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Debating the politics could be fun (though I personally find personality worship distasteful), but not kosher here, I believe. Regardless, the point still stands, Elon's actions have caused sales to drop off a cliff in Europe. You may disagree with their reasons.

While I get some of your sentiment, it is absolutely the case that Elon, his politics, and his actions have hurt sales here in Europe. I know *many* people who outright refuse to even look at Tesla. We can see that impact in the dramatic downturn of sales. It greatly impacts my view of Tesla as...

Agreed that the CT is completely the wrong form for an autonomous delivery vehicle. Again sadly this, with the news of the S and X, speaks of how little effort Tesla is really putting into cars right now while chasing rainbows. I say sadly because personally I’m way more interested in drivable...

I think the bigger question is whether there will actually materialise a bike to tear down. That would already be a development. I hope there will be, but there are many reasons to remain concerned.

A new article from the Finnish public broadcaster digs out details about the finances of the Verge motorbike company, describing finances being in such a mess that the auditor refused to sign the financial statements. Things like missing inventory management and missing sales receipts mean...

I'm still convinced it's not the "EV truck" aspect itself that's a problem. It's price. If the Cybertruck had come out at the original prices, it would have completely disrupted the market. As it is, not so much. Yes, there are other vehicles in that price range too, but many of them don't sell...

This Finnish article has a few tidbits. Here at least the Nordic Nano boss is stating it is *not* a super capacitor (as that would leak energy). https://yle.fi/a/74-20204159

Yeah, I saw that. I would find it extremely surprising if Nordic Nano doesn’t have a role here give the close relations and common ground. The statement is thus definitely surprising. It’s possible they consider it a Donut battery (I mean that’s what it’s branded as anyway), and thus ‘not...

Watt is a fair point. But Donut and Verge are very, very tight. It makes no odds which country the companies are registered in. It’s not uncommon for Finns to register in Estonia for tax or other reasons. It’s a short boat ride across the sea :) Plus everything is online anyway. The merits of...

Production supercapacitors also don’t have anywhere near the energy density claimed here. So if it is, it is still a major breakthrough. Also I wouldn’t quite get the criticism of ‘Ha Ha not a battery’. I mean if a supercapacitor does the job, great! I wouldn’t be picky. Donut in the marketing...

Check again. Marko Lehtimäki, the guy from the video, is in both. Donut is a spin out of sorts from Verge. They did the motor.

Verge and Donut have the same people involved. Watt I’m not sure.

The same founder appears here last year, launching an Artificial Superintelligence: Demos were to appear a month after this video, but nothing has appeared since then. Sadly this does make the battery claims less credible. I have seen their bike a couple times, and know some of the folks...

Fair point on the lithium, if that’s the case. The capacitor theory has been thrown about, almost as a criticism of this. But if they have reached that kind of energy density with a capacitor, it would equally big news. Then with capacitors you also usually get quite rapid energy dissipation...

Donut is a Finnish company, and they have been creating a fair bit of chatter after this announcement. They do not apparently have any patents filed, and no concrete information about production and materials. In an earlier interview Nordic Nano, which Donut has a stake in (and which Donut is...

And don’t forget the Koreans. Actually some of the most interesting EVs atm are by Renault.

Thing is, I don’t believe AI or robotics will be generating financial results to compensate for dumping the car space, at least in anything close to ‘a few quarters’. More like some years. Even then I’m not convinced Tesla is necessarily the company best placed to benefit from that. If and when...

Also BYD has surpassed Tesla as the largest EV manufacturer. With sales down and no real commitment to develop their core products, and a polarising CEO, I’m not so positive about their future right now. They are striving for AI and robot moonshots, but I’m not optimistic about Tesla even really...

That line of thinking just leads to a never-ending cycle of bigger and bigger and heavier vehicles. I really hope we can put a stop to that trend.

Ironically Toyota just came out with an EV Hilux. It’s even available here in Finland. it’s rubbish though. As Toyota hasn’t exactly been pro-electric it’s probably available to tick some political box or to be able to say ‘Well, that didn’t sell well’, which it won’t.