Tesla- 8 year warranty

[zilo]

Driving this beast you squeeze the throttle and it pulls away.

To stop/slow down you back the foot off and it regenerates....all the way to almost a complete stop.

The only time i used the brake was to hold it at the lights...it had "creep mode" on which simulated an auto trans in drive mode.

The tacho goes into reverse to show the amount of energy going back into the batteries.

The speedo console is all AMG C63 stuff (mercedes is a big tesla shareholder)

As you drive along the console changes themes according to what info you've selected.

Real wow factor stuff for sure.


Why in the hell don't we make these in Australia...

June 12, 2014 All Our Patents now Belong To all


By Elon Musk, CEO TAGS: Customers / Model S /
498 comments

Yesterday, there was a wall of Tesla patents in the lobby of our Palo Alto headquarters. That is no longer the case. They have been removed, in the spirit of the open source movement, for the advancement of electric vehicle technology.
Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then lay intellectual property landmines behind us to inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to that goal. Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.


When I started out with my first company, Zip2, I thought patents were a good thing and worked hard to obtain them. And maybe they were good long ago, but too often these days they serve merely to stifle progress, entrench the positions of giant corporations and enrich those in the legal profession, rather than the actual inventors. After Zip2, when I realized that receiving a patent really just meant that you bought a lottery ticket to a lawsuit, I avoided them whenever possible.


At Tesla, however, we felt compelled to create patents out of concern that the big car companies would copy our technology and then use their massive manufacturing, sales and marketing power to overwhelm Tesla. We couldn’t have been more wrong. The unfortunate reality is the opposite: electric car programs (or programs for any vehicle that doesn’t burn hydrocarbons) at the major manufacturers are small to non-existent, constituting an average of far less than 1% of their total vehicle sales.


At best, the large automakers are producing electric cars with limited range in limited volume. Some produce no zero emission cars at all.


Given that annual new vehicle production is approaching 100 million per year and the global fleet is approximately 2 billion cars, it is impossible for Tesla to build electric cars fast enough to address the carbon crisis. By the same token, it means the market is enormous. Our true competition is not the small trickle of non-Tesla electric cars being produced, but rather the enormous flood of gasoline cars pouring out of the world’s factories every day.
We believe that Tesla, other companies making electric cars, and the world would all benefit from a common, rapidly-evolving technology platform.



Technology leadership is not defined by patents, which history has repeatedly shown to be small protection indeed against a determined competitor, but rather by the ability of a company to attract and motivate the world’s most talented engineers. We believe that applying the open source philosophy to our patents will strengthen rather than diminish Tesla’s position in this regard.

[Cashie]

Originally Posted by zilo

Why in the hell don't we make these in Australia...

I wrote to Elon Musk advising him of the opportunities about to unfold here in Australia when Ford and Holden stop manufacturing. He has stated he wants another factory for RHD manufacturing..

[mik]

Zilo , i don't suppose you got a look at a service book that shows the maintenance routine ?
That would be very interesting.

[zilo]

Originally Posted by mik

Zilo , i don't suppose you got a look at a service book that shows the maintenance routine ?
That would be very interesting.

Shid yeah, I should have asked for that.

I will send off a request to the Australian rep.

[zilo]

Originally Posted by Cashie

I wrote to Elon Musk advising him of the opportunities about to unfold here in Australia when Ford and Holden stop manufacturing. He has stated he wants another factory for RHD manufacturing..

I would work on the production line for free.

[Franco Cozzo]

I'm keen to see the electrics on these things. I got to have a bit of a look at a Hybrid a few years ago.

[Cashie]

Originally Posted by Big Damo

I'm keen to see the electrics on these things. I got to have a bit of a look at a Hybrid a few years ago.

Not a lot to see, most of it is under the floor and on the rear axle.

[zilo]

Originally Posted by mik

Zilo , i don't suppose you got a look at a service book that shows the maintenance routine ?
That would be very interesting.

I got a reply to my email re-service schedule on the Tesla.


Thanks for your query.

We don’t have service books available at the moment as it’s an “optional service”.

A typical “optional service” in America would consist of checking and potentially replacing your brake pads, rotors, wiper blades and performing a wheel alignment.


The car is continually connected online to the factory, we alert you if any warranty work is required.


Hope this helps.

[XW-BAXR6T]

I would be interested in test driving this car, this sort of technology should of been available to public years ago.

[mik]

It certainly wouldn't hurt to have less people in the world using that precious fossil fuel.