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Very expensive, high energy density cells.

Just give it to your cleaning wench and let she/her/he/him/they/them take care of it! ;) That's why I keep the bed bare except that I might throw a large scrap of corrugated carboard or a large scrap of foam sheet in there. Either can be pulled out past the tailgate to help unload things deep...

I'm not a social media expert, and I barely understand the way "X" actually works, but I would just respond to a post made by someone in the company that is relevant to your suggestion. There are a number of Tesla people on the platform.

That's a good idea. I suggest submitting a suggestion to Tesla on X.

Yes, but to be fair, the point is that NHTSA's insistence on unnecessary and unnatural "full NHTSA stop" is the initial trigger for unsafe human intervention caused by impatience. This is a temptation that smart FSD Supervised drivers need to resist. Had NHTSA not been insistent on sub-optimal...

I recommend not piggy-backing a "supplementary" damper to a system that is already actively controlled. That will just cause the existing damping to be reduced by the control algorithm.

It's probably not an upgrade at all. Both versions of the Cybertruck already come equipped with Bilstein semi-active dampers as standard, which provide variable on-the-fly damping through electronic control via solenoid valves that adjust compression and rebound valving in real time based on...

My wife just pointed out that NHTSA's insistence on coming to a complete and absolute stop before the legal stop line, even when it's awkward and completely unnecessary for safety reasons, can actually increase accidents by habituating FSD drivers to push on the accelerator pedal at...

So true. FSD has improved by leaps and bounds in the last 12 months. It's become so skillful that when the driver thinks FSD is messing up there is a better than 50% chance FSD sees a potential danger the human missed. This is so common that a human can actually create the dangerous situation...

I haven't noticed any changes from the previous version. But it was already so good, it's just going to get harder and harder to see what new updates improve upon. It could have emergency accident avoidance improvements, something that simply doesn't happen often enough for the improvements to...

I doubt it would have hit her if you didn't kick FSD off. FSD can stop and change direction extremely quickly at those speeds. This is a big nothingburger without actual impact (which I doubt would have actually happened).

My point was not where the manufacturing brain-power is redeployed, it was that S&X production requires talent to keep the operation humming, all for very little return. Freeing up those human resources for ANY other purpose that has more impact than trickling out some luxury priced EVs is a big...

Certainly the freed up manufacturing space is valuable. But, more importantly, it takes a lot of top-notch brainpower to keep Model S and X production humming, those people's talents will be put to a higher purpose, a purpose that moves the needle of humanity further in a positive direction...

I don't get your point. Why would Tesla differentiate between a soccer mom tards customer and everyone else? Wouldn't purchase availability be equal, regardless of sociopolitical leanings?

That's a word/thought salad, but not a very logical one. What kind of analysis is that?? S&X haven't been significant to Tesla's bottom line for 5 or 6 years. It has nothing to do with driving up profits (beyond freeing up factory space for more productive initiatives).

I didn't say Tesla will sell Cybercabs to private buyers "soon". But when they are cranking out millions of them, it's highly likely in order to reduce the capital expenses to Tesla while growing recurring revenues and profits.

Autonomy will not increase the cost of insurance for human drivers, it will lower the cost for autonomously driven vehicles. If anything, a proliferation of autonomous vehicles should benefit insurance rates for human drivers because that should reduce the accident rate of human drivers.

Selling Cybercabs to private buyers and private fleets will allow Tesla to rapidly grow recurring robotaxi network revenues. The Cybercab is designed to be built quickly in huge volumes and I doubt Tesla would want to finance huge numbers of those when they can just sell them to other operators...

The refreshed Model 3 Performance with adaptive suspension has a much better ride and sound control than previous versions. It's more refined in so many ways, it's worth a second look by those who like high-quality cars that aren't ponderous in size. The cabin environment is very nice.

Your analysis of Robotaxi numbers completely ignored how much the ride hailing market will grow due to autonomy (autonomous cabs will bring dramatically lower prices and shorter wait times in ever-increasing service areas). The size of the ride hailing market will grow dramatically, miles driven...