It's my understanding that TT007 made way more than this guy. I mean, he has only posted a couple times about his investments, TT007 had hundreds if not thousands on the amount he was making every day.
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Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable
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If you’re talking badge engineering, that’s one thing. But if you‘re talking about platforms that offer offer real flexibility, remember that real flexibility invariably costs money.
The US legacies ought to try to get one dedicated, from-the-ground-up EV model right—whatever type they think they might may make money on—then try another and then, eventually maybe, grow their way back towards platforms. It’s not like any of the US legacies have that many batteries anyway.
Shortsighted? Possibly, but most like they’ll be DOA with the platform strategies that I’ve heard them articulate. Even in the unlikely event they have the wherewithal to successfully execute a platform transition strategy there’s no guarantee the federal tap is going to provide the capital needed to do so. Further, the whole flexible, all-things-to-all-powertrains strategy that still seems to be blowing in the winds is sure to fail.
Of course, if you increase the body (parts) size and just add lightning—or is it Lightening? (Wait, I thought Colin Chapman meant something else by “Simplify, then add more lightness."
)—and Voila! It’s Alive!I love the 2 week cadence.
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Man, these deepfake videos sure are realistic.Noooo. did I really got transported to the Bizarro world
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Using a basketball analogy, El Gordo's Q3 forecast is a layup avoiding the basket.
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I see this as a marketing effort by the university. Proud parent touting their alumni, and also hoping to deepen the relationship. Did GM make final decisions yet on where they are going to build their new factories? It would be a plum deal to land one of those in TN, and have a natural flow of Vanderbuilt grads to a primo GM facility. Universities are struggling now to pay their bills with the impact of the pandemic, which just exacerbated the financial pressures they already had. A different topic for sure and one I’ve been following for awhile.So my university's alumni magazine came in the mail yesterday. Cover was a picture of the EV Hummer. Apparently even a top university can't see through GM's BS. How did this get published?
Electric Avenue: Vanderbilt alumni are helping steer General Motors toward a future driven by electric vehicle sales
General Motors' announcement that it would phase out combustion engines—the heart of its cars and trucks for more than 100 years—and move to an all-electric fleet by 2035 could have monumental implications for the global auto industry and broad efforts to combat climate change. The success of...news.vanderbilt.edu
Isn't that the GMC Hummer? I'm not impressed, but we'll see.
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When will this be related to Tesla?
The EV Hummer‘s just bailout bait—nothing like a profitability candidate.
StealthP3D
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So my university's alumni magazine came in the mail yesterday. Cover was a picture of the EV Hummer. Apparently even a top university can't see through GM's BS. How did this get published?
Electric Avenue: Vanderbilt alumni are helping steer General Motors toward a future driven by electric vehicle sales
General Motors' announcement that it would phase out combustion engines—the heart of its cars and trucks for more than 100 years—and move to an all-electric fleet by 2035 could have monumental implications for the global auto industry and broad efforts to combat climate change. The success of...
It got published to highlight the Vanderbilt graduates who work at GM now. Here are some interesting excerpts:
And that is probably why Tesla cars are so boxy and unattractive. The biggest difficulty in designing an EV is to make the car look stylish while maintaining acceptable performance with a large, rectilinear battery. GM has a real challenge on their hands but at least they have a graduate of Vanderbilt turned designer working on this thorny problem while Tesla was handicapped with Franz von Holtzhausen who only had the benefit of Syracuse University and some freaky California ArtCenter College of Design. GM has years of experience with EV design like the Bolt so they will likely solve this vexing problem of making an EV look sleek and attractive. And since that's the biggest difficulty in designing an EV, once over that hurdle everything else will fall into place. The Hummer solves the aerodynamic and aesthetic challenges of putting a big rectilinear battery in an EV and maintaining good style and a slippery drag coefficient. It's amazing what you can achieve if you have top Vanderbilt talent (no offense intended to V. alumni, just pointing out that schools do not define the individual).
Now I understand why Tesla is seeing such poor adoption rates of their EV's. If only Tesla knew how important it was for the batteries to be easier to service so bad modules could be quickly swapped out for good ones! They must not have done the math to see how much of a problem battery replacements would be and how this would limit adoption. Obviously, this could have been avoided if Elon had put a proper premium on the credentials of applicants educational backgrounds. I've heard even graduates of technical schools and community colleges have a chance of being hired at Tesla. Shocking! No wonder GM is leading the charge to electrification!
Something tells me this Vanderbilt publicity piece isn't going to age well. Of course, they can always delete it if a bunch of alumni are in charge of the downfall of GM. But the Internet never forgets!
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Gigapress
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Definitely is a marketing effort but Vanderbilt is not financially desperate.
Vandy is one of the richest schools in the world with a $6+ billion endowment and a very wealthy alumni network. The pandemic hasn't helped but they're still doing fine.
dhanson865
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I had to go back and check after the downvotes/disagrees. But the posts are still there. I didn't go futher and look for the tweet followups.
I went back to the Bazinga article and didn't see any new context or content worthy of bringing it back a week later.
I went back to the Bazinga article and didn't see any new context or content worthy of bringing it back a week later.
Gigapress
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I would say in my experience that almost all the engineers Vandy puts out are elite, so it's not just credentials but is an actual strong correlation. The Vandy EE program in particular is brutally hard and those who can't cut it give up and change to easier majors. Also, Tesla hires Vandy engineering alumni too. However, I think Elon's big insight is to look at someone's actual ability and potential instead of solely relying on affiliation with an elite group. Graduation from an elite school can be a data point of evidence of exceptional ability; it just isn't enough on its own.
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Buddyroe
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So my university's alumni magazine came in the mail yesterday. Cover was a picture of the EV Hummer. Apparently even a top university can't see through GM's BS. How did this get published?
Electric Avenue: Vanderbilt alumni are helping steer General Motors toward a future driven by electric vehicle sales
General Motors' announcement that it would phase out combustion engines—the heart of its cars and trucks for more than 100 years—and move to an all-electric fleet by 2035 could have monumental implications for the global auto industry and broad efforts to combat climate change. The success of...
That's what you get for going to such a sorry school. Has Vanderbilt even won a game this year?
Good to know, thanks for schooling me - pun intended.
From what I have seen, even schools that have large endowments are worried about the potential ripple effects of the pandemic. They are looking for ways to connect to broaden their base and deepen the stickiness between student/alum and school.
My last post, back to investment topics.
The biggest difficulty in designing an EV, [GM employee] says, is finding the right balance between performance and style. “You have to put the battery someplace, and they are pretty big and generally rectilinear in shape,” he says. “The aerodynamic concerns are different and present their own challenges.”
Clearly the solution to the design challenge is to put the generally rectilinear battery in a generally rectilinear vehicle. If you shape your truck like a brick, you can fit twice as many batteries and demand twice the price of that ridiculous triangular Cyberthing.
StealthP3D
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It takes more than traditional smarts and hard work to be exceptional. Her quoted words make it clear she does not practice first principles thinking very well. Her mistake was assuming that batteries need to be serviceable like an ICE engine. Yes, Tesla made this mistake too but I know that is not necessary and I don't even direct the technical direction of a multi-billion dollar company.
It's more important that an engineer knows what they don't know than it is for them to be smart and think they know things they don't.
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