Because some of the stupid in this car is preventing me from considering one. I’m more worried about good engineering than a retro Atari in the dash. I’m not dropping 50k on a car that needs repainted right after delivery. Once they fix the basics, and at least give a hud, I’d get one. I can’t do just a screen in the middle of the car. Definitely need a dash. I’ve driven rentals years ago with gauges in the center…I couldn’t wait to hand them back.
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You are focusing on fart mode, but you seem to forget the improvements made on battery efficiency, power, autopilot and UI. I get it if you don’t want to buy the car because of quality or quirks, but they are all solid vehicles that are on the verge from niche to mainstream.
It’s just an example. There are lots of stupid things they burn calories yet can’t even get simple things right, like painting or making body panels fit.
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They are not perfect still, but some of the things you listed have largely gone away. I see new ones everyday, they have largely avoided the problems that they had in the past.
Customer service is still $hitty, that hasn’t changed
I would be personally honored that someone would burn $3 worth of diesel to show their displeasure at my choice of vehicle. Hasn’t happened yet though. 
Let’s go a different direction. Even though most people here think of them as a car company, Musk bailed out his cousin and bought Solar City. Those losses, and need to focus and manage that business, threaten Tesla’s long term viability, and make them a less likely acquisition target (some say good, some say bad).
To the point about being distracted:
- Made a deal for tax breaks to open a solar plant in Buffalo
- Outsourced to Panasonic — because managing a 380 person operation is a distraction. Fact: in 2014, for a client, I opened a new US production facility in 6 weeks (comparable to the Buffalo solar facility, but with proprietary technology/IP/automation), staffed it to 800 people on 2 shifts over the next six, we were out producing the existing US 1200 person facility within a month (16 weeks from empty room to out producing a 5 year old operation that was 30% larger), which I helped close over 3 months. If you focus, it’s just work.
- as they default on this deal, there will be penalties and consequences.
There are a lot of examples across the business where they aren’t focused, aren’t operating efficiently, taking a lot of outside money and not getting anywhere close to the ROI they should.
The entire market has had a bad week, but Tesla is getting understandably creamed today:
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They are getting creamed because of China sales, not solar.
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OMG I see a panel gap. Is that a 3 out of 10 on quality?
Well after Fred said something perfectly objective last April, and Musk attacked him on Twitter for it, and Fred swallowed his own spine: Electrek is a 0 on the reading list.
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It seems to be slightly more objective than teslarati at least
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Either could rebrand as “Elon Musk, God-King, Can do no Wrong” and not need to adjust their journalistic standards. It didn’t used to be that way, but the pander-press is alive and well.
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There was an article a month or so ago by electrek discussing the questionable usability of the third row on on the model y for full sized adults. Teslarati published an article later the same day basically calling out electrek for questioning how anyone could think the few inches between the 3rd row seat bottoms and the 2nd row backs werent room for a king to lounge.
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The Taycan will share its platform with at least two more electric cars. These will be production versions of the Audi E-Tron GT and Porsche Mission E Cross Turismo concepts. Porsche has also said that it will introduce an electric version of the Macan.
Future home of the fire sale.
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If Electrek says it’s “impressive,” well then, it has to be true. The only thing better would be Teslarati saying it. Everyone knows those are the 2 most objective online sources out there when it comes to our lord and savior.
You win.
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This should drive a couple US Tesla sales
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The Tesla Semi has been awful quiet
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Cloudy with a chance of falling batteries
- You will get $1 p/mile as a discount on the existing inventory. Plus there are no 3-5 weeks wait time if you have the exact model there. One notable thing though - Tesla continuously changes its manufacturing process, so “older” inventory can be materially different from the current build. For M3 it’s not a big deal - because inventory does not age much (at least in my area).
- No, as far as I know. However, I saw people on this forum claiming to be able to get some deals on Model X/Model S
- Leases are terrible on M3. Loans are typically better, especially given current market rates. Tesla will match your bank/credit union rate.
- Interesting question - ask him on Twitter
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This has been a fairly common occurrence in the Tesla stores near me. I also remember my parents taking cars home for extended test drives. It used to be that it was impossible to get a test drive without a deposit, but now they are pretty much tossing cars at people walking by.
The 530e could have probably made it up the hill on pure electric if you took it out of Auto eDrive and put it into Max eDrive. There’s a fairly steep hill near my home and the 330e will kick on the gas engine unless I’m in Max eDrive. The car just decided that it was better for power output / efficient / whatever to kick on the gas at that moment. The estimates for pure electric range are pretty bad, but the car was never meant to be a pure electric vehicle.
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