Tesla Week: Brutal Model 3 Teardown Analysis, Driverless Model S, Harley Davidson Goes Electric

Credit: Brooke Crothers

Model 3 in Century City, Los Angeles showroom, April 2018.

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.

Model 3 teardown: the results of a 6,000 man hour study of the Model 3 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.

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.

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

Credit: Harley Davidson

Harley-Davidson Project LiveWire concept.

If Tesla made an electric motorcycle would it look like the Harley-Davidson prototype? Those hypotheticals aside, the Street (via Electrek) interviewed Harley-Davidson CEO Matthew Levatich about its future electric motorcycle.

We are progressing to that plan and we are excited about that product. We continue to see electric vehicles as a tremendous opportunity. These motorcycles are easier to ride than bicycles, they lend themselves to urban environments where our product is maybe less targeted or less suited. They are suited to a generation of people that don't have the mechanical depth of experience that maybe boomers had with manual transmissions and clutches.

--Harley-Davidson CEO: Bold Actions to Boost Performance Coming This Summer, The Street, April 24, 2018

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Credit: Brooke Crothers

Model 3 in Century City, Los Angeles showroom, April 2018.

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.

Model 3 teardown: the results of a 6,000 man hour study of the Model 3 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.

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.

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

Credit: Harley Davidson

Harley-Davidson Project LiveWire concept.

If Tesla made an electric motorcycle would it look like the Harley-Davidson prototype? Those hypotheticals aside, the Street (via Electrek) interviewed Harley-Davidson CEO Matthew Levatich about its future electric motorcycle.

We are progressing to that plan and we are excited about that product. We continue to see electric vehicles as a tremendous opportunity. These motorcycles are easier to ride than bicycles, they lend themselves to urban environments where our product is maybe less targeted or less suited. They are suited to a generation of people that don't have the mechanical depth of experience that maybe boomers had with manual transmissions and clutches.

--Harley-Davidson CEO: Bold Actions to Boost Performance Coming This Summer, The Street, April 24, 2018

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