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Rather a different car to top up down by the lakes! I still find their quietness a problem! Just the faint whisper of wheels and they're right up there ready to knock you over! 😁
The Tesla Model 3 first arrived in the UK in 2019. It’s the cheapest Tesla you can buy (Ahem, if you think that 52k is cheap!).
According to Tesla, it’s a 100% battery electric vehicle (BEV), and the combination of its price, styling, performance, and advanced technology has already made it a highly desirable electric 5 seat saloon car to drive.
Think I'll stick with my Mercedes for the foreseeable future! 🤔 Which reminds me ... I filled up with petrol in the week between Christmas and New Year ... today I added £30 worth! 😂
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Rumor has it that Tesla is not going to fully present its affordable new car, the Model 3, in full next month. But this is something we will easy confirm or deny in March 31, when Tesla has confirmed it will present the car and start taking deposits for it.
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On my way to Sydney yesterday I called in on my son before heading down to the impressive Newcastle Foreshore where we were to have lunch to celebrate his wife's birthday at the Signal Box Restaurant.
On the way he demonstrated the Tesla’s ability to steer itself, recognise stop signs, red lights and many other features too numerous to mention. The crazy acceleration capability of the car was also a bit scary.
Some time ago he purchased the full self driving box of tricks, not cheap but a lot cheaper than that capability will be in the near future.
The new features coming to Tesla cars keep rolling out and every time I take a ride in the car it has new capability by way of regular computer updates.
With parking at an absolute premium in the foreshore area on a beautiful sunny Newcastle Sunday he pulled into this EV charging station very close to the restaurant where he could add charge to the car while we dined. This was particularly advantageous as no other parking spots were available anywhere nearby.
One capability of the Tesla that my son explained was that his car, driverless, is capable at a command from his phone of driving itself out of the carpark and picking him up at at another location. My understanding however is that current road rules in Australia only permit this to happen in public or commercial carparks.
He also explained that the Tesla is capable of auto parking itself in very tight parking situations, a capability he said that is superior to his physically parking the vehicle himself.
While I was at the restaurant my son pointed out the black poles along the foreshore and explained their purpose.
Newcastle City Council has installed these poles with the plan to take Newcastle into the cyber future. The poles record video for security of course but they are capable of supporting so much more than electronic surveillance alone.
He explained that the poles are capable of collecting an amazing range of data, including pedestrian movement patterns, wind speed, rain monitoring, traffic flow and many other applications which I am not knowledgeable enough about to elaborate here at this time.
Forward thinking Newcastle City Council will make the data available to specific users who develop applications capable of utilising it for their own commercial purposes. By way of example he explained that The Signal Box Cafe might consider developing an app using the city council data relating to volume of traffic in the immediate vicinity. This data could be used to anticipate clientele using the cafe which in turn could enable better employment and stock management.
Another application which could evolve quickly is an available parking space app. Newcastle already has a digital parking payment system in place. Of course longer term its likely passenger transport services like Uber will become much more widely utilised in efforts to reduce traffic volumes in congested city centres.
Newcastle will be a forerunner in the deployment of all these technologies which may well revolutionise business practices in ways that are to date not yet thought of.
2 years and 15 days later, I finally got my hand on a Model 3. I waited in line on 3/31/2016 unbeknownst to me of how the Model 3 would look. I just knew that Elon Musk and his team would come through for a truly affordable Electric car that happens to be stylish looking and fast.
A $1000 deposit later, I was in line with about 400,000 of my closet friends for this car. When it was unofficial unveiled, there was so much hype. Hype is.a good thing and a bad thing because Tesla has been distrupting the automobile industry as a whole.
Fast forward 2 years later and now I was able to configure the car.4 weeks later, I went to the Fremont delivery center to pick it up.
I love this car! Some of you may know I have had car changes as often as one gets a new cell phone, but simply put, this is the best car I have ever driven. A fun fact is that, It is already the most popular selling car of Q1 2018 for the small and mid size luxury segment.
Today, I saw the sun setting at a certain degree that happens to align with a spot I wanted to shoot pictures at for a while.
My wife and I drove down here and luckily a car or two was leaving as the sun was setting so we parked that way and got a few snaps in. The buildings in the back you see are of San Francisco skyline.