My recommendations for the list (and they better fix them because I sure as hell am putting my deposit for the X
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* The charge port cover needs to close automatically. I forget to close it too often, and I've seen a few Model Ss around with the cover open so I know I'm not the same. Either that or make the cover face backwards so it closes on its own after getting some speed.
* Be able to open the charge port with the remote fob (either that or make it open automatically when a specially-coded charge cable approaches, that would be cool). I hate having to go back into the car to open the charge port if I forgot to open it (by now you are probably thinking the problem is with my memory). I think this could be a software update for the Model S: double click or click and hold on the frunk button to open the charge port, or something like that.
* Make "no creep" configuration still hold on a hill. I like the no creep configuration, but on a hilly side I can't live without it since the car rolls back when starting on every hill.
* put proximity sensors on the front (OR a front-facing camera, which would be even better). It is already a problem with the S, the X is taller so it would be even more important.
* Make the flaps covering the roof rack attachments mechanically stronger. I've lost two already at the car wash. Wait, we don't know if the X will have a roof rack (I like the idea someone suggested of a roof rack sliding backwards and lowering to the ground, that would be really cool), so this one might not apply.
* Improve the range of the door handle sensor. If they opened half a second earlier I wouldn't look like a car thieve half of the time (I'm beginning to walk slower when getting to the car just because of this).
* Add a trash can. Yes, seriously. I can't understand how people that wouldn't have an office without a trash can accept that in a car there's no place to put a used paper tissue, a candy wrapper or a parking receipt.
* Add some decent locked interior space. Minimalistic is good, but minimalistic stops being minimalistic when you start having stuff loose around the car.
* Add rear-seat heaters. The savings in air heating when the car is cool will more than compensate for the cost.
* Drop the wheel adjustment knob. Make that a software option or put the button by the seat adjustment buttons. There are too many knobs behind the wheel, that's the one to drop.
* Use decent floor mats. The ones in my S have to be the cheapest piece of junk I got with any car. The one on the passenger side keeps rolling on the floor. Seriously, they would be a low point on a Lada, but on a Tesla they are sub-sub standard.
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... more insulation, or moving to a heat pump (but as it gets colder they get less efficient). None of which will get you huge gains...
I am pretty sure they are already using a heat pump (I can hear it working when I turn on the heater with low wind speed and the car parked). I may be wrong, but everything points in that direction. And heating with a resistor would be so massively inefficient I can't imagine they even considered it.