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by mcot2 5y ago
This guy has ice storage: https://youtu.be/N3Em64OBGqI
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by mcot2 5y ago
Batteries should see drastic declines as well. $300 is already considered a steep price even though it is the all-in price. We are talking about $50 at the cell level for LFP chemistry soon.
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by mcot2 5y ago
Or just cancel almost all meetings and do async communication. Works great.
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by mcot2 5y ago
I suspect the partial in-office/wfh arrangement will be fairly rare. Office space is costly to use only 2 days a week. Companies can do hoteling but it breaks down when you have very technical employees who like very particular desk se
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by mcot2 5y ago
Thus the charging curve should be better and not worse.
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by mcot2 5y ago
Wawa (gas station chain) has already opened the first store with only charging and no gas in Northern VA. It’s basically a mini-mart with Tesla Superchargers.
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by mcot2 5y ago
Tesla Supercharger V3 can get to 250kW at 400V. The charge cable is liquid cooled due to the massive current which does add some cost. V2 Supercharger limitation does appear to be the heat in the cable and connector. We know the battery can
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by mcot2 5y ago
Your link doesn’t seem to point to anything.
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by mcot2 5y ago
Whats wrong with Peter Baker?
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by mcot2 5y ago
Yes, I saw that interview and the follow up. He can talk very in-depth about the engineering of the cars as well but he is _Chief Engineer_ at SpaceX. I don’t think people quite understand this when they call him a businessman, promoter or
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by mcot2 5y ago
We are just used to this for “computers” because of how the industry evolved but it really is the exception and not the norm if you think about it. Even for early cell phones and pdas most ran their own OS and didn’t seperate the hardware
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by mcot2 5y ago
I disagree but will likely get downvoted on HN as this communtiy does not really reflect the huge set of customers Apple is building these devices for. The Mac is for us. iDevices still for the most part target a broad swath of users (despi
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by mcot2 5y ago
We have over a decade of data and experiences with this Sandboxed approach. The fact that you still use an iPhone/iPad over Android means you are tacitly agreeing with the approach.
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by mcot2 5y ago
I am not defending Apple here but perhaps they intend to make this a public entitlement or even an official API but they are working with Zoom to test it first. We know Apple gives testing priority to certain developers, they mention it at
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by mcot2 5y ago
Tesla publishes data about their own cars with autopilot engaged vs. disengaged. This should get rid of a lot of the variables that you cited.
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by mcot2 5y ago
No there are issues with the EA chargers being from different vendors. This article is really good and gets into it: https://insideevs.com/news/389891/exclusive-interview-electr... “Electrify America currently use
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by mcot2 5y ago
Not only that but you have much more space available for the batteries and larger cargo carrying capacity so you could really experiment with some crazy designs.
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by mcot2 5y ago
I belive this is mostly in the EU where they already have the CCS2 connector. I have not yet seen any North American car with a Tesla connector except _maybe_ the new prototype Aptera.
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by mcot2 5y ago
While the house may have a 100amp setup, the actual utility from the pole is probably capable of 200amps. Changing out your main breaker to 200amp is not that hard but may cost you an additional ~$1,000 for parts and labor.
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by mcot2 5y ago
Actually recently Urban SC development has seemed to come to almost a halt. Even in Urban settings it seems they much prefer to just put in the V3 cabinets with the 250kW max pedestals.
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by mcot2 5y ago
They can if they work with Tesla (and share development costs) but so far none of them have.
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by mcot2 5y ago
I agree it should be standardized and we should choose the Tesla connector which I belive is an open design.
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by mcot2 5y ago
They are now getting into the density game in a lot of markets which is very exciting. For example they are putting Superchargers at every single rest stop in NJ along I-95 (I think its like 8 total in a couple hundred mile span). With the
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by mcot2 5y ago
Its weird they never really put that tech into the large trucks or SUV’s they sell. It could have had a much bigger impact there.
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by mcot2 5y ago
At least for Tesla, around the eastern seaboard, this is not the case. The rest of the EV world will eventually converge to this state as the infrastructure is built out. The leading edge of EV’s (Model S Long Range) now have over 400 mile
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by mcot2 5y ago
I follow the development of the stations pretty closely. It is much much much harder than you think it is. Some stations take well over a year from permitting to lighting them up. Tesla has also made deals with a lot of businesses and state
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by mcot2 5y ago
lol if you think trucks are primarily driven by contractors or farmers. You should visit the south, trucks are most definitely used as commuter cars.
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by mcot2 5y ago
The total amount downloaded or uploaded really isn’t the right thing to care about. They just need to manage capacity on their network on a per cell basis and then wherever they aggregate to. I think if every user in a given region was comp
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by mcot2 6y ago
Click was nice. A lot of the newer JS frameworks are basically client side replicas of it.
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by mcot2 6y ago
Neither of those are unbiased. In fact they are constantly biased against Tesla and towards legacy auto.

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