I do find myself wishing it had about double the all-electric range. But so far we are showing ~90% electric miles.

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Now add a towing hook to that conversion, and the segment of potential buyers would increase immensely.

I want an EV with a towing hook – but I don’t appreciate the complexity of the Model X falcon doors. And the glass is nice, but eventually the insurance companies will get tired of replacing ~3000 USD glass sections.

The direction of water flow with respect to the lens – In short, the
best shutter speed varies from one waterfall to another.

sorry to reply to such an old thread, but i wanted to answer your question. see here: http://www.nhtsa.gov/cars/rules/CrashWorthy/RoofCrResist/FMVSS216Notice.html

NHTSA has been evaluating roof-crush since the 1970’s.

At Chevy, they are smart enough to bring a 200 mile EV to market at the $35K price point years before we’ll see the TESLA.

On another note. This WHOLE issue is about “direct sales.” I can order the car online at my home in Utah and pick the car up at the showroom. I was just there the other day and a Utah resident was picking up their new model X. I don’t know why people think you can’t buy a tesla in Utah or have to go to other states to buy the car. You can, it just can’t be done within the Tesla showroom. You have to click the “buy it now” button at your home or somewhere else besides the showroom.

If you truly purchased a vehicle worth double your annual salary (uh, wow, bad decision unless you are independently wealthy), you should have no problem qualifying for the incentive. The incentives are based on income, not the vehicle.

I’m pretty sure those Saudi princes are also 1%ers.

Hey, what do you suppose they do with their extra spending money? Does any of that end up harming/costing us?

irajczi, You know about the Cadilliac CT6 right? http://media.gm.com/media/us/en/cadillac/news.detail.html/content/Pages/news/us/en/2015/nov/1117-ct6.html

Slightly different power-train, more closely associated with Volt Gen 2 than anything else GM makes. Same All Electric Range is expected as the ELR gets

I agree with your points. I’d also like to know the raw count of how often airbags have deployed versus what would be expected. I, like most people, don’t have any intuitive sense of the statistical significance of “50% fewer” airbag deployments in 47 million miles traveled. (i.e., Are we talking about 2 vs. 4? 25 vs. 50?)

Bien-sûr

So load a plane on it and as soon as it develops full power release it like a boulder. Hire engineers to design the lock and release mechanism.

Ah, no. I don’t know how to land it. Maybe use a cable to grab it’s wheel like on aircraft carriers? Or bounce on a giant trampoline. Let it take off first, eh.

So anyway, if that C machine is too much of a sudden load on internal components and passengers, use the same steam powered machine used to launch planes on carriers.

Cheers.

Futur electric car driver.

Eric Fauteux.

Seriously, if you have a particular need, you need to find a particular car. This is a sports coupe, Not a family cruiser. Look at the SUV version if you need to haul a wheelchair. and if you cant afford the $100K+ you need to look a minivans.

Clueless Miles

So you are going to use solar to create Hydrogen…
1. You now have to transport all those cylinders to another holding tank with Diesel Trucks.
2. You have to create incredibly expensive fuelling stations.
3. Hydrogen is inefficient
4. Terrorists will love Hydrogen.
5. Big oil will switch to Hydrogen and will continue to make billions from us.
6.

I’ll let others fill in the multitude of reasons why this is a bad idea.

Hydrogen is the answer. Making hydrogen from oil/gas is stupid. Solar energy changed into hydrogen is the smartest renewable energy known to man. A catalyzing material (usually platinum) is needed to perform electrolysis. The hydrogen is captured in regular run-of-the-mill, usually steel, propane cylinder tanks and are the most common type of LP gas containers in the world. They number in the billions. Hydrogen has no shelf life. It has no expiration date. It can be used to cook with. It can be changed into fuel cells. I suggest that you do some serious research into the proven capability of hydrogen as the most sustainable renewable CLEAN energy. Zero carbon emissions. NASA has been using hydrogen for many years. Mike Strizki is a friend of mine and holds many patents for this technology.

It also seems that they haven’t figured out that aerospace guys are completely incompetent at building train systems This was the lesson of theBoeing-Vertol fiasco in the 1970s, as well as the various fiascos of misdesign involved in BART. They haven’t learned that lesson so they’re repeating the same error.

Morons.

Oh, sure, they’re building something. But it’s gonna be exactly like maglev, monorails, pneumatic trains, etc. — *not cost effective*.

The Hyperloop is bulls**t. It’s vaporware which will eventually become an overpriced, underperfoming boondoggle.

The high speed rail, by contrast, is real, off-the-shelf tech which works all over the world.

Some people have stated that the Hyperloop, which will never be functional or cost-effective (it would easily cost twice as much as CAHSR), was simply a stunt done as political sabotage to attack CAHSR. This appears to be the case.

Yep this narks me off too. In my head I was giving them the benefit of knowing that Sun itself was an acronym for Stanford University Network.

s/SUN/Sun/g

Thanks.

PS
Elon, Scott: stop fighting.

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Envoyé de mon iPhone

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Do you realize that the 2 photos are different cars, right? Top is Model 3, bottom photo is Model S

Concur!

He also doesn’t sell you power at $.04 / Kwh! He sell you at retail.

So what he’s saying is: “Hell NO, you can’t profit from your investments, Only I can profit from investments.”

There are lots of chemistries for batteries. Lithium is popular for mobile applications because of its light weight. For industrial sized batteries, sodium-sulphur or sodium ion don’t require lithium.

That’s a lot of stress on the 2.5 million rivets holding the tower together. The vibration would, potentially, be enormous. Coating the surface in photovoltaic cells would be far better and probably more efficient.