I wouldn’t recommend to change the breaking behavior every now and then…
I believe designers will remember “form follows function” soon and bring nice looking drum brakes, probably with enhanced heat tolerance etc compared to the drum brakes from the 1980s
I would understand the Germans (such as “American cars can’t be quality stuff”), but even the Consumer Reports in the US is bashing Tesla hard, including the Chinese-build Model Y’s.
Tesla has consistently been improving the quality of its products over time - you can really see the progress in cars built today compared to five years ago, but it is still ranked very low in Consumer Reports’ reliability and dependability rankings.
It now places 27th out of 28 manufacturers (the same as last year), with vehicles like the Model Y being present on CR’s list of 10 least reliable cars.
On the other hand, the same CR reports the highest customer satisfaction rating on the cars, which means Tesla really knows how to be good in their competitive markets 
Consumer Reports is biased and not trustworthy. Probably paid by ICE manufacturers.
same CR heralded Tesla years ago as Car of the Century. Tesla bulls were quite happy about that at the time 
Funny, didn’t know that. Can’t find a single source. U sure about that?
I want a tesla now 
(didn own a car for years since i dont need a car you know…)
https://insideevs.com/news/326139/car-driver-tesla-model-s-70d-is-car-of-the-century/
Somewhat bad memory here 
, but the message is the same.
true that, and this will be a tipping point for most.
just pasting this here from the last ARK Big Ideas Summit.
My father had a red CEE three phase port installed (11 kW, the traditional industrial outlet) for 50 chf by an electrician, and bought a mobile wall charger for 699 chf
And then got back 500 chf from Canton Ticino as subsidy. Total cost for this 250 chf, and he can actually take the charger with him on trips (for instance that plug can be found as blue monophasé on camping)
If you are spending 2-3000, you are doing it wrong.
Ofc you need to have your own home to do it. My Verwaltung told me they would install it in my box in exchange for a raise of 40 chf per month of rent. Too high for me, since i rarely use the car anyway, so stayed with my Prius+
Yeah, when my dad built our family house back in 2000, he also put that port in the garage. When I visited, I plugged my Tesla directly into that port. Worked like a charm. So if you want to go cheap, you don’t even need a wall charger. Just the three-phase adapter.
By the way, if you’ve followed the last quarterly call, you would get the following impressions:
The initial response from investors wasn’t favourable. They have already embraced the fact that Tesla is a leading EV company, not a robotaxi provider, and certainly not an AI company. I guess most people think this bot is a pipe dream and yet Elon says it’s the most important product.
Just for fun (I want to stress that) I made a DCF model to evaluate just the car business. Got $1’190 per share.
Caveats:
Yes, but in Ticino only wallbox charger would get subsidy, not adapters
And the Semi, and the Roadster… Famous overpromising and underdelivering.
Can’t blame them though, they need to focus onto where the money comes from.
True that. 10k per car “free” revenue, including the majority of already bought vehicles. I’m super skeptical about FSD though, as 99.5% self-driving is not self-driving/dangerous. But let’s see. If any company in the world can figure it out, it’ll be Tesla with their huge data moat they’ve gathered throughout the years.
That’s vaporware. Put it behind the Semi and the Roadster. A good publicity stunt.
well here’s the catch 70% of the population is not in this convenient situation.
If you rent a home, you can probably still work out a deal to have it installed. If you rent an apartment, you are probably in a city. If you don’t have kids, then you shouldn’t even have a car, or you can rent it occasionally
Families with kids living in apartments in cities will be the last group adopting electric cars, but they are not the 70% of the population
Interesting claim. 
Why would that be true?
I’d bet that this is at least 50% of the renting population, but can’t be bothered to do the research.
That goes under “other announced vehicles”. The explanation was that the current restrictions (chips, battery, manpower) would mean introducing more models would be counter-productive. If they sell everything they can produce, why introduce another product? It’s logical.
You are uninformed. FSD will not cost $10’000 once completed. It already costs $12’000 in USA, but we’re talking about some serious money here.
I made some back-of-the-napkin math to calculate how much money would a robotaxi bring.
My assumptions:
So the value of enabling FSD in a taxi could be upwards of $100’000. At this point it’s not worth is for Tesla to sell their cars, unless someone pays this much for the FSD feature.
Either you take Elon seriously when he says it, or you stay away from the company. I think he really means it. FSD replaces drivers, the bot replaces many other jobs, so the TAM is much much bigger. But yes, it’s hard to take it seriously, knowing our current state of AI. But it is the logical step forward once FSD is solved.
Emphasis on could be, yes.
In practice, robotaxis are very rarely used even where they are available.
Understandable. Just think for yourself:
FSD was supposed to come in 2016, now 6 yrs later we are so far away we don’t see the end of it (FSD enthusiasts probably disagree)… As it is today, I’m sure the first generation of FSD-capable Teslas will already rot in the scrapyard by the time mass FSD adoption kicks in.
