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Tesla Unveils Dual Motor and Performance Specs For Model 3
Rei writes: Yesterday evening, Elon Musk announced the pricing and specs for two of the Model 3's most in-demand options -- dual motor and performance versions. The base dual motor configuration adds an AC induction front motor to the current partial-PM reluctance rear motor for $5,000; in addition to AWD and allowing the car to drive with either motor out, this cuts the 0 to 60 mph acceleration time from 5.1 seconds to 4.5 seconds. The performance package is available as a bundle, including the long-range pack, premium interior, 20" wheels, carbon fiber spoiler, and a new black-and-white interior. The vehicle will cost $78,000; 0 to 60 mph times are further cut to 3.5 seconds and the top speed increases from 140 mph to 155 mph.
While these options have consistently polled as the most in-demand options not yet available, several still remain and are variously due late this year/early next year: cream interior, non-PUP, tow hitch, SR battery, and air suspension. EU-spec and China-spec are also due early next year. Production is currently over 3,500 per week, rumored to be 4,300 per week, and will be undergoing a shutdown from May 26-31 to raise production to the Q2 target of 5000-6000.
While these options have consistently polled as the most in-demand options not yet available, several still remain and are variously due late this year/early next year: cream interior, non-PUP, tow hitch, SR battery, and air suspension. EU-spec and China-spec are also due early next year. Production is currently over 3,500 per week, rumored to be 4,300 per week, and will be undergoing a shutdown from May 26-31 to raise production to the Q2 target of 5000-6000.
Rolls-Royce doesn't have a waiting list of nearly half a million people.
Give a boy a gun and you arm him for a day. Teach him how to make a gun, and the whole metaphor breaks down.
And? Toyota didn't build their first large factory over the past year and a half.
Neither did Tesla. They bought a fully-functional factory from Toyota and GM. And you would think after 10 years of "production" that Tesla would have a better idea about how to do it...
(It's also worth mentioning, as a lesser point, that Toyota's average vehicle sale price isn't $45k)
Yep! The average Toyota is closer to half that amount. And yet, Toyota consistently makes a profit whereas Tesla consistently loses money. I guess if you want to gamble the value of a warranty/support on a $50K+ vehicle on a company that doesn't know how to make a profit, you have quite a bit of money to fritter away!
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
What part of "it's been entire retooled for Tesla's vehicles and greatly expanded" was difficult for you?
You're totally right. Tesla should have made Pontiac Vibes.
And now we loop back to the beginning where I point out that this production rate is the result of decades of capex, not something that Toyota did a week from last Tuesday.
Give a boy a gun and you arm him for a day. Teach him how to make a gun, and the whole metaphor breaks down.
And by the way, just so you know, Toyota sold off a large chunk of the equipment at NUMMI:
And transferred most of the rest:
Tesla bought the small amount that was left over at the plant, about $15m worth (which is almost nothing in the automotive industry).
Give a boy a gun and you arm him for a day. Teach him how to make a gun, and the whole metaphor breaks down.
Looks like fourth quarter shipping will be largely base model 3. Third quarter will be residual first production orders. 2019 first quarter on, it would be premium AWD models coming into the mix. So we should see about 50,000 base model 3s this year.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Yes. More to the point, if you had actually read the Wikipedia article you linked, you would have learned that. They sold off or transferred all but $15M of equipment from the facility.
Give a boy a gun and you arm him for a day. Teach him how to make a gun, and the whole metaphor breaks down.
The initially adevertised 35K trim was never shipped. Now Tesla is trying to get people to buy a 57K Model3, at least at the Colorado Cherry Creek dealer I visited last week.
the manufacturing of the batteries for a Tesla produce a shit ton of CO2, so driving a battery-based electric car will do nothing for climate change.
The argument that X is not a carbon-free process because various elements in the mining and manufacturing chain of X use carbon is almost as stupid as the cow-fart argument.
As we go through the long process of wringing the carbon out of industrial processes, the total carbon it takes to do X decreases. Eventually there will be electric large mining trucks, taking that element out of every manufactured process that starts with mining.