You can install our site as a web app on your iOS device by utilizing the Add to Home Screen feature in Safari. Please see this thread for more details on this.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
VIN of car that euro ncap tested:
5YJSA7H1XEFPxxxxx
anyone that can decipher this one?
New seats with the new whiplash protection?Production, 85 kWh battery, RWD, LHD, vehicle. The only thing we don't know what it means in that is the 7. EU and Austrialian orders have been getting 6 and 7's in the 6th digit of the VIN which is for the restraint system. Tesla hasn't updated the NHTSA VIN decoding with this information, so presumably vehicles with those values are not being delivered in the US.
New seats with the new whiplash protection?
Until production exceeds about 100,000 per year I don't see any reason they can't just reset the sequence number to 1 as soon as they get there. The model year will still be shown as 2015 so the VIN will still be unique. In any event that is just speculation.I have just scanned through this thread and find nothing that states a hypothesis or solid info about what happens at and after Model S #100,000. At the rate Tesla is moving now, that car will be built sometime this spring or early summer. I am interested in any facts, theories or conjecture on the subject. Forgive me if I missed the info elsewhere.
Until production exceeds about 100,000 per year I don't see any reason they can't just reset the sequence number to 1 as soon as they get there. The model year will still be shown as 2015 so the VIN will still be unique. In any event that is just speculation.
In the event that Tesla builds more than 99,999 cars of a given model year over the lifetime of that model, the next number after 99,999 will be A0,000, progressing through A9,999, then onto B0,000 and so on up to Z9,999 - but not using the letters I, O or Q along the way.
This numbering system allows for up to 329,000 cars of a given model. Should this number be exceeded, the Production Sequence Numbering shall start again at 00,000.
Found a much more definitive answer. Tesla has already said what they'll do.
From their very first VIN encoding filing for the Model S (PDF):
I still like the proposal of just making the "build phase" numeric after P99999. That makes the sequence simpler to communicate all the way up to a million cars. But that is just me!
Here's the Tesla VIN decoder tool. For some cars it shows extended info, including factory options.
Just a footnote about the current VINs: was supercharging at the factory on Sunday and saw an S85, VIN P73971 awaiting delivery. At the current pace of production, P99999 will be hit in about 5-6 months.
Agree. I don't really see the point of having to designate the the car is a normal production car.I still like the proposal of just making the "build phase" numeric after P99999. That makes the sequence simpler to communicate all the way up to a million cars. But that is just me!
Production, 85 kWh battery, RWD, LHD, vehicle. The only thing we don't know what it means in that is the 7. EU and Austrialian orders have been getting 6 and 7's in the 6th digit of the VIN which is for the restraint system. Tesla hasn't updated the NHTSA VIN decoding with this information, so presumably vehicles with those values are not being delivered in the US.
Digit 6, Restraint System: 1 = Manual Type 2 USA Seat Belts, Dual Front Airbags, Front/Rear Side Airbags, Knee Airbags
Yup. Per law the last 6 digits of the VIN are production number (otherwise known as serial or sequence). Tesla just happens to be using one digit for the build phase. My proposal was to undo that and continue to use base-10 encoding. Tesla's plan is base 33 for the most significant digit and base 10 for the rest, which is a very strange design. Frankly even using base-16 for the whole serial number would have been easier for a human to read and gotten them 1,048,575 cars out of just 5 digits.