IIRC the extra cost is became it a service center retrofit at or after delivery (a "dealer installed option" in the traditional automaker's vernacular), due to insufficient order take rate to bother stocking parts, tooling, training factory workers to produce cars with the yoke, and keeping inventory of yoked cars. The same thing happened years ago with the 80A dual charger upgrade (then 72A upgrade).
I'm thinking you might be happier with a Volvo or a nice Toyota Camry
Well, I may well end up with a Volvo if Elon keeps up with the stupid decisions
After 4 Model S'es I already ended up with a Taycan and a Q8 eTron instead of Model S and Model X. Perhaps I'm in the minority customer group Elon decided is worth dropping in order to save money on production. Maybe Tesla netted a profit on that decision - going mass production will always lose some early adopters.
Hard to see how they netted a profit off of 2 missed sales - if they're going 'mass market' then they need to appeal to the mass market which decidedly isn't with a yoke and no stalks. My solace is in the fact that someone could see the writing on the wall with the yoke and walked back that decision. Either Elon was smart enough to reverse himself or there were people at Tesla smart enough to stand up to him.
Sometimes dropping X% of customers in order to save Y% of the cost can net a profit if Y>>X. Remember that we're talking profit, not revenue. That said, in this case it is hard for me to see how stalkless yoke would have mass appeal. The fact that Tesla partially reverted to stalkless wheel tells me their own sales numbers tell them it's a dud. Stalks might take another few years, as Elon is definitely stubborn and will never openly admit he was wrong. Maybe in a few years stalkless yoke will make a comeback on the S3XY with variable ratio steer by wire, if it succeeds on the Cybertruck. However, knowing some people who worked close with him in the past, he was pushing for steering-wheel-less cars from the beginning. He even wanted to get rid of all screens, just have people use their phones.
It Depends on whether the stalkless 'features' (such as they are) are available with both versions. The yoke has the nominal advantage that it doesn't block the screen but there is no clear advantage to the stalkless design that I can discern and there's the potential disadvantage that it may harm resale value. (There's no one that will decide not to buy a car that has stalks but there are plenty of people who would decide not to buy a car that doesn't have stalks.)
Clap on, clap off.Maybe Tesla can put the high beam clicker back on the floorboard too
^THAT. If Elon really wanted to test his stalkless idea, he'd produce car with both set of controls, then add a setting to allow each driver profile to enable either only the stalks, or only steering wheel controls, or both, then collect telemetry on what percentage of car do people stop using stalks completely. Die hard fans could try touch buttons only, see how long they stick with that in their cars (vs. on the forums). Sceptics might try it, who knows, maybe they love it. Usage telemetry is much harder to fake than public internet posts (plus not everyone posts).
It was a swag, the question was posed as “I wonder”..but based on where we went with Yoke vs. Wheel (so much so that Wheel is now standard and Yoke is the $$ upgrade), that was my guesstimate.
Ah, yes of course. That plug in adapter has to be updated since then.
