I know 2 sets of people who were looking for an electric car that I had convinced to go with a Tesla because of charging and other reasons. They are now waiting on better charging solutions for other makes because of musks going off the rails. Even though I believe he only owns about 13% of...
The answers to the 4680 questions seemed somewhat evasive to me. My confidence level in deliveries next year has dropped. FSD has been coming next year for the last 4 yrs. I hope 4680 isn’t following the same path.
this is a non professional rough but fairly accurate measurement. L track cutouts are 1 inch apart. Counting the visible holes I come up with 59 or 60. I drew a vertical line at the last visible hole and one at the corner of the bed. I measured the distance between the lines and drew anther line...
These are test vehicles. When testing airplanes we installed ratty flight test seats. Interior stuff was tested in ground moc-ups. I doubt we will see a final looking vehicle for a while.
My guess would be that’s a data collection system. When I worked for Boeing flight test we had all sizes of data systems. Under the center of the dash is probably a good place to tie into the cars various signals.
On todays idra video it shows the pieces already painted in Tesla colors. It needs to be assembled and then go through testing. It will be awhile. Hopefully by the end of summer it will be working and the 4680 battery line will actually be producing battery’s in decent numbers.
These other EV,s may reach a point where they are equals to the Tesla’s but without a charging network it doesn’t matter. Tesla is still the only practical choice unless your looking for a commute only car.