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Recent content by fhteagle

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    Report: Tesla lays off entire Supercharger team! [Update: Elon Musk says supercharger growth will continue]

    I appreciate you adding solid numbers to the conversation. However I am not sure you fully understood my point, so I'll back up and explain a bit more thoroughly and add additional numbers as well. Not sure if yours were USD or AUD, but I'll just assume USD as its the most pessimistic against my...
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    Report: Tesla lays off entire Supercharger team! [Update: Elon Musk says supercharger growth will continue]

    Forum mangled the link. I edited the post and fixed it. Agreed that the way cost structures for grid connections (especially "demand charges") very much messes up the deal for CPOs. But Tesla has had the tech necessary to battery backup, and demand manage Superchargers for how long? With even a...
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    Report: Tesla lays off entire Supercharger team! [Update: Elon Musk says supercharger growth will continue]

    I cannot speak to other countries, but the answer for the US is "no". Interstate highways are mostly covered, but with some ugly gaps and especially "V3 gaps" remaining. However, the interstate system does not cover everywhere, especially out here in the Mountain West. US highways have many...
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    Report: Tesla lays off entire Supercharger team! [Update: Elon Musk says supercharger growth will continue]

    Cleaning house is a careful process, deciding what to keep and what needs to go based on the merit of each thing or employee. The way Musk did this would be the equivalent of cleaning house via the enough matches and gasoline to burn down the neighborhood method.
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    Shareholders, would you vote to reinstate Elon's pay package

    Case in point of why Musk is not the right CEO for this phase of Tesla: laying off the entire Supercharger team is an absolutely boneheaded move. Sure, pause hiring. Cut some chaff. Don't axe a department that has been a key core competency and brand differentiator...
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    Shareholders, would you vote to reinstate Elon's pay package

    No longer a shareholder, but if I was this would be a hard no. Not an Elon fan boi, not a hater, but from a pragmatic standpoint he's not the right CEO for this phase of Tesla. A startup solving novel engineering problems, his skill set is very valuable. A company that needs to take care of...
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    EVs are dead

    Michael Barnard on CleanTechnica has done a pretty thorough job of debunking hydrogen as a fuel for basically anything. Hydrogen as an industrial input, especially for steel making, has a place. But it will be made and used in situ, not tankered or pipelined anywhere. For everything else, there...
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    Optimus Bot Gen 2 Introduced! ?

    Iteration cycle time seems pretty quick. Wonder how long until it can climb a ladder without falling off. Whats the run time on batteries? How many units would you need to be able to run 24 hours continuously considering charge time?
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    HONK! Horn sound?

    No that pic has been around, but good callback @CyberGus. To weld the doors closed, or not weld the doors closed.... Decisions, decisions ... Kidding of course. I'm way too old for pole vaulting into my car through the window.
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    HONK! Horn sound?

    It should be this. Really confuse the heck out of the EV hating red state types.
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    Jailbreak Tesla

    Yeah, but... ... laws are not always written correctly ... ... laws are far too often written to mess with the market in ways that don't need to happen ... ... laws sometimes need to be broken to prove why the law is wrong as it is written and/ or enforced ... Collecting rainwater and...
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    Why Americans Prefer Gas over Electric Still

    I kind of let The Onion fall off my radar. But this was amusing. Might start reading again, even with the website compatibility issues. Damn good satire, many of the answers feel like the "reasons" I get from the most ill informed of the anti-EV crowd in my town.
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    Jailbreak Tesla

    In the US, we have the Magnuson Moss Act, which speaks to OEMs invalidating warranties. According to https://www.autocare.org/government-relations/current-issues/Magnuson-Moss-Warranty-Act "Furthermore, a manufacturer can only deny warranty coverage if it can demonstrate that a non-original...
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    Jailbreak Tesla

    Yes, but I also have a right to repair and modify what I own. Can I legally hack the Tesla vehicle firmware on seat heaters? Probably not. Can I load my own reverse engineered firmware? Absolutely, if I cared enough to do so. Can I DIY my own smart switch to turn on the installed seat heaters...
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    Transfer of FSD!

    If Tesla buys the used car with FSD for resale, they can set a deadline of transfer before the sale to Tesla closes. If it's a third party sale, they have the responsibility to advertise correctly what they are selling (and therefore know what they are buying/taking in trade). If anyone...
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