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I think you are falling victim to the common misconception that FSD beta is a driver assist and not a beta version of FSD. It's not "weird" to drive slowly across the road when the vehicle is just going to have to wait in the median. It was clearly optimizing for energy efficiency (something you...
Still no video. However Kyle said he charged 30 times vs. 10 times for the Silverado. He also revealed that the charging curve on his Cyberbeast holds 250kW to 29% (vs. 25% on the dual motor he tested earlier. Not clear if this is Cyberbeast specific or an updated chart curve for all Cybertrucks.)
Uber mobility gross bookings are about $80 billion a year. I see a claim that 22% of that is just 5 metros (one of which is Los Angeles) so $2 billion seems plausible.
But that would mean if you had a 12V battery open circuit failure while driving the car would lose power steering. Tempted to test this since I can't find a definitive answer.
Not sure what you're saying. If disconnect the fireman's loop the 12V systems are still powered off of the 12V battery. If you disconnect the 12V battery while the car is on the 12V systems are still powered by the DC-DC.
Yeah I’m pretty sure if the 12v gets disconnected it will run off the DC-DC. What I’m not sure about is what happens if the 12V battery short circuits.
It’s not a delayed walk signal. Watch the video very carefully. The light turns red before the crosswalk turns green. You can see the light turn yellow in my screen capture. The pedestrians start walking because the light is yellow and the Tesla doesn’t have enough room to go anyway so they...
You can also run the door locks off of the DC-DC converter from the high voltage system. I’m not sure of that covers a 12V battery short circuit failure though.
How often do those situations happen and how likely is it for the 12V battery to fail at the same time?
No. There’s only one. What are the chances that the 12v would fail at the same time you drive into a pond? Extraordinarily unlikely. She probably couldn’t open the door because there were thousands of pounds of water pushing against it.
No, they're going to finish the "march of nines" and start a limited robotaxi service in Jacksonville (From Chuck's house to the Target).
This will fulfill the promise that V12 "won't be beta" (on one highway in Florida).
I asked Chuck to set up the cameras to measure a human baseline and he told me he's not aware of any collisions at that intersection. Of course our 90% success metric isn't the same because most of the time if you screw up other drivers will be able to avoid the collision.
It looks pretty much the same as Toyota truck IFS to me.
Tundra:
Cybertruck ball joint is higher so it doesn’t need to be as strong because there’s less leverage.
Lower control arms need to be beefy, upper control arms don't. Just think about how forces from the contact patch translate to the spindle ball joints.
Here's the upper control arm for Ford Raptor. The Cybertruck upper ball joint is even higher so it can be even weaker.
Look up how levers...
It does seem like that could happen. I just wonder if the benefit is big enough. It seems like it will always be much more expensive. I think one reason Tesla is doing it is you need all the redundancy for robotaxis.
Every part of the system is supposed to redundant. Two motors, triple sensors, etc. Haven’t heard what they did for power but I’m sure it’s redundant. I doubt it’s going to fail from power loss. If there are ever failures I bet it’s a software bug.
There have been quite a few steer by wire failures but no one has lost steering (because the system is redundant.)
This one is a high voltage system failure but it doesn't sound like it completely lost drive power...
I think Superchargers are cheaper, especially at night. I bet the Cybertruck and Silverado end up using a similar amount of energy so Cybertruck will be cheaper. Unfortunately the cost may be higher than gas.
Sadly, team Silverado is back to slow charging.
Steer by wire and power steering are run at low voltage (48V or 12V). My guess is that it can run off the 48V DC-DC even when the 48V battery dies and run off the 48V battery if the HV pack dies.
What's the deal with cooling the supercharger connection? I didn't realize connector heat was a limiting factor.
Bearded Tesla says the Silverado has charged 3 times vs. 7 times for the Cybertruck and they're all neck and neck. Pretty sure he's driving too slow.
I assume these are all experienced EV drivers. Much faster to go 75mph vs. 85mph and then 40mph.
The cool thing about this race is the optimal speed is probably only a little above the speed limit whereas with the fastest charging EVs it's starting to get dangerous.
For reference. I think Silverado EV is about 50% better than Hummer.
Drag Coefficients
0.30 Rivian (also smallest frontal area)
0.33 Silverado EV (probably bigger frontal area than cybertruck)
0.34 Cybertruck (extraordinary given the ridiculous shape)
0.44 Lightning (why???)
0.50 Hummer EV (lol)
My guess:
Silverado EV - the only thing stopping it is CCS reliability. It is the small battery version (180kwh).
Cybertruck - Superchargers!
Lightning - I assume it will also use superchargers
Rivian - Most efficient but can only use CCS