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Not sure what the other companies developing autonomous driving are thinking but this article makes it look like Uber is nowhere near getting it to work. Compare that to Elon's pronouncements of being close to being able to have FSD out. If Tesla is the only company with FSD for any...

https://jalopnik.com/uber-is-here-to-remind-you-that-autonomous-vehicles-are-1845207289 Uber Is Here To Remind You That Autonomous Vehicles Aren't Even Close Uber, like its competitors Waymo, Zoox, Cruise and others, has been trying and failing to get autonomous cars up and running for years...

I agree that the battery/pack might be made easier to replace. But replacement means removing the whole structural battery pack (basically the whole bottom of the Cybertruck between the front and rear wheels) and putting in a new one. The old battery pack would then be disassembled and recycled...

Interesting that these didn’t get mentioned at battery day. Are these just getting batteries from CATL so not really relevant to the battery day announcements? I wonder what other international vehicles there will be. I suppose one is the Wolverine CT.

https://electrek.co/2020/09/28/tesla-two-new-different-electric-cars-giga-berlin-shanghai-elon-musk/ Elon Musk clarifies that Tesla plans to make two new and different electric car models at Gigafactory Berlin and Shanghai as the automaker is planning to make cheaper electric cars. Tesla’s...

So this is something that cybertruck won’t be able to do. I remember talking to a friend in college who was in the military. He was talking about the crazy things they would do with the military hummers. I am looking forward to seeing all the crazy videos of people doing wild things in their...

While I do find the idea interesting, I’m definitely not signing up for a neuralink any time soon. I’d need to see some others use it fairly long term to see what side effects there are. Summoning a cybertruck seems like a such a lame use of neuralink too. Sure if I already had one installed...

I’m sure that the oil industry will try to get as many $$$ as possible. But the more they try raising prices, the faster EVs are going to take over. In fact a big part of the carbon-tax efforts out there is that it raises the price of oil and incentivizes the move away from oil. Exactly the...

Yes. I actually went downtown to try and measure the parking spots CenturyLink Field Event Center Parking because they have both straight and angled spots in a fairly large parking structure. But there was a game on so the parking structure was all locked up and there were a ton of police all...

In another thread, there was a conversation about the size of the Cybertruck and how it might fit in certain parking spaces. I weighed stating that some of our parking spots out here in the Seattle area are quite small as an attempt by the government to incentivize us to buy smaller (and thus by...

I thought the demand curve was that the higher the demand, the higher the price. And the higher the supply, the lower the price. In that case, the less gas that is used or demanded, the more that will be available, and the lower the price will go. The modifier to that would be that as the...

?x1 I’ll certainly be looking for a spare tire solution for when I go out to the wilds.

OK, it definitely was not clear to me from battery day that: we’ve actually had our cells in packs driving cars for several months That seems to make everything about battery day seem much more immediate. Basically it sounds like the the improvements are real and have been tested in real world...

Great video!! I wonder what awesome challenges the CT will be capable of taking on and possibly even excelling at. That Camel challenge looks like the CT could do the individual parts but would need help getting a charge periodically.

yeah, I haven’t either. But I’m hoping that the hotel industry is starting to think about what kind of solution to use for customers with electric vehicles. Right at the moment it might not be a big problem to solve. And with corona virus in the wind I doubt hotels are actively thinking about...

Possibly yes. But it’s been a long time since I heard anything about the robot charger. Are the super chargers fully automated like this? Or do I still need to wake up, step out into the cold, plug in, and get fully woken up while I wait for the charge?

And it is possible that I’ll need to re-optimize how I do road trips. My mom used to want to stop at all the rest areas. Driving during the day I actually enjoy seeing the sites, talking to people we meet, and finding unique experiences along the way. But then for the night driving, I’d like to...

I really don’t get the people who keep saying that I or anyone else doesn’t need more than the current 500 miles of range. I get that right now people take breaks from driving to get a bite to eat and take a bio-break. And yes if you extend those break times a bit for charging then it isn’t too...

Add in Osborne effect and I'd guess that ICE vehicle prices are going to start dropping as more people see the ban as being serious.

LOL Normal size is very different in various locations. Out in the Midwest, nearly any size truck can fit in nearly any parking space. Often with room to open doors for entry/exit. Out here in Seattle area though, most parking lots have a majority of compact spaces that are tight even for...