I've been taking a keen interest in the Lithium clay extraction process, because it may be more important than many realise, not for 2022, but for 3 TWh by 2030.
I also haven't seen any update on the project.
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I also haven't seen any update on the project.
jhm
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Sorry, I'm slow on the uptake. What are the two elephants?
StealthP3D
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White House unveils 'Space Priorities Framework' as VP Kamala Harris leads first space council meeting
The first National Space Council of the Biden administration is meeting, and Vice President Kamala Harris is set to outline the White House's approach.www.cnbc.com
VP Harris reconvenes and expands the Space Council. I listen to the whole meeting. It was pretty good. I does seem that the Biden Harris Administration does want to get out in front on the opportunities of space exploration.
So, will the Biden administration kick it off by telling everyone that Jeff Bezos did this?
To be the company headquarters, it has to be open during business hours. To be open during business hours, it has to have an Occupancy Permit. Is there anything else that is needed for them to start production that's specific to the cars?
When Rob was talking in his interview with piper Sandlers Alex potter about how it takes 7 years to open a lithium mine……. wow that is a serious chunk of time. This is what Teslas competitors are trying to work around, but won’t be able to. To them it was afterthought, to Tesla it was forethought. That makes days like these stomachable
Porsche execs trying to cheat and lie so bad that either no one finds out or they do find out and end up building a "Porsche" charging infrastructure network like their parents VW.
RobDickinson
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^ Lets await some actual confirmation of that before we bury Porsche aye, it doesnt look very legit for now
Yep, there are a lot of things in that article that just seem plain wrong. For example:
- I haven't seen a single EV pack where a cell, or module, can be disabled like the article claims Porsche is doing.
- They just aren't wired that way. (I haven't seen the Porsche pack so I don't know for sure that they didn't go to this great expense and complication but I highly doubt that they did that.)
- It says almost all BEVs charge in parallel, but yet every one I know of charges cells in series.
- Again, they just aren't wired in a way to make that possible.
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Interesting choice of words…
Patent offices will probably consider Tesla's casting alloy to be unique.
Good video, well worth watching.
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“Twelve foreign automakers with non-unionized U.S. workforces — including Toyota, Volkswagen Group of America and BMW of North America — also sent a letter to congressional leadership yesterday opposing the bonus EV tax credit.
A General Motors spokesman said the company supports the provision. Ford didn't respond to a request for comment, while Tesla dissolved its PR department last year and couldn't be reached for comment.”
Agreed. It also repeated blames a cheap "charger" for the issue - but the "charger" typically has nothing to do with monitoring voltages at the cell level. The BMS (Battery Management System) is the primary system responsible for making sure that each group of parallel cells are within appropriate voltage ranges as well as making sure that the pack remains balanced. It would also be responsible for monitoring overall health of the pack and setting appropriate charge / discharge power limits, etc.
The "charger" is usually in reference to the AC / DC converter module that converts AC voltage to DC voltage. It doesn't even get involved with DC charging, unless perhaps part of it is also responsible for DC communications.
Now because of the 396-cell battery pack, which is for some reason appears to be arranged as a 2P-198S configuration - I don't see any easy way to isolate a cell unless they bypass a cell from each pack. Doing so wouldn't actually cause much capacity to be lost - about 0.5%. But this configuration means they need double the number of monitoring and balancing circuits - each cell needs to be individually monitored so that's 396 cell monitors. I'm not sure why they would do this if they were worried about cost - so maybe it's actually a 198S-2P configuration? Or maybe they really were worried about cells dying and wanted to be able to bypass cells?
Compare this to Tesla's BMS which in the Model 3/Y which uses a 96S-48P (96 modules of 48 cells in parallel hooked in series) - only 96 cell monitors are needed. Now, if one cell dies and becomes dead weight, this would result in about a 2% reduction in capacity.
Another one of those Twitter polls that goes pear-shaped.
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When you drive a Tesla, the ownership experience just gets better and better over time. How many Ford owners can say that? 
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Tesla brings Starlink WiFi to Superchargers in Canada
Just a few weeks after the first Starlink dishes were spotted at Superchargers in the United States, Tesla has brought them north of the border to Canada. The first known Starlink dish at a Supercharger […]
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"The first known Starlink dish at a Supercharger in Canada was spotted this afternoon at the 20-stall Surrey Supercharger at Guildford Town Centre, just outside of Vancouver, British Columbia.
"The good news is that the dish was already active, and our reader tells us his car automatically connected to the WiFi network.
"To help alleviate the pressure, another two Supercharger stations are under construction in the area – one in North Surrey and another in South Surrey.
"Free WiFi will be a huge bonus for owners visiting this Supercharger in particular. Surrey has one of the largest populations of Tesla owners in the lower mainland, and long line ups at this V2 Supercharger are not uncommon."
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Etna
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This is just so priceless.
I didn’t attach a link, as I figured it might be deleted. If it’s still up, find it and make it even more humiliating.& we on TMC didn't even know about this poll
Largely agree, although wasn’t part of Germany’s drive for austerity in neighboring countries an attempt to minimize the cost to Germany of EU supports (since they cover a great deal of it and have many domestic issues to sort out)? Wonder if Elon is interested in addressing the Japanese market with a local GF? Otherwise Japan will be flooded with Chinese exports.
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I didn’t attach a link, as I figured it might be deleted. If it’s still up, find it and make it even more humiliating.
They've retweeted it a couple of times with humorous text, they are taking it in good spirits.
shame they used a very out of date interior shot of the Y...
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