OT: Tesla Model 3

[kitsnob]

http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/taxevb.shtml

[MikeD]

Range anxiety and no rooftop solar. I like the Prius better.

[vqdriver]

that's more of a hybrid vs plug-in question. one that can only be answered by each individual driver.

personally, a 200 mile range is plenty for 95% of my driving.
the other 5%..... well, we still have the minivan.

[Ken Robb]

I just learned that besides the friend I posted about putting down a deposit my neighbor/pal who has a Buick hybrid also put down a deposit today.

[simple]

Originally Posted by denapista

Let me know when this one is released!

Best looking wagon EVER!

Have you seen the Audi A6 Avant, circa ~2005?

[p nut]

150k reservations already!

[mistermo]

Reserved one too. However, people need to abandon the wagon misinformation. It looks to me to be a barely smaller version of the S.

Imagine the tremors in Detroit (& Germany & Japan) when a car company can generate enough enthusiasm to cause >100,000 people to put down a deposit for a car that's still two years away. In one day!

They're going to more than double their charging stations in the next year.

[rwsaunders]

No way they knocked off the AUDI...

[peanutgallery]

Tesla is in the gonna, gonna, gonna phase

After my clean diesel experience l'm a little jaded. These guys want to make a truckload of cash just like any other car manufacturer and will market/spin this in a way that you wanna hear. Lots of Pollyanna about product and necessary infrastructure to make it work

I'm going to rain a little more on this, does an electric car really change the game? Still the steep environmental cost of manufacturing/driving/maintenance and getting it to you via ships with unregulated emissions. How about electricity? Still have make that...and deliver it, you don't hear anyone bragging about living on a powerline

I'll stop, but the point is...it's just more of the same

[oldpotatoe]

Originally Posted by mistermo

Reserved one too. However, people need to abandon the wagon misinformation. It looks to me to be a barely smaller version of the S.

Imagine the tremors in Detroit (& Germany & Japan) when a car company can generate enough enthusiasm to cause >100,000 people to put down a deposit for a car that's still two years away. In one day!

They're going to more than double their charging stations in the next year.

Question for you plug in guys/gals..'charging stations', I see them in a few places in the republic also..are these free? Or do you pay for the charge?

Quick(as in quick like when you fill up) charging(maybe battery pack swap) battery tech and longer range..it's coming I guess. I had to wrangle my mother in law yesterday..trip to Littleton, drive here and there, then back in the PM..no electric would have worked. Too far plus not in any one place long enough to recharge.

[seanile]

Originally Posted by oldpotatoe

Question for you plug in guys/gals..'charging stations', I see them in a few places in the republic also..are these free? Or do you pay for the charge?

Quick(as in quick like when you fill up) charging(maybe battery pack swap) battery tech and longer range..it's coming I guess. I had to wrangle my mother in law yesterday..trip to Littleton, drive here and there, then back in the PM..no electric would have worked. Too far plus not in any one place long enough to recharge.

it's a tapered charge process. it's free.
45minutes to 80% 75minutes to 100%.
tesla describes it as filling a cup of water, you have to slow the faucet as it nears full.

[shovelhd]

How many of those 125,000 are flippers?

[jpw]

Tesla may save your lungs, but the person driving it may still knock you down. it's a car. this is a cycling forum.

[joosttx]

I am going to buy one

[oldpotatoe]

Originally Posted by jpw

Tesla may save your lungs, but the person driving it may still knock you down. it's a car. this is a cycling forum.

Where do ya live?