Oh, two reasons. One is that Tesla's eight instructions have some commonality; if the instruction codes are actually designed so that each bit means something by itself, you can make even faster, simpler hardware (you're avoiding an irritating decoding table). This usually ends up requiring a little extra space, and the tradeoff is that it's even faster. The toy example might be, bit 1 says "multiply" vs. "don't multiply", bit 2 says "add" vs. "don't add", bit 3 says "reduce" vs. "don't reduce" -- not all combinations would make sense. The other reason is that the spare bit is hard to use for anything since you want to store your data and do your computations using a power-of-two number of bits. If they did go with three-bit encoding, bit four might also be used as a checksum bit, though.
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Oh, two reasons. One is that Tesla's eight instructions have some commonality; if the instruction codes are actually designed so that each bit means something by itself, you can make even faster, simpler hardware (you're avoiding an irritating decoding table). This usually ends up requiring a little extra space, and the tradeoff is that it's even faster. The toy example might be, bit 1 says "multiply" vs. "don't multiply", bit 2 says "add" vs. "don't add", bit 3 says "reduce" vs. "don't reduce" -- not all combinations would make sense. The other reason is that the spare bit is hard to use for anything since you want to store your data and do your computations using a power-of-two number of bits. If they did go with three-bit encoding, bit four might also be used as a checksum bit, though.
The base price of the SR+ in Australia actually works out to around $US42,000, so not terrible. But then we have to add delivery, 10% GST plus other local state taxes and registration.
Not getting the LRRWD is a disappointment as it would be the most suitable for Australia's driving distances and climate. What's also odd is no white interior or 19" sport wheel options. Maybe these are in short supply or just overly complex for RHD production runs.
Because *it would cost less*.
I know a lot of people who will pay USD$10K for the longer range and won't pay $20K for it.
We know white interior has been in short supply. I figure they'll probably relieve that restriction eventually -- white is popular -- but you may have to wait an extra year before it gets to Australia. They'll probably do all-black production runs for the first RHD runs.
According to Musk's latest Twitter posts, he's going to bring back the white interior for the UK (so presumably other RHD markets too).
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Yeah, it's good. Oddly they haven't offered this "Purchase price / Include potential savings" slider on the Australian site yet! An oversight?
Discussed. Mexican sourcing could be as much as 25% of the parts value, which doesn't include general assembly labor costs or delivery or logistics costs or profit margin. Then the 5% tariff might mean about a 1% increase in pricing would be necessary (high estimate).
Look at this stupid analysts :
TESLA NO DEMAND .... NO TOO MUCH DEMAND !!!
Tesla's China website gets overwhelmed due to Giga 3-made Model 3 pre-orders
TESLA NO DEMAND .... NO TOO MUCH DEMAND !!!
Tesla's China website gets overwhelmed due to Giga 3-made Model 3 pre-orders
What kind of increased capacity does this give. Let’s say in terms of LR cars.
But for Australia the difference from SR+ to LR P is only ~$13k in USD. (The performance wheels/tires/suspension/brakes/spoiler/pedal covers are a separate add-on.)
Aren't people always saying that they would gladly pay a few thousand more for the performance boost, and track mode, of the P if they didn't have to pay for all the extra "blingy" hardware. Well that is what the RHD countries are getting.
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Still underwhelming, and anyway, who believes anything VW says?
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To maximize vehicle number (SR+) and margin (Performance) with limited battery supply.
That’s an micro-optimisation that saves maximum 100 gates or so. It saves a 3bit input to 4 bit output logic circuit. Compared to the massive amount of adders and multipliers, it’s a drop in the bucket.
We know very little about this chip. E.g. is it pipelined or not, and if it is, how many pipeline stages? This optimisation would only make sense if was critical to reach a certain clock speed, and the arithmetic functions are more likely(due to their complexity) to dictate the clock speed than the instruction decoder.
It it’s yellow, let it mellow, if it’s brown, flush it down.
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