Tesla might also be using other Trumpf machines like Trumpf 5-axis laser cutters.
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Discuss Trumpf Bend Machines, AIDA Progress & Megapack Work! 12 May 2023 Giga Texas Update (07:35AM)
In the video intro, I discuss the recent arrival of...
U.S. Department of Energy Analysis Confirms California’s Salton Sea Region to Be a Rich Domestic Lithium Resource
November 28, 2023
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/us-department-energy-analysis-confirms-californias-salton-sea-region-be-rich-domestic
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Model X is non-starter. Too small, too delicate (not dent/scratch resistant), not enough ground clearance (need real SUV level), too flashy falcon wing doors, too expensive. It is a luxury car.
SUV for families and work crews. NO sports car like acceleration. Regular SUV type off-roading not...
In official Tesla video a Tesla engineer said Cybertruck panels only "UP TO 1.8mm" thick hard stainless steel.
So significantly less than 3mm and there must be some places where it is even less than 1.8mm thick.
Assuming metal in door panels are the maximum thickness that means just 1.8mm of...
Hey, when is this forum going get a section just for the BAW!!!??? :cool:
Supposedly Cybertruck BAW does have alternate resting/parking position at bottom of windshield. (BAW discussion, timestamp: 58 min 56 sec)
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Jason's 3-day Exclusive with the Cybertruck...
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Ford Motor Company built 1,690 M4A3 Sherman Tanks and 1,038 M10A1 Tank Destroyers during World War Two. It acquired previous experience in building tanks during 1918 at the end of World War One.
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Ford Ranger now...
No please mister criminal, promise NOT to shoot the windows and only shoot the hardened metal parts of doors, pretty please. I can trust you, mister criminal, right, right.
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Advanced Ballistic Testing for Armored Tesla Model S by Alpine...
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Tesla Q3 Earnings // Battery Updates // Full Breakdown and Implications
In the Tesla Q3 2023 earnings call, Drew Baglino made a statement about the 4680 production ramp that contained a lot of new...
Images of Al Capone and other 1920s-1940s gangsters shootings at rivals or at police or police shooting at the gangsters.
Note all the bullet holes in windows and upper half of vehicle including roof. They did not aim to shoot only at the metal parts of the door...
There are some legacy car manufacturers that from the factory offer bullet-resistant cars.
Since Elon "Tommy Gun" Musk put target on us (Cybertruck customers), instead of only a half-assed bulletproof Cybertruck where the metal panels are bulletproof but the door windows and windshield, which...
It is very tiring and stress-full to be hypervigilance for long periods of time (several hours or days).
Some people are not able to be hypervigilant due to lack of experience/knowledge, fatigue, youth, old age mental decline.
Even when a person is hypervigilant there are limits since we do...
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Global Lithium Supply Chain and Tesla’s 50% Growth Rate I ~3 Month Project
How will the Global Lithium Supply Chain evolve this decade and how will that affect Tesla’s 50% Growth Rate target? I've...
10 years ago Tony Seba predicted that the price of BEVs (battery electric cars) would be lower than gas/diesel cars/trucks. Tony's prediction looks to be accurately coming true.
In 2023 China, BEVs are cheaper and in next 2-6 years it should be true in most other countries.
Tony has made...
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Tesla's Coming Lithium Crunch // How Long Can Tesla Continue Growing Battery Consumption @ 50% CAGR? This is the final video of the Global Lithium Supply Chain video where I attempt to answer the...
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CATL announced Shenxing, the world's first 4C superfast charging LFP battery. Possibility of 10-minute charge giving 400 km ( 248 mi ).
CATL announced Shenxing will be in mass production in China in 2023Q4 and be available in some Chinese BEV models in 2024Q1...
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“ChatGPT moment” for Autonomous Driving?
We discuss the end-to-end approach for solving self-driving vehicle problems, asking if it is both sufficient and necessary.
By Prof. Shai Shalev-Shwartz and Prof. Amnon Shashua...
EV charging is changing, Part 1: How automakers’ disappointment in Electrify America drove them into Tesla’s arms
Posted August 28, 2023
by John Voelcker
https://chargedevs.com/features/how-automakers-disappointment-in-electrify-america-drove-them-into-teslas-arms-ev-charging-is-changing-part-1/...
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Cory: .. recently had dinner with some ICE auto engineers, they said everyone's known that 48v is the right voltage but these engineers said no one would ever commit ..
Sandy: In 1980s, when Sandy was a engineer at Ford, the Ford engineers wanted to go 48V but finance...