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Does anyone think this design change to the front might enable the bumper to be thermo formed or vacuum formed instead of requiring it to be injection molded? That could create some significant savings.

The Problem with Experts - Why Uber, Tesla and the iPhone are Disruptive Innovations This might be helpful, I try to explain why the supercharger network is one example of disruptive innovation for Tesla. They have others as well. Just imagine being a traditional car company and the...

I think the boring hats and flamethrowers help show the market how easily Musk's companies can raise money. I know it is isn't really serious money from Tesla's point of view but it makes the point. It's ridiculous for people to think Tesla is going to have problems raising money when more is...

If the non-Tesla manufacturers are able to get a reasonable highspeed CCS network running, how will they stop slower charging cars like the Bolt/Ampera from clogging up spots. Would they have complex billing that tries to deal with time and energy?

Well that's good news! It's then a reasonable option in places that will have a good CSS charging network

According to Electrek's article it is limited to 50kW. Hopefully it's wrong, because it's a really bad design tradeoff that will hurt their EV efforts going forward.

Unfortunately the iPace only has 50kW fast charging and a not very useful fast charging network. It's a nice but expensive secondary car or city car.

Malcolm Gladwell's podcast covers Toyota's unintended acceleration controversy. If you haven't listened to it, then you can find it here. It talks about Consumer Reports recommendations and how fundamentally dangerous they are. You just can't trust CR when it relates to safety whether its...

I'm not sure it matters yet. Installations should be done strategically at this point until they have lots of batteries being produced. The goal is to get producing batteries quickly and then consume them in the most logical way.

Yes, as well Supercharger pricing allows Tesla to build Superchargers in cities to create sales for people without the ability to charge at home (people who park on the street or in parking garages). As well it paves the way to allowing other car manufacturers to buy their way into the...

Here is a blog post I wrote comparing Teslas Supercharger network to Costco's Business strategy - Costco's business strategy and Tesla's Supercharger network

I'm always surprised when most people's business instincts are to copy instead of trying to differentiate.

I wrote up my thoughts on how Costco's business model and the Supercharger network are related. Costco's business strategy and Tesla's Supercharger network

Sell when Elon is on the rocket to Mars!