Exactly, that part looks dangerous, and weak.
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I can't answer that, but clearly it doesn't look fit for duty.
Man does it look scary though!
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Yeah, but you can die for market capitalization in this case. You can’t beat that.
For sure, especially for a car that is as fast as that car is supposed to be.
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That arm is cybertruck, which is actually worse.
This M3 copy will have something like this:
My bad calling it a car. IIRC @Trav had posted about them being flimsy in cars too that probably threw me off. Either way a major problem imo.
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I am not buying curb thing. I hit curb with BMW doing donuts entertaining daughter. Subframe has ears that are designed to bend in that case. Control arm didn’t break, nor wheel (interestingly as I hit it directly with the wheel) but ears got bended. That is how it supposed to happen.
When does this come out or is it already out?
Oh, it's out. Released almost a month ago... We sat in one at the Santana Row store; no test drives yet.
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I have coworkers and tenants of Tesla owners living in apartments, they are fine.
1: work from home, only charge when they go get groceries, or super charger on trips.
2: charge mainly at work, 3 hrs per day max.
I don't think the will get their money back from the battery per year depreciation compare to a high mileage low year age Corolla. Then again most people buy what they love vs what is the lowest cost of ownership practical cars, so that's not half bad as long as they are happy.
Personally I don't buy EV at today's price, but I can see why people do. It is like 100 years ago when people debate whether to buy a car or a horse:
1. You can't go offroad with a car
2. You may go somewhere without gas
3. Your car is more expensive
4. You cannot drink and expect the car to drive you home
Over time people change their way. They go on a different road that's car friendly vs just go off road with a horse, they build gas station along the roads, the longer flatter car friendly road ends up being the easier and faster way to travel, they started insurance to make the cost of owning a car more predictable, etc.
I can see making EV cost more predictable, in particular the replacement battery, changing the dynamics of whether to own EV or gas car different in the future. We don't all need a car that can go 300 miles per charge, we need something that can go far enough most of the time, and then maybe something that can go very far once in a while either by rental, battery swap, hybrid generator trailer on wheel, hybrid tow truck, flying, super charger network, etc.
Maybe you can one day rent a generator trailer for long trip and pump gas in it like a regular gas car, and don't worry about it when you are doing daily commute?
It's a pretty low cost of ownership for those that lease and feel the need to swap every 3 years or keep a car 10 years. They aren't going to realize the loss on the battery in that time. I tend to keep a car 8-10 years so I have a long period of no car payment if I take a loan and if I need a battery it will be under warranty because of the powertrain warrantee lengths on EVs. My VW is now 6 years old and out of warranty. All costs are on me at this point. There's no way the Tesla costs me more money than a four cylinder German hatchback out of warranty.
Charging will get faster before a generator trailer is an option. If it gets down to 10 minutes for a charge there would be no interest in a trailer for it. Some cars are under 30 minutes now.
I’m sure it will put a smile on your face
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