Gravity Delivery Discussion

[LuvLucy]

If they chose to take a few months to delay the gravity so it would hold 220 halfway though a charge on a Tesla v3 supercharger, with plug and charge, I think it was a brilliant move. This looks like the best charging vehicle on superchargers right now and even more area under the curve at 1000V.

 

[LuvLucy]

Ah ok I see, the pure has a lot of incentives!

I did not get a pure.

 

[charleyscott]

Did we finally get the answer to what caused production start up delays in the Gravity?

Beginning around time mark 1:10:00 in the OOS "Gravity Powertrain" video, Emad Dlala says Gravity engineering was completed and the car released to production when Tesla opened up the Supercharger network. This caused the engineers to go back to the drawing board to develop a new boost converter and different drive unit capacitor to facilitate Supercharger use, an effort that took "a couple of months".

And, at around 1:13:45, he specifically notes that, to implement this new design, "you're dealing with certain components that we never sourced." This could explain why they were able to do a limited production run by late December, but nothing further for a few months.