Dear Car Designers,
We want a machines with a soul!
Something that makes our pulse race every time we look at it!
Something that makes us fall in love with it over and over again.
Porsche clearly understood the assignment with the Mission S concept. @Porsche@PorscheRaces
Anyone that is comparing the Tesla Roadster to the Porsche Mission S is a moron
One of them is an actual car, the other is a prototype that you will never see on the streets
Porsche is building a car that all car fanatics will obsess over and dream about for the next 10 years
Honestly at this point I’ve realised Elon has a demonic gift of scamming and he will continue to get away with it because that’s just where we’re at as a society
I'm not an Elon hater.
I'm just telling you the Honest Truth:
This is a marketing stunt.
The technology is quite old.
Just nobody ever thought of bolting it on a car.
Because it's pointless.
Porsche or Ferrari could also build something like this if they wanted, but they don't, because it's not worth it for them.
It's worth it for Elon though, because his entire brand is all about having the halo of futurism.
His marketing scales especially well with tech gimmicks like this, which is why he is financially incentivised to do them, while others aren't.
Again, I'm not hating, but actually educating yall.
This is not engineering genius.
It's marketing genius.
Cool stunt. Great hype marketing.
Time for me to be that guy everyone hates - It's a scam and this will never ship.
The external compressor and cooling system to charge the tank once, likely cost more than the car. A multi-stage compressor and heat echanger setup that would fit in a car, would take several days to the better part of a week of constant running for a single charge.
250kg of 10,000psi air in a composite tank, with all the potential failure points of complex plumbing and valves in a human occupied confined space... If your sphincter didn't just make a diamond reading that sentence, you're not comprehending it.
Go ask grok about the physics involved just in compressing, cooling, storing and controlling a compressed air system with these specs, and what's possible with typical industrial equipment. This is just a cool gimmick to pump fans and stock.
Id bet money, the car in the demo didn't have a full size battery in it. Wouldn't be surprised if someone isn't currently doing analysis on the video to calculate the vehicles weight.
Sorry.