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Tesla did it so the third party stations being built with Federal money would use NACS and Tesla would not need to have owners deal with CCS adapters. The third party networks can now carry the torch of the supercharger network. With this change there is no longer a separate world between...

It's no longer a competitive advantage when all EVs can access the network. Plus every new station going forward will support other EVs (in fact even better because the V4s will have longer cables). I personally would never consider an EV with no supercharger access, and now with the network...

Again the major difference is that with automakers gaining access to the supercharger network, it no longer helps sell TESLAs as a unique selling point. In such a case, a large portion of your effort would be to support EVs of other brands. In such a case, it makes less sense to have the same...

This is balanced by much lower utilization (much more empty stalls). The other charge networks are sized to be occupied most of the time, Tesla isn't. Tesla also does more maintenance to have high uptime, while other charge networks can let equipment languish for weeks, if not months, unfixed...

While claiming with your own insurance company saves headaches, it's not always the best approach as in certain states that still increases your premiums given it's still counted as a claim on your policy. I've seen this mentioned in a few cases in other threads.

The demand was to cut people that do not perform and to keep the ones that do and are necessary for continued operation. A manager typically has a much better idea of people working under them than HR, given the manager is the one working day to day with them. As others posted up thread, this is...

Most of the reports don't seem to focus on that, probably because there was no number attached to how many people were in his team. From this article it seems those two executives and their teams were cut to set an example, and Elon was not happy with how deep of a cut they did in the previous...

There is a possibility your dashcam wasn't on in the first place (red dot indicating it is recording) and your action of reviewing the footage is what turned it on later. I personally keep the icon docked on my menu bar so I can easily see when it is off. The other possibility is you didn't...

If there was a limit line and it was behind the bushes, the law would have been satisfied even if the car couldn't properly see traffic. But because there was no limit line and the defendant stopped at the stop sign and stop lettering, the second part of the law became controlling. The...

Reading the case, where the defendant was had no limit line. Thus the controlling statement is what is mean by "before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection". The specific place where he stopped had bushes obscuring the view. Defendant stopped where there was no way for him...

Most shareholders don't care about that as long as the stock price is high, which is why previously shareholders didn't care about most of his shenanigans in the past, nor that he splits his time at other companies. The main difference at this timing is that Tesla stock has crated in recent...

Were there any clips from prior to the accident in your recentclips folder? Dashcam does a one hour loop, so as long as you safely remove the drive (press and hold icon to pause recording before removing) before that one hour has passed, the footage will be in the RecentClips folder. Pressing...

I don't have twitter, but saw this posted in another article. Elon apparently responded specifically to certain sites...

Did you safely remove the drive and review it on a computer? Have you ensured the drive actually was able to successfully record in the past? Was the red dot showing that it is active? How long did you wait until you try to get the footage (it only loops 1 hour in the Recent Clips folder)? You...

But shareholders don't seem to care as much about equity compensation. They care about actual profit, which layoffs help improve, but reducing equity compensation doesn't.

To be fair, some of the utilities are dog slow (literally taking months) in setting up installs, so most projects don't wait for them and they are the last ones to go in. They may not even put you on the schedule until you have green tag from the local building department, so there is basically...

It's paraphrasing and even so it's modified by saying "that had worked on building new Supercharger stations". That's not "everyone" even by that statement, unless you exclude all the people in the supercharger team that was not part of new installations. That's why I tend to favor looking at...

I guess we need to define what is meant by "supercharger team"? Is it only the team that does new installs? Of the new installs does it include the people that manufacture and design the supercharger equipment? Are we excluding the employees that monitor and maintain the sites? The initial...

Well that didn't stop the media and people from saying "everyone" was fired, when that is false according to out of spec (given maintenance crew was retained).

Well, that's what I mean by disregard completely, it seems people here don't believe it at all. And as per the video posted up thread he didn't fire everyone. The people maintaining the stations are still all around and it's not clear if even the entire new installations team is gone or if a...

According to latest info from Out of Spec, they didn't fire "everyone". The supercharger maintenance crew is still retained and no one can say for certain that there aren't employees from the new installations still around.

That's only in the short term view. In the long term, of theories thrown out there, that this was a power struggle between Elon and Tinucci seems most plausible to me, so there may be a skeleton crew or eventually people will be hired back to tie up loose ends on the sites currently in progress...

If you plug into the accessory ports, those shut down when the car goes to sleep so there is no additional vampire drain. If you connect directly to the battery terminal, the vampire drain is permanent even when the car is asleep. The other thing is there is overload protection when using the...

Tinucci's team appears to be fired, but that what is being disputed is that was not the "entire supercharger team". I just watched a bit of the out of spec video and the claim is the maintenance team is still fully intact, so there will be no impact to supercharger operation, including for third...

Not slow compared to other charge networks, but they also missed goals and if the other post is true, there were sites that had everything ready to go and were sitting for months waiting for activation.

I've asked the person posting where they sourced it, but on the flip side there is no source that it's the entire team either. Seems to just be an assumption based on the 500 number. I've seen the telephone game played by the media so many times, it's not surprising to me.

Do you have any source for this? This has the most detail I have seen so far, and people in other threads are asking also.

There's been quite a few embellishments by the media: 1) that the 500 people was all of the supercharger team (as opposed to a subset). This is in fact even in the title. 2) that this affects maintenance of the network also (not just installations) 3) that this would affect the NACS rollout...

I almost bought one, but opted to pay a bit more for the extra range and AP.

I'm not talking about excusing Musk, just that your characterization of the rumor is wrong. The rumor was about cancelling the entire model in favor of robotaxies, it was not about $25k specifically. That turned out to be false, no matter if it may be because Elon saw the negative reaction of...

$25k when Elon talked about Model 2 in 2020 is now $30,268.13. Inflation is sky high. https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=25000&year1=202001&year2=202403

Nope the rumor was not about $25k specifically, it was about scrapping Model 2 entirely. For example, the C&D refers to it as sub-$30k, noting the $25k price tag was back in 2020. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a60428602/tesla-model-2-affordable-ev-canceled/

Almost none of the DC charge networks are profitable relying on pay-per-use fees, even with higher per stall utilization rates than Tesla. They need other forms of revenue like subscriptions. You are also forgetting about demand charges and other fixed fees that need to be paid to the power...

#1 we don't know that the software team that authorizes other automaker use is the same as the supercharger team #2 the rumor doesn't say that the entire supercharger team is gone. It says 500 were gone, but we don't know how much that is relative to the whole team. Again, as mentioned upthread...

Again, it doesn't seem like they canned the entire team. If that was the case, superchargers would very quickly start failing (as there would be no personnel to maintain them). Us Tesla owners have taken it for granted the high uptime, but looking at accounts of how other charge networks...

Again, I'm not talking about the software team freezing, I'm not considering that as a possibility nor did I ever suggest that as a possibility. The rumor doesn't suggest that is what is happening. I'm talking about how even if the physical network itself stays the same (same amount of stations...

The NHTSA report that was released recently showed there were a significant proportion of crashes where there was mode confusion: namely people though they had Autosteer still active, but actually they were only on TACC. I imagine that is why they have single pull and make it harder to fall back...

I'm talking about amount of stations/stalls, not talking about stuff like software access.

The advantage of the yoke is it provides better view of the instrument cluster and looks cool (styling is a significant factor in car buying so it's not worth zero). However, it only makes sense in a car that has steer-by-wire so you only steer 180 degrees. Tesla introduced it too early...

Why would they pull back? Adopting NACS was a condition for getting supercharger access. Even if the supercharger network is frozen to what it is today, it's still a major advantage to gain access to it.

I'm talking about signs that warn against backing into forward angle spaces: There are actually people that back in and when they pull out they are going the wrong way: Obviously doesn't apply if the spot is angled the opposite way (there would instead be signs to warn of the opposite).

Needing to see the rear plate is a valid reason, but as others point out, none of the reasons posted by the AI post makes sense as it applies the same to cars that pull into a space, just that the issues happen when backing into traffic (which is even worse, as there is much higher likelihood...

Seems like some AI response, it posts no examples of parking lots that disallow backing in for perpendicular spaces. I personally have only seen that for angled spaces, but it is because it makes zero sense to back in for an angled space.

Here's where statistics can hide details. Do they happen more often at traffic signal intersections because they are inherently more dangerous or is it simply because people disproportionately favor traffic signal intersections and avoid ones without such (because they feel unsafe or can't/don't...

Yep, the amount of work required means the price needs to be high enough to make it worthwhile. For open source, most likely what works better is to specify separate off the shelf boards. I bought some ESP8266 D1 Mini clones (dirt cheap on Amazon) for some projects and it's fairly versatile...

That makes it sound like it's not the whole team. Maybe it's one of several teams? It makes zero sense to fire all staff, as even if they build zero new stations, they still need people to maintain them.

That's new Vision-only Autopark, so of course it would work without cars. Above we were discussing the USS version of Autopark prior to the new one. Basically there is probably 3 different ones: 1) Old USS-only (like back in 2021): with cars required on both sides 2) Old USS hybrid: cars not...

My guess is because higher power electric ranges also use 14-50, while 6-50 is only used by welders AFAIK. So chances are most electricians have 14-50s in stock, while fewer would have 6-50s.

Technically they can if you approved the estimate prior to them starting on it, but I don't recall anyone saying they actually charged that money after doing no work.

Already discussed here, Baidu is just Tesla's map/navigation provider in China (long has been even before this announcement), nothing to do with AV tech. For the map tiles, Google is banned in China, plus the other US based navigation companies Tesla uses does not cover the country as well. In...