Tesla Master Plan: Part Deux

[MatskiMonk]

Imagine the range anxiety accociated with a heavy, probably unwieldy, boat. It's one thing getting stuck by the side of the road with nowhere to charge your car within miles. Getting stuck in the middle of a body of water at mercy of tides is another level.

Truth.

I once rented an electric boat on Lake Gmunden in Austria. Battery ran out on the way back to the jetty... pretty much just had to crash it since there was no power for manouvering... this was 25 years ago... I'm sure they've got better.

 

[EngieDiesel]

Imagine the range anxiety accociated with a heavy, probably unwieldy, boat. It's one thing getting stuck by the side of the road with nowhere to charge your car within miles. Getting stuck in the middle of a body of water at mercy of tides is another level.

Something like this has got to be a six figure addition. If you can afford a completely seperate rig to dock your full-sized truck onto to make it a boat, and all the required infrastructure to transport/store/maintain it, you probably can afford to have someone on call to come get you in a proper boat and tow it back if it goes flat. Or you just have your own private lake you can putter around in and not worry about it.

 

[Danoff]

April fools. They need to take that stuff down on April 2nd.

 

[Famine]

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Cybertruck is no more? Too expensive? I can barely contain my surprise.

 

[Danoff]

I mean... it does seem like it's a real article waiting to happen. But it's an April fools article circulating at the top of news feeds on April 2nd. I posed it before I read the last line. My bad.

 

[Famine]

I mean... it does seem like it's a real article waiting to happen.

There's one obvious sign it's not true - there's no way it'd be announced

It's just the car they're going to quietly forget about (and delete from their website, which happened in January) and hope everyone else does too.

 

[Danoff]

It's just the car they're going to quietly forget about (and delete from their website, which happened in January) and hope everyone else does too.

I keep trying.

 

[CodeRedR51]

Its not going anywhere.

 

[Famine]

Its not going anywhere.

Indeed not.

 

[Darla Starch]

Indeed not.

 

[CodeRedR51]

Tesla Profits Soar To Record $3.3 Billion In Q1 Thanks To Higher Prices And Strong Demand | Carscoops

Tesla posted a first-quarter profit of $3.32 billion and delivered over 310,000 vehicles

www.carscoops.com

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

Tesla Profits Soar To Record $3.3 Billion In Q1 Thanks To Higher Prices And Strong Demand | Carscoops

Tesla posted a first-quarter profit of $3.32 billion and delivered over 310,000 vehicles

www.carscoops.com

Tesla is the only car-monger around where I live that actually has inventory. They don't seem to have been as badly effected by the global trade snafus. I wonder if this is a result of them not as fully adopting just-in-time inventory management as pretty much the rest of the industry.

 

[Keef]

Tesla is the only car-monger around where I live that actually has inventory. They don't seem to have been as badly effected by the global trade snafus. I wonder if this is a result of them not as fully adopting just-in-time inventory management as pretty much the rest of the industry.

They make a lot of their own stuff. Pretty sure they make their own chips and do their own programming. They keep as much of the tech stuff in-house as possible so this is a benefit of being a tech company first and car company second. Also they sold incomplete cars on purpose, telling customers to bring them back to add in missing hardware and features later.

 

[Famine]

Who could possibly have seen this coming? Who, I ask? WHO?

Nah, it's just crazy disruptive Elon disrupting things from the fuddy-duddy norm (like when he uses medical-grade IT in automotive settings, rather than automotive-grade; disruption!)

Oh yeah, everyone could.

For a quick reference, the touchscreens used in Teslas don't meet even the base high temperature tests required by the AE Council AEC-Q100 standard for in-car electronics, where most automotive-grade touchscreens test two grades higher (as the centre-stack in the passenger compartment is one of the hottest points in a vehicle).

 

[MaxAttack]

(as the centre-stack in the passenger compartment is one of the hottest points in a vehicle).

In an ICE vehicle, yes, I posit that isn't the case in an EV, and wonder if that's how they're skirting that test you referenced.

 

[Keef]

In an ICE vehicle, yes, I posit that isn't the case in an EV, and wonder if that's how they're skirting that test you referenced.

I'm not sure the engine and transmission heat is that big a part of it. Especially newer cars are pretty well insulated from the engine bay. Weather plays a bigger roll and the center stack and screen are in direct sunlight. In the US, that means surviving the Arizona sun and heat which averages over 40C throughout the summer in Phoenix, with shade a hot commodity, literally. It regularly reaches 45C there in July and August and that's not even the hottest region of the US.

 

[ProjectWHaT]

Current state of the Cybertruck interior

 

[McLaren]

It looks like any other Tesla interior. Extremely minimal w/ a big ass screen & a game pad looking steering wheel.

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

Those wheels don't suit the truck at all.

I feel like the Cybertruck would look better as a wagon, rather than the super compromised pickup esque form factor.

 

[Keef]

I still thing this thing is stupid and they need to go back to the drawing board. Maybe it'll be amazing but I doubt it. Seems like they're in too deep to stop at this point. Hell, you can't even set a heavy thing on the bedside to take a breather while tossing stuff in the back. It's even less trucky than a Ridgeline or Santa Cruz in that respect.

 

[05XR8]

Probably closer to Total Recall than Blade Runner.

Tesla Model Y sold out until next year, production to ramp up

Days after launch, wait times for new Tesla Model Y orders have pushed well into 2023 – but production is set to ramp up to meet the strong demand. The

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Tesla Model Y finally on sale in Oz

All-electric SUV arrives, priced at $5000 above Model 3; from $68,900

www.goauto.com.au

2 year/24,000km service intervals. 8 year/160,000km battery life. If I bought one next year, it’d only see about 2000km/year. So, replacing one every 8 years would more likely. Let’s say, I live to 80 years old. I’ve got 29 years to go. Three cars would do it. Could go full automation for the last 10 years of my life.

 

[CodeRedR51]

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

Tesla locks 80 miles of customer’s battery range for $4,500 ransom

Tesla tried to force a customer to pay $4,500 ransom over 80 miles of range that the company software-locked in his battery pack. The automaker only started to walk back on the strategy to squeeze $4,500 out of its customers after an uproar on social media. Tesla used to sell Model S vehicles...

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[05XR8]

The rise of Tesla in Australia

The Tesla Model 3 was the fourt best-selling car in Australia in August Tesla has leaped into the best-selling cars

www.speedcafe.com

 

[JacoJa]

The rise of Tesla in Australia

The Tesla Model 3 was the fourt best-selling car in Australia in August Tesla has leaped into the best-selling cars

www.speedcafe.com

The Model Y has only been on sale a few weeks in Perth, and it feels like I'm already seeing more Y's than 3's. Would not be surprised if the Y will be the best-selling vehicle in Australia within the next two years, as Shanghai ramps significantly and wait times reduce. Especially once they throw BYD's Blade batteries into the standard range models.


Tesla AI day 2022 will stream live today:

 

[CodeRedR51]

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

500 miles of range with a full load?

 

[CodeRedR51]

500 miles of range with a full load?

Yes.

 

[EngieDiesel]

The real question is how long will it take to fully recharge the batteries from a full range trip, which we won't know for actual until these get out into real world service for a while. I imagine Pepsi will be using them on routes where downtime won't be a concern, but that downtime will be a concern for smaller companies that can't afford to have lots of spare trucks sitting idle for long periods.

 

[CodeRedR51]

The real question is how long will it take to fully recharge the batteries from a full range trip, which we won't know for actual until these get out into real world service for a while. I imagine Pepsi will be using them on routes where downtime won't be a concern, but that downtime will be a concern for smaller companies that can't afford to have lots of spare trucks sitting idle for long periods.

I don't believe anyone will be using them for long haul trucking, only local routes.