CodeRedR51
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Anyone see what happens when you take a specific fuse out of the car?
Did they take a fuse out, or just gun it? It's got a lot of torque. It's kind of weird seeing a burnout and not hearing engine noise.
I saw one of these up on highway 18 when coming down from Crestline. At first I thought it was a Maserati, then a Jaguar.. but finally, when it had passed us, I saw the badge in the rear and went "Oh".. This car has severe identity crisis.
Identity crisis or not, the subtext behind your post is that you saw it and thought "expensive car". Rather than "ugh, an electric car".
I'd suggest that means the design has worked.
Also, swing by Tesla Motors Wikipedia page sometime for some fun facts, like them suing Top Gear, which was dismissed btw, with the judge saying Tesla's claims are "so 'gravely deficient' it could not be allowed to proceed.
Or the debacle with Tesla trying to sue Fisker Automotive.
Also, how about Tesla constantly running out of money? Changing the prices of cars that people have already purchased, or asking the government--the U.S. Department of Energy for over $400 million dollars.
What the F is Tesla doing with Taxpayer money? If he wants to build a business he should be able to do it on his own, not beg for money from the government.
Also, his cars are constantly being recalled.
I don't even know how people can talk about Tesla and not think it's a huge joke.
Tesla's lawsuit on Top Gear was quite justified,
Tesla websiteSpecifically, Top Gear misrepresented that:
The Roadster ran out of charge and had to be pushed into the Top Gear hangar by 4 men.
The Roadster’s true range is only 55 miles per charge (not 211).
One Roadster’s motor overheated and was completely immobilized as a result.
The other Roadster’s brakes were broken, rendering the car undriveable.
That neither of the two Roadsters provided to Top Gear was available for test driving due to these problems.
The breakdowns were staged and the statements are untrue. Yet the programme’s lies are repeatedly and consistently re-broadcast to hundreds of millions of viewers worldwide on BBC television and web sites, and on other TV channels via syndication; the show is available on the internet, and is for sale on Top Gear DVD’s around the world.
Tesla wants people to know the truth, and correct the public’s misperceptions. The Roadster and its EV technology, as well as EVs generally, have been unfairly and viciously maligned by Top Gear.
Tesla simply wants Top Gear to stop rebroadcasting this malicious episode and to correct the record, but they’ve repeatedly ignored Tesla’s requests.
The new York TimesA close read of Tesla’s claims shows the company does not dispute that there was, in fact, a malfunction affecting the silver Roadster’s brakes during filming. Tesla blamed the issue on what it described as a “blown” fuse, which meant that the brake pedal “needed to be pressed down harder than would otherwise be the case.”
Prototyp3 is actually quite right about that particular part, even if he's biased as hell. I'd say that if it was justified for the not-quite-accurate reasoning you are giving the case wouldn't have been tossed out. Twice.
It wasn't as cut and dried as you were presenting it then, and it certainly isn't that straightforward now after the fact.
And Tesla is one of the few "green" car companies to actually deliver what they promised and to progress beyond the vaporware stage to the multi-product stage. A lot of us were skeptical that they would survive this long, but not only have they survived, they've gotten two models out and have more coming. The original Roadster was an overweight, poorly finished Elise, but it actually ran, and it was pretty quick. Something you couldn't say of many electric concepts. The Model S seems to be shaping up to be something special, having none of the Roadster's compromises.
Again... I don't trust Musk. He does and says many stupid, outlandish things... but you can't argue with results.
Ultimately, that's how these cars should be judged... real world results. Not on hearsay.
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