Then you get into what percentage of your customers want/need and and what you take away from other areas to give them that. The amount of flats that can't be fixed with a plug, that sort of thing.
Nope, they just made a different packaging choice. The room for that tire came from somewhere. By making something taller or something else smaller.
There's an old hot rod dictum. You can have fast, reliable, and cheap. But you can only choose two at a time.
Looking online numbers, the...
I don't, and you don't, but many people do. And remember, what's possible, and what places are willing to do are two different things. You can do a plug patch, but looking at this, I can see why a lot of shops wouldn't bother.
EDIT: Forgot the link ...
Some Tesla tires have foam inside of them than makes a proper repair inpossible. And a proper repairs taking it off the rim, reaming it, abrading the arear around it, applying adhesive and pulling a "plug patch" through from the inside then using a roller.
And yes, I'm fine with a simple rope...
Sure is. Here in the States we have CCS 1. Its a bit of a different beast.
https://chargedevs.com/whitepapers/fleets/nacs-vs-ccs-a-comprehensive-comparison-to-help-you-opt-for-the-one-that-fits-best/
3M command strip hooks come in some pretty robust sizes. Ive had one on a wall in my house hat for eight years has faithfully supported my heavy armored motorcycle jacket.
From what we know, that's only opened by unbolting the cover, aqs it's purpose it a maint hatch for access to the motor and penthouse. Possibly also the vault cover storage.
Well, we dont know all about the CT yet, which is sort of why I stayed away from that aspect. That 8500lbs curb, that's a killer right there. That drives a massive inefficiency right from the start. No other way to make a unibody strong enough except through mass. I'm curiously waiting to see...
Ask any motorcyclist, they can tell you about driving around on an invisible vehicle :) Years ago I started "wagging" my bars a bit to make my headlights have some horizontal motion when approaching someone waiting to pull out from the side of the road. Amazing to watch them blindly staring in...
Related, in 2016 when Tesla was in need of help in making assembly lines better, they could have contracted with a company known for such things. Instead they bought one of the best in the world, Grohmann.
https://electrek.co/2017/05/10/tesla-acquisition-grohmann-engineering/
FF four years...