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Yeah, I have no doubt they are genuine. The primary culprit could be the fact that most of the people that work there haven't been there long. That's a factor that doesn't get enough focus I think when everyone is frustrated with the conflicting information.

I suspect this is a case of misunderstanding. I'm guessing what you were asking is whether the lack of a service center would push you out of the earliest deliveries (i.e. delay). The correct answer to that question is yes. The question they thought they were answering is possibly, am I going to...

That's not correct, the way it was phrased is that they were trying to accomplish that. In other words, you can perhaps tell yourself that there is a slightly higher chancy you'll get vehicle in May 2022 vs. June.

Now that I actually think about it, that logic wasn't sound, because you're still using a given amount of energy to travel a certain distance, regardless of the total capacity of energy you have at your disposal. And having higher energy capacity means more weight, and thus actually lower...

I think you might be incorrectly assuming that efficiency/range is linear with battery size. Point being, the large pack also has to propel the rest of the vehicle. The marginal battery only has to propel itself, so it should get more range for the weight. In other words, effiency/range should...

What does this mean exactly? If I knew perhaps I would freak out :)

Yes, and my thread re: Home Test Drives was deleted for that bunk reason, but here I am vindicated and it feels oh so good.

But by definition, starting deliveries has to be to a subset, right? The only alternative was for them to manufacture all 48,000 vehicles and arrange for simultaneous delivery (so that it was "fair"). There is a difference between something not turning out the way you hoped/expected and...

I still don't get this perspective personally. He didn't qualify his statement because it doesn't really matter to the intent of the message/information. The takeaway from the statement, and since delivered on, is that the company was crossing the threshold into production vehicles. That's it...

To be fair, expected delivery timing could be very vague. Note they include the word expected...I assume many people will get something like "Spring". There will be many where their service center is still in construction with an unknown completion date. I would not expect to get a firm delivery...

To be clear, all that announcement said was that early employees were part of the initial group, not that they were the initial group. Am I wrong?

Just trying to keep things tight, lest they wander and take on lives of their own.

That's also my guess, 5-10k total LE.

particularly to customers potential customers who are waiting for products they've ordered given an indication of interest of potentially ordering by posting a refundable deposit.

You can't compare mi/hr across vehicles, because then you're not talking about just charging speed, you're talking about driving efficiency once charged.

11.5kw from the wall is only about 10.5kw to the vehicle, at 2.4mi/kw is 25.2 mi/hr. It's basically the exact spec of my current EV which is on a 60amp circuit.

Like it or not, the industry is trending towards automakers being as much (or more) about software as hardware. They all have started to use some version of the phrase, "the vehicle is like your smartphone on wheels". Given that, it makes little sense to outsource software and give up the...

It's kind of funny. Here we have a company making a revolutionary product and pushing us into the future, yet people still want to cling to the comforts of the present/past. If everyone did that, CP and AA would never exist in the first place. In my opinion, they are only bridge solutions and...

I actually like mi/kwh because it's akin to mpg and I can easily tell if I'm doing better/worse than the EPA rated mi/kwh (about 2.4 for this vehicle). Suppose you could do the same with the equivalent wh/mi, but what makes them different? For my benefit, what information would these provide...

Ben Mullins said EPA was an average of all the drive modes. No idea if accurate, but that's what he said. I've heard many other places that it's pretty specific that EPA only runs tests in the "default" mode, which I would assume is All Purpose. Regardless, in addition to Drive Modes, there...