We'll see if this continues, which would be good. I thought it was just that Tesla finally is able to fulfill its orders from a year or two so the stats are showing this bump. Also predictably Tesla has decreased available options (high level autonomous driving) and raised the price of the base model. Their finances are still in question.
And you know what is funny about that? Loads of them immediately get put on auction sites. Seriously, it is crazy. We are a dealer here, and we (my boss) is always on dealer only auction sites looking for specific cars for customers, and 3s are all over the place. So the damn may have been breached, but how much water is behind it and how much saturation the land under it will take remains to be seen.
It was crazy. The Puebla plant was so overwhelmed with NB production that VAG had to bump the North American Golf assembly back to Wolfsburg, and eventually to San Paulo to keep up.
That's a great anecdote. I wonder how many of those Model 3's may have been sold by owners who wanted to upgrade to the AWD or performance model once those became available. There definitely is a craze around the Model 3. Those who want one REALLY want one. Many people who would normally be looking at $20-25k new cars are stretching their finances to get them @ $50k+ . I really don't see the demand abating anytime soon, but I guess anything is possible.And you know what is funny about that? Loads of them immediately get put on auction sites. Seriously, it is crazy. We are a dealer here, and we (my boss) is always on dealer only auction sites looking for specific cars for customers, and 3s are all over the place. So the damn may have been breached, but how much water is behind it and how much saturation the land under it will take remains to be seen.
The same thing happened in '98 when the New Beetle debuted. We had people following the transport trucks down the highway to the dealer, sometimes for 100 miles, to get one. I put clutches in several brand new ones the new owners fried because they didn't really know how to drive a stick, but HAD to have one anyway.
Now you cannot hardly give a NB away, and its successor is going out of production in a few months due to lack of sales. I suspect Volkswagen's EV retro Microbus thing will enjoy a similar flash in the pan, but may usher in an increase in general sales and a trend in that direction. Because the '98 NB sales did get a LOT of traffic into Volkswagen showrooms, much of which resulted in other models being sold.
We'll see.
I wonder how many of those Tesla 3s were ordered on speculation. There was no product on market and I remember reading an article or two that speculated that there would be a market upcharge on the 3s. Now that they are hitting the streets in decent numbers, the speculators may have decided to dump them.
Speaking a flash in the pan. Check this out. https://denver.craigslist.org/cto/d/2004-volkswagen-phaeton/6711355372.htmlAnd you know what is funny about that? Loads of them immediately get put on auction sites. Seriously, it is crazy. We are a dealer here, and we (my boss) is always on dealer only auction sites looking for specific cars for customers, and 3s are all over the place. So the damn may have been breached, but how much water is behind it and how much saturation the land under it will take remains to be seen.
The same thing happened in '98 when the New Beetle debuted. We had people following the transport trucks down the highway to the dealer, sometimes for 100 miles, to get one. I put clutches in several brand new ones the new owners fried because they didn't really know how to drive a stick, but HAD to have one anyway.
Now you cannot hardly give a NB away, and its successor is going out of production in a few months due to lack of sales. I suspect Volkswagen's EV retro Microbus thing will enjoy a similar flash in the pan, but may usher in an increase in general sales and a trend in that direction. Because the '98 NB sales did get a LOT of traffic into Volkswagen showrooms, much of which resulted in other models being sold.
We'll see.
I don't go by popular thinking. I go with consensus. There's a difference. Outside of Nuclear and Solar I'm no where near qualified to have my own opinion. I'm humble enough not to tell my doctor I know XYZ better... if I don't like what I hear I don't judge for myself (not qualified)... I get a second opinion.
Should we be humble or watching for bias in a field we know next to nothing about? Can't have it both ways.
... The max 'well-wheels' thermodynamic efficiency of H2 is <half that of a BEV and the additional embedded energy of the battery in a BEV is recovered after ~50k miles... what's the rest of the picture?
Economics and Physics. It would cost >3x as much per mile and use ~10x as much land area.
Uh, if you actually read the article, the Audi process actually uses curtailed renewable energy:
True; I should have said 'minimized' instead of 'lost'... a great deal of curtailment is a result of transmission constraints. EVs help solve this by being very distributed.
Thermodynamics, last time I checked, does not limit the percentage (up to a theoretical 99% or so) of energy transfer. Saying EV tech "will" do anything in the future and ignoring competing tech, however inefficient currently, is disingenuous and prejudicial. Energy that isn't being used can produce something valuable no matter the percentage efficiency and be less expensive or more expensive given possible technological advancements, or even differ in unrelated convenience factors (Audi is right to think synthetic diesel can be very convenient if it works).
??? How does this qualify as 'everything' ???
Saying EV tech "will" do anything in the future and ignoring competing tech, however inefficient currently, is disingenuous and prejudicial.
Will you ever be able to carry ~200 miles of range in the equivalent of a 5gal jerry can? No. Will you ever be able to add ~200 miles of charge to a battery in <5 minutes? Probably not. Are these necessary to viability? No.
Transmission lines are above ground in part for that reason. Line losses average ~12%.
LOL; Concern for the effect of CO2 saved diesel in passenger vehicles. It's NOx and smog that's killing it. Two very different effects...
Brilliant! It is so true what he says.
That's why I don't have health insurance... or wear a seatbelt... we all die eventually so what's the point?
ICE is a LOT more efficient when you live in cold areas and use the waste heat for cabin heating.
ICEV's are still far less efficient than EV's in those conditions. It is precisely because of that inefficiency that there is so much easily recoverable waste heat. They do have the advantage of having their range less impacted by cold weather/cabin heating. EV's on the other hand can be warmed/defrosted while still plugged in to minimize range loss.
