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> it's just about producing the vehicles now. That is the hardest part, and all that matters. Anyone can make one concept car. Not everyone can make hundreds of thousands of them per year.
Agreed that producing is tough, but what was said above about it being "vaporware" is complete nonsense though.
They haven't built one yet.
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Is it any worse than what other manufacturers deal with? The 2019 Honda Accord shares some parts with the 2018 Honda Accord which shares some parts with the 2017 model... when something breaks in my Honda the first question is "do they still make/use this part or did they change it in newer models?"
Gee, I hope they have some kind of system to track that. Maybe software even?
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This sort of complexity is why I like pre smog era cars
In other words, let’s kill off people [0] from air pollution so car maintenance can be simpler. 0: http://www.prevenzione.ulss20.verona.it/docs/Sisp/Inquinamen...
No one is dying because I own and drive this car today. Someone might’ve died mining the lithium for my Tesla however.
This is all to say that your comment is reductive.
So it sounds like the range increase is for new cars? (Other comments made it sound like a software update to existing cars) I still wish there was more focus on range over acceleration, obviously electric motors don't suffer from general efficiency impact as ICEs do (an ICE with superior acceleration seems to take an efficiency hit at all speeds), but how much of that "faster acceleration" impacts efficiency over th…
basically none. I've read that many electric motors are most efficient at 80%+ load...
Essentially this is: How much does (say) 25-55mph in 2s vs. 4s cost for overall distance in normal traffic.
That said I have better things to spend 60k on than a car. (my last car was $18k, and 42k can be used for a lot of good things that aren't a fancy car. That said I would rather a car that can accelerate faster than a Prius C - my old 9k Yaris did much better, even though it used more gas)
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This sort of complexity is why I like pre smog era cars
In other words, let’s kill off people [0] from air pollution so car maintenance can be simpler. 0: http://www.prevenzione.ulss20.verona.it/docs/Sisp/Inquinamen...
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> it's just about producing the vehicles now. That is the hardest part, and all that matters. Anyone can make one concept car. Not everyone can make hundreds of thousands of them per year.
> Not everyone can make hundreds of thousands of them per year. Neither can Tesla.
Fortunately for you, in 2021 you can make the exact same mistake just one order of magnitude further along.
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Gee, I hope they have some kind of system to track that. Maybe software even?
You jest, but years ago I worked for one of the largest auto parts places. You have no idea how many times you'd input year, make, model, and trim, just to be presented with multiple choice questions. Nobody knew how big their drums were, in inches, or the number of blades on their fan, the length of their belts, etc. Apparently a lot of mixing and matching happens. Some folks legitimately had to give us a prior year…
I had to hand the old filter to the store staff and have him copy the FRAM part number.
So it sounds like the range increase is for new cars? (Other comments made it sound like a software update to existing cars) I still wish there was more focus on range over acceleration, obviously electric motors don't suffer from general efficiency impact as ICEs do (an ICE with superior acceleration seems to take an efficiency hit at all speeds), but how much of that "faster acceleration" impacts efficiency over th…
Range and acceleration mostly go hand in hand. Much of the constraint on acceleration is how much power you can pull from the battery pack, and that gets better with larger batteries. It’s not like a normal car where high acceleration means a big, inefficient engine.
They're re-introducing the lower cost model, interesting move right before quarterly earnings get announced. I have to assume this means sales have been poor. > In addition to our Long Range and Performance variants, we’re also re-introducing a lower entry price for Model S and Model X by bringing back our Standard Range option
For metric folks, this equates to nearly 600km. That's about as much as I want to drive in the space of a single day. Conceivably however, automated driving could mean doing longer distances. And at a cost much less than an airfare - just a lot more in time.
I can't wait to sit in my car one morning in Los Angeles, punch in Seattle, then wake up the next morning arrived.