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IMO Tesla won't establish a true fleet motion until its no longer supply capped. Why spend capital and cause org headaches elsewhere to sell vehicles you can't make anyway at a lower margin? Tesla already has delivery headaches, the last thing they need is fleet-sized delivery headaches. But...

90% of these arguments will become resolved and clear once we know two things: 1) Price 2) Availability/volume produced Lifestyle vs "work" vs fleet, all that is quibbling over 10% of the sales equation. The value perception is already generated in a core audience, and will primarily be driven...

As a (former) auto-industry marketing professional, I can tell you the following are statements of fact: What the buying drivers are for vehicles is very well understood. In fact, frequently I know more about why someone is purchasing a specific vehicle than they do. Brand loyalty is also well...

Racks and a winch are the two big things I use most frequently, and both would likely require frame and suspension modifications. This is a wild guess based on appearance only, but that suspension looks soft AF and I don't see a way to mount any sort of front racking. Maayyyybee a rear rack, but...

Ya'll never heard of a sparkplug before? Just toss a chunk of porcelain at it.

I flipped a quad and nearly killed myself back in 1998. Now I stick to the safer stuff, like my 30-year-old no-name (I think it was a Coleman?) 3-wheeler I use to haul the manure cart around :LOL: TBH I was hoping for a utility quad, not a sport model. Something akin to a Sportsman. I'm with...

Yeah its all car-based, but if you're getting an M3 from Hertz chances are its an LFP battery pack (almost all their M3 fleet is LFP) that should be 100% as frequently as possible.

I rented a MY while my X was in the shop (from Hertz), and recently a M3LR (also from Hertz) while it was back in the shop for an unrelated reason. Both times it was a great experience. There is not a way (that I've seen) to pair the vehicle with the Tesla app. Due to that, you'll lose a lot of...

I haven't figured any of that out yet, tbh. Its very possible I come to the same conclusion and decide to just lipo the whole thing. Holding out hope I win the lottery and can just have my own personal Megapack.

Not enough space, and given the height off the ground of the roof (a large colonial) I'd rather not deal with roof-mounted panels. Especially considering that I have no shortage of ground space. The animal barn has its own rooftop microgrid/battery and uses little power, but the shop...

In my case, my utility is significantly more permissive than my township zoning ordinances- the township being my AHJ I'm this instance. The township did some stuff to try to keep a solar farm out and succeeded, but also basically killed rooftop solar at the same time. They grandfathered in...

Good luck! Genuinely. I'm building a house right now, and looking to place a ground mount solar array large enough to off-grid (once I can afford all the batteries :LOL:). I have 17 acres, and the zoning ordinance will only allow me to place a ground mounted solar array "with a total PV array...

Same. Won't be trading in my X with only a 5 seat option :(

Yeah those yellow plugs look a little like powercon but its hard to tell for sure.

^^this is how you know the post was written by a real, frazzled, (likely staff) engineer

What company? I'm in marketing and would love to check it out.

I think we all have those same questions - hopefully we get some answers on March 1st. I assume any bed-mounted lumber rack will be the same, and it'll just prevent use of the tonneau (assuming that's a standard option).

Back in October the rear side glass on my X shattered. When it shattered, because we were traveling down a highway at the time, the glass left all kinds of scratches and chips along the paint on basically every surface behind and below the window. While my insurance has covered the repair, it...

The X was a "trade up" from our 2018 Pacifica Hybrid. We were being offerd more than we paid for the hybrid by Tesla, and the X was used and a great price. Even with the recent depreciation hits, my black book value vs purchase price is still nearly break even. And since I drove the minivan, I...

Just watched - incredible that even up against a Prius the economics still favor the M3 in the short term.