Absolute rubbish, you tend to glance over to the side to keep aligned with the side of the road, its very easy to get used to looking for your speed etc over there.
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Tesla Unveils $35,000 Model 3 Electric Car, Shipping Late 2017
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Very nice car and competative price. Your move Apple 
Hard to see what the point of the Apple Car would be. If cars were like Blackberrys, and the Apple Car would be like the iPhone then fair enough - but other than autonomous driving, a vastly increased range, or lower price (or all 3) I'd rather Apple didn't compete.
Tesla' goal seems to be (from their keynote) to move the world on to electric cars, help clean up the air, etc, which is exactly what I'd expect Tim Cook's goal to be.
Tesla' goal seems to be (from their keynote) to move the world on to electric cars, help clean up the air, etc, which is exactly what I'd expect Tim Cook's goal to be.
Why can't they design an affordable electric car that also looks good?
Agree. It just doesn't have the look of its own. If someone tell me that's a Japanese car I'll believe him. It's kind of look like some model of Mazda. On the other hands BMW car design is always unique to its brand.
Ring up Elon, I'm sure hell take your advice, how long have you been designing cars.
You need to be looking to the side of your car for it not to run of the road? What?
A wonderful way forward. Congrats Tesla. Got the focus on great products down pat!
Fun fact, Tesla's lead designer came from Mazda.
iPhone SE?Very nice car and competative price. Your move Apple
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When you learn how to drive a car, Ill explain it to you.
I've had my license for 2 years now. I've never ever had to look to the middle of my car to see if I'd run off the road, only when doing 3-point turns or when parking, at which point the speedometer doesn't matter. Try driving in a straigt line when looking at your radio or navigation in the middle of your car. You'll slowly drift towards the right (or left if you have a the steering wheel on the right), especially if you do it for more than a second (which you will do if you try to get your speed right).
That's the biggest reason electric cars are a problem in NYC: on the one hand they would be perfect for the city - no smoke, pollution or noise and very few people drive 200 miles in a day. But unless they put chargers on every single street accessible form every single parking space it can't work. And considering Verizon hasn't managed to cover the city buildings with Fios, not even in rich neighborhoods - long after it promised to do it in 5 years, unless the city installs the ubiquitous car chargers itself, it will never happen.
Something is off with the front of the car - The missing grill frame isn't doing the design any favors.. Give it a Model S style frame and it's a beautiful mini-Model S.
Hope they will keep making the concept a bit better and more polished before entering production on over a year from now
Hope they will keep making the concept a bit better and more polished before entering production on over a year from now
Maybe it's just me but I think it's ugly. Too much sports car for me.
My Model S is two years old and I've driven just under 40K kms, I see no appreciable battery degradation; Tesla have a very sophisticated battery management and cooling system.
As for real-world, well it depends on how you drive primarily, then weather conditions - temperature, and elevation change. But as a rule of thumb, 100 rated km is about 60 min my experience.
But then you need to remember that the vast majority of journeys aren't road-trips and you charge your car up at home while you sleep, leaving home with a full battery each morning - you need to be an owner to appreciate this, it's hard to understand it otherwise (was the same for me).
Why does it have lips on the front? Totally ruins an otherwise good looking car.
I'm hoping this is just a prototype model, the inside looks far too simplistic like those future-car concepts we've seen for years. It would be really weird not to have an instrument display in front of the wheel - but they'll probably go for some sort of HUD that's projected onto the windscreen?
Never said I could design a better car, doesn't mean my subjective view is invalid.
I hate the inside. Always have with Teslas but this one is really bad. I hope to god if Apple does release a car the inside looks nothing like this.
I wonder if, say, Toyota had released this would people be drooling all over it or would they say it's fugly? How much of this is just because it's Tesla?
EDIT: another photo of the interior. Could it be any more boring?
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The car will, just the battery will need replacing every 8 years or so, which is above average even in normal cars.
'An average car battery lasts from 5 to 7 years' - http://www.testingautos.com/when-to-replace-car-battery
Didn't expect a 35k car with that specs (!) to look that good. Keep in mind this has Teslas technology under the hood. It could look much worse... like BMW i3... 'nough said. The front will definitely look better with a number plate (especially the wide European ones). I'm currently driving a 20 year old Volvo which I wouldn't sell for any of the new cars, which practically can do nothing better than mine (except fuel consumption maybe -although the non-Diesel cars will only consume 25% less maybe than mine...).
If I go for the digital car, it must also be electric. Tesla seems to be delivering exactly that. However, I would love Tesla to cooperate with Nanoflowcell. Their technology is superior to fixed batteries, eliminate the waiting during recharging, will not wear out, keep gas-stations in business and reduce the peak load on the power-grid as the electrolyte can be recharged at night in the tank of the gas-station, when the power-plants and power-grids are idling. This is a Win-Win for everybody.
EDIT: well... the interior is... underwhelming. I don't need any indication except speed maybe and that should be in front of the steering wheel, but this is an electric car... there are no gears... there shouldn't be anything between the seats except an armrest! This is something that bothers me at most modern cars... no open space. *dreaming of this* (when it comes to space)
If I go for the digital car, it must also be electric. Tesla seems to be delivering exactly that. However, I would love Tesla to cooperate with Nanoflowcell. Their technology is superior to fixed batteries, eliminate the waiting during recharging, will not wear out, keep gas-stations in business and reduce the peak load on the power-grid as the electrolyte can be recharged at night in the tank of the gas-station, when the power-plants and power-grids are idling. This is a Win-Win for everybody.
EDIT: well... the interior is... underwhelming. I don't need any indication except speed maybe and that should be in front of the steering wheel, but this is an electric car... there are no gears... there shouldn't be anything between the seats except an armrest! This is something that bothers me at most modern cars... no open space. *dreaming of this* (when it comes to space)
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Sorry, if id known you'd been driving for 2 years I would never have questioned you, you must be an absolute expert.
