Rivian?

The Model X had it under a speaker cover. The model 3 didn't have it listed in the user manual. Fans discovered under a rubber door pocket cover, you could remove a flushed mounted plastic tab and fish out a pull wire to open the door.

It wasn't until 2024 that Model 3's got a door release.

Buy used. They will still be serviced at repair shops and you can get a 2year old EV for half the price of new.

Strange. Maybe it's a Europe thing, but my 2020(?) M3 has a little mechanical lever you can pull to open.

E: both front and back like nop'a 2018 model 3 in the response below

I think the vacuum downforce could definitely be useful for track/stunt driving

As long as it's dry. And there's no pebbles or loose debris or sand on the track....

Y'know, if he had any kind of faith in his product, ol' Droopy Tits would get in it himself, fly it around a little. I mean, he tells everyone he's some sort of a genius engineer. Doubtless he can figure out how to fly it within a few seconds. Surely no problems would come from that.

I genuinely can't wait for a fat cat to buy one of these, try and do the flip with him in the driver's seat, it partially roll, end up careening sideways into the side of a building, and finishing with a lithium grilled pancaked executive 😙 👌

it's not a flying car. it's a car that can fall with style.

if you're buying the dip, that's you

I have a great idea! Self Flying rocket Tesla trucks for everyone!

Your neighbor did what while riding a flying rocket Tesla truck????

Ahhhh! Taxis! Yeah! The Tesla trucks will be flying to your house at 5 thousand miles per hour to take you to Costco and take the kids to the movies....

Oh wait what!? The Tesla chopped off how many hea.. Before crashing right into a nun travel van full of nuns and small puppies!!??

Ah okay military vehicles and for police force! That's it!

Supercars are some of the most impractal things on the planet, yet people buy them all the time.

A supercar that can briefly fly? If that actually makes it to production, people will absolutely buy one.

Supercars in general have no practical purpose, and people buy them. Being cool is the entire sales pitch.

It's neat but it's also already been done. The McMurtry Speirling had the tech five years ago.

In the front seats, right? Everyone (even I agree rightfully so) got mad about the rear passengers not having one.

No but that’s on top of the year over year losses.

They’re down 19.03% YTD and down 26.62% from the peak in December last year.

That's what I thought, the pressure vessels to get lift for a heavy electric car for just one second is a bomb extremely sensitive to crashes.

That could not be legal on the roads.

Fucking Nazis.

as with everything elon, he bought the company, not founded it, despite being a "founder". He is basically edison. a business man, not an engineer.

Lots of coders on lemmy. Anyone want to make one of those tracker websites for how much money Elon musk has lost based on his stocks decreasing in value? I have a feeling it will be relevant soon.

Business con man.

Companies are scrambling to start making more hybrids and EVs now with gas prices so high and EVs in such high demand.

stock market values aren't real so why bother?

this is very true, yes. He's in the business of conning people.

Are you fucking kidding?

Targets? I lightheartedly suggest someone get an e-bike, and suddenly you think they're a "target"?

The fact that someone has a wife means that they can't buy an e-bike on the off chance that they might have kids?

Fuck, man. What the hell is wrong with you? What the hell is wrong with your country. People are so car-brained that merely light-heartedly suggesting an e-bike is considered an attack? You have some serious fucking issues.

My 2018 has them on the front and rear. I love that car. I wish Elon want a Nazi because I wouldn't have the shit EV I bought when my wife took over the Tesla.

As soon as I saw this thing boost forward using rocket thrust both my bf and I said "if this is ever on the road everyone near this thing dies."

Because some fucking brain dead idiot is going to rocket boost, kill himself from the speed, everyone behind him from the backblast, and everyone in front of him from the giant expensive bullet that was just created.

This is never going to get on the roads, and if it does, it'll be only for police and military, if it's not relegated to an expensive toy for the ultra rich they can't even drive on the road.

Well he sure as hell does not have a friend in me...

Doesn't really look much better if you look at the week though. +4.5% in after market trading, then it all wiped out the next day.

More!

It looked more like a choreographed car dance routine than anything else; given how fast and precise those thrusters need to be, how does a human even control it?

Retirement is also just a phantasy

yes but it's also only a few hours on the x-axis, so still quite a steep road :)

It's real. The way they get their money to spend is by taking loans out with the stock as collateral. So when it goes down he has less money to spend fucking with society.

Last I knew like 1/3 of the population would pass out or such experiencing those g forces. Aka no person can be trusted to drive the device past performing the possibly brain damaging device.

It was an impressive tech demo. You know that every idiot who saw this thinks to himself how awesome he would look, jumping over the car in front of him. The ultimate road rage power fantasy.

Love the meme.

Also, there has to be a limit as to how low the stock can go until the lenders start asking for payments or more collateral. I'm salivating over the thought that that limit is breached one day and Musk and his buddies get a cold shower. The stock price might have to go pretty low though, but there's a chance and I'm rooting for it.

Roadster is definitely coming out, but 100% not going to have a thruster fit into a car, no one should listen to Empty Husk when he said that.

Yeah if you live in literally any country except Germany, lol. Autobahn goes brrrr.

With Nazis! In Space ! unfortunately.

He knows his audience. He sold the cyberfuck as zombie Apokalypse truck that can just dtive over normal cars.

I think you are misremembering. I triple checked and there is nothing in the German Manual for rear door release in a 2020 Model 3.

Here is a German YouTuber showing how you can make your Tesla safer by adding a pull to the hidden door release.

https://youtube.com/shorts/QFLq7-wIGCo

Here is a German YouTuber showing how you should add emergency pulls to the model 3 because it doesn't have them.

https://youtube.com/shorts/QFLq7-wIGCo?is=xzWnVqoox6WpqGrE

Youre telling me that cancelling 2 of its models and introducing this model, which is priced around s $200,000 and will probably never see the road as is because of safety reasons, will make the company stock go down?

Eh, even then I think your typical German sedan would be better on the autobahn than a supercar.

Maybe this has been explained, but how was the car able to drive upside-down before the thrusters had been activated? It's not like it was going fast enough for its momentum to hold it there.

I thought those submarine incident already taught those snobby high ass of group to not ride dangerous thing nor making another one , but hey if there are customer want to spend big bucks to off themselves , it is a market to tap.

Elmo faked a tech demo showing a new car that can drive upside down thanks to vacuum suction and can fly thanks to compressed air rockets.

Fine print: the car that goes on sale is not able to do that, only a very limited run that is sold to select customers at an unknown price (read: they don't sell it)

It's like if a robot company does a tech demo where a dancing robot is actually a human wearing a costume, or a bartending robot is actually remotely controlled by a human with a VR headset

Someone did the math and it is possible if they hollowed out the car.

That demo was almost literally jumping the shark, just need to drop a blahaj in the middle