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by tcoppi 10y ago
Are we sure Tesla has no hand in the manufacture or know-how of building the actual cells? If that is true, why would they be contracting Jeff Dahn to do battery research for them? It is my understanding that the types of partnerships betwe
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by tcoppi 10y ago
As an aside, I typically associate a single building with the word "factory", and a complex of buildings that work together to manufacture a product a "plant" or "facility". Not sure how common that usage is, o
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by tcoppi 10y ago
That's a comparison with the Tesla Fremont factory, where they assemble the actual cars. The Gigafactory in Nevada will be 538,837 square meters(if my math is right, 5.8 million square feet for the Gigafactory is the number I have), ha
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by tcoppi 10y ago
Thanks. If that number is right, their top number is less than 1/5th of the originally planned Gigafactory top number.
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by tcoppi 10y ago
A slower charging network could be useful for putting a charging station at every parking space at say workplaces, where your car will be left for an extended time Slower chargers are presumably cheaper to build and run, so they might make
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by tcoppi 10y ago
Satellite map pictures are not a measure of size. And yes, I misspoke, it will be the largest building in the world by footprint/square footage, not the largest factory. VW's plant is still in the conceptual stages, but if it ever
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by tcoppi 10y ago
That still doesn't lead me to believe that it is a larger battery factory than the Gigafactory, either in square footage(the Gigafactory will be the largest factory in the world when completed, not just battery factory) or in total bat
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by tcoppi 10y ago
Your first link says nothing about the size of LG Chem's battery factory.
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by tcoppi 10y ago
This article is a good resource http://cleantechnica.com/2016/05/15/ev-battery-prices-lookin...
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by tcoppi 10y ago
There are adapters for Teslas to use basically every standardized(or otherwise) EV charging connector. No other brand has access to the long-range and fast-charging supercharger network however, which is a rather large part of the value pro
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by tcoppi 10y ago
> Look, the Fed is going to raise rates RSN. Is it? It doesn't really seem like it, they raised them .25% in December and haven't done diddly since then, with no signs that they will. Like it or not it is incredibly difficult f
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by tcoppi 10y ago
According to the Model 3 announcement, the base model will have at least 215 miles of range. The Model S was never announced with any specific range for the base model afaik, it was always marketed that the 40kwh model would have low range.
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by tcoppi 10y ago
Tesla /might/ make a valuable product with good margins from the factory. I would rate that chance as greater than 90% personally, but it still isn't certain. Just like it isn't certain that Yahoo is a failed acquisition
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by tcoppi 10y ago
We bought a house last year with a credit union, and everyone during closing was quite surprised that we actually closed within two hours of starting. Apparently it is not unheard of for mortgage lenders to be doing final approval up to the
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by tcoppi 10y ago
Verizon currently makes a profit, Tesla doesn't[1]. 1. They might be able to run a profit without R&D expenses, but that wouldn't make any sense at this point, so they are bleeding money and need to raise capital constantly.
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by tcoppi 10y ago
I meant the Model 3. Theoretically it will be $35k for a base model with 200 mile range, and the Bolt is also not much less theoretical than the Model 3 at this point. There are lots of reasons to be skeptical about the time frame of availa
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by tcoppi 10y ago
The Bolt is probably the closest competitor to what Tesla is doing right now for EVs. They have the range, but they still haven't figured out styling or performance, nor is the charging infrastructure as robust yet.
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by tcoppi 10y ago
Tesla's battery costs right now(pre-gigafactory) are closer to $200/kwh, so for a 60kwh battery(gets 200mi range on the model s) that is only $12k.
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by tcoppi 10y ago
Google wants to organize the world's information. Elon wants to go to Mars, reduce carbon emissions, save lives and increase efficiency with self-driving cars. Zuckerberg wants more users and for us to sit in VR pods like zombies.
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by tcoppi 10y ago
Not necessarily true because you are covering your need for housing at the same time as paying the mortgage. So even if it appreciated exactly at the same speed as inflation(as one would expect if housing prices were flat) you are only payi
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by tcoppi 10y ago
I am extremely sympathetic to this view as an American, but I think it is worthwhile to think of this from a native Frenchman's perspective. There has been a mass influx of "foreign" Muslim/Islamic peoples there over the
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by tcoppi 10y ago
> Finally, an important mitigating factor with our debt is the unique position we hold in the global financial system. Treasury yields remain at historic lows. The market seems unconcerned with the debt, and remains happy to finance us.
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by tcoppi 10y ago
> As for why Thiel would support Trump, I'm mystified too. But what I would guess it's because he doesn't support either Democrats or the "establishment GOP", which Trump isn't a part of. Thiel is a contrari
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by tcoppi 10y ago
Making bets on and predicting an economic collapse does not mean one necessarily wants it to happen, simply that they think it is going to. I wouldn't presume to know why he supports Trump, but it will probably be clear after the speec
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World faces deflation shock as China devalues yuan at accelerating pace(telegraph.co.uk)
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Facebook is being investigated by the IRS(money.cnn.com)
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by tcoppi 10y ago
And Japan's economy "broke" in the early 1990s and never really recovered. Is China next?
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by tcoppi 10y ago
Yeah, and they actually aren't dropping all that much. T-Mobile's prices have gone up the past year or two for new single/two person accounts with the same amount of data. Family prices seem to have dropped slightly but not v
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by tcoppi 10y ago
T-Mobile and other wireless carries barely break even in the same sense that Amazon barely breaks even - They are reinvesting most of their profits to increase their profitability in the future. T-Mobile actually has one of the highest gros
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House Homeland Security Staff Report – “Going Dark, Going Forward” [pdf](homeland.house.gov)
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