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Eleven pages into this thread, I finally see somebody framing one of the most important use-cases for a range extender. Much appreciated! Seems like half this thread is just people expressing disappointment that it could have reason to exist, might cost real money, and take up room. I'd like...

I think there's hope, but not near term hope. The EU has a bunch of regs that speak to pedestrian safety and a big part of that involves designing the front end of the car to help people survive an impact with a moving vehicle. The shape of the front end and what it is made of both factor...

Lambert does love the FUD-for-clicks trade. Every once in a while he posts something really stupid like this - I can't read his blog anymore for just that reason. "Now we learn that GM is also dipping its toes in the space, and it is directly affecting Tesla by doing so." Well, really...

Elon won't do it. Every time he's asked, he recounts the same sad story about a personal motorcycle wreck when he was young. Not going to happen at Tesla. Given that, the Cyberquad is actually quite a nice surprise! I've stared down this market so many times... nobody seems to want to build...

Interesting. Qualcomm worked on a stationary version of wireless car charging a while back. They eventually sold "Halo" to a startup (WiTricity). They solved a lot of fundamental problems (e.g. making it safe, because the crispy critter problem is real). The one I never heard an answer for...

And, as it turns out, maybe not a great idea even if you had all the specs in hand and they were firm/fixed for the CT you eventually get, anyway. Tesla's wheel & tire combos are "calibrated". The truck's computing systems will be made aware of tire & wheel characteristics, some derived...

Yes, precisely that, and it makes me think we are at a point of needing investigations into the investigations. This has gone on long enough now, and it would not be the first time that disruption of an industry attracted corrupt minds to defend the status quo. The coal industry leaps to mind...

Judging by the posts above, I'm not the only one who felt grumpy when reading this article. Sensationalizing things in order to sell clicks is starting to get on my nerves. The author wrote the headline and then shaped the narrative in a sad attempt to support it. Happens all the time. I am...

Yeah that'd depend on a significant towing capacity increase for CT. As I understand it the current limit for the tri-motor is 14K lb. I expect to be towing the occasional rented bobcat and such, and custom mid-sized box trailer built for toy hauling at 80MPH that I have yet to design. I...

I thought Electrek did a nice job with this: https://electrek.co/2021/06/28/tesla-massive-recall-china-adding-a-chime-when-activating-cruise-control/ So, yeah, adding a chime via an OTA update. I don't know how the TSLAQ crowd gets the press to do its bidding, but at least this time it has...

Admittedly I see my CT towing big trailers (boat as big as the road allows, travel trailer with elbow room, that sort of thing). I might have a different perspective if a small cargo trailer would do. Seems likely to me, then, that many circumstances will suggest decoupling a trailer to...

Yes, and consider that there is no particular reason for a "camera" to simply produce a human-viewable image. It isn't that expensive to go somewhat beyond the spectra visible to humans, and also supply a neural net with rich contextual data points like time of day, date, lat/long, simple...

Reasoning from first principles is how we wound up with a growing worldwide network of Superchargers. That's a capital-intensive, loss-leading product that had to be created in order to get the public to buy into BEVs. Reasonably speaking, a company that wants the world to shift to alternative...

They're made to Tesla's specs by a Chinese manufacturer (which is probably what Bose does too). I suppose the same could be said of the head unit and amps, in a way - they don't manufacture them in Fremont, just have someone who can do it cheaper build to a Tesla design. Tesla does write all...

Not sure about the air bags, though that sorta goes along with making their own seats and other interior stuff. The sound system is a hybrid - Tesla gets their radio tuners from a European company (though they're mostly manufactured in Mexico) and does not make their own speakers, either, but...

Borrowing here from an article on Mashable (by Sasha Lekach): '“We discussed a HUD [for Model 3]. I’ve tried various HUDs and I find them pretty annoying. We felt that [Model 3] would increasingly go towards self-driving, and then you wouldn’t really care about having [information] on the...

+1 - yep, first thing I thought of when I saw this thread - where do we bolt up the winch? How do we safely get great wads of 12V power to it? I'd be surprised if there weren't tow points, as that's pretty easy and not unprecedented for Tesla, but if there's no way to add winches, we can only...

To be completely open about it, I do not like advertising. I don't like that it has crept, for example, very rudely into the "screen saver" produced by my Directv box. I don't like seeing it on the poles that hold up chairlifts at the ski slope. I don't like being yelled at by web sites about...

https://electrek.co/2019/12/03/tesla-model-y-prototype-spotted-tow-hitch/

Tesla will have invested minimally in the user interface for Cybertruck prior to the unveiling. They've got pretty much up to a few hours before delivering the first one to do something decent, and after that we'll all be getting upgrades and improvements regularly, many of them in response to...