no visionaries can predict the future just not who the final players are gonna be. the images they see reflected into the future cannot reflect themselves. RE 5th law of visionaries.😀
Our ex-CEO (RIP) told me that over dinner. He opined those at the top know 3yr. or so ahead that the end is inevitable.
Tesla's next model, Model X. Has evolved into more of a cross-over… Model X | Tesla Motors Canada
dave
an entirely new generation of sheep to be shorn.
Musk is a prophet of a new theology...
tell me about it.
invest in a company stock that uses laptop batteries in a car..
\ I never buy hardware from software weenies.
dumster divers note he lives in smell A, not silly valley which means he hold rockets not cars nearer and dearer.
You can't expect the Prawn of Bad Air to sell space shuttles from a condo.
(Just think, if he turns out a fraud, he may be flown to Gtmo-2 in his own Tesla-X. Paying a divorce settlement with paypal is original though.)
A neighbor just bought a BMW i3, strange styling. I see there is an i8 now at a real wallet emptying $136,000.
cute enough design exercise, quite possibly a good seller when it reaches the market, but not exactly the type of vehicle to which I'd alluded
Considering that three of top 20 selling vehicles in the US are still full sized pickup trucks, ( over 550,00 this calendar year to date ) that'd be the class that I think could most benefit from a clean slate engineering approach. Wishful thinking for sure to see a "RAM -tuff" electric truck. I'm still a Ford truck guy for now, but who doesn't love those Sam Elliot narrated commercials.
Earlier ones looked more like a breadbox -- something like a Honda Element with gull-wing doors. This one is much more akin to the Model S
dave
Air friction of an F150 will likely be twice as high as a Tesla S (50% higher coefficient of drag, 1/3d more frontal area)
A hybrid GM clone as the Vtrux already has 50% more weight.
For an electric full-size truck you'd really have to have long range vision, imo.
or a really long extension plug😀
pls don't bother Elon about these new cars, he's thinking about space. thx
I've been sort of half-heartedly looking for a new car, as my PT Cruiser is 13 years old (paid for, though, and still running OK). I've ruled out the electric cars and the hybrids as either overpriced or lacking the carrying capacity of the PT. Besides ,I have no place to conveniently (or inconveniently recharge an electric.car at home.
If someone made the equivalent of the Scion XB or Ford Transit with a small-block diesel, I'd be on it in a heartbeat - good mileage, and the opportunity to use carbon-neutral fuels if/when they become available (hemp oil, anyone?). Take that, Elon...
If someone made the equivalent of the Scion XB or Ford Transit with a small-block diesel, I'd be on it in a heartbeat - good mileage, and the opportunity to use carbon-neutral fuels if/when they become available (hemp oil, anyone?). Take that, Elon...
for a truly carbon neutral fuel, I'd be inclined to wait for hydrogen &/or fuel cells, but that's probably not without its own distribution infrastructure problems
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