They have no time to fix anything.
The 900 CHF is for somebody having to handle the paperwork (and unload it from the truck - they can’t drive themselves here from the factory…yet 
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Now that Grünheide is out for two weeks and maybe another two weeks for ramp up, that was probably one of the last batches of cars to leave the factory in a month.
Panel gaps. Something that no one had heard of until Tesla haters started.
I’ve had Ford Escorts, Cortinas, a Capri, Audi 100, Porsche 924 & 944, VW Polo, Golf & GTI all from new and dozens of used cars. I had no idea what panel gap was or how to check it…
Is this a joke? Panel gaps are a classic in assessing manufacturing quality. US cars are notoriously bad at this. In used cars they are important indicators of potential previous accidents.
They do say love is blind…
Some examples of panel gaps, only one is a Tesla.
Adding images here is a dream
Thats one of mine too 
Anyway I’ve booked an inspection at a bodywork shop I know and will ask them to detail all the faults they find. I will then take that report to my Tesla SC appointment on Friday so they don’t try and fob me off again.
If they don’t fix all the panel issues (as their representative promised yesterday) I will reject the delivery and hand it back as I am legally entitled to. I’m not going through the rigmarole of repeat service appointments and pleading for goodwill.
That is probably the best course of action.
Various dealers are selling imports that are almost new - and you can inspect them before you sign.
And they are often cheaper….
The cars are identical anyway. There’s no „Swiss edition“
Its not all doom and gloom, I am very happy with the car in all other respects and for the money I don’t think there is a better EV out there.
Last night I received software update 2024.8.4 which includes “Adaptive High Beams” so my Model Y now has lights like VWs had over 10 years ago.
Haven’t tried them yet and of course it comes just as we are abaout to go onto summer time.
I’ll be driving to the UK in May. I wonder if they adapt to driving on the left. The old Golf did - it didn’t have full adaptive for the UK, but still self-dippe and sent the beam the other was when dipped…
Everybody is waiting for that update. It does apparently work quite well.
I admit to being one of the people who thought that hell would be freezing over twice before we’d get to see that functionality.
But I still don’t feel like spending 7 grand on the FSD promise. 
Watched a report about commodities on ARD a few days ago. One chapter was on the topic of Lithium mining for use in batteries and somebody did the math…
This is just for Germany. To achieve the level of e-mobility the Government wants by 2030 Germany alone would have to procure as much Lithium as was mined globally in 2018.
The largest lithium mining consortium in Chile has already said to a German delegation…: “No way Jose!” So, unless they use magic to get the lithium the dream of e-mobility is dead.
It’s not a problem. Lithium will not always be used in batteries. Sulphur and even salt batteries are on the horizon. Battery technology is on the march and in 10 years we will look back on today’s battery packs the way we look back at dial-up internet connection.
Currently there is over supply of lithium and the price has dropped…
I think there is some confusion since my car had conventional adaptive high beams when I picked it up, which is a basic Hi-low setting. With this new update, cars equipped with matrix headlights should now have a shaped beam using the individual pixels. So you’re still driving with high beam, but it creates a cone of darkness around cars in front.
That’s correct.
Before this update there was the option on “A” with the headlights which simply dipped them. Now it will use the matrix system - as VW have done for a decade, where fitted…
When there is a Toureg-sized SUV (7 seats) that can do 800km in one go, I’m in.
Wasn’t there the abomination called Tesla Cybertruck? How can anyone create something so ugly is beyond me, but to each his own I guess. Theoretically it does over 500 km in one go.
I think this perfectly demonstrates that there isn’t an EV use case for every type of car. The car you describe would need a massive battery to manage the range and overcome all the air drag.
The best EVs in my opinion are smaller, efficient cars with small batteries with high cycle rates. My Model Y can do 400 km and charge 10 to 80% in 20 mins which is roughly the amount of time I would stop at a services to stretch my legs and use the bathroom.
I admire anyone that can drive for 800 km in one go 
The entire segment of pick-up trucks is lost on me. Why would an IT manager in Philly need a Ford F150?
Indeed. In the everlasting words of Shrek on seeing Lord Farquaad’s tower “maybe he’s compensating for something” 
