Easy, get a management job at a TV station. I did. 2 years and out. The craziest work experience of my career. It is unhealthy IMO on many levels.
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Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable
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Tesla China sold 65,814 vehicles in March - CPCA • Local sales: 65,754 • Exports: 60
There is a definite possibility of Tesla eventually getting into mining Lithium but I also think he could just be bluffing at this point to scare the existing miners into reducing prices lest they have to compete with Tesla.Indeed. Luckily, we have a rock-star* CEO who's always 2 strides ahead:
Tesla May Start Mining Lithium as Musk Cites Battery Metal Cost | Bloomberg
As always, Tesla holds at a massive technological advantage vs. its competitors: it will always require less lithium per unit of range for comparible vehicles. Just look at the Audi SUV and how much more battery it needs for a similar range to Model Y.
Then, there's Cybertruck vs. EV Hummer... is there a "Lithium Guzzler Tax" yet? There's probably enough lithium used per EV-Hummer than will be used in 10 Tesla dedicated Robotaxis, which will see 1,000x the passenger miles per year per unit of lithium. Ban the EV-HUbris!
Cheers!
*rock-star -- lithium extraction using rock salt. Patent pending.
Tesla files new patent on lithium extraction method | mining-technology.com
I’m not entirely sure why the possibility of Tesla getting into mining is just coming onto people’s radars. Tesla has been talking about this since well before Battery Day. From the June 2019 Shareholders meeting:
“Musk Himself” said:
Musk also mentioned mining at Battery Day. Tesla also has patents for sustainable mining of Lithium and they have mining rights or land in Nevada set aside for it. This isn’t exactly a surprise to anyone in the industry either. The above linked article is from an industry journal, not some general business publication.
It’s far more than a possibility Tesla will get into mining, it’s very near certain at this point.
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Gigapress
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2438 vehicles per day on average, considering the 4 days of shutdown in March. New record for Giga Shanghai.
For reference, December was 2154, so growth has been 13% since then, which is 64% annualized if we model it as exponential growth.
Musk decides not to join Twitter board.
www.cnbc.com
Elon Musk decides not to join Twitter board, says CEO Parag Agrawal
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk abandoned his plans to join the board of Twitter after buying a 9% stake.
www.cnbc.com
Apparently Tesla gave a big hint on the Giga Texas slides regarding charging speeds on the Model Y.
For me anyhow, 200 - 250 miles is a typical stop so the 4680 Model Ys will likely shave at least 5 minutes off the typical stop.
Not quite game changing, but very good. Also very likely to be an even bigger difference on the v4 350+ kW chargers coming soon.
For me anyhow, 200 - 250 miles is a typical stop so the 4680 Model Ys will likely shave at least 5 minutes off the typical stop.
Not quite game changing, but very good. Also very likely to be an even bigger difference on the v4 350+ kW chargers coming soon.
Elon Musk Decides Not to Join Twitter’s Board
The decision by the Tesla CEO, who spent much of the weekend tweeting criticisms, suggestions and apparent jokes about Twitter, casts new uncertainty over the relationship between the social-media platform and its largest shareholder.
www.wsj.com
Musk decides not to join Twitter board.
Elon Musk decides not to join Twitter board, says CEO Parag Agrawal
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk abandoned his plans to join the board of Twitter after buying a 9% stake.
This means he is no longer prohibited from acquiring more than 14.9% of the company, so it makes it easier for him to control in the future.
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Not sure if this is new. Roadster reservations are now open again. (I thought they were closed for a while, haven’t checked in some time)
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Good stuff. He's got more important matters to take care of.Musk decides not to join Twitter board.
Elon Musk decides not to join Twitter board, says CEO Parag Agrawal
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk abandoned his plans to join the board of Twitter after buying a 9% stake.
I have seen few positive videos from this guy and he is of an opinion that we may get a sale in next few weeks due to China lockdown.
Sorry to disappoint, but the origin of my name is not nearly so deep and philosophical ... and quite a bit more convoluted.
As a teen in the 90's, there was a time when Rammstein was quite popular in the US, and I used Altavista's Babel Fish service to translate lyrics and such, because curiosity. Also, as a teen, who sometimes struggled with depression, there was a time when the translation of "Sehnsucht" resonated, and I changed my previous online handle from "Silver Hand" (taken from the Song of Albion trilogy) to "Sehnsucht" (having translated the meaning of the album's title). Later, various friends and I added "Bio" to the front of each of our online names, as a sort of quasi-clan designation (though we didn't form any guilds/clans/etc of just ourselves, being there was too few of us for that to be practical, but did play some multiplayer games, together, as a few members of a larger clan/etc). So the "Bio" has nothing directly to do with "Sehnsucht", but is just a coincidence. The added "Bio" also helped avoid name conflicts on IRC (and later Steam, Xbox, etc) as eventually someone else (or possibly a bot) would also be using the same name.
While I am no longer that moody teen dealing with depression, I haven't had any need or desire to change my name since then, so I have kept it.
That 18650 production will eventually either be abandoned or retooled to something more modern, once battery production capacity can get far enough ahead of demand. Whether Panasonic ends up turning it into a 4680 plan, or simply retooling it to sell to others (as either 18650 or 4680 or anything else), remains to be seen, but long term it is silly to expect 18650's to remain relevant. And there's not enough supply there to matter to 3/Y production - it is one of the constraints on S/X production, so building a factory there to use it isn't really an improvement, since you won't be able to supply enough production capacity to be worthwhile.
As for RHD, if you want a dedicated RHD plant, I think it would make more sense to do it from the UK. Since the rest of the EU is LHD the whole Brexit thing probably won't even measurably impact it's usefulness then (the costs to export to other RHD countries likely being similar to before Brexit as long as the exchange rates are relatively stable). Japan has a larger domestic market, but it's almost certain you can sell more Teslas in the UK than in Japan, not to mention the country likely being more helpful/friendly than Japan from the perspective of setting up a factory, etc.
Heard from some friends in Shanghai that the lockdown will continue for another month is their estimate. Just sharing here
Gigapress
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The four days of shutdown occurred at the end of Q1. So the 2438 vehicles per day could not have been merely concentration of limited supplies into fewer days. This likely reflects true productivity growth.
If they’d had those 4 days they’d have added about 10k to March production for 75k total.
Tesla delivers first Model Y vehicles with 4680 batteries from Giga Texas
After the Cyber Rodeo grand opening event, Tesla officially delivered the first production Model Y vehicles with 4680 batteries from Gigafactory Texas. On Friday, April 8, Elon Musk officially announced that the first production Model Y units were delivered. He thanked the Tesla team for their...
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