Anyone else waiting on the Model iii today?

[57stratdawg]

Think it'll be rolled out around 10 central time.

Guessing it looks rather similar to the S, but toned down features. Its been speculated that autopilot wouldn't make it to the iii to keep cost low, but Musk seems pretty set on having it on everything by them.

Kind of sucks they take so long to hit the roads. I think it'll probably be 2017 or 2018 before there are really rolling out. I haven't seen a X yet in person.

 

[MaroonNation]

IWDI

 

[BiscuitEater]

The Model 3 may 'finally' turn a profit for the company (If it can compete favorably with the BMW 3 Series, Audi 4 .. at the $35K price) Hard to believe that Tesla been around for ~13 years and has yet to turn a profit.

0-60 times are fantastic .. 200 mile range, not so much.

Model 3 reservations ($1000 down) will be accepted in Tesla stores on today

 

[57stratdawg]

I thought so too, but I test drove a S recently and they brought up a good point: People rarely drive more than 150 miles without stopping. The key though is going to be building the electrical infrastructure to get a 'quick' charging point ever 3 hours of driving. It's kind of hard to sell people on the idea that you'll have to stop for 1+hour ever 200 miles, but if it's more like 10-15 minutes, thats not so bad. Nashville has a super charger station now, I believe.

The plan is to have a fully autonomous car that can travel across the country from station to station in a couple years. Kind of neat to think you could be in San Francisco and push a button and your car leave your garage in Atlanta to come pick you up. Again, that's sort of predicated on building the charging possibilities.

 

[bulldognation]

Oh.... thought you meant this:

 

[The Peeper]

There's a charge station at UMMC that you can swipe your Visa card at and get some juice, guy at the shop said it's never been used

 

[Tin Cup Cowboy]

Hope that autonomous car trip works out better than that hitchhiking robot trip...

#RIPHitchBOT

 

[1msudawg]

Or better than Microsoft's teen girl AI twitter account. Haha.

http://distractify.com/geek/2016/03/24/racist-twitter-ai-robot

 

[Bulldogg31]

I've got a couple of friends with Model S's and they are 17'n amazing cars. For long trips they just take the wife's SUV.

The first time my buddy stepped on the "gas" pedal I got whiplash. It's like that Aerosmith roller coaster at Disney. Shot out of a cannon fast.

The interactive interface is pretty incredible too. No wonder it got the highest rating Car and Driver rating ever issued. (Car and Driver even said they had to change a few parameters just to keep the Model S within the scoring range as it kept going over).

If the Model S is the future of driving I'm happy.