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Tesla 'Cannot Guarantee' Roadster Reservation Holders Will Ever Get a Car (www.thedrive.com)
submitted 1 week ago by [A, M] to c/TooDumbToImagine
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/1401610

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[–] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I mean it is possible, as was shown in a demonstration McMurtry did. In fact, I would think it’s more difficult to use magnets to do that. I’d believe this is just a giant fan car.

There’s no way that it gets more than like 3 minutes of runtime from a full charge with that downforce mode on, especially the flight model with all the extra weight of the thrusters and compressed gas tanks.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

    Tanks are probably carbon fiber, and the other parts are likely super light too.

    They did likely add a special secondary tank and gut most of the rest of the cars that 'flew'.... I did read somewhere that they only had 1 seat.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    so they say that the planned model you could theoretically buy “by invite only” with all the flying features would be a one seater. The model that did the demo was probably much much lighter than you could make a salable car. I do not think that it will be possible to kickflip a car that is gonna weigh around 3500 lbs. my guess is that enough battery and copv tank to perform the demos was probably less than 1000 lbs of car.

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