Don't these folks realize that they look a bit childish to the public?
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Forsiden - VG, small report, again not on first page
Can you please provide the newspaper that is reporting on first page about this issue?
Thank's in advance!
Nothing childish here.
FYI, websites are not static. This morning, this case was the BIG TOP article, with a smaller article about TSLA share falling next to it. Right now, there's a new article pretty high up:
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Forsiden - VG is the website with most readers in Norway, by far (excl. Facebook/Google). So this is not just a simple article in a car magazine or something like that.
What difference does it make in everyday driving?
You are missing the point so badly that I'm not sure it's worth replying, but I'll give it a go.
I'll give it another try to make you guys understand, using an analogy.
You want to buy a ridiculously fast car. Bugatti Veyron is advertised with top speed of 400 kmh. Perfect. You could save a ton of money and buy a BMW M5 - but heck, you wanted the fastest car. Car is delivered and is ridiculously fast, but it just won't go faster than 300 kmh. Still fastest car you ever driven, and you won't ever need to drive that fast on a road. But if you knew it only could do 300 - couldn't you have bought the M5 instead?
You contact Bugatti, asking why it won't do 400 kmh? Their explanation: "That's normal, it won't do 400kmh on a straight regular tarmac road, our testing was done in a slight downhill, on a special kind of surface. Deal with it.". (Then later they release a new version of Bugatti that does actually does 400kmh on a normal road...)
No matter how much you love Tesla (which I do as well), I just can understand how you can think "this is not an issue, just enjoy your car". If it was the regular Model S, a slight performance loss could possibly be accepted since performance was not the main reason for purchase.
This is about the performance version of Model S - people paid $20 000 extra ONLY for the extra performance Tesla promised. You can't just accept it and say "Oh well, the car is pretty good anyway" when you paid a premium for a noticable extra performance, and they don't deliver it.
Tesla messed up in this case. They even admitted it, by making changes to the websites (correcting HP claims, and informing about 1 foot rollout).
Even if Tesla has to compensate people in Norway, it won't amount to much. I think we're at most talking about a free retrofit of Ludicrous. If we're talking about 500 cars, that adds up to something like $2 million.
I don't think the problem here is Norway. How would owners in the rest of the world feel if norwegians got their upgrade for free? They would be forced to give it to everyone asking. And as far as I understand, this is not a simple upgrade, but a very time consuming and thus costly upgrade.
And that is *if* they need to compensate anyone. Personally, I never got the impression from the site that the 700 hp was achievable under any circumstances, and with/without rollout seems like a very minor thing. Both are accepted standards of measuring the acceleration, and Tesla never claimed the figure was without rollout.
I took the 700hp with a grain of salt yes, but that's because I was already aware that electric motors are different. You can't expect normal people to be completely aware of how this works. But I still did not doubt that it would be much faster than P85:
It's got WAY more power so it's going to be WAY faster, not only during the first 100kmh.
The with/without rollout is not a minor thing in my opinion. Yes, it's an accapted standard, but it's absolutely not OK to use this standard for one model, and a different standard for another model. It's pretty obvious that they chose the 1 feet rollout timing to make it look even faster than the other versions. At the time there weren't even anything mentioning this, so the 0-100kmh times were undoubtably misleading.
These poor, poor, misled people. Buying cars they test drove, felt the acceleration of, and then brought home.
FYI, the car was not available for test drive. I guess 90% of the cars were delivered before it was available for test drive. But you are still missing the point here.