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I'm watching the video. Highly interesting. That level of power use would take *noticeable" dents into the range of the car, especially in inner city driving.
by sundvor 8y ago
I'm watching the video. Highly interesting.
That level of power use would take *noticeable" dents into the range of the car, especially in inner city driving.
Furthermore that's a lot of thermals to get rid of. 500w, crikey, speaking as someone who water cools his PCs, forget about retrofitting older cars! (That was one of the criteria!)
The existing units sit behind the glove box in front of the firewall, and are rather compact. The thermal budget was a hard one.
Nvidia are full of crap on this one.
- 7e 8y agoPractically speaking there is no power limit. The traction motors on Tesla's cars themselves will pull two orders of magnitude more power than these chips will. Thermals are nothing compared to the heat generated by the battery, especially when supercharging.
- sundvor 8y agoAll power usage adds up. More important, the unit sits behind the glove box in front of the firewall. You'd need to redesign the car to fit a cooler worthy of 500w in there, thus making retrofitting a much harder task. My 280mm Corsair AIO water cooler struggles with a 140W TDP Intel CPU at full load. All typical car manufacturers' message when rolling out something new: Buy the new car. Here, existing owners get access to a paradigm shifting feature, by just swapping out what will be an inexpensive module. Tesla has nailed this upgrade, in my eyes. I don't own any of their cars (although I wish I did), nor do I have any shares.