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Very stupid investors?
EV sales are flat or shrinking in the US (but growing extremely quickly outside the US, partially thanks to the Hormuz situation). Tesla's sales are flat. He's doing anything possible to show that Tesla has a future.
So, he basically told his talented engineers to take the stabilizing parts of a SpaceX rocket, put them in the body of a car, and pretended that what was demoed is actually vaguely related to something people might be able to buy at some point.
There isn't a chance that a vehicle with those kinds of thrusters would ever be road legal. You're basically driving a pretty large bomb around. You crash that vehicle and you don't just kill yourself, you kill everybody within a pretty large blast radius.
Tesla sold a car for years with no way to open the back seat doors in the event of an emergency.
US regulators allow Tesla to do anything.
There is a way. Not practical, but if you pry off the speaker cover, there is a release cable.
I blame regulators.
The Model X had it under a speaker cover. The model 3 didn't have it listed in the user manual. Fans discovered under a rubber door pocket cover, you could remove a flushed mounted plastic tab and fish out a pull wire to open the door.
It wasn't until 2024 that Model 3's got a door release.
Idea: in case of emergency the user can download a 400 mb app and after login + otp verification can see where is the emergency door opening tab
Strange. Maybe it's a Europe thing, but my 2020(?) M3 has a little mechanical lever you can pull to open.
E: both front and back like nop'a 2018 model 3 in the response below
I think you are misremembering. I triple checked and there is nothing in the German Manual for rear door release in a 2020 Model 3.
Here is a German YouTuber showing how you can make your Tesla safer by adding a pull to the hidden door release.
https://youtube.com/shorts/QFLq7-wIGCo
I've been planning to go down to the basement where the car lives to check, but haven't been that way yet. I'll let you know. I guess it's possible that I just assumed the back would be like the front because why the fuck wouldn't it be. But then again, Elon.
In the front seats, right? Everyone (even I agree rightfully so) got mad about the rear passengers not having one.
My 2018 has them on the front and rear. I love that car. I wish Elon want a Nazi because I wouldn't have the shit EV I bought when my wife took over the Tesla.
Here is a German YouTuber showing how you should add emergency pulls to the model 3 because it doesn't have them.
https://youtube.com/shorts/QFLq7-wIGCo?is=xzWnVqoox6WpqGrE
Crazy, but that is also not a 3/Y, probably an X, maybe an S? The trunk of the 3/Y doesn't open into the cabin.
Agreed it is/would be stupid to make a car like that. But my 3 is the best car I have ever driven.
You are misremembering.
Here are two more German videos specifically labeled Model 3.
https://youtube.com/shorts/4_nlw-hk-8A?is=XE5xl9olG1h1zLvy
https://youtu.be/itiE8rhQSng?is=xtkl6YXCelQ54Cmu
There is no manual rear door release on the door handle like the front doors have.
Wow you are absolutely right, no emergency release in the back. I had to actually go touch it.
I apologize for my ignorance, thank you for forcing me to know, I will figure out how to add these release handles.
Still the best car I have ever driven. Fucking Nazi ruins everything.
You know. I'm on crack, must be a model Y because of the door handles. And I have never messed with one because musk was off the deep end before it came out.
A car that maybe you (or your passengers) can't get out of and might die is different from a car that's basically a bomb on wheels.
It’s a shame because my wife and I are saving up for an EV but I’m worried by the time we’re ready the models won’t be there. They’re already cutting the Hyundai Ioniq 6. Our top contender.
Buy used. They will still be serviced at repair shops and you can get a 2year old EV for half the price of new.
Companies are scrambling to start making more hybrids and EVs now with gas prices so high and EVs in such high demand.
Y'know if they hadn't killed off all of their fuel efficient sedan models they'd have a fuel efficient small car to offer the people shocked by gas prices...
People really weren't buying those though. It's a hot take, but I think they made the right choice on that one. They followed it up with the wrong choice to not develop hybrid wagons/cross overs. I don't think anyone saw the return of the minivan.
People stopped buying sedans because the car industry made a concerted effort to demarket them. They've been pushing SUVs for nearly 30 years, trying really hard to get people to stop buying sedans and were too successful. Now there's a fuel crisis and no sedans in production (from American brands at least) so the manufacturers are getting caught with their pants down again
I do wonder if the fleet market is sufficient to keep both sedans and vans in production, since each makes a very competent fleet vehicle platform for different usecases, see the venerable Crown Victoria for example
I'm not sure. I think they were reacting to buyers, not the other way around. I remember the late 90s and early 2000s. SUVs and crossovers were relatively new and exploding in popularity. Partly as a back lash against the "soccer mom" minivan stereotype. I never liked them, but I also never liked sedans. I'm definitely a wagon guy. It's sad that they all became crossovers.
The last 5-10 years have been primarily reacting to buyers (and choosing not to market sedans more) but there was a specific concerted push to change market opinions toward SUVs and SUV-like vehicles, so I'm inclined to instead blame marketing with a healthy sprinkling of availability.
The last time I bought a sedan I really had to go out of my way to find the only one on the lot that happened to be in my budget and in my desired age/mileage/mechanical shape, and I happened to test drive all 5 sedans that they had on that lot. If I were indifferent towards the body/chasis style I probably never would've looked at the sedans just by pure math of there being easily a hundred or more SUVs, a smattering of trucks and vans and that was about it
Rivian?