TessP100D
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If true I’m headed to Costco to get a set.
if the CT fails, and remember back when Elon said If it fails, he will design some else, then these could be collector items.
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if the CT fails, and remember back when Elon said If it fails, he will design some else, then these could be collector items.
I believe that they do now on the S and Xbut they never even offered it on the 3 or Y.
Brilliant innovators make mistakes but learn from them. Bad one's don't.
From what I can tell Von Holzhausen is a brilliant innovator. We certainly know that Straubel is.
Now, I'm happier
There are no options for stalks on the Highland 3, S, or X and likely not on the CT.
They do have wheel/yoke options, but we don't know if they will on the CT.
Too bad about lack of stalks on the Highland 3. I'm not getting into speculation on the CT.
I hope some sanity returns.
It's logical they won't. Not one CT has had stalks, they removed them from the 3 and we know the S/X haven't had them since the refresh.
It's a move that Tesla is pushing to all cars, including the Semi. The Y will be next.
Terminator857
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Great, so the only thing we will find out is the rear specs and interior storage
Not in this thread
voyager
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Apologist are saying that this climb was intentional on Tesla’s part. They were gathering data….
zoomer0056
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They pointed the truck in the direction of the hill ... intentionally. Tesla always collects data, even when you think they aren't.
Aside from ground clearance, it didn't climb that any better than a run of the mill commuter car would. A little common sense would suggest off-road tires or at least lowering tire pressure. With the way the wheels were spinning from brief throttle input it didn't seem to be running in an off-road mode (maybe planned for future development?). It didn't even seem to sufficiently coordinate power from spinning wheels to those not spinning. It looks like they still have lots of refinement work ahead.
I suspect there will be a load of reservations skipping the first model year CT.
I suspect there will be a load of reservations skipping the first model year CT.
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They likely assumed it would perform well on the hill and pointed toward the prepositioned camera.
zoomer0056
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FastEddieB
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It may or may not bec the case here, but I’ve found videos and stills can both make grades look much less steep than they actually are.
AlanSubie4Life
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It’s not like this was a dominant performance at all, but this is not as easy an obstacle as this angle might suggest.
A better angle would have helped people understand what is going on here.
This isn’t too difficult an obstacle for 4Runners, Jeeps, GX, etc. but those are all pretty capable. But they don’t just demolish it. (They do better than the Cybertruck did in this case, usually.)
Anyway, my point: I don’t think you’ll see many 2WD vehicles managing it, regardless of ground clearance. The steps are steep! You can see at 3:00 they cropped out a fail from the GX (wonder whether he was in 4LO or not, I assume so, but seems he needed a run at it, or he was not using all the assists that vehicle offers). Maybe I’m wrong, but looks like a tough obstacle if you don’t have a couple wheels with traction.
voyager
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AlanSubie4Life
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With the type of off-roading that most people do, the more important thing is that the truck be able to slam the underbody on one of those rocks and have it not be a bad day. That is definitely going to happen a lot, so incidental rock strikes must be a non issue, unlike with all Teslas to date. Plenty of height to allocate a bit of buffer space for this purpose. Could even reduce ground clearance and add buffer.
Terminator857
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Here is an example where Tesla previously tried to address similar issue of objects hitting under belly:
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