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Precisely. Going from gasoline to electric can be considered a detail, compared to what autonomous vehicles will do to the car industry. Think about it for a minute: - it's projected that more than 70% of humans will live in or near a city in two/three decades. - with autonomous cars that come...

It was a "crowdfunded" design effort :) I think we just did what intuitively made sense, to harmonize the lines. Bold is one thing but that current front end looks like it melted. I still think the exterior and interior of the M3 have very little in common. Two very different approaches and this...

GM can't sell more than 40-50 000 Bolts / year anyway. Where are they going to get batteries for more than that per year? LG doesn't have enough factories for now. From my european perspective, I think the Bolt (or Opel Ampera-E as it will be called here) can sell quite well. I think if Renault...

Yeah, more of a crease and bent in more to create depth? I think the last version I made could maybe have that low crease even deeper but I wouldn't make it as extreme as that Lambo, no? I kind of like it even more with the lower crease added as well (the last version). I think I'm already on...

Alright sirs, I believe this is what you're looking for, first one is James version, and bottom one with voyagers suggestion to also make a slight crease between the light slits:

Yes, that makes sense I think. Here is an attempt: This area of the car is highly sensitive to the slightest change. Maybe some would prefer more of a "pinch" in the front, others more rounded. I tried to keep it somewhere in between. And I think it's been mentioned a few times.....it's not...

Not bad! Certainly makes it look more refined and well....finished. Here's my attempt at removing the snout:

"Tesla is about making electric cars fun to drive".....welcome to the 21st century driving experience. I'm all for autonomous cars, and even a less cluttered elegant dash. But this design is not the way to do it. I wonder how people would have reacted if the exterior was in the same...

Trying to remove the snout:

Well, my point with showing that piece of....architecture, is that unfortunately it's usually the "modernists" who are not only the ones obsessed with being original (and strangely end up becoming ridiculously similar to each other) but also they are the ones telling others that the old is bad...

This thinking is unfortunately in the minds of mainly architects, and such thinking has produced things like these anxiety inducing inhuman "dwellings": You are an ant. You live in a grey box. You go to work at your desk. This is what we have decided is "modern now", so you must adapt. Now...

Oh poo. This just gets better and better.... 0-60 in 4 seconds! ...And never leave your desk!

Bingo. My automotive soulmate. Yes, the flat front nose seems like a bug in the Autodesk software used to design it. The rest is stunning, beautiful, sexy. Love the headlights.

Behold! The Model T, that I invented: Minimalism has its place, it's not automatically the best thing for all situations. I'm far more annoyed by having a TV in my face while driving than a few buttons I can completely ignore. The frustrating thing is that the Model 3 seems by all aspects...

It doesn't look "perfect" to me but at least it's coherent. What's your example of a good looking dashboard, besides obviously having a giant 17 inch screen in the middle of it? That's just it, when I'm driving a car, I don't care to "experience" a computer screen. I don't get in the car and...

I'm sorry but as much as I like the exterior, that dashboard is a disaster. Are we back in the 70s now, predicting how modern "stuff" will look in the year 2000? I realize it's still in prototyping stage but I fear the main thing, and only thing, that will change is the gigantic screen will be...

I see, well I will wait then until this manufacturer is ready to make it available for a larger audience. Please let me know if you can when this charger is out of beta testing and you can tell us more about it or you can point me to the manufacturer. Of course everyone needs to eat, I ment in...

But this is the clever thing with Renaults reductive charging. You don't actually install a new "normal" charger in the car - you reuse the electronics and motor to convert AC to DC, parts which are already being used to make the car move - AC charging or not. So the costs of this tech are very...

Well I wrote a reply to miimura, but it said waiting for moderation, then it never appeared. Anyway, pvh, that sounds interesting and I guess you will have cornered the market with that charger since it seems you'll be the only one selling an AC only 43kW charger :tongue: Not to sound like I'm...

Unfortunately it would have made sense not only for the Zoe, but for all affordable EVs, which in the next 5 years or so at least won't have more than 30-40kW of batteries on board anyway, and so wouldn't be able to charge at DC of 120kW or even 100kW, even if such a charging network (non Tesla)...

But again I'm not talking about the Tesla 120kW fast chargers. I'm talking about very expensive chargers that are currently being installed all over Europe, where the charging speed is the same for AC or DC (practically the same, 43 vs 50 but I believe the Nissan Leaf for example only draws a...

It's not related to Tesla, I have a Zoé and I am just very surprised that this onboard charging tech up to AC 43kW hasn't been adopted more by other manufacturers. I don't think it's all up to patents, I'm thinking it's rather a matter of the companies that sell chargers. A fast AC/DC 43kW/50kW...

I've been recently stunned (excuse the pun) about charger price difference between AC and DC, and I've been trying to find if any company is selling 43kW AC only chargers - no success so far. I imagine it wouldn't need to be much bigger than a 22kW charger and of course several times cheaper...

Call me crazy but I think it's stupid to have a giant touch screen.....in a car. There's a point to all the tangible buttons you have on the center column, I don't even have to look at them, I just reach out my hand and know what I'm touching because of the shape of the buttons. And if the road...