The 40% impact doesn't apply here. It's not a simple fact that the cold reduces range by 40%. In the cold, energy is used to warm the cold battery and to heat the cabin. Warming the battery is only necessary for the first 10 or 15 miles. After that, the act of discharging maintains the temperature. Heating the cabin will consume up to 15miles/hour of range, regardless of your driving speed. So, in city driving averaging 40mph, that's a reduction in range of about 40%. For a mid-range model 3, that's over 4 hours of driving. It's not unreasonable to expect someone to be willing to stop for 30-40 minutes after 4 hours of driving to each and recharge. But for the context of the discussion, at highway speeds, 15mph for heat only reduces range by 20%. So, you'll have to stop after a little more than 3 hours. But this is worst case, for the mid-range model. Spend for the larger battery, turn the heat down a bit (seat warmers use about 10% of the energy necessary for the cabin heater) and you can get that up to 4 hours.
No, Tesla sold Enhanced Auto Pilot for $5000, and Full Self Driving for an additional $3000 if you pre-ordered. It was supposedly going to be an extra $5000 to add FSD after delivery if you didn't pre-order*. Enhanced Auto Pilot has been functional since day 1, and included Traffic-aware adaptive cruise control, self parking, and summon (the ability to drive the car forward or backwards from the smartphone app.) I always knew FSD was a gamble, and figured paying more to get the feature later was worth it compared to the risk of not knowing when FSD would be available, and how good it would even be. I also figured that there would likely be sales later on where it would be discounted so that Tesla could quickly get zero-cost revenue for an end-of-quarter push. I think the bigger problem is not that they were pre-selling a feature that is likely years away, but that they are now selling it for less before it's even released without refunding the difference to those that bought early. I would have no problem if EAP were cheaper today than when I bought it. Prices for technology always go down, and that's the cost of being an early adopter. But at least in those cases, the early adopters get the benefit of enjoying the technology before others get in at a lower price. That should not be the case for pre-orders.
I made a reservation to have my 3 serviced online. The first available appointment was 2 weeks out. I made my appointment (it wasn't an emergency). The next day, I received a call from the service center that they could have the mobile tech come to me, or I could bring it in later that day or the next.
It's quite a bit more than the salary to employ someone. In addition to their salary, there are payroll taxes, health insurance, pension/retirement, etc. Not to mention, the additional investment in your infrastructure you would need to 'house' these employees (office space, IT infrastructure, construction tools, etc depending on the job function).
Agreed. My typical new car is about $40k, but I went well above to $55k for my 3. After about $11k in tax savings, and free charging at work, it comes out cheaper than $40k.
The REPUBLICAN congress and REPUBLICAN senate had two years to get this oh-so-critical campaign promise in front of the REPUBLICAN president to sign no ability of the democrats to stop it.
No, Google does not sell customer data. Google sells access to eyeballs. They will deliver ads to eyeballs that fit the metrics that an advertiser specifies, but the advertiser isn't provided with the details of who is behind that eyeball.
Actually, the mining of oil is something that benefits from scale. Once we hit the hockey stick in EV adoption, the cost for gasoline will actually go up as investment in the expensive process to drill deeper and deeper goes away.
That's a bullshit argument. My Model 3 payment is $638/mo. My Honda Pilot payment is $636/mo. Both after similar downpayments, and for the same 60 months. If I wanted a Chevy Bolt, my payment would be significantly lower. Now, add the fact that I am saving $100/mo in gas, and my Model 3 is a bargain.
Electric car owners will find themselves at public charging stations infrequently. As an ICE owner, I have to refill at a gas station once a week. An electric car owner generally charges overnight at home, and only has to charge on the road occasionally when their trip is longer than 250 miles. Sure- if you're going to say "But I have a 300 mile trip every week!" then an electric car may not be for you. But you would be greatly in the minority.
I've had multiple situations where I was incorrectly given a room that was already occupied, which resulted in a bit of a surprise upon entering 'my' room. After the first or second time, I've learned to knock before entering my hotel room for the first time just in case. But you believe that in such a situation it would have been justifiable for them to shoot me?
It's not as bad as it would seem to an iPhone user. In iOS, all major Apple apps are tied to the iOS version. New versions of Apple Mail, Calendar, etc are all tied to new versions of iOS. Android is much more modular. So even a user running Android N has the latest version of Gmail, Calendar, Maps, etc. Even subsystems that the user doesn't directly see, like Google Play Services, are updated directly from Google as soon as they come out.
Moviepass is not coupons. Every time a MoviePass holder goes to the movies, MoviePass has to pay the theater face-value of the ticket. The movie studio and theater still get the same $11.75 (to split) that they always got for each patron. Then the MoviePass holder spends $15 on popcorn and soda. The theater keeps 100% of this. MoviePass gets nothing. The theaters win with MoviePass because it brings more customers to the theater, and they gave up NOTHING. For MoviePass to have worked, they would have to had worked out a deal, before going live, with either the studio (discount pricing or kick-back) or theater (some cut of the concessions.) But once live, there was no incentive to the theater or studios to work with them since they got all the benefit with no risk.
In a coupon scenario, the store is luring you in with a coupon. They make slightly less on the product of the coupon, but are betting that you will spend additional money that you would otherwise not have spent. Sure, some customers would have bought X at $Y, and with the coupon they are still only going to by X at.75Y, but there are plenty of people who would never have bought X from you at all to make up for the little bit lost.
Google doesn't require manufactures to install Google apps to use Android. Android is open source, and manufacturers are free to use it without any requirements from Google, which is exactly what Amazon did with their FireOS. What Google does insist upon is that if you want to include Google services, such as their Play store, you must include all of their core apps. I hardly think this is unreasonable.
Or, you can view it as a symbiotic relationship. I let my phone feed Google telemetry info about my driving- road I'm on, speed I'm traveling, etc, and in turn, I get access to all that aggregated data to tell me when there is congestion. I upload my photos to Google Photos, and Google scans the pictures using their AI to see what my interests are, and when I'm putting together a photo album, and I want to find pictures of the time I was teaching my kids how to ride a bike, I search for "bike" in my photos, and it gives me pictures of people riding bikes.
There's nothing wrong with being a monopoly for your own product. There are plenty of direct-sales manufacturers out there. Tesla is a single manufacturer (and a very small one at that.) If you don't like what they are charging, buy a product from another manufacturer. Tesla has to compete with GM, Nissan, Ford, etc who also make electric cars. They can only price their cars to be competitive with them.
You can get electricity anywhere. If you can get petroleum to a location for an IC car, you can get electricity from that same petroleum. Sure, you lose any of the extra efficiency and reduced pollution benefits in that case, but surely we can all agree that this is an edge case. Not to mention, if you have an IC car in a remote place, you are dependent on deliveries of gasoline/diesel fuel. With an electric car, you have any number of possibilities to generate electricity (methane, propane, solar, wind, etc) to charge the car should fuel deliveries be interrupted.
It's not just about the battery life being shorter in full power mode on an old battery. It's that during high drain situations, the battery couldn't provide the amperage necessary and it would cause instability and the phone to crash.
It's called Rogue AP detection, and most (if not all) enterprise wireless systems already do this. But, it requires set up, monitoring, and then an action plan in place for what to do when an rogue AP is detected. Resources and skills typically missing from your CoffeeShop staff.
Except ET for the 2600 WAS an Atari-created game. The console crash can be blamed on the glut of cheap, bad games being churned out largely by 3rd parties, but ET was not one of those.
Example- Google uses my map data (and the data from all other Google Maps/Waze users) to see how fast traffic is moving on every road, which is turn fed back to me so I can see which route to take on my way home. Surely they are also selling this information to other consumers of traffic data, but I certainly get value out of this.
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The 40% impact doesn't apply here. It's not a simple fact that the cold reduces range by 40%. In the cold, energy is used to warm the cold battery and to heat the cabin. Warming the battery is only necessary for the first 10 or 15 miles. After that, the act of discharging maintains the temperature. Heating the cabin will consume up to 15miles/hour of range, regardless of your driving speed. So, in city driving averaging 40mph, that's a reduction in range of about 40%. For a mid-range model 3, that's over 4 hours of driving. It's not unreasonable to expect someone to be willing to stop for 30-40 minutes after 4 hours of driving to each and recharge. But for the context of the discussion, at highway speeds, 15mph for heat only reduces range by 20%. So, you'll have to stop after a little more than 3 hours. But this is worst case, for the mid-range model. Spend for the larger battery, turn the heat down a bit (seat warmers use about 10% of the energy necessary for the cabin heater) and you can get that up to 4 hours.
No, Tesla sold Enhanced Auto Pilot for $5000, and Full Self Driving for an additional $3000 if you pre-ordered. It was supposedly going to be an extra $5000 to add FSD after delivery if you didn't pre-order*. Enhanced Auto Pilot has been functional since day 1, and included Traffic-aware adaptive cruise control, self parking, and summon (the ability to drive the car forward or backwards from the smartphone app.) I always knew FSD was a gamble, and figured paying more to get the feature later was worth it compared to the risk of not knowing when FSD would be available, and how good it would even be. I also figured that there would likely be sales later on where it would be discounted so that Tesla could quickly get zero-cost revenue for an end-of-quarter push. I think the bigger problem is not that they were pre-selling a feature that is likely years away, but that they are now selling it for less before it's even released without refunding the difference to those that bought early. I would have no problem if EAP were cheaper today than when I bought it. Prices for technology always go down, and that's the cost of being an early adopter. But at least in those cases, the early adopters get the benefit of enjoying the technology before others get in at a lower price. That should not be the case for pre-orders.
I made a reservation to have my 3 serviced online. The first available appointment was 2 weeks out. I made my appointment (it wasn't an emergency). The next day, I received a call from the service center that they could have the mobile tech come to me, or I could bring it in later that day or the next.
It's quite a bit more than the salary to employ someone. In addition to their salary, there are payroll taxes, health insurance, pension/retirement, etc. Not to mention, the additional investment in your infrastructure you would need to 'house' these employees (office space, IT infrastructure, construction tools, etc depending on the job function).
Agreed. My typical new car is about $40k, but I went well above to $55k for my 3. After about $11k in tax savings, and free charging at work, it comes out cheaper than $40k.
The REPUBLICAN congress and REPUBLICAN senate had two years to get this oh-so-critical campaign promise in front of the REPUBLICAN president to sign no ability of the democrats to stop it.
That really depends on the end user.
No, Google does not sell customer data. Google sells access to eyeballs. They will deliver ads to eyeballs that fit the metrics that an advertiser specifies, but the advertiser isn't provided with the details of who is behind that eyeball.
Actually, the mining of oil is something that benefits from scale. Once we hit the hockey stick in EV adoption, the cost for gasoline will actually go up as investment in the expensive process to drill deeper and deeper goes away.
That's a bullshit argument. My Model 3 payment is $638/mo. My Honda Pilot payment is $636/mo. Both after similar downpayments, and for the same 60 months. If I wanted a Chevy Bolt, my payment would be significantly lower. Now, add the fact that I am saving $100/mo in gas, and my Model 3 is a bargain.
Tesla Model S has rear-facing seats as an option.
Electric car owners will find themselves at public charging stations infrequently. As an ICE owner, I have to refill at a gas station once a week. An electric car owner generally charges overnight at home, and only has to charge on the road occasionally when their trip is longer than 250 miles. Sure- if you're going to say "But I have a 300 mile trip every week!" then an electric car may not be for you. But you would be greatly in the minority.
Or another perspective, you leave a gun sitting out on your front porch, and someone takes it and shoots someone.
I've had multiple situations where I was incorrectly given a room that was already occupied, which resulted in a bit of a surprise upon entering 'my' room. After the first or second time, I've learned to knock before entering my hotel room for the first time just in case. But you believe that in such a situation it would have been justifiable for them to shoot me?
It's not as bad as it would seem to an iPhone user. In iOS, all major Apple apps are tied to the iOS version. New versions of Apple Mail, Calendar, etc are all tied to new versions of iOS. Android is much more modular. So even a user running Android N has the latest version of Gmail, Calendar, Maps, etc. Even subsystems that the user doesn't directly see, like Google Play Services, are updated directly from Google as soon as they come out.
Moviepass is not coupons. Every time a MoviePass holder goes to the movies, MoviePass has to pay the theater face-value of the ticket. The movie studio and theater still get the same $11.75 (to split) that they always got for each patron. Then the MoviePass holder spends $15 on popcorn and soda. The theater keeps 100% of this. MoviePass gets nothing. The theaters win with MoviePass because it brings more customers to the theater, and they gave up NOTHING. For MoviePass to have worked, they would have to had worked out a deal, before going live, with either the studio (discount pricing or kick-back) or theater (some cut of the concessions.) But once live, there was no incentive to the theater or studios to work with them since they got all the benefit with no risk.
.75Y, but there are plenty of people who would never have bought X from you at all to make up for the little bit lost.
In a coupon scenario, the store is luring you in with a coupon. They make slightly less on the product of the coupon, but are betting that you will spend additional money that you would otherwise not have spent. Sure, some customers would have bought X at $Y, and with the coupon they are still only going to by X at
Google doesn't require manufactures to install Google apps to use Android. Android is open source, and manufacturers are free to use it without any requirements from Google, which is exactly what Amazon did with their FireOS. What Google does insist upon is that if you want to include Google services, such as their Play store, you must include all of their core apps. I hardly think this is unreasonable.
An electric car, sitting out in the sun on hot asphalt, will easily be over 120 deg F.
Or, you can view it as a symbiotic relationship. I let my phone feed Google telemetry info about my driving- road I'm on, speed I'm traveling, etc, and in turn, I get access to all that aggregated data to tell me when there is congestion. I upload my photos to Google Photos, and Google scans the pictures using their AI to see what my interests are, and when I'm putting together a photo album, and I want to find pictures of the time I was teaching my kids how to ride a bike, I search for "bike" in my photos, and it gives me pictures of people riding bikes.
There's nothing wrong with being a monopoly for your own product. There are plenty of direct-sales manufacturers out there. Tesla is a single manufacturer (and a very small one at that.) If you don't like what they are charging, buy a product from another manufacturer. Tesla has to compete with GM, Nissan, Ford, etc who also make electric cars. They can only price their cars to be competitive with them.
You can get electricity anywhere. If you can get petroleum to a location for an IC car, you can get electricity from that same petroleum. Sure, you lose any of the extra efficiency and reduced pollution benefits in that case, but surely we can all agree that this is an edge case. Not to mention, if you have an IC car in a remote place, you are dependent on deliveries of gasoline/diesel fuel. With an electric car, you have any number of possibilities to generate electricity (methane, propane, solar, wind, etc) to charge the car should fuel deliveries be interrupted.
It's not just about the battery life being shorter in full power mode on an old battery. It's that during high drain situations, the battery couldn't provide the amperage necessary and it would cause instability and the phone to crash.
It's called Rogue AP detection, and most (if not all) enterprise wireless systems already do this. But, it requires set up, monitoring, and then an action plan in place for what to do when an rogue AP is detected. Resources and skills typically missing from your CoffeeShop staff.
Except ET for the 2600 WAS an Atari-created game. The console crash can be blamed on the glut of cheap, bad games being churned out largely by 3rd parties, but ET was not one of those.
Example- Google uses my map data (and the data from all other Google Maps/Waze users) to see how fast traffic is moving on every road, which is turn fed back to me so I can see which route to take on my way home. Surely they are also selling this information to other consumers of traffic data, but I certainly get value out of this.