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Model X Mule Sightings
- Thread starter Paul Carter
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Actually, it seems you moved them to snippiness instead.Itchy trigger finger?
The posts were moved here: Elon Musk - Page 95 as they were in response to the interview video here and began discussing Elon Musk in particular.
jerjozwik
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Before I posted, I confirmed that they were in snippiness. They are no longer there and have been moved properly now.
Video of Model X under construction in Danish TV
Dalec in Tesla forum posted this link, and there was a glimpse of a model X and its frunk under construction:
Go to 29:40 mark
https://www.dr.dk/tv/se/21-soendag/21-soendag-2015-09-27#!/29:40
Dalec in Tesla forum posted this link, and there was a glimpse of a model X and its frunk under construction:
Go to 29:40 mark
https://www.dr.dk/tv/se/21-soendag/21-soendag-2015-09-27#!/29:40
gizmoboy
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Anything is possible... If you are already pulling a trailer, would the weight of adding batteries to the base negate any range increase?
While it's possible that there could be a ~100 kwh battery at the base of the trailer for test convenience, I highly doubt that Tesla would enter the trailer business any time soon. Range extenders of any sort also wouldn't fit to Tesla's marketing strategy. They have large batteries in the car + superchargers.
I'd bet you're right. It would sort of say "Hey our superchargers and range aren't enough". Would be a nice aftermarket thing, though I can't see anyone getting it to work outside of Tesla (meaning without them allowing it).
It does look enormous. In fact, wherever I was looking at the Frunk in my MS, I always thought that although there is a lot of space under the hood, Tesla did not utilize it in a very efficient manner. MS, of course was their first truly (relatively) mass production car which they needed to get to market in a short period of time, and I concluded that maximizing frunk space was just not very high on the priority list. I always thought, that given that Tesla took their time with the design of MX, they will do a better job maximizing frunk space. And it looks that they indeed did an exceptionally good job with it.
They were not kidding when saying that frunk will take a couple of golf bags!
This also begs the other question - whether this newly optimized frunk will end up (just the shallower version of it) in Model S?
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FredTMC
Model S VIN #4925
Theres a bigger frunk in the MX because car sits higher and this allows the frunk space to clear the wheel wells IMO
FredTMC
Model S VIN #4925
I think that they would not be able to make such a large frunk by just re-working of where staff is mounted - I believe they reworked the whole structure, moving around the octagonal beams that support the bumper header and the cross beam between the strut housings. I have a feeling that this will be specifically addressed during the event. They most definitely did an impressive job with this.
If the maximization of the MX frunk space was achieved by optimizing the body, it is most definitely will end up in MS, as the bodies will invariably be harmonized to minimize the differences and maximize standardization. In fact, I think that this might have been one of the reasons to keep the design under wraps - for the fear of MS sales cannibalization.
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Citizen-T
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I really hope that someone posts photos of MX from the event tonight here and we can all have one last argument about the definition of a Mule before this thread dies.
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