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Telsa Model 3

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Tesla rolled it out today for show and it's pretty damn impressive.

It'll start at $35K and there will probably be $5K worth of incentives and tax rebates to use. So it's pretty affordable now if you only have to dish out $30K total.

It also looks sweet for an electric. The most intriguing part is the giant center "ipad" console that controls everything, although I'm not sure I'd get used to using that for everything instead of the dash displays in current cars.

The first deliveries won't start until late 2017 and they're backordered 120,000 already. Would you buy one in 2018?

http://jalopnik.com/tesla-model-3-this-is-it-1768284734


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My wife told me to put down the $1k since I talk about the Model S so much. From what I've read add-ons can easily add another $15k. The rebates could also expire before you get it. Undecided.
 
Make a practical truck and I'd consider it.

That'll be tough I would think. They're getting these great 0-60 speeds because their cars are engine-less and really light. Their only concern is getting the car moving. They'd have a hell of a time making an all electric truck that could generate enough power and have enough mass to haul what an F150 currently can.
 
They'll get there IMO. I never imagined I'd be driving a truck with a little V6 ricer motor in it.
 
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Tesla rolled it out today for show and it's pretty damn impressive.

It'll start at $35K and there will probably be $5K worth of incentives and tax rebates to use. So it's pretty affordable now if you only have to dish out $30K total.

It also looks sweet for an electric. The most intriguing part is the giant center "ipad" console that controls everything, although I'm not sure I'd get used to using that for everything instead of the dash displays in current cars.

The first deliveries won't start until late 2017 and they're backordered 120,000 already. Would you buy one in 2018?

http://jalopnik.com/tesla-model-3-this-is-it-1768284734


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Electric golf cart
 
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3.5L with turbos is a ricer motor. The only thing it's missing is a coffee can exhaust tip and a fake empty NOS bottle in the back seat.
 
3.5L with turbos is a ricer motor. The only thing it's missing is a coffee can exhaust tip and a fake empty NOS bottle in the back seat.
That's only by Spring Hill standards. To the rest of the world, any engine outside of a Honda is not a ricer engine. You fail at engines.

Mod, please ban immediately. This is getting out of hand.
 
That'll be tough I would think. They're getting these great 0-60 speeds because their cars are engine-less and really light. Their only concern is getting the car moving. They'd have a hell of a time making an all electric truck that could generate enough power and have enough mass to haul what an F150 currently can.
These electric motors are perfect for trucks. Tons of torque which is what a truck needs.

Trucks just suck because they have horrible aerodynamics due to their payload shape. They also have high weight due to frame construction versus uni-body construction.

The range would suck. But the hauling capability would be sweet.
 
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When they have a range of 200 plus mile and I can pull into recharge stations as easy as gas, And recharge in 10 minutes I will think about it.
With my Focus, I can go 400 on a fill up and fill up in 5 minutes.
 
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This has first adopter problems written all over it. When you are doing a small number of cars at a high price point, you can afford to solve problems in advance. I don't see that happening here. I will wait a year or two, then get one. They look really nice. Perfect suburban commuter machine.
 
This has first adopter problems written all over it. When you are doing a small number of cars at a high price point, you can afford to solve problems in advance. I don't see that happening here. I will wait a year or two, then get one. They look really nice. Perfect suburban commuter machine.

Tesla is having a lot of problems with their long delayed small SUV Model X ($82,000-$130,000 car)...where problems with suppliers and even some of their engineering design has caused delays after delays.

Whats interesting about the huge number of $1,000 deposits on Tesla's Model 3 (basic model at $35,000), a majority of the "reservations" (not purchases) are for the upgraded $42,000 version...as some industry experts thinks that alone could delay production (let alone all the other problems Tesla has had with suppliers in the past).

With almost 300,000 reservations already in for the Model 3...it will be interesting if Tesla can come close to filling orders...as over the past 18 months or so....they are only putting out on average about 4,000 per month of Model S and Model X cars.
 
Having more sales than produced is good problem . With production delay and tax credit phased out after higher production, could see Telsa 3 option to buy being much higher than deposit on sale.
 
I'm a big fan of electric cars and Tesla, but I didn't do a deposit. I think it's highly unlikely for them to pull this off in the numbers they intend to, in the time frame they're pitching.
They've done a good job kicking the auto industry in the nuts on a lot of tech that they've dragged their feet on (internet connectivity, driver UI, over the air updates, etc). This is a different beast. The major auto manufactures are really good, not at designing cars, but designing and evolving the machines that make cars in volume.
Tesla currently uses a large amount of factory space to produce a relative low number of cars because they use a bunch of general purpose robots in series, which most automakers use sparingly in new designs until they can design/build purpose built machines.
I wish them luck, I think they've done well designing cars (particularly this one), but producing cars has always been their achilles heel. If they do pull it off though, I'll buy a used one :)
 
Telsa makes some cool looking cars. Definitely better than looking like a douche in a Prius.
 
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