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I was just thinking about this the other day. I wonder how much Tesla spends on LTE connectivity to their fairly large fleet of cars - (especially given they ju
by bochoh 7y ago
I was just thinking about this the other day. I wonder how much Tesla spends on LTE connectivity to their fairly large fleet of cars - (especially given they just recently included Netflix / Youtube over in-car LTE at no cost to the end-user). If these receivers are capable of working in a military aircraft at a high rate of speed I'd bet we see Tesla use Starlink for in-car connectivity once the arrays are mature.
- toomuchtodo 7y agoMaybe. Tesla vehicles might get the ground station (phased array antenna roughly the size of a pizza box) built into the vehicle, but you'll pay a premium to turn it on (like XM radio). The margins are likely higher selling data access to StarLink than what Tesla is paying per vehicle for LTE data from AT&T.
- bochoh 7y agoI know Elon is all about vertical integration and using Starlink seems like it would be pretty low hanging fruit to wean them off a land-based cell provider and recover some costs - even if those costs are flowing into SpaceX coffers instead of ATT it could be a massive benefit to the Elon family of companies.