The New Tesla Model 3
This is a size comparison with the Model S
This is a size comparison with the Model S
Quote: (04-03-2016 04:25 PM)Captainstabbin Wrote:
Musk has the worst presentation skills on the planet and that fag introducing him was punchable.
He explains how the earlier models were overpriced to pay for research for this car and the audience applauds wildly. Yet these same morons would vilify a drug company for using the exact same business model. Shows why companies pander to the SJW crowd.
Quote: (04-03-2016 04:32 PM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:
Is the new car good for banging girls inside it?
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276k Model 3 orders by end of Sat
Quote: (04-03-2016 08:47 PM)Easy_C Wrote:
The car has a number of severe issues. It doesn't really work in cold weather, the long charging times make cross-country travel prohibitely time consuming, it's still expensive for what you get, the car is atrocious for snow or unpaved roads, and it requires access to specialized service centers and infrastructure that are rare in most places.
Quote: (04-03-2016 04:52 PM)debeguiled Wrote:
Quote: (04-03-2016 04:32 PM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:
Is the new car good for banging girls inside it?
I think the answer might be yes.
Have you ever seen those videos of the race car drivers getting girls all excited by driving them around way too fast?
Teslas have an "Ludicrous Mode" that makes their car go 0 to 60 in under 3 seconds.
http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/car...8-seconds/
You could create the same level of excitement for her without having to spend years learning how to race a car.
There are a million videos of female reaction to this level of acceleration. I chose this one because it features two chicks.:
Best quotes:
Girl 1: "That's scary. That's ridiculous."
Girl 2: "Want to do it again."
Girl 1: "Oh God, yes."
Quote: (04-04-2016 10:29 AM)H1N1 Wrote:
- Only currently. Battery technology is one of the most highly funded areas of research around. Militaries and governments across the globe are spending very serious money funding massive amounts of innovation into battery tech. I think most of these problems will be solved in the very near future, and the viability of electric cars for the wider market will increase exponentially.
Quote: (04-04-2016 11:10 AM)weambulance Wrote:
Quote: (04-04-2016 10:29 AM)H1N1 Wrote:
- Only currently. Battery technology is one of the most highly funded areas of research around. Militaries and governments across the globe are spending very serious money funding massive amounts of innovation into battery tech. I think most of these problems will be solved in the very near future, and the viability of electric cars for the wider market will increase exponentially.
I don't think any massive breakthroughs in battery technology are on the horizon. We might improve them for awhile longer, but we've only been making incremental improvements in battery technology for decades. I'm not an electrical engineer or expert on batteries, but it seems to me that we're trading stability and robustness for greater energy density. For example, the cutting-edge-chemistry batteries require special microcontroller-managed chargers or they do fun things like catch fire or explode. I could make a lead acid battery explode, but it would endure a lot more abuse than a LiPo.
Remember, batteries are a fairly mature technology. The first practical batteries were invented ~180 years ago. We already got our beginner gains, so to speak, and now we're just tweaking the details. Any major advancement in energy storage will require entirely new technology, I think, not simply more refinement of chemical-based batteries.
Electric cars seem to me to be neat toys and possibly good transportation for people with the right lifestyle in an area with cheap electricity--I knew a guy who had one that he would charge at work with the company's blessing--but I would never buy one except as a track toy.
I guess my cousin-in-law is buying one soon (not sure what make or model), so I'll have to see what he says about the practical limitations in daily use when I see him at Christmas.
Quote: (04-04-2016 10:29 AM)H1N1 Wrote:
- I suspect Tesla will be the tech leaders in this field to such an extent that the companies you mention find it more profitable to cut a deal with Tesla for their technology than to try to compete. I'd bet my house (which I don't own) that Tesla capture market share for all the stuff that matters in the electric car market.
Quote: (04-04-2016 11:34 AM)H1N1 Wrote:
Perhaps. There are some interesting things being done with Polymer Lithium Sulfur batteries. These are generally pretty much inert (I've watched them have their polarity reversed, being shot, etc), and have roughly 5x the theoretical specific energy of Li-ion batteries. They have 100% available Depth-of-Discharge, aren't damaged by over discharge, indefinite shelf-life etc etc.
A Li-S cell basically has layers of Li metal anode, S based cathode (inc. carbon & polymer binder) and a non-flammable electrolyte. It weighs about 20% of what a LiPo battery ways. One of the criticisms of rechargable lithium metal systems is that they will sooner or later generate uncontrolled dendritic lithium. LiS electrolytes basically create a lithium sulfide film on metallic lithium. Lithium sulfide has a melting point of 938C.
Quote: (04-04-2016 12:16 PM)Captainstabbin Wrote:
Quote: (04-04-2016 10:29 AM)H1N1 Wrote:
- I suspect Tesla will be the tech leaders in this field to such an extent that the companies you mention find it more profitable to cut a deal with Tesla for their technology than to try to compete. I'd bet my house (which I don't own) that Tesla capture market share for all the stuff that matters in the electric car market.
Except Tesla didn't develop their primary technology - the batteries. All of the stuff they developed on their own, the interior and car hardware, breaks repeatedly. He even jokes in the demo that the doors worked this time. People who own Teslas report the doors breaking, squeaks, leaks, air conditioning problems, etc, so often that Consumer Reports gave it below average ratings for reliability. And it's getting worse, not better. The new cars rolling off the line in 2015 had more problems than the 2014 model.
I like the idea of a battery powered car...sort of. Hell, I contacted a company wanting to invest in their personal electric aircraft! But Tesla needs to get their manufacturing house in order before I'm buying one, especially considering how much they brag about it being simpler than traditional cars. If that's true - and it is - then everything else should be flawless.
Quote: (04-04-2016 11:10 AM)weambulance Wrote:
Quote: (04-04-2016 10:29 AM)H1N1 Wrote:
- Only currently. Battery technology is one of the most highly funded areas of research around. Militaries and governments across the globe are spending very serious money funding massive amounts of innovation into battery tech. I think most of these problems will be solved in the very near future, and the viability of electric cars for the wider market will increase exponentially.
I don't think any massive breakthroughs in battery technology are on the horizon.
Quote: (04-04-2016 02:54 PM)Latinopan Wrote:
Quote: (04-04-2016 11:10 AM)weambulance Wrote:
Quote: (04-04-2016 10:29 AM)H1N1 Wrote:
- Only currently. Battery technology is one of the most highly funded areas of research around. Militaries and governments across the globe are spending very serious money funding massive amounts of innovation into battery tech. I think most of these problems will be solved in the very near future, and the viability of electric cars for the wider market will increase exponentially.
I don't think any massive breakthroughs in battery technology are on the horizon.
First mobile phones could barely last more than 15 minutes of speaking, and were big as a brick, today phones can last hours reproduction video while doing countless tasks in the background and are more thin than a pencil with 100 times more hardware than the firs phone.
Quote: (04-04-2016 02:53 PM)H1N1 Wrote:
Quote: (04-04-2016 12:16 PM)Captainstabbin Wrote:
Quote: (04-04-2016 10:29 AM)H1N1 Wrote:
- I suspect Tesla will be the tech leaders in this field to such an extent that the companies you mention find it more profitable to cut a deal with Tesla for their technology than to try to compete. I'd bet my house (which I don't own) that Tesla capture market share for all the stuff that matters in the electric car market.
Except Tesla didn't develop their primary technology - the batteries. All of the stuff they developed on their own, the interior and car hardware, breaks repeatedly. He even jokes in the demo that the doors worked this time. People who own Teslas report the doors breaking, squeaks, leaks, air conditioning problems, etc, so often that Consumer Reports gave it below average ratings for reliability. And it's getting worse, not better. The new cars rolling off the line in 2015 had more problems than the 2014 model.
I like the idea of a battery powered car...sort of. Hell, I contacted a company wanting to invest in their personal electric aircraft! But Tesla needs to get their manufacturing house in order before I'm buying one, especially considering how much they brag about it being simpler than traditional cars. If that's true - and it is - then everything else should be flawless.
Respectfully, there are a lot of assumptions you are making:
Who says the battery tech is their primary technology? If they don't make it, it is by definition not their primary tech. If I build some kind of tech device, do I not make my primary technology if I use an ARM microprocessor to drive it? If the answer is no, yet I make a lot of money and the product is revolutionary, how much does 'primary technology' matter?
The reality is that most successful and innovative companies make use of available technology to deliver something new.
Tesla will 'win' as much as anything because they are the ones taking the risks and making the waves. You don't hear about other companies problems, because noone gives a shit, and consequently they aren't getting the kind of feedback that lets them rapidly optimise a system. Tesla has far more data to work with than any other electric car manufacturer, and they seem to be led by a guy who really knows what he is doing. If that's the case, Tesla will almost certainly win out.