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I'm surprised to see more chromium mined than copper, and how little tantalum is.

It's kind of funny isn't it? The Nazis never attacked America, never pulled a "Pearl Harbor". Yet we waged war against Germany and virtually obliterated the nation, flattened entire cities, to defeat them-and no one whined about America or the allies for doing so. Yet violent savages commit a...

The "Palestinians" (and I quote that because there never has been a nation of Palestine) have been committing a 75 year genocide against the people of Israel. But it's not simply them. If you go back to 1948, the armies of 5 Islamic nations invaded Israel and waged war to exterminate every...

Almost responded before seeing /s LOL

In the early 1900s the numbers were far higher (Jews in Islamic nations). By the mid 1940s, Islamic nations had been heavily influenced by their coordination and cooperation with the Nazis. Nazis fleeing Germany after the war populated a number of Islamic nations as well. Nearly all started...

It's worse that that as far as the British actions. First they severely curtailed Jewish immigration TO LAND OWNED BY JEWs in the ME. Jewish people had been purchasing land from Arabs (at inflated prices) for decades. They did so knowing that those turned away would likely return to occupied...

That's OK, I like gravy.

495k production for the quarter, in spite of retooling shutdowns, intro of new products, as well as the normal holiday shutdowns is pretty awesome. 2 mil seems like a solid baseline for next year, everything on top is gravy. WE'RE GONNA BE RICH!!!! (OK most of you that got in on this earlier...

Forgive the language-though the clip was appropriate!

Hey, in the spirit of Christmas.... And for my fellow Rush fans... Hey, 10 bucks IS 10 bucks. And finally, one that makes me think of Elon (vid nothing to do with it-but better than some of the other ones of this song). Spirit with a vision...is a dream with a mission. And...

The entire movie was just horrible! That was only a small part of the cringe.

Another poster with refined taste! Too bad Neil isn't around any longer to do a song about CT, like he did with a certain Italian sports car. ETA-I suppose CT could be considered a "gleaming alloy air car".....

I'm curious-who else thinks Tesla might just spin a SUV out of the CT? Watching the fabrication of the body panels, and seeing that it really was as simple as laser cut panels and a press break, spinning the new exterior panels could be done at a minimal cost of tooling. Full size SUVs are still...

Neidermeyer? Dead!

I understand your point, but disagree with your conclusion, at least to some extent. EV adoption is where ICE adoption was around 100-110 years ago. Auto owners were still "early adopters", generally owned by the more affluent buyers (the intro of the Model T in '08 started to change that, but...

All I want for Christmas is a $300 SP, a $300 SP. a $300 SP

No, General Motors Corporation. The "New GM" is a completely different company. GMC went bankrupt, and a new company spun up, letting GM get out of it's liabilities, and eliminate shareholders as the government took partial ownership and provided billions in funding. As well as backed up the UAW...

If you'd have invested $10,000 in GM stock in 2005, you'd have ZERO. Ask me how I know. (as a former GM employee, I had some from company matches/bonuses) that I wasn't smart enough to sell.

Yes, my bad. Posted before my morning coffee!

Has anyone heard if Optimus is using 24V hardware? Seems like it would be a good thing from an economics standpoint if it shared some components, perhaps some actuators, with CT.

I'd like to see a cooperative-education program (alternating between school and work sessions at Tesla/SpaxeX/"Musk Inc") units. GM had something similar with General Motors Institute since the 1920s to the mid 1980s (the school still exists as Kettering University, but is not affiliated with GM...

So does this mean that lane centering and adaptive cruise will only work on "controlled access highways"? That would be a serious step backwards from a safety standpoint.

Was that as expensive as a Harley Davidson shirt?

8 foot of powder vs a 7000 lb CT, it might work. 8' of North Idaho Concrete as we used to call it (wet, heavy snow), not so much. 8' of powder would make a great CT video. I think they are going to need to do a deep snow challenge video of CT vs an F-150 vs a Silverado before the winter is over!

AFAIK pretty much every plow requires a custom adaptor to fit it to a particular truck. Plows typically have adaptors to provide "customized" mounts on different vehicles. I wouldn't think a cast structure would preclude that-provided that structure was designed to handle those loads-and some...

It most certainly corrodes copper (at least uncoated/insulated copper). Anyone have an older car with a copper/brass radiator back in the day? The air centers (fins) were .0015 copper-and after just a few years in a area with road salt, essentially disappeared, all that was left was the tube...

Cool video, thanks for sharing. This is my favorite shuttle launch video....mostly for the music.

My personal opinion is that the government intervention is just slowing the implementation of DCFC infrastructure. Companies such as Chargepoint or EVGO or EA would normally invest their own money wherever it made sense to expand the network without it, same as they have been doing (as well as...

This. Your "stuff" will automatically and insidiously expand to consume whatever space exists within a garage or shop. If your wife as access the time required to do so decreases exponentially.

What "strong-arming"? They are giving early reservation holders the first crack at this special edition rig, not forcing anyone to take it. Now-if they bump those early reservations to the back of the line if they don't take the special, you have a valid point. But nothing says they are doing...

I follow him on X, nothing new, only 2 posts all of November and nothing informative.

TSLA up about 4% so far today. Perhaps the market is waking up to what a technological tour-de-force the CT really is and what it portends for the future.

I miss Cory Steuben on the Munro videos-he provided the technical content that I was interested in. Sandy...more hype or FUD sometimes than information.

Um, no, that's not the purpose of a silencer (properly known as a suppressor). A suppressor works by slowing the velocity of the escaping gas propelling the bullet, not reducing the velocity of the bullet. You still get the "sonic boom" (crack) of a supersonic bullet, and in fact they are...

One of the nice things is those small generators can be paired/synced so you can double or triple the output, but keep the weight of each individual generator reasonable. They are also quiet and fuel efficient-unlike "old-school" generators that operate at a constant high RPM, these ramp up/down...

Is there a button within the bed to operate the tonneau cover?

One thing I commented on earlier is how we tend to be guilty of looking at things that are issues for us and discounting what might be a big deal to others-and I'm as guilty as anyone of that. One issue I am disappointed with is shortening the bed down to 6'-IMO 6.5-7 foot is more useful, you...

Fair enough, and true enough. Others might not-in which case this isn't the right vehicle for them. No one vehicle is right for everyone-that's why we have choices. I don't see any EV replacing an F-350 diesel if you travel and live out of say a 40' 5th wheel, like a fair number of retirees do...

The same can be said for any vehicle purchase. A Toyota Corolla will get you to your destination as well as a Model S-and do it for $22k. If you need a bigger vehicle for those long family trips, just rent it, right? The point is we all buy vehicles as a "lifestyle choice"-if we didn't Tesla...

This. It's not the right vehicle for some people at this time-but it IS for a great many. And no vehicle is perfect for everyone. An F-350 crew cab dualie with an 8' bed is perfect for some applications-especially in wide open areas like say Montana or Wyoming, towing a big trailer or hauling...

I'm not quite so negative about it, but do agree that they screwed up with the narrow (and short) bed. In a conventional pickup it is a common practice to build a simple platform to utilize the full width of the truck bed above the wheelwells, giving you a usable width of nearly 6'. The original...

Personally-I doubt that. It's a huge cost adder to a trailer that may only be towed a few times a year. You also have the issue of driving dynamics when the trailer is pushing you with it's own motor to contend with. But who knows-maybe battery tech will evolve to the point that this isn't cost...

In metro areas and along major interstates, that's true. On secondary roads, or in remote, rural areas? Not so much. In much of the West (not West coast) you're out of luck if you're not along a major interstate. Even in the crowded East, if you prefer rural backroads, you're stretched at the...

I do go "off road" but mostly gravel forest service roads. Frankly I'm not taking an $80k pickup into some of the places that would beat it up. But that's me, plenty do. I'd be happy with a standard, 4x4 package with "open" differentials-good enough for most snow conditions or steep gravel roads...

I've been doing some more thinking about pricing on the 4x4 version at $80k. Yeah, you can get a Silverado WT crew cab 4x4 for about $43.4. But...look at what CT has. Air suspension and front and rear locking differentials,4 wheel steering, plus all the rest of the tech. This has top of the...

Elon described the glass as "rock proof". Gotta see how that holds up. In rural areas, rock chips are a frequent issue-if the glass truly is tougher than conventional glass, it's significant-especially given the size of the CT windshield! I'd also expect the degree of slope of the CT windshield...

With the tonneu cover, who cares? If that was the only reason and this is indeed "dead space" it was IMHO a poor design choice. I suspect that there was more to it regarding packing, but am not sure what. Maybe required for structure due to the unibody? You're right about the older...

OK, my initial reaction was one of disappointment based on price and lack of 500 mile range (without taking up bed space anyway). But looking at it-this thing really is so freekin' cool. Supercar handling and performance (the 911 drag race is brilliant marketing). Crazy tight steering...

One thing I'm curious about. Conventional trucks are 4' between the wheel wells, but considerably wider above and in front and behind them. I'd guess closer to 6' wide, perhaps a bit less (will need to measure mine). I wonder what is in that space on the CT?

Or the $550 tire plug kit and compressor! (<$30 at WM). Or $1250 for a spare tire! That you then have to put in your bed. As someone that just had a flat on the interstate last weekend, I'm now sensitive to spare tire availability! Of course...once I got home I plugged the original in 5...