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Moroccan 7-Star Hotel Looks To Replace Bentleys With Tesla Model X Fleet

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Published on October 6th, 2019 |

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Moroccan 7-Star Hotel Looks To Replace Bentleys With Tesla Model X Fleet

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October 6th, 2019 by Guest Contributor

Originally posted on X Auto and EVANNEX.
By Iqtidar Ali

The ludicrously luxurious Royal Mansour Marrakech is a 7-star hotel in Morocco that’s decided to replace their Bentleys with Tesla Model X SUVs. It took efforts from a few Tesla enthusiasts in Morocco to convince the palace hotel to make the decision.

Tesla Model X all-electric SUV with falcon wing doors open, outside the Royal Mansour Palace Hotel in Marrackech (Twitter: Tesla Culinary Takeover)

The super luxury hotel utilized Bentleys to pick up and drop off their customers from the airport. Moving forward, they’ve decided to switch to cleaner, greener Tesla Model X electric vehicles for that purpose.

An inside look at the Royal Mansour Marrakech along with a glimpse at one of the Bentleys used to transport hotel guests (YouTube: InspectorLUX)

According to Khalil Amar, the hotel wants to buy the Model X SUVs as soon as Tesla launches its infrastructure in Morocco. Amar even tagged Elon Musk in a tweet requesting a local Tesla store, service center, and Supercharger station. In turn, Musk liked the tweet, which could mean (hopefully) the process for accelerating Tesla’s presence in Morocco may soon be underway.

Tesla enthusiasts convince Royal Mansour to switch to Tesla Model X EVs instead of Bentleys. (Twitter: Khalil Amar) A new way to welcome guests at the 7-star hotel. Tesla Model X electric SUV outside the Royal Mansour Palace Hotel in Marackech.

The hotel’s guests should feel special entering Tesla’s Model X via its falcon wing doors — stepping into a modern, sleek cabin instead of an 80s-style Bentley interior, guests complained according to Khalil.

The lowest price at this hotel is a whopping $1,700/night (via TripAdvisor.com). And it’s likely some percentage of the hotel’s well-heeled guests will eventually become Tesla owners after they have a first-hand experience with the all-electric SUV at the Royal Mansour.

It turns out other hotels are choosing Tesla as their vehicle of choice too. Guests at the Four Seasons Oahu, Mandarin Oriental Miami, and W Hotel Hong Kong can access to the hotel’s Teslas. Elon Musk’s pal, Richard Branson, also decided to make a Tesla the official house car at the Virgin Hotel. Even luxury buildings are now using Teslas (and Tesla chargers) to attract new customers and help create a greener future.

… and on a lighter note!

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Audi this week has officially confirmed that its Q4 E-tron electric crossover, in production form, will be built on Volkswagen’s modular mass-market electric vehicle platform, termed MEB, reaching the market in early 2021.

While that had been all but confirmed before, Audi wrapped into it a better picture of how Volkswagen's compact- to mid-size MEB platform will fit the brand. In addition to the Q4 E-tron, it already has two other MEB-based models in the works: a high-performance crossover variant, and a lower sedan, with the sedan taking advantage of the lower of the two battery heights that are available.

All three models are likely to be close—if not slightly smaller—in overall dimensions to the upcoming Tesla Model Y crossover and to the related Model 3 sedan, which is currently the sales leader in the battery-electric arena.

Audi made these new points as part of a series of presentations to the press, regarding the company’s strategy for electromobility and sustainability. Officials said that the Q4 E-tron, like the concept of the same name, will use the MEB toolkit carried almost identically from VW vehicles.

Audi MEB platform

The brand confirmed that means that there will be a choice between rear-wheel drive and all-wheel drive, with a permanent-magnet motor at the rear-wheels in all versions, supplemented by an AC synchronous motor in front (providing all-wheel drive) in some versions. Audi wouldn’t confirm battery specs, but we expect the Q4 E-tron to feature the same 58-kwh and 77-kwh packs (usable capacity); and the brand did confirm the same maximum 125-kw DC fast-charging power.

Audi MEB platform

On Volkswagen’s models a heat-pump system (potentially helping with range and efficiency during longer trips in chilly weather) is available, but with Audi offering such a system in all of its new plug-in hybrid models it’s likely to be standard in the Q4 E-tron.

Audi sees a future revolving primarily around two volume platforms for internal-combustion vehicles (including plug-in hybrids) and two platforms for electric vehicles. Just as the MQB and MLB platforms are used in Audi models, MEB and PPE—the upcoming premium platform—will be the basis for 20 different Audi all-electric models globally by 2025.

Suite of upcoming Audi electric vehicles

It presented the Q4 E-tron, which will be closely related to the Volkswagen ID 4 that the U.S. will first see from VW, as Q3-sized on the outside but Q5 sized inside. After sitting in the Q4 as well as both of the gasoline models within a day of each other, we can stand behind that impression.

Audi also confirmed that the Q4 E-tron will be built only in Zwickau, Germany—at a plant that’s undergoing a transformation to become “Europe’s most efficient e-car factory,” aiming within a few years to produce 330,000 vehicles annually there alone, including six electric-vehicle models from three brands.

The Q4 E-tron will be Audi's third fully electric model. Led by the E-tron SUV, which went on earlier this year, the lineup will be fortified with the introduction of the E-tron GT super-sport sedan—closely related to the Porsche Taycan—in 2020.

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