Sunday, April 3, 2016

Tesla Model 3 abandoned door hatchback – a design flaw? – Auto Motor & Sport

It was not really from the beginning, but here looks tailgate on Tesla Model 3. No large hatchback door, as the Model S. the video further down this page shows the hatch opening. You can fast forward to 3:27 to see how the tailgate works.

  

Success is a word is not quite enough to describe how the electric car enthusiasts have received the new Tesla Model 3. During the first 24 hours pre-ordered 180,000 cars.

The orders show no sign of slowing. Last Elon Musk tweeted, for about an hour ago, he told me that the number of pre-ordered Tesla Model 3 were up to 253,000 cars. Which actually quite incredible, for two days.

You can convert orders at an average price of about $ 42,000 per car, according to Elon Musk way to see it. We multiply with the latest figure at 253,000 cars corresponding to a value of incredible $ 10.6 billion – SEK 86.5 billion. This success is reflected in Tesla’s share price at the beginning of next week is not a wild guess.

Some criticized the Tesla Model 3 for the front lacked conventional grill. An electric car does not have the same need for cooling as a car with a combustion engine (where three quarters of the energy is heat loss) and may actually be no large air intakes in the front.

Tesla Model S has a right discreet barbecue in the nose and on the Model X is the “grill” reduced to a horizontal line between the headlights. Model 3 takes the plunge and have no grill at all, only a narrow air intake at the bottom on the front.

But the front is not the great design glitch in Model 3. It was almost taken for granted that the Model 3 would get the same practical hatchback door that the Model S. But that did not happen.

as we saw during the presentation of Model 3, the windshield high assignments on the roof. It promises to provide a large opening the tailgate, but it appears that the glass ceiling is fixed. The relatively small trunk sitting instead of a pair of hinges which are mounted a bit up on the C-pillar.

The opening to the luggage compartment are therefore not great. In all honesty, can you say that there is clearly worse than other sedans in the middle class. Audi A5 Sportback and the BMW 3 Series Gran Turismo are two exceptions, both the hatchback door.

Tesla founder Elon Musk has promised to Model 3 will get the luggage space in the class-leading size. What counted in the luggage liters is not impossible, then there is room even in the front door – just like the Model S. But some bigger stuff from the furniture store must not place with the Tesla Model 3. What do you readers – is the small trunk reason enough to unsubscribe Model 3?

  

Tesla has not bid on as many pictures as yet and this video image is the only one we found on the trunk and opening. Lite “letterbox-esteem” but it’s not entirely uncommon among sedans in this class.

  
  
  

On Big Brother Model S has three parts, the hatchback door , glass roof and high missions windshield. At the arrows we see the joint of the trunk, where the hinges are. Is a large opening. CLICK ON IMAGE FOR LARGER VERSION

  

The advantage of the glass ceiling is that it is relatively thin and provides better headspace. There are no bulky cross beam for a hatchback door, that would probably steal some space and might interfere with rearward vision.

  

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Boring small tailgate. But I would buy a Tesla Model 3 anyway!

 
 
 
 
 

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