Yet, they weren't smart enough to address it before allowing very influential reviewers to take the vehicles and release videos stating it's a problem? I'm not saying they ignored the issue, I'm thinking they did their best with the resources and time they had available. In the end, it may not be good enough. Time will tell I guess.
It's been a mix so far. Some of the reviews were charging at a rate consistent with Ford's "10-80% in 45 minutes" pace (which would take 82 kW avg). But others didn't, like Tommy's.
When Model 3 was ALREADY SOLD to first customers, it had very poor charging rates. If you remember, there was a guy You You Xue who went around cities giving people test rides. He would arrive at super chargers almost empty and yet get extremely slow charge rates.
If that's the barometer, then we're all in trouble. I don't give a sh$t about how poor the Tesla was when the Model 3 was released. That kind of 'perspective' is irrelevant. What should matter to all of us is how efficient the MME is when we get them. I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt that the pre-production test models had challenges we may not experience. I truly hope that's the case.
My $0.02 is that tires are replaceable, I assume they are up to the task but even if I have to replace them more frequently on a heavy vehicle it's likely to be offset by the reduced cost of ownership on the motor/powertrain.
It's an absolute fact of life that no matter how much testing you do, once customers get software/hardware things go wrong. I have no idea how many lines of code Ford had to write for all the systems and subsystems in the Mach E, but it has to be in the millions. I lead a small team that writes an analyzer for digital TV broadcasts, and our codebase is in excess of 200k lines. No matter how much our QA team tests, every time we go to a plugfest or integrate with other vendor's products we find issues with interoperability.
100 million is still in the millions ?
Simplifying the code base is likely a major ongoing effort for Ford, GM, Toyota, VW, etc. It always makes me chuckle when people say "Telsa is a software company, but old car company X isn't. They'll struggle with OTA".
NO, I'm not. But nice try
Edit: I went back trying to find his trip. He has a facebook page on this. the gut posts so much, it takes a while to scroll down to posts 2 years ago when he was in the US part of it. I will spare folks the trouble. A few snippets from his US-part of the trip.
