You may recall that Jalopnik also claimed the Model S would never be built. I recommend not given them any clicks.
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The ship was on its way to Baltimore, but the news report about Model 3's for the UK being transported east was talking about the Port of Philadelphia. For faster deliveries to the UK & Europe, Tesla is moving Model 3s to the Port of Philadelphia. It was retweetet by Philaport.
So unless this ship was going to continue to Philadelphia after picking up cars in Baltimore, before going to Europe, it doesn't affect Tesla deliveries. I cannot imagine Tesla leaving the cars standing on the docks for a week, as they would lose much of the time they gained.
I hope the missing crew members are okay.
They're just annoyed because Musk said on Twitter, September 5th: "Jalopnik not sharpest tool in shed". Elon Musk on Twitter.
He wasn't wrong and sometimes the truth hurts.
It is mostly deliberate FUD, plus likely some element of misunderstanding because he doesn't have a clue what he is talking about.
Audi has worse software and worse technology so they need more expensive and more cumbersome hardware and are able to access less of their battery capacity.
There's no indication Tesla's powertrain is less reliable than anyone else's, plus a huge amount of data that their battery degradation is much better than anyone else's (which in part requires better cooling).
They are exaggerating motor cooling problems with the old Model S, and ignoring that Tesla completely changed the Powertrain back in April.
Todd Burch
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FUD. Jalopnik is trying to rationalize the inferiority of the specs of the other vehicles.
dc_h
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Commercial Sprinter van, a Jeep style vehicle and a full size luxury SUV. How many truck models do they need, there’s several size trucks and can styles I’d think a large truck with back seats is the most profitable, but medium and small sized is needed, especially is emerging markets.
Smaller then a model 3 may never make sense, unless they build something specifically for urban robot taxi markets, smaller body boxy. If FSD happens, small urban cars won’t make sense for budget conscious consumers.
I'm sure TSLAQ has divers out checking the cargo for a burned Tesla.
StealthP3D
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Pure FUD.
If e-Tron benefits from cooling individual battery modules at different rates, that means they are experiencing uneven heating which implies they have serious problems!
If so, it's a good thing their modules are individually replaceable. And that could become a nice profit center for Audi down the road. "I'm sorry to tell you, we determined that battery module #26 has failed - the good news is it will only be $1300 to replace it."
Next month: "It looks like battery module #8 has failed. The good news is it will only be $1300 to replace it."
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I'm surprised people think Tesla is going to do a timed run with no prior practice.
I am not an expert, but if I am organising this, 2 weeks of practice / tuning, stealth bookings for the actual run in early October and Mid-October, if possible GF4 announcement even sandwiched between the stealth bookings, Elon back in the US for earnings and the Pickup reveal.
On my way home this evening I stopped by the Tesla store (opening tomorrow). I got there at 7:40 PM. There was one car leaving, one car checking out the store (left shortly thereafter), and during the brief period I was there, two more cars arrived to check it out, plus a guy on a bike 
Lots of interest for an after-hours not-open-yet store!
Lots of interest for an after-hours not-open-yet store!
That carwow race was pretty embarrassing for Audi. Wonder if Audi is/will be a Jalopnik advertising client?
Interesting commentary from Gali about how Tesla is faring in the US-China trade war ...
Unfortunately, it doesn't look likely to be carrying Teslas, based on its route.
I say "unfortunately" because that would just mean extra sales - first to the insurance company, and then later to the originally intended buyers.
I would argue Tesla sells more cars by getting cars out to customers faster. Not having a delay is better than dealing with some insurance fiasco and fulfill those same orders again later.
Every new Tesla owner sells more Teslas. Sooner they have their car, sooner that they can engage with new potential owners.
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Has the last Tesla cargo ship left yet for the month, or maybe real soon? Wondering whether we have an idea yet of q3 vs q2 overseas shipments based on the number of ships.
copyhacker
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Most anti-Tesla FUD is just mildly annoying to me, but the hate from Jalopnik and Ars Technica I really don’t understand. OK, Jalopnik is Gawker and they just like to stir up *sugar* so I guess I get that. Ars adores SpaceX, though.
There's some good coverage from fair people like David Tracy at Jalopnik. The problem is that there is at least one other on Jalopnik with a bigger voice that downright hates Elon and Tesla and has to go out of their way to FUD at every turn. Basically people who are afraid of how this EV future is going to change car culture.
No idea about Ars Technica. Eric Berger covers SpaceX pretty fairly and then you have these other guys covering Tesla and it's the polar opposite.
It's all a race to the bottom. Most of it is about getting clicks. The people with fairer coverage basically get drowned out since controversy sells.
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Recommend watching at 1.25 speed. December this year will be fun
Yes, located between floors.
Seven things you probably didn't know about Tesla's gigantic Gigafactory
And AEB / FCW, I believe.
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