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It depends if Tesla's mission of hastening the transition to sustainable mobility still is a thing. Driving down the cost of EVs' main component, ie. the battery pack, needs continued attention and investment. Is Tesla not doing the hard and seemingly unglamorous problem solving anymore? That...

Whatever happened to the race? I can't find anything on how it ended.

These numbers fail the plausibility check. Look again and think.

Thank you. Just picking out KY, OR, and UT, all with similar (small) populations and near identical testing rates is quite revelatory.

The FT just ran a very interesting article concerning the two adjacent northern Italian regions of Lombardy and Veneto, with the latter doing markedly better seemingly because they tried to keep as many people tested positive at home rather than infecting the hospital staff. Quotes: ... As...

Sean Wagner said: ↑ The last lockdown paces the nation. This is not the time for "feral" government. I can try. So many variables. It presupposes a population still widely susceptile to the disease. And it also presupposes that somewhat effective measures on the individual level are possible...

Without speaking to the post at hand, I'm sorry to say the FT's Alphaville section is - and I mean it just so - among the rabid, positively gushing, highly biased purveyors of anti-Tesla blurbs. They will dig far and wide to "unearth" just about anything that sounds right to them, while being...

I know that feeling! Today it was my cherished giant Soissons beans that go into soups and chilis and what-have-yous. Previously a specific liquid soap, hand sanitizer [finally after weeks and weeks without], and of course toilet paper. There must have been contingency plans for just such...

No first world country tolerates the regulatory jungle that has allowed US opioid addiction toe flourish. It's that simple. I like these rule-of-thumb crutches when it comes to validating data. Worth keeping in mind. Just so. The relative cost of preparing for a bad-case scenario applies...

Or rephrased very short-term thinking.

Excellent information and presentation from the FT. Ile-de-France is the region around Paris.

Every state should be preparing right now. There's no getting around CV, and national coordination is essential if this isn't to drag on and on. Source Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS The latest data do show California putting a lid on the increase in cases, if the excellent FT graphic is to...

Important to note this graph shows new cases per day, if I understand correctly. But at least it looks like a linear progression now. We will hopefully see this come down over the next one or two weeks.

The next highly contagious disease to hit us will be transmitted by kitten pix and lead to constipation. As well as strange cravings for extra-stinky cat food. Thank you for bringing that to my attention. The latest day's numbers are still incomplete, I gather. However: Verteilung nach Alter...

Here's a small, integrated higher-power 5W part by Luminus, based in CA. Just an example of what I think might come in handy. Maybe the UV light could simply augment a filter's capabilities rather than trying to zap the virus in a dedicated chamber...

That's precisely who the article in the NYT I referred to maybe a week ago [and tried to find again] was about. Had the same impression that this man understands the challenge, means business, and has clear goals. The way I understood it his organization usually is tasked with organizing...

I don't know the intensity required to reliably kill off CV. Yes, it may turn out to be a brain fart. If it's very high and needed a lot of power, I was thinking there could be a switch/proximity sensor that triggered the well-shielded UV lights. Might require a spiral chamber and radial pump...

The health commissioner of Lombardy mentioned that people in their 40s and 50s were in intensive care too. Even if just 1% of that age group require it all at once to survive the present system will not be able to cope. At all. Young people are not invincible, warns WHO head ... Speaking at a...

#ITALY Sadly, there's been a slight rise in deaths again, to 475. Giulio Gallera, Lombardy's health commissioner [not sure that's the correct translation for "assessore"], said in an interview with La Reppublica that people in their 40's and 50's were requiring ventilators too. He's called for a...

Seconded. I'll go over their last statement again too to aid in my comprehension and better understand the conversation, as so many denizens of this thread are far better placed to expound on this than I. I do think Tesla's relative [!] financial health should one day reveal itself beyond a...

European automotive factories are shutting down while stateside the UAW is demanding the same right now. UAW presses Detroit 3 for 2-week plant shutdown, sets deadline tonight Assuming outside suppliers keep up, every day Tesla goes on cranking out new cars - even if the pace has to be adjusted...

Clearly so. But it's evidently an essential part of any solution. Testing absolutely everyone is the strategy successfully implemented in the little Italian town - especially important since that's the only way to discover carriers with no symptoms. As per Prof. Crisanti's quote above.

The way to keep Fremont running is crystal clear: test everyone, repeat. Aggressive testing helps Italian town cut new coronavirus cases to zero Experiment in Vò underscores WHO’s message to ‘test, test, test’ Donato Paolo Mancini and Clive Cookson in London 4 HOURS AGO ... “In the UK...

Quote .../ In a telephone conference with the heads of big engineering companies on Monday evening, Boris Johnson, the prime minister, called for 30,000 [respirators] to be made within two weeks, according to two executives with knowledge of the discussion. Over the weekend, Matt Hancock, the...

Latest Italian numbers from the government's Protezione Civile. Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS White - deceased. May their families find peace and a measure of acceptance. Green - released. Obviously, this data is less influenced by overall testing numbers. Here's to the Italian "lockdown"...

As I've written in the Corona-thread, according to an article in the NYT [Kindle version], testing in the US is supposed to be massively ramped up during this week, with [from memory] 2'000 private labs using automated equipment participating in the federally organized effort. We shall see...

According to an article in the NYT [Kindle edition], massive testing capacities will be rolled out this week in the US. From memory [!], 2000 private labs with automated analysis. If this has been posted already, please indulge me - I think this is highly significant.

A coronation?

Madadayo (まあだだよ, Mādadayo, "Not Yet") is a 1993 Japanese comedy-drama film. It is the thirtieth and final film to be completed by Akira Kurosawa. Can't see the whites in their eyes yet. Seesaw will not be over tomorrow. Buy in tranches over the next months [sic] whenever you like. Remember that...

"like stepping on the accelerator after you hit a tree"

Slowing down can be just as good an exercise as speeding up, albeit with somewhat different and hopefully temporary results. The story is all over. Reported on the excellent German public radio too. Will try to find out more in the morning. Edit: it certainly sounds [!] like atrocious...

The stupidity is beyond my comprehension. Even if it's just absence of mind. Edit: verbatim, a "vaccine exclusively for America". This would not have happened to any other administration - people would simply not have believed it. See for instance Aktuelle Nachrichten online - FAZ.NET

Top news on German public radio [et al.] is that the Trump administration has been trying to buy exclusive access to a vaccine being developed by a local company. They publicly and summarily refused, reiterating it is meant "for the world". I am only relaying the information, but the reporting...

Thank you to those of you who provided some context to the graph I linked to, I realize how important it is to keep things sane. Nevertheless, the numbers are stark and I'm having some trouble with the abstraction. As expected. The best we can do is slow down the speed of propagation while...

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Same thing here in my very international corner of not-so-reflected-and-rational Switzerland this afternoon [I purposefully went later to avoid the crowds]. No sugar. No flour. No fresh veggies!! I asked - all been bought today. Don't even mention toilet paper, that's been rare for a while now...

A resignation at the top would do it. Nothing else attacks the root cause.

Hellos from Basel. Seeing what's happening in Italy, and knowing up to 10% of cases require intensive care and respirators, it seems utterly foolhardy to me not to plan for separate wards and a much higher caseload than usual. Also, the total absence of disinfectant for purchase is a critical...

Also capitalizing on an excellent opportunity. Boeing conversely couldn't resist paying out a dividend - and has now drawn down a new 11 or 13 billion USD [can't recall] credit line in one fell swoop. The obvious inference is they'll be needing more money.

Sadly as expected. But to read about it still leaves a hollow in the stomach. Hospital beds can be added quickly, ideally in separate wards. It's respirators that are urgently needed, I think. Taiwan got a lot of things right, as per a post above - they prepared well after SARS and acted...

From inside a hospital in Bergamo, Italy, quote one part of the thread (underline added): · Mar 9 12/ Reasons for the access always the same: fever and breathing difficulties, fever and cough, respiratory failure. Radiology reports always the same: bilateral interstitial pneumonia, bilateral...

FT, yesterday // Corporate bonds Saudi-Russia price war puts $110bn of US energy bonds on the brink Debt issued by US producers plummets in price, mirroring crude ... Almost 12 per cent of the $936bn of bonds issued by US oil and gas companies are were trading on Monday with a yield more...

I just have to pipe up and say thank you for this one.

Yes, well. They're called Cars Not Burning Coal for a reason, right? Although Cramer's Not Been Complicit as of late.

Slightly exaggerated: the more innovation and rapid evolution is required, the harder it will be for putative rivals-without-a-mission to simply throw money around and scale. I prefer Elon and his team of extraordinary engineers to have some medium-heavy lifting to do. And yes, without a good...

And while I'm at it, this does seem germane to the posts above: Ford Europe looks to have two Mach-E's on tour, and it seems like a pretty impromptu thing. One German dealer in the small town of Bad Neustadt had a week's time to organize an unveiling ["I had planned on two days of skiing"]...

Absolutely. They need to finally enter a positive feedback loop, while battery cell production has to scale for costs to continue to fall. The market is too big, diverse, and changeable for one company to do it all. Incidentally, I think the recent "revelation" by Mercedes that Tesla buying...

Very interested in the veracity of the shorter range e-tron 50 claim, as I've been wondering what the minimal exigency for the range of a "full" car in Europe might be [always presupposing decent recharging options]. That's one reason I've been watching Audi e-tron sales. Maybe it's no...

That's an excellent writeup cum interactive visualizations. Thank you! Am just playing around with the tool [under "Immunity"] that combines Immunity, transmission rate, and spontaneous activation rate.

Boardrooms and executive suites across the automotive world would break out in spontaneous cheers, song and dance. Your suggestion gives me the willies. That being said, I welcome the occasion to think about scenarios for Tesla's trajectory that further its mission statement. Toyota is a very...