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by panick21 1y ago
Its an incredibly complex ever evolving situation. Basically, originally Starship has entered development for SpaceX had nothing todo with any of this. SpaceX started to spend on Starship for their own reasons. Then in Trump 1, he simply in
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by panick21 1y ago
SLS was 6 years and like 10-20 billion $ over budget and nobody ever complainged, in fact they got consistantly more and more money. And that is for technology that is fundamentally from the 1970s. Starship is trying to do the hardest thing
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by panick21 1y ago
This is all just politics. Artemis from the beginning was just politics. And it wasn't driven by how to best do things, or any kind of coherent strategy. Its basically was a compromise, that had one of its pillars, that SLS and Orion n
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by panick21 1y ago
AI and focus on Self-Driving has been the biggest failure and blindspot for Tesla (Musk). So much of the strategy evolved around that, its a big reason why I pulled my investment. I invested because they were growing fast, had a pretty good
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by panick21 5y ago
They have 2 gigantic space programs, Starliner and SLS. Both among the worst projects in the last decade. Their experience from ISS is decades ago.
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by panick21 5y ago
> Do people on this site really want Bezos to give up How about not blocking everybody else constantly suing everybody and delaying the process. If he actually wanted to achieve a goal, that's what he would do. Bezos is driven by pr
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by panick21 5y ago
> 3. It makes absolutely no sense for the battery to 'brick' or declare 'out-of-range' while regeneration is adding charge back to the battery Wait so how often are you in this situation? Like one ever 1000 drives? Or
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by panick21 5y ago
> feed more data in the machine learning pot, stir it, and see what comes out. Very reductive and dismissive way of describing what they are doing.
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by panick21 5y ago
I have stated a fact, battery swapping is a niche and it will continue to be a niche. You attempts to claim this is not the case have been pathetic. P.S: Calling people 'son' in a technical discussion is pathetic.
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by panick21 5y ago
> Tesla has been building them for nine years and still hasn't reached 3,500 stations: I misread, still 288 a Qarter and that is growing. Compared to 500 in 4 years. These stations have more threw put then any individual swapping st
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by panick21 5y ago
Ok, somebody being competitive on twitter means that person is mentally unstable? I mean you want to call him a asshole fine, but doesn't mean he is unstable. If everybody that gets on fight on twitter or is sending tweets that shouldn
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by panick21 5y ago
> Tesla has been promising a car for $35k That was their target price before the product launch, must be the first time in history a company didn't hit is project price. For a while they did have a version at that price, that versio
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by panick21 5y ago
Tesla alone adds 3500 new stations (each with avg. 8 chargers) per QUARTER. And that will continue to grow. And that is outside of many companies doing such network. But yeah 5000 stations in 2025 maybe, how amazing. I know understanding sc
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by panick21 5y ago
What is it with the endless whining about this decision, by Californians and you. California got exactly what wanted, its leading in EVs. It got a huge number of jobs, including reopening a big plant. Its leading in battery tech. Those comp
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by panick21 5y ago
> you're not even the person I was replying So, this is normal on HN. > So it started as "battery swap stations will never happen" but now it's having a whinge that they're not more widely used What are you ev
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by panick21 5y ago
The whole point of energy credits is that slow moving large companies who use bad old technology give money to fast moving young technology who use modern green technologies. That is exactly what has happened and was a success as a business
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by panick21 5y ago
How many % of overall EV are refueled by battery swapping? That is actually a better indicator then saying X company has performed X swaps. Its probably like 0.0001%. Compare the amount of swap station to the amount of fast chargers. Batter
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by panick21 5y ago
They still have a gigantic factory in California, they built a battery factory there and have a huge battery research team in California, they have another research team in San Diago and they just announced building a Megapack production fa
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by panick21 5y ago
You can get all that money back if you do no longer want to wait for the product. What's your issue? > with no new tangible updates since 2017. They have just installed Megacharger in Nevada. New Test Semi were spotted a couple of t
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by panick21 5y ago
All Model S did support that capability early on. Because of reports about Tesla on fire Tesla added a shield under the car that made hot swapping no longer possible. The reality is, as a company they had X amount of capital to solve long d
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by panick21 5y ago
I assume this is mostly so they can have a relationship with another supplier and in future get offers from both BYD and CATL for more supply.
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by panick21 5y ago
A lot of issues like that are with the battery packs, not the cells. Tesla buy cells and makes their own packs.
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by panick21 5y ago
The non radar version was verified to successfully handle all cases and actually outperforms the radar and has less false positives. The had been planning on that anyway eventually.
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by panick21 5y ago
Not that temporary for people who died. Actually look into modern GenIV reactors and try to come up with scenarios where a large numbers of people die. Its basically impossible. Maybe if you use multiple terrorists and multiple natural cata
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by panick21 5y ago
What is your evidence of him being unstable?
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by panick21 5y ago
In general yes, they solved their manufacturing issues on the Model 3 line and it reached the required speeds and saved the company. See the cashflow turnaround in 2018-2019. They managed to scale that line far beyond their initial targets.
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by panick21 5y ago
This is really only the case on some older Model S from around before 2018 or so. That is a vanishingly small % of their cars produced.
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by panick21 5y ago
Then compare it to BMW, Geely or other manufactures that are more comparable.
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by panick21 5y ago
They didn't have that for all the development of Falcon 9. SpaceX deliberately vertically integrated and moved to automotive and other suppliers because space suppliers were so bad. I would be surprised if they have to use this process
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by panick21 5y ago
Your objection is flat embracing. He has Degrees in physics, and many people with such degrees end up getting positions in engineering companies and are called engineers. He was accepted at Standford PHd program for materials science. That

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