april 1.
Tesla Model S Sales Exceed Target
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Re: Tesla Model S Sales Exceed Target
#32I would love to know how many Model S have been sold within 25 miles of Palo Alto, CA. Driving around Menlo Park/Palo Alto/Atherton/Woodside, one can easily see 10 Model S within an hour - it is truly unreal. It's almost at the point where buying a Model S is no longer trend setting, but instead following a trend.
The thing is, my friend in SF says he rarely ever sees a model S. Granted SF isn't the most car-friendly city and the mental hurdle of driving from SV to SF prevents many people from driving into the city (I for one always take the bart from Daly City rather than drive in).
SF is the most geographically close, high income center near SV, and yet it doesn't have many Model S's, despite the strong coolness factor that it'd get being so geographically close by. Some surreal proportion of Model S sales must be in SV...
Re: Tesla Model S Sales Exceed Target
#33Just think how many they could've sold if the mean journalist hadn't said all those bad things about them.
Not a single car more, since they are production constrained.
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#34I've never believed that Tesla had a viable product. In fact, Electric vehicles make very little sense and are far less "green" than most consumers perceive them to be. It's sad that people tend to believe whatever marketers tell them... Check out this article... By far the most comprehensive analysis on "green" cars so far. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732412850457834...
I am not sure why this comment is getting down voted, if anything it made me read the article quoted above and I was wondering if anyone else had any inputs or addendums (as in, with the issues listed with electric cars, why Tesla is selling well)
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#35I've never believed that Tesla had a viable product. In fact, Electric vehicles make very little sense and are far less "green" than most consumers perceive them to be. It's sad that people tend to believe whatever marketers tell them... Check out this article... By far the most comprehensive analysis on "green" cars so far. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732412850457834...
That article is neither "comprehensive" nor convincing. It's an overtly-biased opinion piece by a global climate change denier.
>It's an...opinion piece by a global climate change denier.
Where by "denier" you presumably mean "person who thinks there might exist other important issues of concern in the world besides CO2 levels".
Or perhaps you mean "person who believes public policy proposals ought to be able to pass a cost-benefit analysis"?
Or do you mean, the sort of person who says stuff like: "Global warming is real and man-made, and it needs an effective response." ( Source: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/09/28/not_so_hot )
Re: Tesla Model S Sales Exceed Target
#36"but range will be software limited to 40 kWh"
DRM in my car that will leave me stranded by the side of the road. Wow, this is a new low even for DRM.
No thank you.
Tesla, you were kinda cool.
Re: Tesla Model S Sales Exceed Target
#37I've never believed that Tesla had a viable product. In fact, Electric vehicles make very little sense and are far less "green" than most consumers perceive them to be. It's sad that people tend to believe whatever marketers tell them... Check out this article... By far the most comprehensive analysis on "green" cars so far. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732412850457834...
"If a typical electric car is driven 50,000 miles over its lifetime ..."
Is this guy serious? The average car is driven 13.5k miles/year. So 50k is 3.7 years.
Why would anyone use a ridiculously low number unless they were just trying to prove a point they already made up their mind on?
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#38So... are you legally allowed to have root on a $60k car you paid for?
Can we replace "cell phones" with "cars" in this whitehouse statement? [1]
The White House agrees with the 114,000+ of you who believe that consumers should be able to unlock their cell phones without risking criminal or other penalties.
ps. it's ironic that a software limited battery like that is going to last a lot longer than unrestricted depletion
[1] https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-unlocking-cel...
Re: Tesla Model S Sales Exceed Target
#39"but range will be software limited to 40 kWh" DRM in my car that will leave me stranded by the side of the road. Wow, this is a new low even for DRM. No thank you. Tesla, you were kinda cool.
Is this so much worse than disabling cores in CPUs and selling them as cheaper models? That practice seems to be nearly universally accepted.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because that'd require hauling in 200 vehicles to replace a $10,000 battery pack while tying up maintenance bays, disrupting production to source and ship 60kWh packs, and incur a multi-million dollar charge on a company that is barely breaking even. (edit: Also, rich people tend to be of a type that go absolutely apeshit when they feel they've been cheated, meta-cheated, vapor-cheated or insufficiently cheated by ha…
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Not particularly true, since when you start getting into products that could have a "veblen good" status this phenomenon becomes exacerbated.