shlokavica22
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Fortunately, a Tesla SUV with the low mounted battery pack and motors (along with dual motor stability control) will have a lower risk of roll over than a standard ICE SUV.
My point exactly.
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Fortunately, a Tesla SUV with the low mounted battery pack and motors (along with dual motor stability control) will have a lower risk of roll over than a standard ICE SUV.
My point exactly.
Zetsche should borrow the Model 3, S or X for a weekend and drive it with his family. That could give him a perspective of what is needed for success, technically possible and required to make a difference.
MB's engineering team is one of the best in the world. Unfortunately for them, the product management team is guiding what they do. And Zetsche is who guides product management. Time to market being a forced constraint, they are not looking at this with a truly long-term view. Just throwing $B's at it, with hope as the strategy.
Smart people are held back by bureaucracies inside large and old companies. It's not like Kodak didn't have a digital camera. I'm sure lots of engineers at MB understand what's happening.Maybe they are smarter than we gave them credit for. Maybe the reason for not offering a better solution is not that they can't, but doing so will hurt some part of the organization so they don't want to.
Think of all the semi parts, body larts, etc. They're so much larger than what car uses which raises your material costs...plus more batteries and motors for each one...it all adds costs. Just the size of the line has to be wider/taller etc. For just starting out I think Tesla should focus on what they know...starting semi line from scratch will cost more because there is more trial and error involved in tooling it up. Or it would be cool if they could do what Elon wanted to do in that recent interview. Release 2 new vehicles at once.Simple as that. The SUVs are higher margin cars that were shoved into customer's throat. Even though they are much less reliable than the sedans and arguably much less secure.
People feel more secure with them because they sit higher, but when on the highway, for example, what matters is the stability. Statistics show straight correlation between rollovers and fatal casualties.
I think model Y will be much more optimized for mass production. They might prefer to wait and optimize the Model Y design as much as possible before going to mass production.
The Semi on the other hand might have less constrains from that perspective, because the volume will be lower.
I can't understand that confidence. Unless we talk about mass assembling.
Not only this, but Porsche for example is having trouble just finding space for the new electric lines in their factory locations. They're stuck in some town in Germany with limited land around them to use...all these logistics/infrastructure makes it tough for them. Read a German article yesterday about how they're having to revamp their factory over several months time.Smart people are held back by bureaucracies inside large and old companies. It's not like Kodak didn't have a digital camera. I'm sure lots of engineers at MB understand what's happening.
Wife will be walking door to door for Katie Hill for Congress in the 25th district. Gotta' flip the lousy Steve Knight incumbent.Great! And thanks from us all.
You should convince your wife and kid to do the same, you have a small army of Tesla promoters there ;-)
I think he meant this quarter, not lifetime, for Model 3 (although I'm still not sure whether that would be the correct number).You're off a little there on the Model 3 numbers...
Bolt: 23,297 + 10,258 = 33,555
Model 3: 1,772 + 55,882 = 57,654
I think he meant this quarter, not lifetime, for Model 3 (although I'm still not sure whether that would be the correct number).
It also has a page with some Model 3 reviews. It would be great if you give him some suggestions..Why Tesla
This was my mistake. The correction is correctConsidering he specifically said "lifetime" and his Bolt numbers matched and he linked to 2017 and 2018 sources... I think he meant lifetime, he just left out the August portion of the Model 3.
. My mate from the outback called. He wants his bullbar back.MB's engineering team is one of the best in the world. Unfortunately for them, the product management team is guiding what they do.
The Audi is actually being produced in volume, unlike the vaporware from Mercedes. It has slightly worse specs than a Model S or X for a similar price, though reviews haven't been possible yet, so we don't know things like "does it have a frunk". It seems that they've planned for 50,000/year, which is actually pretty good.Yesterday was MB, today is Audi's turn
Anyone see this article audi-just-started-mass-producing-a-new-tesla-fight? in motley Fool
Audi Just Started Mass-Producing a New Tesla Fighter
Didn't see this discussed in threads ?(catching up daily mostly in evenings)