Why do you think a screen can’t be arranged according to the user? That’s SOP for aircraft and would be a considerable advantage for people of different heights. If Musk was really cleaver he’d have the display look for the driver’s line of sight and auto organize them upon request and provide a setting for each user. He’d just be pulling technology from games that have been on the market for years.
Some things can’t be split up - 9 women can’t have a baby in one month, nor will a bicycle easily go into two compartments.
What happens with autopilot & temporary speed restrictions - temporarily reduced speed in a school zone (during certain times of day but only on certain days - not holidays, winter break or summer time. You can’t even go by the calendar published at the beginning of the year because things like strikes or excessive snow days can extend the end of the year/limit other breaks.) or construction zones? My Garmin GPS definitely doesn’t handle the latter.
just put the generator in the front. For camping purposes of course.
Fair enough–by dynamic I meant while actually driving the car. I agree that it makes sense to allow some degree of customization. You just don’t want the speedometer to slide off to the other side when you open the climate control page. Once positioned according to preference, the critical controls should be fixed.
I think most bikes these days have removable front wheels.
Anyway, the trunk is more than large enough for a bike. The rear seats do fold down and a bike will be easy to slide in flat. My car has a similar trunk opening and it’s no problem.
And if you regularly transport large boxes or whatever… well, a sedan ain’t for you. The Model Y will have a large rear opening.
Reading around, it seems like a lot of people use their hatchbacks to transport large dogs in crates. I wonder if Tesla could make a flexible, fitted pet carrier accessory for the trunk. Fold down one or more seats so the dogs have a view to the cabin and some ventilation.
If it’s done it will be as a split screen where your primary gauges are set.
I looked at a couple portable diesel generators: given the charge time vs generator power output times fuel consumption, it looked to me as though charging a Tesla using a portable generator would yield an effective fuel economy of around 25mpg. That would be not accounting for the cost of carrying the weight of a 200lb generator to your campsite. My math could be wrong, though.
Ah but what about a wood burning generator? If you’re driving to a camp site it just makes sense.
I’ve decided the Tesla has added more street cred to my own car. Here is my Mazda3 on top, and beneath it is the Tesla 3. I think they’re pretty remarkably similar, or maybe not because Tesla lured away Mazda’s chief designer.
Anyway, I’m considering buying some Tesla badges on ebay, replacing my Mazda badges with them, and claiming to be the first guy in the Midwest with a Tesla 3 
I heard that almost 300,000 reservations were received. Even if a number of those cancel their orders, it’s still a massive increase from Tesla’s current production. And in the first quarter, they fell short of their goal of 16,000 vehicles produced. So they’ve got their work cut out for them.
do you really think that’ll fool anyone?
They said production in late 2017 so I expect I’ll be able to buy one sometime in early 2020.
See “Ricer” - I saw a pic of some idiot’s take on the VTEC badge (his car was not a Honda) - he took those tacky reflector numbers/letters used on mailboxes.
Yes - tacky hardware store letters: V-TEC
I wonder if the guy even HAD friends to laugh at it. :rolleyes:
No kidding. I did some rough math last night – Tesla aims to sell 500,000 cars per in 2020. They have actually been pretty successful in increasing production by 50% year over year.
So to reach 500,000 cars in 2020, they need to build roughly 350,000 in 2019; 230,000 in 2018; and 150,000 in 2017.
The problem is that they sold 50,000 cars in 2015. Tripling overall production in two years? That seems awfully aggressive.
Maybe,
to make 80,000 cars they will have to produce 35% more of them.
They still have to deal with the increase in battery storage systems that they’re already behind on.
There are certainly a number of mothballed automotive production facilities they could buy. What they need is a positive cash flow.
Does this car make sense (as in, is it worth buying) at $35,000 without any government subsidy?
$35K is in the neighborhood of a new Taurus. The 3 has similar capacity, is a little quieter, has very good range for most days, and the price of fueling it is currently highly competitive WRT gasoline or diesel. If it fits your usage requirements, it would be a good choice, probably worth the cost. For now, anyway.
I have to say I am astounded by the Model 3, and the fact that Tesla seems to have yet again out maneuvered the established car companies.
I did not give them much credit for the Model S - I figured that their major innovation there was the realization that people would pay $100,000 for an electric car with decent range, more a marketing success than technology. I’ve always assumed that Tesla would be outgunned in the $30,000 space, where the major manufacturers appear to be focusing their efforts.
When I saw the Chevrolet Bolt, a rather squat and ugly thing that is going to cost about $42,000 (before subsidies), I assumed that its appearance and proportions were basically inevitable engineering and packaging decisions and that the Model 3 would have to look sort of similar (I sort of pictured a scaled-down Model X).
I’m amazed to learn this is not the case and Tesla appears able to deliver a beautiful looking car that will start at $7,000 cheaper than the Bolt and apparently perform better. Obviously Tesla now has to deliver on this promise, but it sure looks like GM and others just have their head up their ass. Just like the BMW i3, they seem to be intentionally making their EVs look ugly and “different”. Whether this is due to a genuine but misguided belief that this is what buyers want, or a cynical decision to avoid competing with their conventional internal combustion cars, hopefully they will now realize this was the wrong decision.