Tesla Model 3 Announced - Game Changer?

[FaisalJ]

Tesla Model 3 official announcement last night. Well...why would Joe Public want a normal internal combustion engined car now?

I think this is going to be an important car. The first "affordable" all electric car that anyone would actually want to own. In fact, I'm so convinced that I bought some Tesla shares recently!

- $35k
- 0-60 in < 6 seconds
- 4WD and faster versions available
- 215 mile range
- Looks pretty good
- 5 doors

I think I'd get one, as a second car - to balance the big V8 I'll have sat on my drive

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2 ... priced-car

[R4llye]

Does look pretty smart - Apart from where the front grille should be. But I don't know if that's because I am conditioned to think a front grille of some sort should be there.

The range would still be a factor for me. In any petrol driven car the limitation is the person (or persons) ability to drive it all day long with 5 - 10 minute breaks to throw petrol at it every now and then. With the Tesla its 30(?) mins for half a charge from a Super charger (75mins for a full charge) so would still need to plan journey's pretty carefully around the limited number of charging points, even if they double the number as they claim to.

As a second city car, in a city with plenty of charging points I can see the attraction. Living anywhere north and East or Northampton and remotely rural (currently) makes them alittle bit redundant for my liking. Definitely a status car still - but I guess that's half the point of them?

Someone at work has put her £1000 down on one, but she does about 6 miles a year in her Fiat 500.

[neilparf]

It's a game changer. For sure.

I get the Petrol vs Lectric but something has and will change over combustion...

Love the sans-grille look.

Model X - those doors are intelligent! https://www.teslamotors.com/en_GB/modelx

[IanH755]

The Model 3 would be my perfect Commute car, a whole week of travel on just a single charge but that 42" looking monitor they have in the centre console looks awful.

[MikeFish]

I saw a video the other day where they changed the entire battery back in less than 2 minutes, comaparing it to how long it takes to fill the petrol tank on a Audi.
that would be a game changer; the ability to pull into any petrol station and change the battery pack for the price of a charge. Unlikely to happen in the near future or at all, but if other car companies stadardised the battery pack fitment meaning many different electric cars could have their battery packs changed using the same machine then it could really be the way forward and get around this whole half hour to charge issue.