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> how easy is it to change what this casting machine produces? Swapping dies takes a few hours. Making new dies takes many months and costs some fraction of a
by hwillis 6y ago
> how easy is it to change what this casting machine produces?
Swapping dies takes a few hours. Making new dies takes many months and costs some fraction of a million dollars.
> I am curious how long they will go without changing the outward design of the 3 or Y.
I really hope they make a car that looks different soon. Branding is just SO deeply engrained in the car industry; I think they're damaged by people considering the S and 3 basically exchangeable. They should really have different styling just to make people feel like they have more than one option in buying a Tesla. It makes the number of competing non-Tesla choices seem twice as large.
- Denvercoder9 6y ago> I really hope they make a car that looks different soon. The Cybertruck definitely looks different.
- hwillis 6y agosure, but it's also full of weird gimmicky shit so who knows when it'll show up, if it gets scaled. I'm thinking more about things like the roadster. Even for being relatively similar, the accents are all more aggressive and it creates a very distinct look that the 3XY absolutely do not. And then the most frustrating thing is that Musk clearly does not intend to make very many of them! He's treating it like an ultra halo car, when just having a convertible version of the 3 with a slightly different body would make the psychological choice to buy a Tesla far easier. Like, people don't even have to buy it. Just by existing it would make Tesla look more competitive- it just needs to seem like an accessible choice. The roadster would be perfect, but it's too expensive and full of unnecessary shit for no reason, and that totally ruins the benefit! It epitomizes what frustrates me with Musk- a great core idea, but deeply crippled by goofy whims.
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