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mickificki
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Hogfighter
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You haven't been around long enough to formulate an opinion as to why there is contempt on this forum for those manufacturers. We've been hearing from OEM's for years about what cool EV they're gonna make. It's been the boy who cried wolf, and that's the reason we scoff....it has nothing to do with technical ability.
When I can buy a cool EV BMW for the same price as an ICE BMW, I for one will stop scoffing.
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Tesla bids for a new world’s largest Powerpack battery system in Colorado
In South Australia, Tesla’s 100MW/ 129MWh Powerpack project is known as “the most powerful battery system in the world” and while this proposal in Colorado would not be as powerful with a power capacity of 75 MW, it would be able to run for 4 hours, which would require a much bigger energy capacity of 300 MWh.
This is important.
In South Australia, Tesla’s 100MW/ 129MWh Powerpack project is known as “the most powerful battery system in the world” and while this proposal in Colorado would not be as powerful with a power capacity of 75 MW, it would be able to run for 4 hours, which would require a much bigger energy capacity of 300 MWh.
This is important.
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Thumper
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To me, it is great to see the incumbents responding to EVs. Remember Elon's original goal to "hasten the transition to sustainable transport". Whether these new investments and announcements are window dressing or the first steps in serious product rollout is an open question. While I don't buy the proposition that they are a threat to Tesla, it is reasonable that some of them will pan out in the long run. Up with EVs down with ICE.
New project underway by Elon,
"The famed entrepreneur has hired several staffers and writers at The Onion to work on a secret project, The Daily Beast is reporting. Among the new hires is former editor in chief of The Onion Cole Bolton, as well as former executive editor Ben Berkley, according to the report. They are apparently leading the effort and have hired three writers and one editor who previously worked at The Onion."
Here’s Why Elon Musk Is Poaching ‘The Onion’ Staffers
Elon Musk Wanted to Buy ‘The Onion,’ Now His Team’s Hiring Its Staffers for a Secret Project
fwiw, I hope he's hiring them at least in part to respond via satire to media gibberish (which the media itself, of course, hardly ever exposes for what it is), including so much of the coverage of Tesla.
"The famed entrepreneur has hired several staffers and writers at The Onion to work on a secret project, The Daily Beast is reporting. Among the new hires is former editor in chief of The Onion Cole Bolton, as well as former executive editor Ben Berkley, according to the report. They are apparently leading the effort and have hired three writers and one editor who previously worked at The Onion."
Here’s Why Elon Musk Is Poaching ‘The Onion’ Staffers
Elon Musk Wanted to Buy ‘The Onion,’ Now His Team’s Hiring Its Staffers for a Secret Project
fwiw, I hope he's hiring them at least in part to respond via satire to media gibberish (which the media itself, of course, hardly ever exposes for what it is), including so much of the coverage of Tesla.
Reciprocity
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Great idea. The FUD that is out there makes me laugh almost as much as the articles on the Onion.
K_Dizzle
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Similarly to how Apple differentiates the iPhone from a cellphone, iPad from a tablet and from the recent Apple what’s a computer campaign a computer from an iPad with a keyboard. Tesla competition will all be marketed as an EV however telling someone that you drive a Tesla is a status symbol in an of itself. That’s what separates a Tesla from a Chevy bolt EV. Or jaguar iPace EV.
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I think it's time for Elon to become a regular guest on the Colbert show like Neil Degrasse Tyson is. Elon needs to give that "there needs to be more to wake up to than just solving world problems" speech and visit maybe once a month or so. Or have them both on the same night every 3 months or so.....to me that would help with some of the FUD and would be free marketing for SpaceX and Tesla.
Just a random thought....anyhow....
Just a random thought....anyhow....
Reciprocity
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if you're Colorado, who you going to trust with this project? Since no one other then Tesla has done a project close to this scale, I would think they have a huge credibility surplus based on prior success.
Hogfighter
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Another hit piece from Lora Kolodny about flawed parts. Unsure how she sleeps at night.
Advertising is the lifeblood of the media. Tesla does not advertise. Hence some reporters and editors do not feel the need to think twice before publishing hit pieces about Tesla.
Krugerrand
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Good point. $2B by BMW got them the i3.
Why don’t you start a “German engineering is the best” thread and post there instead of here?
Krugerrand
Meow
Stop it already with the 'Germans are the best' crap. Tesla bought Grohmann not because they are 'German' but because they happened to have the expertise Tesla wanted to have in house AND were for sale at a price Tesla could afford. (FYI, I'm married to a German and partially German myself. We aren't 'special'. People like everyone else with strengths and weaknesses.)
N5329K
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German engineering is really good, but where they truly excel is in model building. The endless stream of concept EV cars that never make it into production is an example of this.
Robin
NEIN! Deutsche sind die Besten! Tesla wird fallen!
Special thanks to Google translate.
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