novanglus

Plaid Model S is due next year. They’re already taking orders. It will essentially be a new vehicle with the structural pack and 4680 cells. If you didn’t see the order page, it’s a 200mph, 0-60 < 2.0s, qtr mile < 9.0s, 520mi+ range, 4dr supercar. Not bad for a new Crown Vic.

...edited: I’m done trying. I should read the leaves. I’ll be dumping my Mach-E reservation and 20,000 shares of F tomorrow morning. Honestly thank you for opening my eyes to the hopelessness of F trying to make the transition. I’m out.

...you might have to end up budgeting for overage.

...it’s a charger, not some technological marvel. It is simply a connector, though lighter an more compact than CCS. If you’ve used both, you’ll see how the lighter connector is handier at home. The superiority of their system is availability (they simply have far far far far far more), integration within the navigation, instant feedback from the car itself to notify Tesla of broken chargers, and the lack of required exchange of payment information (you don’t need a CC reader, or other payment system). That doesn’t come from the connector type, but by the big lead in a buildout with guaranteed customers. Further, EVgo is adding Tesla connectors in addition to CCS connectors, not replacing them with Tesla connectors. They’ll be able to charge both and pick up the slack for Tesla in heavily traveled corridors.

...none, but EVgo has started to add Tesla cables to their chargers. Nothing prevents private charging providers from catering to Tesla drivers outside the network. Since they make up such a huge % of the market, charging networks would be stupid to not follow EVgo’s lead. Do you want customers or not, as a charging network?

...EVs are so much more enjoyable to drive you’ll find yourself putting up with the charging wait on the road to take it on long trips, at least that has been my case.

...we do, but traveling is very easy. There are superchargers all over and navigation is fully integrated with the system, though during high demand times you might be waiting for a spot until Tesla adds stalls and switches to V3 that doesn’t split power with the neighboring stall. Further, EVgo is installing Tesla plugs on their chargers, because they, unlike EA, are interested in turning a profit, not simply burning through $2b the government mandated EA spend over dieselgate. Installing Tesla cables is a small investment to get access to the largest number of EVs on the market. I’m personally considering building a commercial development designed around high-speed chargers where we have a large parcel of commercial property off one of the highest traveled sections of the interstate in the country. If I’m considering it, you can be assured others are, too. The customers are wealthy and are a captive audience for the 15-20minutes they’re waiting for their car to charge. There is a potential synergy there.

...of course they are down. 100% of output was NA only to take the biggest advantage of tax credit induced demand in 2018. Now Tesla is trying to balance worldwide demand to ensure they don’t fall behind in key markets. With China going live and the Model Y preparing to ship, Tesla could hit, 130-140k, Q1- 150-160k- Q2, 200k+ Q3-4. That’s almost double this years output. Then, by end of 2021, CT starts to go live, with potentially another 200k+ per year and GF4 in Europe almost ready to go live, where they are likely to be moving over 1m units/yr total. None too shabby.

...for all intents and purposes, it’s a failure. It’s fixable, but the parts were improperly machined, engineered, or assembled leading to a side of the road breakdown of the vehicle. Ford will get it right, I’m sure, which is why the crap Tesla takes here is a bit like throwing stones in a glass house. Even with these issues at Ford, I’ll still take one of the early Mach builds because I think it is so new, they will seriously over-engineer it to get it right (and there are a crapload fewer things to go wrong in an EV). I look forward to delivery later this year,

...they sold 12,000 Model 3 in the Netherlands in December. Number 1 selling car in the Netherlands for the whole year, by 2 to 1 over a VW Polo, a drastically cheaper car. It is kind of crazy the level of sales. A 3ser is about 500-600/mo. Much of that is tax related, but they were buying Teslas, not competitors. e-trons were moving at less than 200/mo, for example. Germany will be a much tougher nut to crack.

You can find it in this same forum. Here was the first post... “Page 1 of 3 saintlaz1 30 Post Count:645 Status:Offline Last Activity:4 hours ago Posted December 19, 2019 Anyone here or any issues ; I have a 2020 Explorer got it a month ago 1000 miles on it transmission went out left stranded out of my city I was traveling. dealer hasn’t fully diagnose issue they are saying they have gotten others in with transmission issues ford has yet to approve a loaner ; district manager won’t call me back its been a nightmare”

...early production issue since solved. Be realistic. Every company has early run reliability issues, see 2020 Ford Explorer’s many problems, including transmission failures at 1000 miles in this very forum.

...range is most definitely reduced, but the fine motor control of an EV actually provides better traction in such situations. You can look up YouTube videos of a company putting the AWD system of the Model 3 up against everyone else using rollers and how handily the 3 wins out. It isn’t even close. The reaction time of the traction control is just much much quicker and it finds the wheel with traction much faster than ICE cars.

..honestly, you’d be surprised. I’ve given many a ride/drive in the 3, including big burly contractors who drive Tundras, Titans, 250s, and 2500s and they all come away very impressed. People only know what they’ve read or heard about them, then someone they know gets one and the ice is broken on the information dam. Then they find out the real story. The get to actually drive it. They find out how good they are/can be. Then they want one... ...it’s called a preference cascade and once people’s preference changes, the market will shift quickly. It won’t happen overnight, but it will happen faster than most expect.

...well, I’d guess that they aren’t mind-bending or they would. You can find the reason why all over the internet on boards just like this one with people crapping all over EVs without ever having lived with one. I don’t know of a single person who bought an EV who went back to ICE. Ford has begun the media work to change the minds they helped set-up to distrust EVs in the first place. I own a TM3P. I also have a reservation on the Mach. I want to see Ford succeed, here, because despite protestations, the EV market is the future. If Ford fans would step up and try one out, they’d find out how great living with one can be...and they’d help their company transition into the new marketplace. It is kind of telling Ford’s own employees won’t eat their own food and points to how ingrained anti-EV sentiment is within the company.

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...man, some of you have no sense of humor. I’m sure the Bronco will be great when it gets here, but I’d wager the CT’s gestation is much shorter than the Bronco’s given the massive difference in development requirements. That’s the beauty of EVs. It will be using the same motors, packs, software, etc. as the S, X, Roadster, and Semi.

...so, about the time the Bronco gets here.

...so does my current truck. I’d rather wait a couple of more years for the CT. My current truck still runs fine. If the CT wasn’t that close or awesome, I’d just get the Tremor.

Well, I tell ya, I was about to pull the trigger on an F250 Tremor and after this thing came out, I signed up for a tri-motor. Crew cab, same size bed, essentially the same price and waaaaay more fun. That thing will be the ultimate outdoorsman-mobile. You can charge it at any campground and camp out of the bed and cross country trips will be cake with 500mi on tap. I look forward to driving it like I stole it.

...should allow for maintaining a modular frame setup, with longer trucks getting bigger batteries.

...that’s too bad, especially for MS. My wife’s mother has fairly advanced MS. Hers isn’t the most aggressive variety, so she has been in decline for about 30 years. Totally wheelchair ridden now, though. But the health care system seems to be at a loss to deal with it effectively. One of the things that bothers me is that so many people are soaking up so much in health care dollars for entirely preventable health issues (like Type-2 diabetes), when that money could/should be spent on unavoidable unpreventable victims of chronic illnesses, like MS, ALS, Alzheimer’s, etc.

Ahhh. That would explain it. My bar exam only covered this one.

...that’s weird. Around here disability is statutory and you get a statutorily defined % paid directly by the agency to the attorney with a cap on the payment (IIRC it’s around $6k). Last I checked, the max for SSDI was 25%. Worker’s compensation is less, about 20%, I think. Usually statute tries to protect disability recipients from predatory practice.

...I don’t know what or when you were driving, but my M3P’s interior is on par with my mom’s 2017 Expedition Limited. I have a recent 2019 build with the upgraded sound deadening. It’s quieter than the wife’s CT6 PHEV. The only thing a I would really change is the center console’s finish. That glossy black gets a 0 out of 10 from me. I can’t believe they haven’t changed it yet. Also, the floor mats are piss poor. They would rate a 10 out of 10 for being the lowest contract price cheap-out part. The Tesla branded weathertech one’s are pretty nice, though. Also, once you get used to that abundant torque on call all the time, going back to anything else feels weird, especially the wife’s hybrid. The delays between input and action are frustratingly slow. Body motions are far less controlled in her car, and when we bought it, I held it in high regard for fairly top notch big car handling. The M3Ps steering response is almost too fast, until you get used to it. It is so easy to drive smoothly. Once you get used to how hard it regens, blasting down backroads feels like you have a telepathic relationship with the car. Honestly I love driving it. People think having that much power on tap has no purpose, but it is so useable and controllable you make use of it all the time. It really is just about the perfect muscle car. I just wish they’d make a 2/3 scale Roadster based on the 3 chassis with a targa top for $10k more. It would be unbelievably fun because it is so much lighter than the S they seemed focused on with the Plaid drivetrain. The S is just too heavy.