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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.
Rei has to be getting paid for this.
He posts extensively on Tesla articles, sometimes over 10% of all posts.
He always is pro-Tesla, always defensive of Tesla.
He manages to get a suspicious amount of positive mod points, but only on Tesla articles. We all know how easy it is to get mod points with multiple accounts.
Why do we let this go on? We didn't put up with cdreimer.
NUMMI was making cars 6 months before Tesla took it over. It was a fully-functioning factory when Tesla took over. They chose to change how it was being used; turns out, they should have just adapted the existing production lines...
Toyota has half the revenue per car, but crushes Tesla by selling so many vehicles that people buy. They sell more cars in one month than Tesla has ever shipped. Oh, and they actually make profit on that revenue as well. Tesla? Do they make a profit? Revenue is great if you're a "wish and a prayer" startup, but when does Tesla grow up, put on their big-boy pants, and start focusing on profit?
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
One of my friends just got his Model 3, and it had rock damage to a body panel incurred during transport. Naturally, they didn't catch it, and he had to. Even more insulting, they won't let him option up to a dual motor now that they've finally announced those, the replacement has to be identically-optioned to his vehicle that they failed to transport correctly. Mud flaps aren't exactly new technology, but they don't seem to have been employed correctly here (because that's how you avoid throwing rocks at vehicles you're transporting.)
Fail, fail.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"