Power Hungry
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I reckon Musk is to Tesla what Jobs was to Apple.
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Superchargers in Australia
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Agreed but 2-3x. Apple would have failed if they didn't bring Jobs back after ditching him way before they were ready. I would expect it to be much worse for Tesla at this point if they were ever that stupid.
EcoCloudIT
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I voted for Elon Musk's package and move to Texas....
(just waiting on my account manager)
gazpachopolice
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Extremely strategic plays like calling cave divers pedophiles, likening the Canadian Prime Minister to Hitler, or telling Twitter advertisers to go **** themselves?
can probably focus on the good things he is doing too .. most of which none of us are even close to having the capacity to do.
who are we to judge?
Two Bad Bricks
A Buddhist monk named Ajahn Brahm once told me about his early days in a monastery. His first project was to build a new brick wall for the community. Ajahn Brahm was a handyman of sorts and wanted to impress his fellow monks with his skills. He was also a perfectionist. So he
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even the second one has merit if you look into the way he (Tredau) treats his country and truck drivers (still cant believe that protest went on for so long and was completely censored, and wartime emergeny powers enacted to force them away. Go Democracy!)
I think we’re going way off topic on a supercharger thread.
Meanwhile, there have been reports from the US of new superchargers being magically commissioned today & communication going on as normal with the contractors ( apparently reported by Kyle, but I need to figure out which of his zillion YouTube channels is this on
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Meanwhile, there have been reports from the US of new superchargers being magically commissioned today & communication going on as normal with the contractors ( apparently reported by Kyle, but I need to figure out which of his zillion YouTube channels is this on
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Agreed, just imagine if every single thing we said and did was scrutinised and magnified by the likes of some of the gutter journalists linked above.
Like I said, he's not perfect and you have to take the good with the bad. He's certainly not the nefarious demigod that some politically motivated extremists like to paint him.
This one.
Basically anything under construction - continue, anything yet to break ground - stop.
But he also points out utilities may have spent $$s on starting to run power to sites yet to break ground.
I don’t know about the US, here the utilities love an opportunity to gold plate their network because their regulated rate of return is based on the capital expenditure. This will be a drop in the ocean of spending that’s not needed.
EXCLUSIVE: Tesla Supercharger roll-out in Australia stopped as job losses at Tesla end new development
Massive news in the world of Electric Vehicles this week with Tesla laying off around 500 staff including what appears to be their entire Supercharger
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Today, EFTM can reveal that at least one planned location, where work was set to commence within months will not go ahead, and given the messaging, it seems clear that will likely flow along to many if not all others.
This business – located in regional Victoria, who’s name we are keeping private at their request, has a large carpark which was due to include a four-bay Tesla Supercharger.
In an email sighted by EFTM, a legal representative for the business advised the General Manager that “I have just received a voicemail from Andy Nguyen at Tesla advising that the Tesla Supercharger team has been dissolved globally and there will be no more supercharger sites moving forward.
I’ve just spoken to Andy and he has expressed his disappointment and was certainly caught by surprise – as were the rest of the Tesla Supercharging teams. He also said he expects his email to be deactivated within the next 24 hours.
Happy to chat if you have any queries but safe to say this matter probably won’t be going any further.“
From what we can ascertain, Andy Nguyen works in the Global Supercharger planning team in Austin Texas for Tesla.
EFTM has also seen the Licence agreement for the Supercharger, which was for a five year period with the option for Tesla to extend twice by five years. That’s a fifteen year plan for a Supercharger location – out the window.
Looks like these four bays, plus the fifth that was going to be used by the Control Cabinets and Switchboard will still be available to all car-owning patrons for years to come.
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Chuq
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An absolutely rooted situation for Australia.
On the other hand, who's going to be the first to identify the not-a-supercharger-site from the photo above? Hints are: Regional Victoria, private business. We have to keep ourselves entertained somehow!
On the other hand, who's going to be the first to identify the not-a-supercharger-site from the photo above? Hints are: Regional Victoria, private business. We have to keep ourselves entertained somehow!
This mess is devastating not just for Tesla but for the whole Ev industry. I wouldn't blame anybody who was thinking of buying an Ev to totally can the idea at present. I've read the tweet but it goes nowhere near explaining the method of the madness.
Lots of people (me included) just charge at home and drive to work and around the place everyday. I can already drive everywhere i want to, and there are new RAA/JOLT/EVIE/CHARGEFOX sites going up every week.
I guess i dont see it as devastating because i rarely use superchargers or DCFC. Its not like they are ripping all the infrastructure out so no one can use an EV again.
Zoltrix77
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My concern is that I just don't trust anyone else's network, the Tesla supercharger network for the most part has been rock solid, whilst still not expanding fast enough for my liking, its still way beyond what others have achieved.
The Australian network is FAR from completed, Still waiting on the hume having more capacity at Tarcutta, Gundagai and Benella, finishing the Bruce, finishing the Bruce, the Sydney-Adelaide route, upgrading the Melbourne-Sydney route any many other routes that are not serviced at all outside of a single 50kW charger.
With the network now allowing access to other brands, revenue would be increasing. I just cant see the logic in this at all. Perhaps if we actually had a statement from Tesla explaining the decision we could be more informed. In the meantime, until we get some answers, Tesla definitely deserve criticism.
Zoltrix77
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Microsoft has gone leaps and bounds since Ballmer left, Apple went forward only after Job's passing.
