon. So we had all kinda fresh snow and slippery. As this is my first driving course ever I'm probably far from an expert driver and I did learn a lot...

So an Apple Co Founder don't like fanboys? I think that's funny :tongue:

I searched this Forum but didn't found much, so I thought we should start a collection of your favorte homescreens, so far I only found 2: http://dash.time4tesla.com/ - TESLAMODS TeslaTuner.com - The place for Tesla Motors apps and accessories Weather for Moffett Nas/Mtn, CA I know somewhere...

In Switzerland it's quiete mixed too. On my first drive back from Winterthur it worked quiet well. But in many places afterwards it didn't work so well. Right now I mostly consume music over the memory stick feature.

Yes there is not much on the boards from the lucky europeans. The few things I've messages I've red of them were very positive as expected. Also at least the german articles of late were very positive. Only negative things were that some didn't get the standard charging adapter so you charge...

the article is pretty good and funny as they said things like: Tesla managed to get the electric cars out of the cerial corner (this translates to something like hippiefraction). The 2 negative things they mentioned that the car was annoyingly noisy at high speeds from wind- and wheelnoises...

One swiss roadster friend said he had a planned delivery date mid august, so he should have gotten his already. I still hope for a mid september delivery, but no final date so far, i have a 'normal' reservation.

To let them cool off, so it's safe for the technicians to handle, if you lif in cali it's 3 days :D

I'd still wait, sure they introduced some nice new options, but honestly, you already have a car that is amazing, and with the new options it will still be quiet spartan option wise. So wait some more, they already leaked that they will bring AWD next year and who knows what other options come...

I was over 4 years on the line too, but not a roadster owner, but will probably get my care middle of september. The question why I asked is because due to technical problem at teslas side I got my correct contract one month late, but was asured I was still in the first delivery round for...

is it a signature or the regular one?

how... ermm.. userfriendly

I suggest the... CHARGING STATION FIGHT club. Everyone arriving at a charging point after you challange you :P Whoever wins gets the plug. First rule of the Fight club is.... record with your cellphone and put it on youtube! [me/signsupforthaiboxingagain]

The doorhandles are really emarrasing if they don't work all the time and Tesla should have taken a look at other cars and how they do it. After all they have good relationships with Toyota and Prius keyless door unlocking works flawless since 8 years. The fob batteries need changing only...

Articles like: Electric Mini: It takes a lot of coal to make gasoline How much electricity is used refine a gallon of Gasoline? - Green Transportation

there are many threads about 'why I buy a tesla' on here and I allways thought there are a lot of people who play the patriot card and say because it's an all american car and it again brings america to the top of the car business. Another often mentioned reason is that it may stop wars like...

Unfortunately this just means that there isn't much of a reservationlist anymore in the US don't know if it's a good sign that Tesla only has a reservation pile of 17 days left. Good we europeans kick in soon ;)

If the advertising wants to stay viral they have to do something special, wich creates an interest in the spot without forsing it to people between movies and such. I really love adds like the old spock new spock for audi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPkByAkAdZs So I'd really approve the...

I just did order mine and I didn't got the cold weather package as I think the other features are pointless. I hope that the fogging won't be much an issue but we'll see. As it is possible to fix this afterwards I'm sure it also will be possible to retrofit it, even thou it's probably more...

Wich is exactely my point. My Model S is my Ship I'd hope to get a Trinity with legs not wheels ;) Oracle sounds too much like work ;) I also have to admit I took the blue pill and not the red as I ordered a blue Model S yesterday.

My Toyota mechanics died know tesla pretty well. He was a bit concerned about the battery life but was otherwise pretty supportive/entusiastic as I told him I'd probably buy one.

I never named my car so far but I like your matix of thinking. I'd have gone for Nebuchadnezzar as long as the car isn't answering to smalltalk I don't need a too personal name and The Nebuchadnezzar really sounds like a spaceship. Serinity thou would be a lot easier to say :P I also like 'The...

mhhh looks good, but still can't beside between red or black. Are there any Sig Red <-> multicoat red pictures yet?

if you start like that you can ask the same about the Model S. Leafs, Mievs and let alone Twizies will use so much less Energy when stomping the pedal... :cursing:

maybe you can sue them back for damaging the car. And as it a high voltage connection he might even go in for tried murder or something ;) Just play this while charging ;) ll Sue Ya - YouTube

Fact is we do know they don't seem to care about reservations numbers. You can blame it on Battery back sizes, colours or Suspensions or whatever. Even thou at the time Europe gets it's cars all configurations are in production I'm quiet sure they'll have some other logics at work to optimize...

It's good they finally can handle that...

sure it's mor logic than the others because it multiplies with 10 to he next bigger unit 10mm = 1cm 100cm = 1m 1000m = 1km thats way better than 12inch = 1 foot 3foot = 1 yard 1760 yards = 1mile maybe the english and the americans are way smarter than I am but I get a brain cramp...

Well I don't see why this is a european problem. I just was in New York and they park like they put on vaseline on their cars ;) Not having parking sensors as an extra is just so 2004. I'd also say that the sensors should show the obsticles graphically on the touchscreen.

With the Prius it is 'B' and not as strong as the Model S. Also when the batter is full (kinda same situation as too cold in the S) it starts braking in a different way (it gets way louder, so probably the gas engine) but the brake-feeling stays the same.

I don't have the car, but as I read allways when the batterypack is cold, the regen is off or limited to not damage the battery pack. This unfortunately also means that you don't brake when lifting the foot from the pedal. Many already suggested that tesla should simulate the 'regen' if regen is...

For someone who hasn't a demand problem that's just a minor thing ;). So seriously I do understand that such false articles has to be adressed. And it's of corse easy as this guy just lied about almost everything in his article. so of corse adressing it has no negative side effects what so ever...

Mhh havn't read the small prints, but posting on forums normaly negates the copywrite of what you do post. So if you say something you don't want to be copied you have to do that over a link to a copywrited place and even then it might be hard to enforce. I'm surprised that not more bad stuff...

You guys all make me sick.... so I can see a model S more often ;)

If you want to go that route please get rid of the door andles, the frameless door, the touchscreen, electric windows, all those drive safe features and so on. Because less is more.... not so much.

$250 would be a nobrainer, yes i would pay that. Unfortunately it probably would more be like $2'500. The Spartan way of building the Model S might be a necessary, and do we really need this? no we don't, but it would have been better.

You already can choose the regen level now to some degree. So what's missing is that braking should be regen. There is no reason why it's not other than it's more complicated to do. Every one Pedal driver still can do that and even gets additional regen if they finally step on the brake bedal...

Thank you for your Experiment, this result is pretty different to what Tesla says 'the car shouldn't loose any charge other than from heating up the battery when you start'

Well be greatfull, here the fines for speading are based on how much you're too fast. If you'd be caught with warp 1 it would be 1,079,252,729 km/h too fast. you'd probably get the death sentene then. But then. you'd have problems with the next curve anyway ;)

Maybe not, as the electric motor is more efficient as the ICE one the wind might take a lager percentage of the energy you use then the ICE. So even if the car itself does have less wind 'drag' it might end up with the same or higher percentage of fuel effiency... but well that's hard to tell...

Looking at the map of tesla reservations Liechtenstein has 2 so that's Liechtenstein 36500 2 18250 YAY we are at least 2nd. I there is one wich is not on that map we beat everyone haha :P

Of buying a thing that lasts long and is expensive from a new company is risky. I'm not so much worrying aoubt the demand yet, as they don't really advertised yet and therefore saved a lot of money and still are on track. But Tesla has to prove a lot of things: 1. That the qualetiy is...