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Old 24th August 2016, 06:17 AM
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"Tesla customers who have ordered a P90D Ludicrous, but not taken delivery, can upgrade to the 100 kWh pack for $10,000. Existing P90D Ludicrous owners can also upgrade to a 100 kWh pack, but for $20,000, as their used 90 kWh pack will have to be recycled."

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and some other A8's A8L's and Mercs
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Old 24th August 2016, 06:25 AM
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"Tesla customers who have ordered a P90D Ludicrous, but not taken delivery, can upgrade to the 100 kWh pack for $10,000. Existing P90D Ludicrous owners can also upgrade to a 100 kWh pack, but for $20,000, as their used 90 kWh pack will have to be recycled."

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Nah, that'd be Insane...
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Old 24th August 2016, 09:16 AM
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Nah, that'd be Insane...
Haha!

2.5 seconds. Wow!

They're running out of deranged superlatives now. What will they call this one, F**king Mental mode?
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Old 4th October 2016, 04:57 PM
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Default Under the skin

Not the excellent Scarlett Johansson movie - sorry - but a short Youtube insider walkthrough of the architecture of the Tesla Model S, as a contrast to a traditional ICE vehicle, for those on here who may find this of interest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcHXNNXam6U
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Old 4th October 2016, 07:40 PM
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Enjoyed that. Thanks.
I attended a wedding last week and there was a gorgeous opalescent white Model S P90D.
The owner turned out to be a gentleman in his 80's. He was very happy with it and pointing at the dash, said "That screen thing. I have no idea how to use it".
I could not work out his motivation for his choice of car. I'd have put him down as a replacing an aged Rover 75, with a Kia, type. He's clearly chuffed with and proud of his Tesla, and rightly so. I guess that makes him a proper petrol head, errr, piston head. Um, electron charger?
Good on him.
Trying to get my Brother in law to check them out now
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Old 12th October 2016, 06:20 PM
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No reflection on the elderly gent Toupkid met who was clearly in charge of his marbles but in answer to Moltuae it must "P90 Dementia" ......although on second thoughts that might give the impression that you cant find the keys to start it.
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Just reading up about the new P100D. What a car!
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Old 15th October 2016, 11:01 AM
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Default Interesting Bloomberg update on this

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ry-sedan-sales
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Old 5th August 2017, 09:44 AM
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Default Tesla is VW's main competitor.

...according to Herbert Deiss, not me

https://electrek.co/2017/08/04/vw-br...in-competitor/
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Old 5th August 2017, 11:28 AM
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...according to Herbert Deiss, not me

https://electrek.co/2017/08/04/vw-br...in-competitor/
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When Tesla originally set up shop in the San Francisco Bay Area, many thought it would be impossible to do car manufacturing in an area with one of the highest costs of living in the world. After all, Toyota and GM had tried the same with the NUMMI plant, which had failed – and Tesla ended up purchasing the factory for pennies on the dollar when Toyota was trying to get it off of their hands.

But this decision may be the secret to Tesla’s product as well. Diess stated in the interview that one of the reasons Tesla is ahead is because roughly half of the engineers at Tesla are software experts.
I think this is an interesting point.

It was once the case that manufacturing would gravitate towards poorer, developing nations. In the 70s all the cheap stuff was made in Japan. A decade or so later it was Taiwan. Now it's mainly China or sometimes places like India. Historically it seems that, from a manufacturing point of view, each nation becomes a victim of it's own success. Manufacturing creates jobs and wealth which ultimately leads to higher pay and the decline in manufacturing. If you go far enough back, even Britain once had a thriving manufacturing industry, producing textiles on a huge scale that brought wealth into the country, leading to higher standards (and costs) of living, resulting in the eventual decline of manufacturing in the country as it shifted to more economically viable areas overseas.

I always considered that fact to be an inevitable cycle of the economics of manufacturing until I watched a documentary a while ago. What the documentary showed was how robotics and automation (the very things often blamed for the loss of jobs) were potentially changing that. In manufacturing plants that have a high degree of automation, it often makes little or no difference economically where they are sited. In fact being sited in areas like Silicon Valley, where there's a high concentration of technical skills and knowledge, can be an advantage, despite the much higher cost of living.
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Cars Owned:
The Tesla Era: 2020 Model S Performance Ludicrous+ (present)
(Black, with all black premium interior and carbon fibre décor, 21" sonic carbon twin turbine wheels and FSD capability)

The Audi Era: '97 A8 4.2 (Ming Blue) --> '96 A8 4.2 QS (Dark Green) --> '02 FE S8 (present)
The Citroen Era: '84 BX 1.6 RS --> '89 BX 1.9 DTR Turbo --> '94 XM 2.0L Turbo --> '96 XM 2.0L Turbo Exclusive --> '00 Xantia Activa 2.0L Turbo
The Banger Era: '76 1.2L Lada VAZ-2101 (Ruski Fiat 124) --> '80 1.7L Morris Ital HL, finished in Ermine White and Rust

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