Tesla erases history, silently removes key climate manifesto written by Elon Musk

MicroWave@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world – 455 points –
Tesla erases history, silently removes key climate manifesto written by Elon Musk
newsbytesapp.com
41

You are viewing a single comment

Well, not only those cars suck but also he starts to ignore the ecology part 🤷‍♂️

Do they suck? Tesla is king when it comes to efficiency. I hate it, I'm in the market for EV and while I'm buying a car on paper of the same spec and at half price.... It is a worse car and I wish someone else did model 3 but not tesla.

Hopefully Lucid or Xiaomi (yes I'd sooner give money to them than Musk) come soon enough.

I prefer my cars with quality testing, hardware that is not consumer grade that lasts more than a year, and mechanical doors so if the battery dies after buckling a kid in the car seat they aren't trapped in the vehicle with the only option to smash the window. I'd love to live in fear with no guarantee the steering wheel won't fall off while I'm driving on the highway.

Not to be that guy... But that's not a thing? Teslas last practically forever by the current standards. 3 hasn't been around that long to say the same thing.

But also, there is door release for the very thing you're describing. If owners of the car don't know it, the fuck are they doing owning a car? To me it's unthinkable for someone to not know how to open their boot from inside or disengage the dead bolt from inside. That's just next level stupid. If we were to never touch a car with no defects, we'd be still relying on horses.

Dislike Tesla all you want, he'll, I'm with you. But not when you use examples like this. Use actual negatives.

Well yes, especially when talking about reliability, they do not have very good scores.

They are just over complicated

The truck is shit, but I’m with ya on the Model 3. I have a friend with one and it feels nice to ride in. I like the air in front, you can have the air streams come out however you want. Whatever the “go from being stopped to INSANELY FAST SUDDENLY AAAAAAAA” mode is, blew me away. Both my partner and I shrieked—we had never felt that kind of acceleration before.

Have I got a life-changing revelation for you: that acceleration is the hallmark of EVs. You literally could not design an EV with bad acceleration unless you actively limit it. Any EV has that acceleration, not just the Model 3.

I think the tires are a part of that too. I have an old V6 Camry with plenty of vroom, but apparently the tires I got are shit because if I floored it I'd be spinning the tires.

Did Toyota make the v6 awd? That and several hundred pounds of batteries make huge differences in tire spin.

Edit: never mind, I didn't realize the model 3 was rwd or awd. You might be on to something with tires.

Pretty sure there’s also traction control preventing spinning tires

Totally untrue. Yes, lots of low end torque is a hallmark of EVs, but there’s still a wide range of how much, and a corresponding range of timing results.

Can you show me a similarity priced EV that goes from 0-60 in like three seconds? I’ve been in other EVs and they all have great instant torque, but none of them had that kind of acceleration.