270 isn't good enough for me. I can go 450 miles on a tank so downgrading to a car that can go 60% of the distance and costs $10k more isn't something that interests me. I know tesla is rapidly expanding their charging infrastructure and getting charging times down, but I think it's still a bit of a novelty. Definitely the way of the future, but as of right now for someone who doesn't live in a city, the technology just isn't there yet. Closest supercharger is half an hour from me. I'm probably making range a bigger deal than it should be, considering you can charge at home.
I don't know why you think it wouldn't work. Unless you live in bumfuck North Dakota or Arkansas there are superchargers all over the place for distance driving and 99.99% of people don't drive more than 250 miles in a day.
A Tesla is enough for like 99% of my car needs but I would probably have some kind of gas backup, or my SO would have a gas vehicle. Or fuckit just rent a car when you need it. I'm going to buy the cheap Tesla when it drops.
It only took 500 years to start making downtown Pensacola attractive besides Seville, I'm sure the charging station won't be long.
Even with cars that are capable of driving the distance I have friends/family who rent cars if the price is right for super long driving just to save wear and tear on their own vehicles. I won't be buying the 3 because I will get a full sized truck next but if I would be in the market for a car and one was 35k, especially if it was before tax incentive?
I was 100% all about it, but don't drive anymore. Will probably look at it for my wife when her car is paid off in 4 years.
Any married folk a 1 car family? Right now, since I take the train, I could probably get rid of a car. We have one paid off and I drive it maybe 150 miles a month
Yeah, pretty much this. If you only need a 2nd car for long trips, just rent anyway. No need to own a depreciating asset with recurring expenses (registration and insurance) to drive 5 or less times per year.
Do you drive non-stop 450 miles? Or are you saying you fill your tank every Monday after driving 450 miles? If you take your car home and night and plug it in, you will fully recharge the battery and have a fresh 270 miles every morning. You are looking at charging as the same as going to the gas station, but if it's a matter of pulling into your garage at night and plugging it in, it's actually less of a hassle than going to the gas station once a week.
Chevy Cruze that I fill up once a week, maybe a little more. Like I said, I'm probably making a bigger deal out of mileage than it actually is. I drove between CT and Auburn a number of times and stopping to charge four or so times at about an hour per charge would suck.
It would suck, but you would also pay nothing for the charging if it's at one of their superchargers. Less of a concern with gas prices where they are now, but that is a positive.
There is a row of about 6 in Defuniak Springs. Not across the bay in say San Destin, or Destin. In Defuniak frickin Springs.
No idea about wifi, but if you grab some food before pulling in to charge or have some with you there is almost always something productive you could do with the time, even if it feels slightly inconvenient.
On a long trip I don't like stopping and I can go at least 375 on a tank. So I would like to not have to stop any more than I do now for any trip I would take. I also wouldn't want to have to rent a car to make a trip.
Everything I'm reading says that tesla and spacex underpay and overwork their employees. Not sure how credible it all is, but it sounds like both companies believe that people should give something up in that working for them is reward enough. "We're paying you less and working you more, but hey, you're working for two of the most well known budding tech companies."
It is interesting that Apple might start making cars. No way some of the current American car companies survive if they don't get on this electric, self driving car plan yesterday.
Can't wait to see people buy 120k cars from apple and getting 3 year old Samsung Tesla technology. God help them if Apple tries to use their own gps/mapping software.
Very user friendly interface and when you call to bitch out customer service they'll be nice as can be.
I would think at some point the government is going to have to approve software updates to cars. There is too much potential for bad things happening if a bug goes out in an update and causes deaths. Now you just lose battery life on a phone.
Pretty much every phone is notoriously buggy on first release and initial updates. I'd rather not take that risk with cars barreling down the road.
Yeah I read an article about him recruiting engineers. He let them know it would be hell and labor cost would be thin. I imagine the payoff for the people that helped build tesla and spacex will be substantial when they get ahead. If not it would seem to go against everything he is about. But maybe he actually is Dr. Evil.
Isn't this a basic free market problem that takes care of itself? If people see some benefit beyond money to work for a company, that company can hire people below market value. If employees no longer find that valuable, they will go elsewhere and force Tesla or Space X to pay higher wages.
Yes. Tesla is hoping that their employees understand that the experience alone working there is an intangible value, which I would argue it is. I would take less pay to work at tesla. Working for tesla probably isn't an option for me, but I would kill to be a project manager on the gigafactory construction.
They kinda touch on it in that "wait but why" article series but all of them are pretty into the work and don't really feel as overworked doing 80 hours a week when musk is working like 120 hours
I think the majority of people affected are more white collar types than the ones actually assembling the cars. The unions can go fuck themselves though.
I'd try to crash the car to make the music stop, but it would probably be doing everything in its power to stay on the road, except for not playing fucking U2.