Speaking to Tesla folks in Chicago last week, they felt AWD will never make its way to Model S and will be a feature offered on Model X instead. Looks like the Model X is in development indeed... but then - if it's sharing the same platform how come they can offer AWD on X but not S?
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Model X - Elon Musk says new SUV model due in 2013
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JRP3
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Maybe they think it's better suited to an SUV than a sedan. It has to add a significant cost increase.
Jaff
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Maybe the AWD feature requires more time to design / test than TM has available before the Model S launch next year...the Model X is not due for another year past the Model S...
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Norbert
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What this article and some similar ones don't mention, is that the Model X investment is not just meant as an additional investment for an additional model. The idea seems to be that the combination of Model S and Model X will be give a better ratio of income to cost than the Model S would by itself.
Well bring it on. Call me a typical American, but I love me some crossover action. Comfortable and fuel efficient - even more so if electric!
JRP3
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tdelta1000
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When will TM begin to release some official renderings of the up coming SUV/CUV? Or will it be the one from the Roadshow slides?
Norbert
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I think it will be more SUV-ish than the one on the slides, since it is meant to be usable even as a minivan. Not sure if we can expect to see something before the official introduction end of this year.
tdelta1000
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I recently found this statement: The Model S is designed to have an adaptable platform architecture and common electric powertrain in order to allow us to efficiently create other electric vehicles, which may include, as examples, a crossover/sport utility vehicle, van or a cabriolet. By developing our future vehicles from this common platform, we believe we can reduce their development time and, as a result, reduce the required additional capital investment.
Follow the link for the full text from Tesla Motors
Follow the link for the full text from Tesla Motors
stopcrazypp
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If you are talking specifically about the platform statement, that is pretty much public info now. It was already mentioned in a slide in their investor Road Show.
Norbert
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Tesla's own recent blog entry also has a link to the web page where this text is. So its probably public at this point in time. At least more or less.
Norbert
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Seems this is the general Model X thread now. Some new info:
Tesla to Sell Electric Model X in 2013, Make as Many as 15,000
Tesla to Sell Electric Model X in 2013, Make as Many as 15,000
Just wondering... aren't their naming conventions Prototype -> Alpha -> Beta -> RC#? If so, wouldn't an "alpha prototype" be... I dunno, maybe redundant?
In the article it says "alpha model", though their quote from Musk says:
Leading me to believe we're just going to see the prototype (like what's on tour right now for the Model S). I'd be REALLY surprised if they were far enough along to actually have Alphas.
They call it both an Alpha, and a prototype in the article. The reader will have to be the judge until we get additional infomation!
This reader is gonna stick with logic, and the words of the CEO and say "Prototype". I'd love to be wrong though.
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