Comments on: Tesla Model X Falcon-Wing Doors — Patent Requested

By: NRG4All

NRG4All — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 23:34:00 +0000

Sandman – +1

By: Burnerjack

Burnerjack — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 22:43:00 +0000

Maybe not passenger doors per se, but that style of hood opening for the engine compartment was in use about 80 or 90 years ago.

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 21:14:00 +0000

Put a continuous (piano) hinge on it and rain won’t drip through the gap.
I’m calling first on that. And I’m not wasting time and money on getting a patent.

By: Marion Meads

Marion Meads — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 21:06:00 +0000

I’ll patent a triple and multiple hinged door on the Tesla. what can you say about that?

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 19:50:00 +0000

This may be more about stopping someone from taking out a patent and then blackmailing Tesla.

Preventative patenting. If it gets refused on grounds of obviousness then the result is the same.

By: JamesWimberley

JamesWimberley — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 19:39:00 +0000

I hope the patent will be refused on grounds of obviousness.

By: Sandman

Sandman — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 19:08:00 +0000

Ummmm…. I do not mean to make you look like a fool, but ummm…
Tesla has sold more cars than Delorean ever produced. Additionally, the CEO of the company is not involved in drug trafficking.

Yes GM, VW, and BMW are all chasing the masses, but they’re chasing them with hybrids. Tesla is going after the masses with an all electric car. BMW has their i3, but with less than 100 mile range, its just competing with Nissan Leaf.

GM is working on creating a car with a 200 mile range to compete with Tesla, but they’re playing catch-up with a company that has already produced a car with an EPA estimated 265 mile range. Your interjection here is the price, but did any new technology arrive cheap and ready for the masses at introduction? Look up the price of the first iPhone ever sold. Was that for the elite? or for everyone?

With technology advancements, there will be EVs available at better prices, it just takes time and competition to make it attainable for everyone else.

Oh, one last thing. Please short the stock.

By: Shiggity

Shiggity — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 18:04:00 +0000

Falcon Wing = 2 hinges

Gullwing = 1 hinge

A dual hinged door has never been added on a car to my knowledge.

By: Shiggity

Shiggity — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 18:04:00 +0000

Keep shorting the stock ebh, you’re making me rich.

By: Felix Hoenikker

Felix Hoenikker — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 17:12:00 +0000

Uhhhh side clearance? How about sliding vertical doors?

By: Ivor O'Connor

Ivor O'Connor — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:54:00 +0000

“Wow what will these guys think up next a hundred thousand dollar electric car for the elite”

Hopefully a flying car with auto pilot. So I would not need to go through the big ditches on my dirt roads and then join the traffic waiting at stop lights. Just take a 3 minute hop over the hills and I’m wherever I want to be. It will probably be close to 500K so you had better start saving your money and join the “elite”.

By: Ronald Brakels

Ronald Brakels — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:44:00 +0000

You’d better be careful you don’t accidently buy one then.

By: ebh

ebh — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:04:00 +0000

Wow what will these guys think up next a hundred thousand dollar electric car for the elite… some rational explanation of why Americans will sit in line for hours waiting to charge their cars (Think about how irritated you get when one guy ahead of you at the pump takes too long… mutiple that frustration to the depths of infinity… or how their gonna ramp up production… before GM VW and BMW get to the masses first… without getting capital from the markets and diluting the overpriced 20 Billion dollar market cap of the stock price…I guess they need a tweet division running 24/7 …stinks of Delorean… fluxcapacitor to the rescue… another thing… when these cars are two years old will their 7000 laptop cells hold a charge… I don’t think I would be very happy listening to the radio in my garage