What 0 to 60 in 1.9 seconds looks like https://youtu.be/aXWfL-1ieuE?t=56m37s

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Oh yeah....*quality *promote

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After the recent production numbers of the Model 3 and the reports of horrible working conditions at the Fremont plant, Tesla lost a lot of its shine for me.

Elon Musk seems to be convinced that being a Silicon Valley bigshot of his calibre is enough to run this operation, or that industrialism of the sort that, say, Toyota is engaged in is outdated. Those pitiful production numbers and the issues with the workforce indicate to me that management at Tesla (read: Musk) is not capable of industrial manufacture of cars at scale. Not at this time, at least.

I hadn't heard about the working condition issues, but the model 3 was a bad design badly implemented.
That said, keep in mind Elon did create the only successful major car company in America in decades, working against massive opposition. Considering what he's been successfully fighting against and the innovations he's bringing to market, I give him some leeway. Nobody's perfect.

His turn starts around 55:45 for those wishing to skip the vlog....and wow.....just wow. That's insane.

Thought the embed started out at that point. Must not work if in the comment thread . Ill change to the url with time start. Thanks for the heads up.

What a beautiful time to be alive. To watch the electric vehicle come about and mature over the nest 30 years will be awesome.

But electric cars are well over 1 1/2 centuries old. In fact, the earliest working examples are from the 1830's, predating gas cars by 50 years (+-).
It is great to see their resurgence, finally.

Great Sheldon impersonation!

Did they really build a space balls reference into it? That's some high quality dorkling.

*talks *engineering

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Yea to all that but I was think it of Its time for center stage has finally com.

Um...but, again, before Ford made internal combustion viable, the electric car was center stage, almost alone on the stage....even with the horrible batteries they had in the 1800's. Granted, there weren't many other options besides steam.

It's well past time for it to return imo.

It's not just sad it's criminal that before it got a second shot it had to prove it could beat combustion engine vehicles in every way, not just ecologically and economically, but in every performance metric as well. Now that it has, I still expect major pushback from both car and oil companies and their lackeys. Fingers crossed that they fail this time to rig the system again.

PS, are you using speech to text, is there a problem with the Russian to English translation program you've been issued, or should we be worried about Wernicke's aphasia? ;-)