Oh they do that. I'm just talking about traveling.
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Oh they do that. I'm just talking about traveling.
A guy was taking pictures of my Model 3 at the grocery store.
He said he was part of Toyota's supply chain and they were being told by Toyota that everything is going electric and they needed to get on board.
He said he was part of Toyota's supply chain and they were being told by Toyota that everything is going electric and they needed to get on board.
Mark's Beagle
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Model 3 VINs @Model3VINs#Tesla registered 10,954 new #Model3 VINs. ~4% estimated to be dual motor. ~76% estimated to be International. Highest VIN is 278893.
All kinds of chargers are growing at high speed everywhere in the world. China is the leader installing new chargers,
Electric and ICE vehicles' cost parity is coming very soon, but EVs have better performance, better safety, save on gasoline, save on maintenance, more suitable for autonomous driving. It doesn't take a genius to understand the tipping point is coming.
Tesla predict that in the next 10 years, EVs will be supply limited. They don't worry about competition. That's because after the tipping point, demand will go vertical, supply takes time to grow.
Electric and ICE vehicles' cost parity is coming very soon, but EVs have better performance, better safety, save on gasoline, save on maintenance, more suitable for autonomous driving. It doesn't take a genius to understand the tipping point is coming.
Tesla predict that in the next 10 years, EVs will be supply limited. They don't worry about competition. That's because after the tipping point, demand will go vertical, supply takes time to grow.
The entire premise of CSs insinuation was silly to start with. In Q4 tesla was delivering virtually 100% of their vehicles to NA through what was an admittedly un-optimised process. Now in Q1 the majority of deliveries are intended for overseas delivery - so obviously the aggregate need for deliveries in NA will be lower.
Additionally, the article mentions one facility. We have no ideal how many facilities Tesla has in NA to distribute vehicles - so no-one can say what impact reducing workforce numbers at this site have on Tesla's overall delivery capacity in NA.
While each anecdotal change is worth knowing to be in the best possible position to predict a trend, it is not particularly useful by itself.
Interesting.
As for the Model 3 braking due to its autopilot, I guess we have to take the driver's word for it?
(It seems plausible enough, the driver doesn't seem to look left - and few would do so on a green light).
From that angle of almost 90 degrees to its left, from how far away can the Model 3's sensors detect an oncoming vehicle?
The B pillar cameras see pretty far (what it would use for intersection crossing).
Seeing the world the wrong way in v9
It can't be in AP, can it? It's the first car at a stop light.
Could still be AEB. Wouldn't wager either way, though.
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Krugerrand
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If you think about the number of jobs threatened by the ongoing BEV disruption that we are following so enthusiastically, then there may not have to be any (additional) reward involved in the bashing.
Or in the words of Upton Sinclair:
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
SebastianR
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This is not a high-school 100m race. This is serious business. Even the most well meaning CEO of any legacy car maker won't be able to convince his tens of thousands of colleagues that serious change is needed.
Kotter speaks of the burning platform to effect change and I believe this will need a burning car industry with (sadly) hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers and billions lost before we will REALLY see lasting change. I came to this conclusion after many long, agonising discussions with Germans from shop-floor workers, to engineers, to managers all the way to the highest level politicians. Tesla is too slow and the pain is not felt enough yet to really make a dent in the mission (yet). The fact that with all of Tesla's successes we never for one second discussed Toyota who is clearly in utter and complete denial that EVs are coming shows me that even we on this board don't appreciate the magnitude of the change at hand (at least not all of us; I probably can't fully appreciate the enormousness fo this transition myself either).
EDIT: don't get me wrong: Tesla's achievements are unparalleled and massive and I agree that they are way ahead of the pack. I just think that DESPITE this enormous success, they are not (yet) big enough of a thread to the legacy folks. I have a hunch the legacy guys still think they will wake up one day and can make this EV nightmare go away - also see @KarenRei and her info chart on EV ambitions...
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Excuse me, who created this?
1. Of course NA deliveries are less. Tesla are roughly at a steady state of production of M3s, and suddenly two thirds of them are going overseas.
2. The Las Vegas team are the ones who schedule North American deliveries. They do most of their work well in advance of the actual deliveries. It's easy for them to spread that work out over many weeks, if they have less cars to deliver.
3. The Reuters article quotes unnamed "sources" and mentioned that one of them was a laid-off employee. It also came out after the SA article. In other words, it is probably the same source.
Good point, you can't engage autosteer below 18 MPH unless there is a car it is tracking in front of you.
Perhaps, it was the side collision safety system?
"This Karen person is spending entirely too much time tracking our shipments. Just send her a 3, already! Maybe that'll distract her..."
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