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by nickik 6y ago
This is a terrible argument. Of any car most people don't buy the base version. People wont buy the base version of an F-150 either. And just because Tesla once didn't offer a car with the price they said doesn't mean its som
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by nickik 6y ago
What are you even talking about. Nissan sales have collapsed, the Leaf went from one of the most sold cars to small program and is being discontinued in many places. Nissan has the Ariya coming out but not much beyond, their announced targe
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by nickik 6y ago
They might offer that, but only low volumes. They simply don't have the batteries to get anywhere close to 800k per year. If you calculate the battery required to pull that off, its actually insane. Ford talks a big game about electric
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by nickik 6y ago
There are so many more issues. They have lots of plants that Tesla doesn't need or want. Even worse, you can't close down those plants because of unions and politics. Tesla doesn't want unions in general. Battery being the li
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by nickik 6y ago
Had they actually focused on charging station and not bringing a car to market and battery swapping, they could have had much more success and wouldn't need $900M.
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by nickik 6y ago
That train has left the station long ago. Killing EV was something feasible 20 years ago. Today the amount of investment and capability of the players involved is on a whole different level. The oil companies couldn't stop Tesla or VW
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by nickik 6y ago
Wow, I didn't know that story. Their idea wasn't really right, so I'm not sure why you are saying that. In fact, it seems to me their idea was absolutely and totally wrong, now and then. Its not at all what oil companies are
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by nickik 6y ago
Seems fairly easy to turn a gas station store into a store and coffee shop.
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by nickik 6y ago
Its surprising to me oil companies are getting into charging, rather then materials processing. The is a gigantic market emerging for battery materials. All of these high grade materials need processing. Given oil companies should be expert
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by nickik 6y ago
- Mega Castings, casting have been used before, but never at the size Tesla does. Tesla has costume co-designed machines and they developed their own alloy to make it work. See: https://youtu.be/BwoiFC-HwPE?t=273 - Structur
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by nickik 6y ago
Tesla never claimed their manufacturing would be that fast in just a few years, that was a long term goal. Its totally disingenuous to claim this is what they believed they could do for the Model 3. Its still the long term vision. The argum
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by nickik 6y ago
his story is repeated so often and is never given any context. Their net income does not depend on credits, if anything it is GAAP profitability, but that is just misleading. The story with Tesla is funny to me, the anti-Tesla crowed is jus
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by nickik 6y ago
Users have already shown that you can move the dish and Starlink doesn't block it. However they might in the future. They are already testing Starlink on planes and those are clearly moving. A dedicated product for boats and planes is
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by nickik 6y ago
Amazing how Musk getting something wrong, he is never hearing the end of it. With many things, Musk was right. Both in automotive and in space, people 'insiders' have many believes and many of them turned out to be wrong. SpaceX a
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by nickik 6y ago
Its amazing for me that people say that Elon thinking doesn't work when his company has increased automotive volume around 30-50% for almost 10 years now. And the iterative design works perfectly. Compare the Model 3 ramp in Fremont to
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by nickik 6y ago
I love how if Musk gets something wrong for years people who hate him relentlessly shit on him. However he has been right about so many other things, but those things are simply not talked about and all the experts who wrote op-eds telling
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by nickik 6y ago
Man people look at one statistic from Norway and simply make assumptions. Tesla has 23% of the global BEV market, that is the same market share as 2019. And many of those other cars are small low range city cars. So in terms of BEV revenue
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by nickik 6y ago
SpaceX and Tesla reinvented many things and 90% of the time it worked out. Turns out reinventing manufacturing wasn't as easy. But it also has to be said that since Tesla has come up with a lot of new solutions that nobody else is usin
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by nickik 6y ago
I know that because that is what Elon Musk and other SpaceX engineers and have said. They have explained this in multiple presentations and interviews over the last 5 years. This is not a mystery. I am not speculating. There is a whole com
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by nickik 6y ago
I think one thing that people fail to appreciate about what SpaceX is doing is their core believe with this project is that the manufacturing system is 10-100x more difficult then the design of the rocket itself, and that their goals can on
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by nickik 6y ago
You are so confident in your opinion and you are so incredibly wrong. Pretty much every NASA engineer that has worked with SpaceX has been incredibly impressed by their methods. Literally every single one of their competitors, including nat
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by nickik 6y ago
Saying SpaceX gets it wrong regularly is LITERALLY false. SpaceX Falcon 9 is fully qualified for all DoD Orbits and has reached highest qualification for NASA Scientific Missions and Human mission for. All require demonstration of reliably
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by nickik 6y ago
Not sure why you got downvoted. When talking about 'explode on the pad' it usually refers a rocket blowing up right when the engines lights up before it lifts off. Or alternatively during fuelling, SpaceX had that issue during Amo
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by nickik 6y ago
Its incredibly how dismissive people are, and clearly haven't thought about it that much. > ISA fragmentation ... binary distributions harder. A overly simply one-sided analysis. You have to look at the cost and the benefits. Not si
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by nickik 6y ago
About the start of the as compliance yes, but I don't have link right now. This was said in a video interview, maybe with Autoline? Not sure. But it was some of the top guys on that program. The detailed economics is conjecture, based
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by nickik 6y ago
Mach-E started as a compliance EV and the realised that their compliance car might not sell at all and they would have to lose like 10-15k on each one of them, and potentially sell them in fairly large numbers compared to compliance cars of
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by nickik 6y ago
If you really care about cost and that is your only measure, then of course a Model 3 isn't it. However, you can get insane deal on some EV, like the Bolt. They are not close to Tesla in terms of many things, but if you just need to ev
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by nickik 6y ago
I actually think the biggest engineering issue is gone be truck stops. Large truck stops that have 100+ trucks wanting to charge at the same time is gone be an issue. I don't have a good understanding of the grid, but I have heard that
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by nickik 6y ago
This story is repeated so often and is never given any context. The story with Tesla is funny to me, the anti-Tesla crowed is just running down the field with goal post as fast as they possibly can. The TSLAQ crowd basically has two last bu
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by nickik 6y ago
That's why I would love somebody like Element to look into it and potentially actually using it, helping solve the problems that prevents it form being commercial. I just like the model of having multiple layers of encryption, helping

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