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So far I'm on 6m39sec; I've just heard "...wind...from Michigan...and we've already worn out two tarps from shredding".
The Cyberlandr camper designed to mount on Cybertruck is still happening and they have a physical prototype now. They’ve been working with Munro & Associates for designing and industrializing this. Sneak peek in this video.
The North American recreational vehicle and camper market is tens of billions of dollars annually today. I expect this to be a significantly popular use case for Cybertruck because it’ll be such a big improvement on the entire experience for towing and driving dynamics, climate control, electric power for appliances, fuel savings, and the option for solar panels to recharge the battery while camping.
I agree. 18-30 year olds lead most social changes of this kind.I think robotaxi adoption will vary widely based on mostly age.
So yes, most people above 50 will take a 'wait-and-see' approach.
My hunch is that the 20-50 group will be hard to predict - some will be early adopters, but most won't.
All the TMC anecdotes of Tesla-loving kids going back many years. leads me to believe that the now 10-20 year age group will simply *love* robotaxis. Over time that group just grows.
And maybe they can persuade their parents, uncles, aunts and even grandparents to try robotaxies.
What other red flags did you see besides tarp failure?So far I'm on 6m39sec; I've just heard "...wind...from Michigan...and we've already worn out two tarps from shredding".
As I've related before, I have zero positive thoughts regarding Cyberlandr and that statement tells me that its team is so inept they even do not know how to tarp a load. Yet they plan to produce and sell a camper? I can make the run from Anchorage to Prudhoe Bay and back, in the winter, and not get a single crease on a tarp. This is really a bad, very telling discussion.
This topic makes me think of the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve... I (we?) cannot WAIT until it transforms into the Strategic Energy Reserve, perhaps held in super-stable storage like these hibernating batteries. Could be massively distributed, a giant capacitor effectively to smooth out all energy prices / needs instead of the polluting, limited and awkward current Petroleum Reserve solution.Maybe grid storage needs a separate topic, as it can be a rabbit hole.
For Texas, they have a price cap on wholesale electricity of 900 c/kWh ($9/kWh) which they seem to hit every few years. If you truly had a system cost of $8 per kWh for grid storage, which is not the case for this technology, just one of these events during the lifetime of the battery would pay for it. If the battery is cheap enough, cycle life is not that important to find an economic use case. Taken to the extreme, there might even be a use case for single use batteries for those once per decade events if there is a sufficiently inexpensive battery chemistry.
To minimize system costs, you might want to combine an low cost / low cycle life battery with with an existing li ion grid battery that can provide inverters and grid connection to reduce system costs, so Tesla might have a role in bringing some of these newer chemistries to market.
Isn't there a chance we lose everything? Isn't that why we're not supposed to put all of our eggs in one basket? There must be some risk putting everything in TSLA, or everyone would do it.
No doubt you were driving with tarp side up rather than tarp side down.By the way, I've just last night finished a 900-mile run from Park City, UT rescuing my belovèd vintage LandCruiser (FJ62) from a 3 1/2-yr stay there, and was utterly pummeled by blizzard conditions not just through the Blue Mts (not completely unexpected), but also right down at 120' AMSL along the lower Columbia River which definitely is NOT expected in the 3rd week of April. Blasting rain combined with blasting snow at the same time, accompanied by strong lightning and strong winds.....bizarre!
And yes: my tarped load made it just fine
The decision to leave mobile chargers out makes more sense for big companies like Hertz who have other charging solutions. I still think it should included with the ability to “opt out” for a discount. The end result is the same, but it seems classier.
My WAG is 8.5M vehicles at $20K gross in 2027 => 170 B
(cont. production optimization and improvement, cont. extreme demand and pricing power, cont. ramp of current GFs plus one extra)
Assume 50 B for fixed costs and taxes - still 120 B left.
Given such extreme growth a 100 forward multiple seems fair.
So $12T or 12X in 5.5 years - not too shabby.
When I bought my S in 2015, there was an instruction graphic on tesla.com showing electricians how to install a NEMA 14-50 upside down so the plug would hang properly. It was made obvious that the wall connector was unnecessary if you had the NEMA. What changed?
Agreed, Tesla will be learning from current factories on how to improve future factories. Where to put the factories, how big, what machines/robots, what infrastructure is required to support the factories, how materials will flow...etc.It baffles me why anyone would think Tesla would go from building two Gigafactories at a time to only adding one more in total in the next 4 years.
I guess master plan III will guide this....It baffles me why anyone would think Tesla would go from building two Gigafactories at a time to only adding one more in total in the next 4 years.
Just using the mobile charger with an existing outlet is fine. It’s the most cost effective way.As someone who has used a mobile charger in a 14-50 socket for his entire ownership, I'm still unclear what is better about the wall connector.
The wall charger is more expensive, and it's harder to take with you if you move (and obviously impossible to take with you for a road trip)- those are all cons compared to the mobile connector.
Yes it's marginally faster- but this is L2 charging...it's hours either way-- if you're doing it overnight as most do, who cares if it takes 4 hours or 6 hours? You're sleeping through it anyway.
Fair point.It baffles me why anyone would think Tesla would go from building two Gigafactories at a time to only adding one more in total in the next 4 years.
I think all three of your points are incorrect or a bit misleading.
1) The Tesla to J1772 adapter is very expensive and it is not included with your non-Tesla EV. The J1772 to Tesla adapter is cheap and you get one free with every Tesla. So if your goal is to install a universal charger in your garage, it's better to install a J1772 instead of the Tesla wall charger.
2) This is not true at all. There are plenty of high quality J1772 chargers at all price points. You will need to do some research to compare quality and features, but some are as good or better than Tesla's wall charger.
3) Again, there are plenty of J1772 wall chargers you can buy that charger as fast as the Tesla wall charger. But you almost certainly don't need over 40 amps anyway. That's plenty fast for L2. And the wiring gets expensive when you go over 40 amps.
My last point is that the Tesla wall charger does not have a plug for NEMA 14-50. Tesla used to offer this but now they only sell a hard-wired version. Having that NEMA 14-50 outlet is very convenient. It allows you to easily disconnect the charger or even take it with you when you move.
You might already have a NEMA 14-50 outlet. If you do, definitely get the third party J1772 charger because you won't need to hire an electrician.