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Love the optimism, but reality is we will be lucky to see any CT roll off the line this year, even then those will be production prototypes.

Except you can't compare the two. China has way different labor laws, safety standards for labor, and for building codes/construction. There is also no unions. So they can build things much quicker there. It took them 8 months from ground breaking to production. They broke ground on giga texas...

Considering they offer different wheel options on the other tesla vehicles, i can't see the CT being any different in this regard. You also have to remember the tires on the CT prototype are not street legal, they say on the sidewalls for offroad use only.

Just FYI https://www.yahoo.com/autos/tesla-fire-texas-crash-not-234300789.html A crash and subsequent fire of a Tesla Model S this past weekend quickly caught attention online for its "four-hour" blaze, but that's not exactly what happened, the fire chief told Car and Driver today. The...

Were assuming they will still go with the double stack pack. With the 4680 cells a single layer pack could do it.

Interesting, just enhances my belief this is not the truck from the reveal night, or it's been rebuilt. Those circles do not exist on the revel truck, and i just noticed another anomaly, there are two slots running up the side of the bed, on the revel truck there is only 1.

I am with Crissa on this one. If you look at the space, but more importantly the black and white painted stop in the back of the stall, you can clearly see the model 3 is way over to one side. No angle is going to show that much of the backstop. that car is clearly NOT in the middle of the space

Being a former firefighter i can tell you this would not have been an easy fire to put out. Remember the battery is a sealed unit under the car, very inaccessible to put water/foam/retardant into. Once the batteries inside the pack started to overheat each other without cooling you would have a...

actually if you look this is missing the deck storage. Look at the revel vs the one in austin

I have a theory as to what the slots on the sides are. Look at where they are in relation to the triangle opening "wings" for storage. i think there may be shelves that slide up and own on rails inside those compartments. The slots you see are covers to cover the bolts or nuts that hold the...

its not the one from reveal night. I think its the same he drove with Jay leno, reason i say that is the reveal night prototype had a marble dash, the jay leno one had an all white dash, like this one. Now it's possible they swapped dashboards, but why would you?

To me, I am going to be using a truck to be a truck, not a sports car. Yes acceleration is nice, but the dual motor I ordered seems the best combo of price/performance.

This looks exactly like the same prototype he drove around with jay Leno, not the latest prototype. I gotta say, it looks dang good with some mud on the tires and seems right at home on the construction site.

Bear in mind, the "big 3" have been the only successful American car companies in the last 100 years. no others have survived more than a couple of years at best. Until Tesla, but even they are still a very young car company by many standards. They may be slow to change what has worked for...

yes and no competition is always a good thing what I am very concerned about is charging infrastructure. Unlike gas stations there isnt charging stations everywhere yet and it takes alot longer to charge than fill up with gas. We have already seen waiting lines at superchargers during peak times.

although it sounds good, it may have the same outcome if it was a CT. Although Tesla's are extremely safe and have some of the best roof strength out there they are not indestructible. A falling tree is very very heavy and has alot of velocity behind it.

I have to cast doubt on this. This is most likely a 6000 ton press for the model Y. Reason i say that is, IDRA just posted the video a few weeks ago that they had secured an order for the 8000 ton unit, It is highly unlikely they could have designed, tested, built and shipped that unit by now...

For the same reason the roadster costs 250k volume production = less cost.

What you are talking about is (gasp) socialism. You pay taxes that benefit other people? the NERVE!

I concur with this. My insurance is 100 per month for 3 cars two on full coverage. But im 50, no accidents and been with my current insurance for over 10 years.