https://www.forbes.com/sites/brookecrothers/2018/04/29/tesla-week-brutal-model-3-teardown-analysis-driverless-model-s-harley-davidson-goes-electric/#68e9f2243fce Tesla Week: Brutal Model 3 Teardown Analysis, Driverless Model S, Harley Davidson Goes Electric Apr 29, 2018 Brooke Crothers , Contributor
[image https://blogs-images.forbes.com/brookecrothers/files/2018/04/model-3-century-city-04-18-edit-1200x900.jpg Model 3 in Century City, Los Angeles showroom, April 2018. Credit: Brooke Crothers video https://youtu.be/sXls4cdEv7c Tesla Model S driver caught sleeping at the wheel while on Autopilot - Electrek ] The Model 3 was meticulously reduced to spare parts this week, garnering a lot of headlines. Other news: a "driverless" Model S and more worries about Elon Musk's attention span. (For the week ending April 29, 2018) How do you define Autopilot? Remember this video (below) of a Model S driver taking a power nap in traffic? Well, this week we have news from the U.K. of a driver trying to hop over and get some quality time in the passenger seat. Bhavesh Patel...switched on the autopilot function and swapped to the passenger seat for maximum comfort. After kicking up his feet and putting his hands behind his head, he left both the steering wheel and the foot controls entirely neglected. --Tesla Driver Banned From Highway After Being Caught In The Passenger Seat, Jalopnik, April 27, 2018 [ https://jalopnik.com/tesla-driver-banned-from-highway-after-being-caught-in-1825622869 ]. Model 3 teardown: the results of a 6,000 man hour study of the Model 3 [ https://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2018/04/25/teslas-brilliance-and-inexperience-revealed-in-benchmarking-study-of-model-3/#659fde7667c3 ] were disclosed this week, evincing both its brilliance and lack thereof. "We are shocked by the advanced integration and advanced manufacturing techniques" used in the electronic control center, Chief Executive Sandy Munro told members of the Automotive Press Association on Wednesday, Forbes reported this week. "This is the brilliance of the Tesla Model 3," he said. Yet Munro was dumbfounded by other aspects of the vehicle, particularly the mostly steel skeleton...which was sloppily joined together using a potpourri of robotic welding techniques, helping to explain the Model 3's ill-fitting body panels. --Tesla's Simultaneous Brilliance And Incompetence Revealed In Teardown Of Model 3, Forbes, April 25, 2018 [ https://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2018/04/25/teslas-brilliance-and-inexperience-revealed-in-benchmarking-study-of-model-3/#1c2abb2e67c3 ]. And this report from Motor Trend said: The 2,170 cylindrical Panasonic cells in three modules are assembled with remarkable robotic precision. Each individual cell is glued to another and to the cooling channels. A unique low-heat ultrasonic aluminum wire-bonding process connects each cell to the cell-voltage balancing circuitry, which is also exceptionally precise—Munro measured a mere 0.2 millivolt variance between cells. 'That’s staggeringly close,' Munro says, 'far beyond what anybody else can do.' --Tesla Model 3 Teardown: deconstructed, Motor Trend, April 25, 2018 [ http://www.motortrend.com/news/tesla-model-3-teardown-deconstructed-3/ ]. Elon Musk overextended: It's a concern that crops up often and CNBC this week gave a rundown of the litany of projects that Musk has his hands in. He was juggling SpaceX, Tesla, SolarCity and the Hyperloop project...Toward the end of 2015, he co-founded a research group called OpenAI... In 2016, Musk founded Neuralink...and the Boring Company... That was also the year Tesla made a bid for SolarCity. The deal was done by early 2017. So by then, Musk had a say in seven major projects. --Elon Musk has a lot going on, and it may be coming at the expense of Tesla, CNBC, April 26, 2018 [ https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/26/elon-musks-big-ambitions-may-be-killing-tesla.html ] ... [© forbes.com] https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-explains-model-3-build-munro-teardown-analysis/ Tesla explains Model 3 build in response to Munro's teardown analysis April 28, 2018 During his first video of the vehicle, Munro ... took ... issue with the way the Model 3 was assembled ... was “terrible” in terms of build quality, and several of its design elements, such its lack of ... latches on the rear doors ... Tesla Model 3: Inside & Out - Autoline After Hours 417 ... https://youtu.be/CpCrkO1x-Qo https://cleantechnica.com/2018/04/29/munro-tesla-model-3-teardown-report-provokes-tesla/ Munro Tesla Model 3 Teardown Report Provokes Tesla April 29th, 2018 While there's always room for refinement of cost and mass, which we are already improving, electric cars have unique safety requirements to prevent intrusion into the battery, and Model 3 was also designed to meet the latest small overlap front crash requirements that other reference vehicles may not have. “We stand ... + https://www.electrive.com/2018/04/24/jaguar-i-pace-receives-royal-approval/ Jaguar I-Pace receives royal approval Apr 24, 2018 None other than Prince Charles has taken a spin in Jaguar's first and only electric car, the I-Pace. The EV spearheaded a vehicle procession from Buckingham Palace to St James's Palace for a meeting with UK Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday. 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