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I had always thought that giga was primarily a reference to the annual capacity of batteries it was producing, not its size. i.e. `Its projected capacity for 20
by benjaminjackman 10y ago
I had always thought that giga was primarily a reference to the annual capacity of batteries it was producing, not its size. i.e. `Its projected capacity for 2018 is 50 GWh/yr of battery packs` per the wikipedia page you linked. Perhaps there is a bit of wordplay though in its size also being gigantic.
- DesiLurker 10y agoi think op knows.
- planteen 10y agoBased on my quantity of down votes, I don't think many people got it. That will teach me to joke about Tesla on HN! Or maybe it just wasn't funny.
- teach 10y agoTongue-in-cheek writing is really hard to distinguish in plaintext when you play it so straight. And especially when you transitioned into it so abruptly from a legitimate, honest answer. If your comment had contained only the facetious part more people might have picked up on it. But probably not even then since humor is often downvoted on HN so people don't expect it like they do on other sites.
- skinnymuch 10y agoIt was funny but yeah I didn't think you were joking when I first read it. Unfortunate that you played it so straight :p.
- mikeash 10y agoThere really are people who would get legitimately annoyed that Tesla is abusing the "giga" prefix when they're not actually building a billion factories. Hard to tell when it's one of those or when it's actually a joke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law