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Dave test drives one of the first right hand drive Tesla Model S cars in Australia before they are delivered to customers.
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97,245 $
Yup. Welcome to the Australia tax.
That is the price for the 60 kWh Battery version, no extras and costing for ACT.
NSW P85 = $140,310
So much for the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement…
So, we have about $2.3k+/kWh, but which is the weight & volume of this 60kWh battery pack to get estimate kg/kWh & m3/kWh?
How many km/miles this battery will last assuming typical 70km/h average speeds below 100km/h and slow acceelerations, so not agressive driving and regenerative brakeing enabled?
Don’t power it on, take it apart!
So, the teardown video will be up on Tuesday?
Can’t help to wonder about the actual practicality of all that motor driven stuff. Especially the door handle, haha. Sure looks snazzy… until it stops working. Still, exciting stuff.
I think it is around $115K USD in the US, before tax – which would be about another $11K here in Washington state. Still out of reach of most people. Awesome car, though. I hope the technology continues to improve and that costs come down.
Awesome! Dave you have a tough job, but somebody has to do it….
A price around $100,000 is really out of question. But for a billadair it might be an alternative.
Another battery maintanance costs might apply I guess, while who knows how many km/miles this battery will last? Is it possible to make 200000 km without replacement? New Peugeot diesel HDI easy did it without any engine failures and still is in good shape with fuel costs below $0.30/km @ average speeds below 100km/h…
Another battery maintanance costs might apply I guess, while who knows
how many km/miles this battery will last? Is it possible to make 200000
km without replacement? New Peugeot diesel HDI easy did it without any
engine failures and still is in good shape with fuel costs below
$0.10/km in Europe @ average speeds below 100km/h…
Another battery maintanance costs might apply I guess, while who knows
how many km/miles this battery will last? Is it possible to make 200000
km without replacement? New Peugeot diesel HDI easy did it without any
engine failures and still is in good shape with fuel costs below
$0.10/km in Europe (Poland) @ average speeds below 100km/h…
It looks like Tesla’s battery warranty is for 200,000 km. That’s pretty darn good – Toyota is only 160,000.
Thanks for doing this review, Dave. It really gives some insight into the car that I haven’t gotten from other reviews. Now if only I could afford one of these things 🙂
It would be nice to see it rolling on that freeway at 110km/h…
What does ‘battery warranty’ mean? How far does the endurance have to have fallen between charges before the batteries are considered to have failed under warranty?
I cound never get rid of a sense of impending doom watching all of those cars fly in counter-direction on the RIGHT side of Dave. Really spooky. 🙂
As for electric cars, having worked for the Quebec Advanced Transport Institute as a consultant, and having worked on one electric car project in particular, I do not believe in them. Suppose we solve ALL technological hurdles, then, have you ever tried to figure out the size and cost increase to the electricity supply network?
I’ll believe in electric cars when local, maybe basement-types nuclear reactors will have been made possible. Or when large scale Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors makes electricity cheaper, safer and with less radioactive emissions than coal. (yup, coal is one big source of radioactive pollution…)
Suggest you go to the Tesla website and read about it on your own.
Hi Dave,
I saw your Tesla Model S test drive via youtube.
Re: the charge port door.
I don’t know how it’s done but the usual way to do this is to employ a permanent magnet to hold the door closed against a spring that wants to open the door. The door is then opened by energising a solenoid that has reverse magnetic polarity to the permanent magnet and of similar strength thus canceling out the pull of the permanent magnet. Doing it that way means the coil only has to be energised for half a second when releasing the door as against a continuous holding current that would have been required if only a solenoid had been used to hold the door closed and no permanent magnet. I hope that makes sense.
Best regards
While a lot of extra electricity would be required, almost all of it would be needed at night when there is oodles of spare generation and transmission capacity. Given an electricity retailer that exposes minute by minute wholesale prices to the consumer (such as https://www.flickelectric.co.nz here in NZ) you’d have a very big incentive to do just that. Wholesale electricity prices at night are generally 1 or 2 c/kWh or even 0.1.