the electric car is a bigger polluter and waste of resources than the majority of fossil fuel burning vehicles.
it could be nice to see some teardown of Tesla battery pack
The normal brake pedal is a hydraulic brake system delivered by Brembo (german engineering)
not electrically controlled ( the hydraulic pump is electric)
When you have 7kW free solar energy grid at home
I am talking about the best place in the world with the best solar irradiance. Try the most populated places n the world and think more like $100,000 every 20 years.
"Each Infinia unit generates 3 kilowatts of energy."
IMO a touchscreen is a really lousy UI for a car.
You need real knobs & buttons that you can feel without looking. Voice also seems like a good option if it can be made to work reliably.
As a tech geek and a motor head, this is really cool. I love it and the whole look of it. But, and it is a big but.....
It is a total waste of money, time, and technology with the world's current balance of power generation. Until we shut off all the fossil fuel generation, idiotic food crop produced fuel replacements, and pie in the sky wind generation failures, the electric car is a bigger polluter and waste of resources than the majority of fossil fuel burning vehicles. All this technological research money needs to moved to fusion research and other nuclear power generation before we think of more ways to use more electricity.
Elon....are you listening? Stop wasting your talent on consumer end use products and get on to the infrastructure!
That's it. What other controls do you need ?
Did you notice the web browser was missing? Australia and Hong Kong both have it shut off, for some reason. I'm not sure why.
You need to have big easy to find and hit button, in front of you, especially if the driver does not know that model car
QuoteThat's it. What other controls do you need ?
Other car manufactures have done studies into touch screens and concluded that tactile controls are safer, as easier to locate and give tactile feed back to their current setting/position.
Take the window demisters for example, vital in damp and wet countries. You can't go messing around looking for the menu options when your front window suddenly starts to mist up on a cold wet morning, while traveling at 130kph on a crowed motorway. You need to have big easy to find and hit button, in front of you, especially if the driver does not know that model car.
BTW, I am saying this as someone who loves touchscreen and gadgets.
IMO a touchscreen is a really lousy UI for a car.
You need real knobs & buttons that you can feel without looking. Voice also seems like a good option if it can be made to work reliably.
Here's a brainfart : most cars have a rotary dial for fan speed, a rotary dial from blue to red another dial to select direction a boost button (max ac) and a recirculation button. On a rental car i did the calculation of combinations that gives. It was over 1700 combination to set the desired temperature in the car. What assmonkey designed that brainfart ? Yet almost every car out there uses that setup. That is sheer insanity !
You're a funny man.
QuoteYou need to have big easy to find and hit button, in front of you, especially if the driver does not know that model car.
In the video, " opening sunroof" . Fumbling through the touch screen or rolling through the steering wheel control menu to do a very simple operation. I guess sunroof is not an important aspect of the car, but for F**K sake isn't it just easier to reach up to the roof and hit a mechanical button.
To me a lot of touch screen functionality has been implemented for the sake of using a big 17" touch screen rather than intuition and practicality.
In Australia base price for P85 is AU$119,900 BUT for a car that should be at the leading edge of technology, there is an optional "Tech Package" that includes "Navigation, keyless entry, memory seats and mirrors" amongst other things that costs AU$4,600. These optional items are now fairly standard and common on AU$20,000 Korean cars. Parking sensors are also optional as separate package for AU$600. If I was in charge of marketing for Tesla I would resign from embarrassment.
$120K is a lot of money in anyones language, but if you are going to fork out that sort of money are you really going to penny pinch to save $5k and not have above options? I'm sure that fanboys will have a better logical explanation.
Until this happens, electric cars are as stupid as solar roadways.
Fusion is not feasible. It is decades away, even if you would throw top engineering at it.
We gotta start somewhere and it has to be now, we cant sit around another 20 years waiting.
In the tesla you tell the car : i want 74 degrees and that's it. No fidgeting with where you want the air , boost or whatever. It is self regulating. The car has multiple temp sensors. Software does the rest.
What happens to a Tesla at cruise speed if someone shoots a high-energy RF gun at it (pick your preference for 'high-energy' and 'RF') ?