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Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010

Al! posted:

the virgin hyperloop vs the chad child killing submarine

:discourse:

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Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

FistEnergy posted:

4. Eliminate limits on personal liability

:yeshaha:

anime was right
Jun 27, 2008

death is certain
keep yr cool


im pretty sure this is inflated (includes a senior regional sales manager which is like... not a director, sorry) but also lmao

Segata Sanshiro
Sep 10, 2011

we can live for nothing
baby i don't care

lose me like the ocean
feel the motion

:coolfish:

Al! posted:

the virgin hyperloop vs the chad child killing submarine

very apt considering the chad sub never killed anyone despite threatening to, but the virgin hyperloop will eventually break and mass murder a fuckload of people

Vox Nihili
May 28, 2008

anime was right posted:



im pretty sure this is inflated (includes a senior regional sales manager which is like... not a director, sorry) but also lmao

Sounds like Elon is cleaning house. Nice. Just bought another 10 shares.

OhFunny
Jun 26, 2013

EXTREMELY PISSED AT THE DNC
https://twitter.com/OphirGottlieb/status/1021802118196297728?s=19

Throw another on the pyre.

LGD
Sep 25, 2004

FistEnergy posted:

The Tesla killshot might be boring legalese instead of something showy

Tesla is defending a lawsuit alleging fraud that lead to shareholder damages. New court documents show Tesla admitting to Musk lying about Model 3 production and automation, as well as the official Tesla financial statements being misleading and actionable. 'Actionable' meaning Tesla is boned.

Dunno if the media will pick up on it but the documents are publicly available and all the juicy quotes are right there. Seems like news.

Edit: here's all the hilarious snippets

https://twitter.com/Paul_M_Huettner/status/1021763708547203073?s=19

nah, it might ultimately be p. funny anyway

https://twitter.com/Paul_M_Huettner/status/1021769296597471232

https://twitter.com/Paul_M_Huettner/status/1021769716132663296

Bananasaurus Rex
Mar 19, 2009
That guy quit cause he just couldn't manage all these sales going on right now!

Scrub-Niggurath
Nov 27, 2007

I want a Venn diagram of ardent elon musk supporters who also dismiss things like UBI or Medicare for all as “unrealistic pipe dreams”

Scrub-Niggurath
Nov 27, 2007

do NOT reply with a circle please

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

maybe the battery isn't structural and all those cars in lathrop and burbank are just waiting for theirs to be made

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



everyone knows that the person in charge of production telling musk there was no feasible way to reach that number in that timeframe and then musk ignoring their judgement and telling them to do it anyway happens all the time though.

the "Gigafactory" producing barely any batteries owns though

Segata Sanshiro
Sep 10, 2011

we can live for nothing
baby i don't care

lose me like the ocean
feel the motion

:coolfish:

"i am a rich person who told you peons to do something, therefore i expect it to happen regardless of what is possible within physical reality"

literal god complex

the bitcoin of weed
Nov 1, 2014

Shear Modulus posted:

everyone knows that the person in charge of production telling musk there was no feasible way to reach that number in that timeframe and then musk ignoring their judgement and telling them to do it anyway happens all the time though.

the "Gigafactory" producing barely any batteries owns though

what was going on there they could only make 1-2 batteries a day. were they assembling batteries by hand??

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

the bitcoin of weed posted:

what was going on there they could only make 1-2 batteries a day. were they assembling batteries by hand??

probably, the insides look extremely complicated in that taredown video

mastershakeman
Oct 28, 2008

by vyelkin
Can someoen remind me, was Tesla's battery tech in house? Is it the only thing musk has ever done well in his career?

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

mastershakeman posted:

Can someoen remind me, was Tesla's battery tech in house? Is it the only thing musk has ever done well in his career?

Tesla came up with a battery management system for packs of a zillion off the shelf cells.

Waffle House
Oct 27, 2004

You follow the path
fitting into an infinite pattern.

Yours to manipulate, to destroy and rebuild.

Now, in the quantum moment
before the closure
when all become one.

One moment left.
One point of space and time.

I know who you are.

You are Destiny.



just let the japanese build a goddamn bullet train goddamn

if you want to use tunnels fine

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

Aren't the packs a multitude of small cells soldered to a control unit?

Gigafactory is probably literally a guy sitting with a plastic bucket of batteries, shoving them into slots and swinging an iron.

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

Feranon posted:

"i am a rich person who told you peons to do something, therefore i expect it to happen regardless of what is possible within physical reality"

literal god complex
this is what rich people and management do all the time on a routine basis with the literal experts they hire IME

BioMe
Aug 9, 2012


SelenicMartian posted:

Aren't the packs a multitude of small cells soldered to a control unit?

Gigafactory is probably literally a guy sitting with a plastic bucket of batteries, shoving them into slots and swinging an iron.

Yeah, kind of sounds like they were prototyping and then the management straight up forgot you need to set up a production line too.

Vox Nihili
May 28, 2008

Waffle House posted:

just let the japanese build a goddamn bullet train goddamn

if you want to use tunnels fine

The Japanese would give them an honest quote and Tesla will promise to do the whole thing for "$250 million dollars" or whatever random lowball Musk yanks out of his rear end.

Not a Children
Oct 9, 2012

Don't need a holster if you never stop shooting.

Vox Nihili posted:

The Japanese would give them an honest quote and Tesla will promise to do the whole thing for "$250 million dollars" or whatever random lowball Musk yanks out of his rear end.

It's just a couple of magnets, how much could it cost

Rigged Death Trap
Feb 13, 2012

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

hobbesmaster posted:

Tesla came up with a battery management system for packs of a zillion off the shelf cells.

So Tesla didnt actually do anything for batteries and EVs beyond publicity?

Shawk an awe

Not a Children posted:

It's just a couple of magnets, how much could it cost

The expenses involve the train:
-being well built to tight specs
-having extensive documentation and operations tranparency
-having service and maintenance support





-not killing anyone.

Rigged Death Trap has issued a correction as of 20:23 on Jul 24, 2018

Raldikuk
Apr 7, 2006

I'm bad with money and I want that meatball!

mastershakeman posted:

Can someoen remind me, was Tesla's battery tech in house? Is it the only thing musk has ever done well in his career?

The individual battery cells are manufactured by Panasonic within leased space at the gigafactory. Tesla then takes thousands of those cells and puts em together into a battery pack. That process is finicky as gently caress and apparently them loving it up is the cause of some of the fires we've seen.

Waffle House
Oct 27, 2004

You follow the path
fitting into an infinite pattern.

Yours to manipulate, to destroy and rebuild.

Now, in the quantum moment
before the closure
when all become one.

One moment left.
One point of space and time.

I know who you are.

You are Destiny.


Vox Nihili posted:

The Japanese would give them an honest quote and Tesla will promise to do the whole thing for "$250 million dollars" or whatever random lowball Musk yanks out of his rear end.

one of the few countries I have any respect for anymore is Japan, and most of the rest are in or very near Southeast Asia

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Rigged Death Trap posted:

So Tesla didnt actually do anything for batteries and EVs beyond publicity?

Shawk an awe

the supercharger network probably helped out EVs a lot

logikv9
Mar 5, 2009


Ham Wrangler
we're building Tesla Trains which are capable of using Advanced Autopilot technology to drive on normal roads and are no longer limited to tracks

Not a Children
Oct 9, 2012

Don't need a holster if you never stop shooting.

Rigged Death Trap posted:

The expenses involve the train:
-being well built to tight specs
-having extensive documentation and operations tranparency
-having service and maintenance support
-not killing anyone.

Nah dude just throw a bunch of fresh engineering grads at it and they'll jigger a prototype together

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost

hobbesmaster posted:

the supercharger network probably helped out EVs a lot

tesla superchargers use a non standard plug, locking out non teslas

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

I thought they also had some kind of rfid handshake thing

logikv9
Mar 5, 2009


Ham Wrangler
yeah superchargers are great for Teslas, lovely for everyone else

if there was a Nationwide network of standardized ev recharging stations then EVs would become infinitely more usable.

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

build induction chargers in the roads lmao

SpaceGoku
Jul 19, 2011

akadajet posted:

build induction chargers in the roads lmao

I just remembered when poo poo like this was all over popular mechanics and the like

goddamn things could have been WAY more dumb

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost

logikv9 posted:

yeah superchargers are great for Teslas, lovely for everyone else

if there was a Nationwide network of standardized ev recharging stations then EVs would become infinitely more usable.

iec 62196

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

logikv9 posted:

yeah superchargers are great for Teslas, lovely for everyone else

if there was a Nationwide network of standardized ev recharging stations then EVs would become infinitely more usable.

But they exist which helps with convincing someone else to do it.

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



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akadajet posted:

build induction chargers in the roads lmao

SOLAR ROADS!!!!

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

SpaceGoku posted:

I just remembered when poo poo like this was all over popular mechanics and the like

goddamn things could have been WAY more dumb

make the highways out of solar panels

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:
one popular mechanics thing that's always stuck with me was the proposal for all cars to move via contraction, like slugs, to save on the costs of replacing tires, and that this new technology would be commonplace by 1998

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mastershakeman
Oct 28, 2008

by vyelkin

Al! posted:

one popular mechanics thing that's always stuck with me was the proposal for all cars to move via contraction, like slugs, to save on the costs of replacing tires, and that this new technology would be commonplace by 1998

Well they were right about car culture making people into slugs

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