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Large city buses in Europe regularly have rear-facing seats without headrest. With Four seats across and an aile in the middle, you will often have two benches of two seats facing each other. With a smaller, lighter bus, deceleration g-forces on passengers in a typical collision will be higher...

Traditionally higher electricity prices, early adopter penalty and shifting of energy taxes from heavy industry to consumers.

The problem with the emergency breaking is that it doesn't fail safe. It doesn't seem to have a trivial solution, though. Especially as there were some reports of false positives of the emergency braking system on this forum, too, when autopilot came out. Even an severe acoustic warning, only...

I don't need a car, where I live, but my choice would be: Need: Supercharger access Bioweapon Defense Mode Want: Accessory hitch (mountain bike) Large capacity battery AWD Autopilot Subzero package Fixed glass roof High amperage charger Maybe (probably not) Towing package with required...

? Model S = large sedan Model 3 = compact sedan Model X = large CUV with FWD Model Y = compact CUV with FWD Model R = roadster with maximum plaid ?

Bio weapon defense mode is most desirable in locations with smog problems, e.g. Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Beijing. You can bet that the hepa filter will be offered on the model 3. The model 3 isn't competing with the model S. Electric cars are a rapidly expanding segment. Tesla as a whole is...

Model R roadster/supercar Might happen for market introduction of new unproven expensive technology that initially doesn't scale well, i.e. New battery chemistry of solid state. Halo car. Because Elon wants one. Model T truck (unlikely name due to ford) Basis for a new commercial vehicle...

Ideally, Supercharger hardware costs and usage fees would all be included in the base purchase price of the car, as it is with the current line up of Model S and X. Since Superchargers are one of the main competitive advantages over possible or actual competitors, at least a paid option is a...

Sounds like a little security by obscurity, if they use wide open unmaintained libraries. Or maybe reputation saving by obscurity. It's not like other car manufacturers are any better, but Tesla's reputation is based partly on the images of being an IT minded company. Of course, you can't keep...

If the front console and the third row seats were removable, you could already transport quite a few, including very long things in the Model X with six-seat configuration. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case, if I comprehended everything correctly.

Great job with the conversion. Obvious tech angle: USB-Hub with 2A fast charge capability USB-Hub in center console cubby with UPS-capability for always on gadgets 100W Laptop charger (could be USB-C 3.1 in the future) These should be $50-100 in material cost and Tesla really should...

Please put that in your first post, too. That would be great for a reference. And yes, this should become a sticky!

Unless Tesla offers more shares till then, this will be more than 4% of the new total of TSLA shares. And by fullfilling all those goals Tesla will be worth a lot more than today. So not only a VERY good motivator in the financial sense, but also in terms of keeping control of Tesla in case of...

Sorry, 11/7/15

Sheesh, only 1 August still available and that was today ;-). So I'll take 11/2/15

I also really like the design. I agree with other posters that this will not be Model 3. My thoughts on the matter: + looks great + perfectly city sized + plenty of space for passengers + probably handles really well, especially if dual drive + probably an incredible platform for the next...

^This. TMC is a large community, quoted by news networks and often first point of contact with the Tesla community for many new enthusiasts and prospective buyers. Any self-correcting mechanisms, where long-term posters will shun certain self-moderated threads will probably be overwhelmed...

Me too!

This is a picture of Otmar's Wreckla (salvaged Model S) that he wanted to turn into a Strechla (Frankenstein of two VW buses welded front to back into one vehicle repurposed as an electric vehicle on top of the tesla chassis). He blogs about his progress on cafeelectric.com/stretchla/ but hasn't...

AnxietyRanger: Thank you, too :biggrin:. I agree absolutely, with what you say.

I think many of us speculate from a demand perspective. I agree, that longer range would open a larger potential market for the Model S and Model X and it will be offered at some point. I also agree that people would pay good money for a larger battery pack with more range. From a supply...

The main prejudices against and problems with electric vehicles people have, still seem to be (from media and conversations, I have several times a month): golf cart performance, weirdmobile, low range, hight cost and short-life, toxic, unrecyclable batteries from unsufficient lithium resources...

Model 3 will be a performance car Elon Musk is a performance car guy. He cancelled the Model S40, not only because it had few takers, but apparently it also "sucked" in his words, with low available peak power from fewer batteries. (source purely from memory) If at all possible at the proposed...

battery production constrained? Could it be that Tesla actually doesn't mind people choosing the S70D over the S85 or S85D? Until the Gigafactory starts to ramp up production, they should still be battery production constrained. The S70D possibly carries less margin, but they can sell 17x S70D...

According to Euro NCAP's website At least the front crash test of the 1200 kg Skoda Fabia with a car of similar weight is not comparable to a crash test of the 2100 kg Model S with a car of similar weight. If you were to crash a Skoda Fabia into a Model S, those 5 stars wouldn't help as much.

Model X eXecutive or stretched Model S How about a "Model X eXecutive" with two luxury reclining backseats instead of the two back benches. There is space aplenty to fully stretch out and you have falcon wing doors to get in and out of the car comfortably and in style. you could even turn the...

Don't think there has been any public disclosure of his IQ, so hard to judge. He obviously is very good at what he does. Do you really think that the admins in this forum would be unwilling to allow a demonstrably well-researched and referenced post? You mean a vehicle of the type: let's...

If you are a NYT reader, now is your time to write I just wrote an email to NYT, since I usually enjoy reading it. \quote Dear NY Times, As a long time fan and avid reader of the New York Times, I am writing concerning two articles by John M. Broder about the Tesla Model S published on...

Well, technically the mean is the average. The value with half of a probability distribution above and half below is the median.

Thanks for the great work of collecting all those tidbits. That is true. It wouldn't be quite half the size, since you'd need the climate control and the menu bar at the top always visible. It would reduce the usability somewhat, but should be implemetable from the current software with...

Touch Screen will stay 17" 1. There is very little to no financial advantages to use a smaller screen compared to the system costs of the car. 2. The Tesla OS is optimised for 17". A smaller screen would mean for Tesla to maintain several different layouts of pretty much the whole OS...