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According to Drew on the latest Munro video, they have a gigabit Ethernet loop, single pair (each way), such that if one connection is lost, communications can flow the other way. Power is separate (automotive power is too noisy). And it isn't really Ethernet either. It is a synchronized TDMA...

Maybe not. Many apartments in cold climates are set up for block heaters which draw a lot of current, so they generally provide dedicated circuits for each spot. Check to see what kind of receptacle you actually have. It could be a 15A or a 20A circuit. The 20A circuits have a horizontal blade...

Don’t pin your hopes on front camera helping FSD. It isn’t a super wide angle and doesn’t give you more view than what is available now. Tesla really needs left and right bumper cameras.

I ended going with a kohler 38 kW generator, and since I have a 400A service, just went with a single 400A transfer switch. Could I max out 38 kW of power? Sure, but easy enough to make sure I don’t have a lot of high loads operating during a blackout. Last two outages I had, I was drawing...

Which is why I ended up installing a natural gas standby generator. If I'm going through all the trouble and expense to put one in, I'd like one that a) served the whole house and b) didn't run out of juice after a few hours.

Nope, not going to work. Time for plan B. What are your options?

This is a common mistake. RV adapters do something special and just aren’t compatible with EV charging. You can buy 30A to 50A adapters which work, but not ones meant for RVs. Heres more info: Advice for EV Charging in North America

Also remember that the S&P 500 upwards performance is really due to the top 7 stocks, which are all tech companies. The rest of the S&P 493 has not performed nearly as well.

Use something like the calculator at the bottom of this page based on his mileage.

I don’t think a plow would help with that, you’d need a big snowblower? Or are you thinking of 8’ tall stacked plows?

$14K FSD?? $25 bottle opener? huge margins on all that. My point stands.

Yeah, Cybertruck IS the plow. No plow is the best plow. Put CT on lowest suspension setting and have at it. Can’t wait to see vids of this in action.

So everyone dumps on Ford for dealer market price adjustments, but is OK with Tesla doing the same thing for the first 1000 CTs. Oookay. Personally, I think both Ford and Tesla are in the right to be doing this, since I like free markets.

Of all Elon's companies, SpaceX must be one of the least seat of the pants, at least for operational launches, not R&D. Maybe Neuralink is more buttoned up. Elon is right when he says his companies operate in the most regulated environments.

Up next, they’ll shut down their RAN workforce I suspect. They need to lean out to get to profitability.

Rivian has shut down their cell manufacturing ambitions. From the paywalled The Information:

100% this. Would love to see this.

Model S/X aren't going to get steer by wire anytime soon. It is a massive change, and Tesla still needs to gain experience from CT for about a year before transferring the tech to a different vehicle. Early 2026 is the earliest Model S/X will see it.

They also don't have a manufacturing line, just a hand built prototype line. So until that line gets built, we're not going to see semi. But let's see, CT will be low volume throughout 2024 (although some think otherwise). Semi needs a manufacturing line, and Tesla could easily get that built...

Ganesh always struck me as waaay too laid back for Tesla. And Dojo really hasn't been implemented at Tesla speed.

There's a setting in the car that allows the car to use friction brakes on your behalf so that you won't notice if regen is limited. That's what I use. There are many reasons why regen could be limited, some of them are due to cold.

Not really. If you have an existing J1772 EVSE, I'd go ahead and use it. The adapter itself appears bulletproof - I've yet to hear of a problem with it.

Absolutely, that's what I said upthread. I expect the gen3 to be revealed with firm pricing and an order page ready to go, and then deliveries within 6 months maximum of that reveal.

Huh. I wonder if that’s to accommodate Cybertrucks?

I still don't know why you aren't installing a Wall Connector. Would use 6/2 instead of 6/3, so cheaper. Wouldn't need a 50A GFCI, so cheaper. Wouldn't need a receptacle, so cheaper. Surge arrestor? For lightning spikes?

No it isn't. I was being flippant and made a mistake. It's a bit confusing since X Premium members get to use Grok, which is an x.ai product.

Elon looking to turn X into an AI investment vehicle since he's pissed off all the advertisers :) Note that X is still a private company and thus has a hard limit to the # of shareholders so I expect the minimum investment to be around $10M and/or be a VIP in the AI space.

My guess is no. People want specific paint colors for their cars. Also SS would require Model 2 to look really angular. CT customers will put up with the look since the SS is functional for a truck. SS provides no benefits for a run about car.

There is definitely more tuning coming. On one of the videos, they said that the rear wheels will turn significantly more than they currently do after a software update once they tune it.

There's no point having a really high volume production line unless you can sell the cars, and to sell the cars, they need to hit a particular low price target. So my further prediction about Model 2 is that it'll come in ONE drivetrain (only one motor) and ONE battery pack size (250 miles)...

It sounded like Tesla was reacting to the fact that they couldn't get parts for existing cars, so trying to procure parts for a new vehicle was pointless. And it wasn't just Tesla, the entire auto industry was affected. So, no, I don't think it had anything to do with 48V parts.

Hey, I'm just going by what this random dude named Elon was quoted as saying in the Q3 2024 conference call: "Just to be clear, it will be cool, but it's utilitarian. It's not meant to, you know, fill you with magic. It's to get you from A to B. It will be still beautiful, but it's utility."...

How low can lithium go? Here's an updated 5 year graph of lithium carbonate pricing: It has dropped 28% in less than a month! As you can imagine, the three mining juniors I'm following, EEMMF, SLI and PLL are also down considerably. Both EEMMF and SLI recently sent out press releases saying...

I think Model 2 announcement/delivery will be different from all other Tesla vehicles. It will be a fairly boring pedestrian car, the ONLY really cool thing about it will be the price. So I think the first reveal for it will be when they have locked down the pricing, and you put in orders...

Sigh. How and why are people such bad interviewers? The ONLY thing I got out of that is that the plans for the Model 2 production line in Austin are quite advanced, Elon reviews them every week, and the production process will blow people’s minds. CT won’t be a meaningful contributor to 2024...

Yes should work fine.

<crackling campfire sounds> "And while the thread lives on to this very day, @Woody5575 has never been heard from ever again..."

Yes indeed, you need a Tesla Gateway with an autotransformer to power a house during blackouts. OR you can just use the NEMA 14-50 outlet which is powered by a separate inverter in the truck.

What’s the stats on ICE pickups?

That’s just the ultimate sad indictment of legacy aerospace at its finest. They move so slowly that no one knows what in process inventory is and isn’t since inventory is sitting around for, in some cases, decades.

Ok. And has construction started on that yet?

Uh, did everyone forget about the semi? Thats yet another factory (Nevada expansion in this case) that Tesla has seemingly put on ice.

Thanks, voted. The other reason I don't think CT will ramp quickly is because it is chock full of brand new technology, some of which will break. Tesla will fix it all, of course, and make running production line changes to accommodate the fixes, but that means they don't want high volume.

Well, line capacity != line production. If they can't make use of the cells, they'll just idle the line. Not to mention that the cell line needs perfect supply chain inputs of its own and as a new cell manufacturer, Tesla may very well go through teething issues just on that. And can't the...

Don't know what chart you are looking at, but it will increase charging speed a lot compared to a regular household circuit. You've been here long enough to know better :)

You think 150K CTs built in 2024??? Based on what?

Yeah, I just don’t see any new orders getting their CT for at least 2+ years.

I really don’t know much about the vehicle parts industry, but it seems that headlamps are fairly customized for different vehicles, and the CT has very unique looking headlights. So the CT headlights may indeed be a custom part, and at that point, it would indeed be easy to order it made to...

Yes, for certain applications, like wanting to know the current accelerator position, its probably pointless retransmitting the fifth packet ago if you have the current one. I do wonder how much custom communications code Tesla has written. While I realize this example is at the complete...

Yeah, it'll be easier to stick a bunch of extension cords into the various CT receptacles. If you are in power outage prone area though, you might want to go the Powershare route.