Elon Musk

no but its not a bad theory imho

have we heard any more about the giant parking lots full of reject cars lately

Tesla has a long history of using diesel generators to recharge vehicles. Back in 2015, I found Tesla using them to power backup Superchargers at Harris Ranch, while its supposedly open battery swap station sat unused. https://t.co/OxtOCjhNuj https://t.co/IxaT4iowvk

— E.W. "Linear Thinker" Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) March 7, 2019

Now, a real visionary would figure out a clever way to install a diesel generator under the hood of a vehicle, so it could power the engine directly. You'd need a nationwide network of pumping stations though so you could refill the car's onboard liquid fuel tank when necessary.

I wonder how much it'd take to set up the power infrastructure to run a dozen charging rigs off the local electrical grid at each dealership or w/e

it's as if they're assuming the dealership is a pop-up shop and it's not going to last long enough to actually equip the location with real charging stations. hmmm.

I’m building a supercharging network right now (not for Tesla) and it’s actually quite challenging. The power draw on each charge head (140kW in the case of Tesla, soon to be 250kW) can be quite challenging for the grid in rural areas without a lot of power and urban areas with grid congestion. There’s also a pretty long lead time on things like transformers and MV switchgear and even longer lead times on getting the utility to uprate the grid if that is needed. You need to have charging stations at the right intervals so a diesel generator powered site will be (expensively: power at 4-5x the cost of grid) filling a gap whilst other infrastructure is getting sorted.

I’ve also never heard of Tesla battery swapping. No one has seriously considered battery swapping as ‘refuelling’ since Better Place folded nearly ten years ago.

I’m no Musk. Stand but my that is a very poorly written and researched article.

the tendency of people but esp. Americans (historically, per the book) to see a problem coming yet keep putting off the solution until the last minute, then successfully scramble to fix it, because it's worked like that time and again the past, however scary and inefficient?

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, March 2, 2019 10:21 AM (five days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(looks at march workload) nothing has been more @ me next time

Ed dropping the knowledge

imo a smart thing to do if you're into real estate investment would be to figure out the prime overlap between underutilized or at least well built-out power grids and prime commercial space for vehicle sales and grab some property to sell/lease to future electric car vendors

mine bitcoin while you're waiting

xpost

There's plenty of stuff to criticise Tesla on, many as well do it with actual facts. If you want to criticise the supercharger network you could start with the fact that Tesla chose a non-standard plug design which means non- Tesla vehicles can't use it (and Tesla's can't use off network chargers without an adaptor), leading to unnecessary duplicating of networks. This somewhat shows up Elon's line on wanting to stimulate the electric car uptake in general. (they are backing away from this in Europe, but only because the EU is moving towards a mandatory plug standard anyway).

If you've got land and a bit of under-utilised power grid then build solar or a wind farm, it'll pay off much better than EV charging will.

Please don't mine bitcoin

Although by all means build an EV charger as well.

I wonder how much it'd take to set up the power infrastructure to run a dozen charging rigs off the local electrical grid at each dealership or w/e

it's as if they're assuming the dealership is a pop-up shop and it's not going to last long enough to actually equip the location with real charging stations. hmmm.

― mh, Thursday, March 7, 2019 4:08 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you saw they quietly announced last week that they're closing all their dealerships, right?

If I had to guess they’ll probably sell off the charging network at some point. It’s a good asset and will continue to benefit tesla customers even if they don’t own it.

xp I either missed that or forgot about it! But yes, that explains why they had no interest in setting up dedicated infrastructure -- the whole thing was a trial balloon/pop-up shop thing

my cynical view for quite a while has been that Tesla isn't really an attempt to establish a long-running car company, it's a test platform for a handful of technologies that could be licensed or sold off to existing automobile manufacturers

that's at least partially shared by the companies that have established a competitor interest and hold Tesla shares. there's already plenty of collaboration and cross-licensing and production out there

SpaceX Dragon demo capsule returns to Earth

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47477617

🚶🏻‍♂️

Ooof, what the hell are they doing? https://t.co/Qa9FBcRd5x pic.twitter.com/c8jS25kkhX

— Michael T Sweeney (@mtsw) March 8, 2019

this is some shit right here https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-13/when-elon-musk-tried-to-destroy-tesla-whistleblower-martin-tripp

glad someone's following up on that Tripp dude

when the initial articles about the battery factory shenanigans came out my friend and I started joking with a guy we know who got a tesla

"so did they stab holes in the lithium battery before it left the factory, or just throw it around a little? get the patch that causes spontaneous bursts of flame yet?"

Elon Musk but with Elizabeth Holmes' eyes pic.twitter.com/wpaJFTW6Zm

— Rob Beschizza (@Beschizza) March 22, 2019

laughing out loud at these Virginia transportation officials trying their best not to say "what the fuck was that" re: Elon Musk's car tube pic.twitter.com/V6En63P2fu

— snarkifesto (@lib_crusher) March 22, 2019

It’s a tough job when you’ve got a government contract to send a mannequin smoking a huge doobie to space but somebody’s gotta do it

― calstars, Saturday, March 2, 2019 11:02 AM (three weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I know I'm a month late but new board description please

I have a major deadline on April 1 so it is very concerning to find out it already arrived

https://www.thefader.com/2019/03/31/elon-musk-soundcloud-rapper-rip-harambe

this is the most epic moment in Martin Shrekli's life and he's in jail for it

are we to assume that musk's recent personal and professional meltdowns are because he spent the better part of the last three years devoted all his time and energy to a two-minute ode to a meme

lmao that Elon is reliving his teen shitposting years that were taken away from him, Michael Jackson style

Promise kept: https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/28/18245165/tesla-model-3-price-lower-cost-elon-musk-news

― DJI, Friday, 1 March 2019 00:34 (one month ago) Permalink

well... i mean the promise hasnt been kept until the cars have actually been delivered. at the moment this is just another announcement.

― just sayin, Friday, 1 March 2019 00:47 (one month ago) Permalink

he also accepted pre-orders for the self-driving option... which hasnt happened

― just sayin, Friday, 1 March 2019 00:47 (one month ago) Permalink

I can't figure out who does more goalpost-moving, Musk, or the people in this thread.

― DJI, Friday, 1 March 2019 00:51 (one month ago) Permalink

https://electrek.co/2019/04/04/tesla-model-3-base-doesnt-exist/

Entertaining, insightful @latimes story on Elon Musk’s army of short-sellers, who are convinced he’s a fraud and Tesla is a house of cards — and aren’t afraid to tweet about it. https://t.co/YzpE31sU0x $TslaQ

— Laura J. Nelson 🦅 (@laura_nelson) April 8, 2019

there will never be a $35k tesla.

https://www.tesla.com/blog/update-our-vehicle-lineup

Sounds like you can have one but only if you go on a quest to a Tesla store and do battle with the Tesla sales team who will do eevrything they can to talk you out of making them take a loss on it.

A software-limited car model is an absurdity, who is that for

if you think about it, the software in a lot of cars could do a lot more things, just not very well or safely

you get heated seats if you preorder at GameStop

omg lol

unlock a classic aftermarket pioneer stereo skin for your display if you die during autopilot

A software-limited car model is an absurdity, who is that for

I’m mildly terrified whenever I’m in a car with software

I've got bad news for you

my last car was made in 1994 and I walk a lot

lol

i’m no pedant, sure, that works

I'm with sic here. Our car barely has an engine, let alone software.

even the odometer was still mechanical in mine, though I’ll admit I did get into it with a mobile phone in my bag

Lol what a cunt

So the Boring company loop can take as many passengers in A DAY as ONE Victoria Line tube train can take every 100 seconds

Please stop Elon Musk - take away his weed. Please. https://t.co/5Pmmrjln7r

— marcus (@marcusjdl) April 18, 2019

not his weed that needs taken away from him. this is coke hubris with a budget

its his life that shd be taken away, the movement starts here to execute elon musk #executeelonmusk

trisect him midair, each part landing squarely on a target below

tie him up in a tesla. turn on autopilot. direct the tesla toward the super aggro crag. mike o malley commentary throughout.

pay ricky for a "service" on paypal.

(the service is the execution)