Sounds more like Elon knows he F-ed up big time, hammer on thumb, shot his foot, tunnel carpel syndrome, cracked his phone screen from excessive tweeting, bounced his check.
IMHO Elon was giving conflicting goals: Expand the network, but rapidly cut the workforce.
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I would have thought with all of Tesla's AGI, this would have been the first thing they used Dojo for before using it to learn to drive.
Called it in the beginning of the month. He pulled the same thing for Twitter. As I mentioned back then, if the labor market is bad (meaning other companies are also doing layoffs), the rehire strategy can work. If the job market is booming, people won't want to come back. If they were successful rehired, that means perhaps the job market isn't really doing that good.And here it is. Elon is hiring back people after his highly planned firing of everyone as part of a well thought out strategy of punishing people for being disloyal:
Hey, you still available?
After laying off 500 members of the Tesla Supercharger team and sending the EV charging world into turmoil, Tesla is looking to rehire some of the personnel. As Bloomberg reports, one of the major returns is director for charging for North America Max De Zegher, who apparently worked right under...
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Well thats part of the plug shape. I should have said plug shape/pinout or whatever but it is the plug interface (minus communication).
Why is using the same pins for ac and dc a safety issue?
Is this what happens when you pulse DC rapidly on and off 60 times per second? I always wondered.Because if you did both at the same time, you'd have AC/DC
It's like providing a path for the gates of hell to open up on, except you trust the gatekeeper to keep it locked at all times and never go to sleep so a wicked goblin could pick his pocket and open it up.
As I assumed earlier, this really looks more and more like a house clean-up after a big internal department-wide f..-up such as kickbacks, for example. If that is true, then the entire thing can be overall a positive damage control, and we'll not likely to ever know. Again, based on a tip from a professional auditor and exec (not related to Tesla), this is not a unique pattern of events for a corporation.
Like others, I'm not seeing why it's a safety issue to share the pins. The two pins are never energized at the same time anyways, so having separate pins doesn't really give you anything. The only reason why CCS ended up that way was because the standards bodies didn't plan for DC and ended up having to slap on DC pins to J1772 (and Type 2). It was better than having a whole other DC connector (like CHAdeMO proposed and what China is using), but it's still not a good design. Having the extra DC pins means that when AC charging, you need that flap to cover them, otherwise you have exposed pins which can get dirty or wet.
