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I am really starting to like this Alex Roy guy:
How The Tesla Model 3 Got #MotorTrended and Lost Car of the Year
How The Tesla Model 3 Got #MotorTrended and Lost Car of the Year
Ulmo
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If this review is accurate, Tesla will have many people buy a Model 3:
The Electrek Review – Tesla Model 3, a promise delivered
The Electrek Review – Tesla Model 3, a promise delivered
Ulmo
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How much can they use from general Chinese car manufacturing engineering knowledge and not have to deal with the same proprietary knowledge competition we have in USA?
Ulmo
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If they do it to every car that comes in for service that might ever need it, then it gets the service personnel good at doing it cheaply, and the total impact to Tesla is much lower than clumps of recalls.
Funny you should write about it a day later. Some reporters saying, mission failed. Spacex saying their rocket performed nominally.
Northrop Grumman is tight lipped. Yet others have reverse conspiracy theories - the mission is a success, they made it look like it failed. Mucho fun. Follow along here. It's a classified payload, CIA may be.
Zuma satellite from @northropgrumman may be dead in orbit after separation from @SpaceX Falcon 9, sources say. Info blackout renders any conclusion - launcher issue? Satellite-only issue? -- impossible to draw. https://t.co/KggCGNC5Si • r/spacex
Edit: fixed broken link
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MartinAustin
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I watched it on camera... the satellite launched normally. (well, the second stage got rid of its fairing)
I don't think it was SpaceX's fault. They might delay the Falcon Heavy launch (...that may be telling...)
Tesla/TSLA will not be affected by this.
I watched it on camera... the satellite launched normally. (well, the second stage got rid of its fairing)
I don't think it was SpaceX's fault. They might delay the Falcon Heavy launch (...that may be telling...)
Tesla/TSLA will not be affected by this.
Ulmo
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They said it was secret and they're acting like it's secret, and some people think that's contradictory. Whatever!
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ArsTechnia says they heard it burnt up (It’s not official, but sources say the secretive Zuma satellite was lost), and here's another non-contradictory source saying something different:
Another twitter thread thinks that this was not a SpaceX failure at all, given some evidence of the upper stage operating properly:
Dr Marco Langbroek on Twitter
I'm perusing Reddit SpaceX comments for that article (Zuma satellite from @northropgrumman may be dead in orbit after separation from @SpaceX Falcon 9, sources say. Info blackout renders any conclusion - launcher issue? Satellite-only issue? -- impossible to draw. https://t.co/KggCGNC5Si • r/spacex) and there most people only come up with logic that says this was not a SpaceX failure. NG connector, no indications of upper stage anomalies, etc.
A weird looking star showed up in Sudan's sky before sunrise. • r/whatisthisthing
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Paracelsus
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Thank you very much for posting this link, @generalenthu. This really is some fun reading. I think I recognize agent Mulder of the X-Files in one of the comments.
Mike Smith
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Apparently Northrop-Grumman provided the equipment (payload adapter) that is responsible for ejecting the satellite from the rocket, which would make this their fault. This lines up with SpaceX saying the Falcon 9 performed as expected.
Eric Berger on Twitter
Eric Berger on Twitter
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Paracelsus
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Very interesting 5 minute YouTube video by In Depth discussing reasons why Tesla cannot build Superchargers in Germany, and why perspective Tesla buyers in Germany cannot access the 60,000,000 Euro EV fund. This video link was previously posted over on Reddit. Spoiler alert........In Depth suspects BMW, VW, Daimler, Bosch, etc............ It is worth the few minutes to watch it, and for anyone on the board from Germany, the video hosts offer to help publicize any petition efforts to help overturn these rulings:
RobStark
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Tesla can but did not want to build any in 2017. It just has to share them without compensation from other automakers.
Tesla has the following Superchargers scheduled for construction in Germany in 2018 according to Tesla.com supercharger page.
Essel
Niemegk
Wittlich
Freiburg
Brannenburg
Schaffenhausen
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kyne
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Do you have a link about the requirement to share SC? That would be a clear disadvantage for Tesla and another proof how the German Automakers make sure Tesla is kept small. Also I am not aware of an EV that is enabled to charge with the KWh of the SC.Is there any?
RobStark
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There are many threads here discussing the German Supercharger Question.
Here is one German bill requires CCS and L2 plugs at every new fast charge point.
First test drive from an Journalist in the Porsche Mission E
Some Details:
- Price: 75 - 90 k€
- Charging: 3 Power classes: 300 kW / 402 PS, 400 kW / 536 PS and 500 kW / 670 PS
- AWD at start, RWD later
- A 2 level Gear is planned! Enables taking a higher gear at higher speed - Sounds like an idea from an ICE Engineer to me....
- Plan to produce 20k units p.a. maybe 30k
not many other details other than "its a real Porsche"....
in German: Eine der ersten Testfahrten im Mission E - „ein Porsche durch und durch“ | Elektroauto-News.net
Some Details:
- Price: 75 - 90 k€
- Charging: 3 Power classes: 300 kW / 402 PS, 400 kW / 536 PS and 500 kW / 670 PS
- AWD at start, RWD later
- A 2 level Gear is planned! Enables taking a higher gear at higher speed - Sounds like an idea from an ICE Engineer to me....
- Plan to produce 20k units p.a. maybe 30k
not many other details other than "its a real Porsche"....
in German: Eine der ersten Testfahrten im Mission E - „ein Porsche durch und durch“ | Elektroauto-News.net
IIRC, Roadster I started out with a 2-speed gearbox to handle the whole speed range. But the makers of gearboxes could not make one that worked without grinding itself up, and anyway Tesla engineered around the need electronically, so they settled for a simple reduction gear.
Well, maybe VAG has access to better knowhow ...
Reciprocity
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So $89-107k for a slower/smaller, less range model S but potentially can maintain higher speeds on the Autobahn and charge faster. Certainly better for Germany, but not as competing world wide, mostly due to no charging infrastructure. Does Tesla counter with 2170 + PM motors and megacharger like charge rates and 400 mile range?
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