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> Like a new car company making a new kind of vehicle. The first time I heard he wanted to build a new car company that would sell EVs, I dismissed it as crazy.
by dragontamer 3y ago
> Like a new car company making a new kind of vehicle. The first time I heard he wanted to build a new car company that would sell EVs, I dismissed it as crazy. Tesla now sells close to 2M vehicles a year, roughly comparable to BMW.
Martin Eberhard and JB Straubel came up with that idea. Elon Musk's contribution was suing them so that he can be called a founder.
> Like a new network of EV charging stations. The first time I heard about it I thought the company would never recoup the capital cost.
You're literally commenting on an article where the ENTIRE supercharging team was just fired, presumably to save money at Tesla.
> Like Dojo, which is now online. There's a picture of it on the last quarterly deck: https://digitalassets.tesla.com/tesla-contents/image/upload/ https://digitalassets.tesla.com/tesla-contents/image/upload/... -- though I don't know if it will be able to keep up with Nvidia's offerings, which are always improving.
Dojo is a 7nm design while NVidia's is a 3nm design. It won't keep up at all, despite costing Tesla likely a $Billion+ to produce (between $100M mask costs, large software teams working for multiple years, etc. etc. it wouldn't surprise me to see Dojo's total cost be well in excess of a $Billion).
- cs702 3y ago> You're literally commenting on an article where the ENTIRE supercharging team was just fired, presumably to save money at Tesla. Oh I'm in shock about that. As I wrote above, "WTF?" Whatever it is Musk is trying to do at Tesla, I don't get it. But given his track record, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.