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Army has had autonomous flight in helicopter for years. They tell it where to go and it takes off and goes there. https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2022/11/2/autonomous-army-helicopter-proves-ready-for-action

I was just telling a coworker the other day this same theory. I even included that I think this comes from Biden administration. Like it makes no sense that Biden administration so studiously ignored Tesla. I can't imagine Buttigieg et.al. being anything other than a Tesla fan yet they acted...

If you don't know anything about ev then you are ignorant about ev. I know it sounds mean but I think he used the right word.

A bit of apples and oranges on your cost vs price. Privately owned auto costs vs price of commercial flight. There is nothing in an evtol manufactured at the scale of autos that would make them more expensive to privately own. Would it still cost you 2.00 / mile or would it cost you the .86...

I do not... But tunnels are expensive to build and all roads are expensive to maintain. Yes they are totally necessary but those costs have to be absorbed in the cost of the system. When you say they carry more than air can are you including the possibility of evtol?

Really though? Lincoln tunnel is 1.5 miles long. It has a $16.00 toll for passenger cars. Its an old tunnel so either maintenance costs a tremendous amount or they shift money elsewhere. Evtol expected to cost ~0.89 /mile and 22 of that is pilot.

The cheapest miles are air miles so I don't think building tunnels will lead to cheaper miles. Why do you think NYC is unique? Density? Airspace is huge, roads take diffused people and funnel them along narrow arteries, air space takes diffused people and delivers them to diffused locations via...

He then said this is coming to our superchargers next year. And @DFW clearly has not bothered to read NACS documents.

They claim the craft is as quiet as a conversation.... Can u go hang out at Costco and film it and see if it is that quiet? Just 1/2 kidding ....

Yes tilt rotor is frightening ala osprey. At least Joby machine has more rotor... They have FAA airworthiness. So it's real. I'm long $JOBY

https://www.jobyaviation.com/

"It" that Elon is referring to is a pronoun. The noun is clearly Surströmming.

Or CT could do what porche taycan does and split strings for lower voltage chargers.

I happen to think that there are new cells with higher voltage and higher capacity. This is inline with Franz interview where he says he is working on a new product that is a passenger vehicle not in the normal space and that passenger cars have 4 wheels currently. This might imply aircraft and...

The CT max charge rate is a good discussion and discussing what a 1MW+ infrastructure means for future CT owners is important. It allows people to plan to meet their needs. Since we all now agree that CT will have 1000v architecture and V4 supercharging is capable of 1MW+ via NACS connector...

In If we assume a 100kWh pack @ 1000v with 25Ah per cell than pack will need 4 parallel strings @4 volts per cell 250 cells in a string . That's 1000 cells for a 100kWh pack. To do 500 miles CT would need to do 200Wh /mile. No way it's that efficient.... so pack will need to be larger or cell...

27:43. Start watching at 26:00 for context. The slide behind them says 1MW+ V4 This is coming to our superchargers next year.

These are just random high charge rate batteries. I'm not saying that cybertruck will do 1mw continously. But it probably will up to 75% or so, we just don't know enough and have to go on what they say. To reiterate... Cybertruck will have 1MW charging -Elon V4 supercharger is 1MW. - charger...

A123 Systems makes a nano phosphate cell 2 towns over from me that has a 5C charge rate. I only includes a screen shot because tech document is very long and charge rate is way into it. And those packs are not actively cooled.