Faster than for Baja, which was lacking when Tesla did a Cybertruck run there, using icky fossil fuels
I'll trust your numbers more than mine, I admit I just read the public announcements on X in February and March. There were no more news after those, in 2023:
I believe it’s his family eating crow and whatever else they can scavenge as Stanphyl was basically his parents assets that made up his “investment fund” that produced huge losses thanks to his obsession with shorting TSLA.
I wouldn't say I am a wonderful human being. More like I am a hoarder and I like to extract all the information I can first. For ex. I'd piss them off on purpose sometimes so I can extract confidential information from them when they spew things out of anger. It's a bad habit I have from growing up poor. Pulling over and telling them to get out would reveal too much what my actual worth is and blew my humble nobody cover.You get bonus points for that attitude. It’s a wonderful way to be. I just happen to think most people don’t warrant or deserve to be listened to. I give them 30s to say something profound, intelligent, logical, reasonable, interesting, fascinating or not. Most land in the not category and then I pull the Tesla over and tell them to get out. You drove the guy to his destination, didn’t you? You’re a better human being than I.
The old phrase comes to mind:
Pro’s of overdoing it with battery is higher capacity and range number…superficial outputs that readily resonate with many. Con’s of course are greater weight and cost, outputs that are conveniently neglected as efficiency requires thoughtful appreciation and cost minimization isn’t top of mind to Lucid (it’s willing to lose great amount of money on every vehicle it sells per current exit strategy). While some of us are car aficionados; others are also investors. To the latter of us, one company is clearly superior.
Aren't they increasingly similar subjects? Elon is talking about AI in terms of GW and MW, transformers, inverters, and the like. Even in the short term (1.5-2 years). AI data centers are being collocated with car and bot manufacturing facilities, photovoltaics, and megapacks. Done well, these are tightly integrated. This plays to Tesla's core competencies.
This discussion reminds me of Amazon; who would have thunk years ago that the word coming to mind when thinking of Amazon is cloud computing. Along an entity’s journey, needs arise. Some present an opportunity to advance, lead, and monetize. While I see the same with Tesla, I like to think it’s a bit more discriminating than Amazon.
I'm sure you could offer some accountant jokes to make up for it. But then again; let's not go down that road.
In hindsight, it seems that Amazon wasn't working on the base technology. It wasn't cloud computing, or even silicon. It was energy. I think it's no coincidence that Microsoft is starting to talk about nuclear power investments, even though I think that's a bit misdirected because it can't be brought online quickly. Microsoft looks out a year or two and sees an insatiable hunger for energy for its AI data centers. Note that Microsoft spent $10 billion for capital investments in the latest quarter, so there are big numbers involved.
Not even remotely. Accountants provide humour.
