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Look at Rivian's experience. They were running test production around as mules and then as the actual production trucks in the hands of employees for over a year before any were delivered to customers. It takes time to work out kinks in the vehicle and in the manufacturing process. Look at how...

Parts for the charging ports.

That's the thing that concerns me. I ain't no spring chicken and the rate at which delivery is being pushed out seems to be about 1 month per month. As for those of us still standing when they finally do roll out we have folks that have reserved one for himself, one for his wife, one for his...

Afraid you are going to have to get into the weeds a bit to justify this assertion. The 2480 has 5.5 times the volume of a 2170 hence Teslas claim of 6 times as much energy per cell. Based on the volume it would, then, presumably produce 5.4 times as much heat were the internal impedances the...

I think you've missed the point. The new cell architecture reduces the amount of heat produced per ampere pushed in by reducing the effective internal electrical impedance of the cell while at the same time making it easier to remove the heat that is produced by reducing the thermal impedance...

No 133 addresses the I^2R losses from current flowing in the current collector but the argument applies equally well to heat generated adjacent to infinitessimal area dA by an exothermal reaction in the anode itself. Thus the electrical and thermal impedances are both substantially reduced by...

If we assume that each infinitesimal area located at (x,y) on an 80 x 800 mm current collector collects the same amount of current and that that current flows directly to the first place it can get out of the cell, i.e. the single tab in a tabbed design or the tab closest to it in the "tabless"...

With tabs along the entire edge of the anode current collector the longest current path (from the opposite edge of the strip) is 80 mm. With the single tab some current would have to travel sqrt(800^2 + 80^2) = 803 mm. So yes, the electrical impedance is less as is the thermal impedance in the...

I think what we should expect is "FSD will be available by the end of the year". Same as this year, same as last year, same as the year before that.

At this point in time the only certainty is that he will pay Virginia sales tax.

You WILL be charged VA sales tax however you take delivery of the car so I'd think that might be a bigger driver than destination charge. If you take delivery in a state that does not charge sales tax to out of state buyers then you are OK but if you take delivery in a state that does you will...

With the chips and batteries situation as it is today I have to think that the thing most likely to prevent me buying this truck will be my demise. Thinking about it a little I think it would be a very nice gesture on Tesla's part to erect a tablet of some sort at the Austin factory with the...

Weird. I didn't get the screen shot first time I looked. Now it's there. I hope it is understood that the message I am trying to get across is that while small fortunes have been made by small investors on TSLA in the past those glory days are, in all liklihood, past never to return. Yes, I...

It closed at $729 on the first day of trading this year. It closed today at $643. Can you tell me how you get 118% growth out of those numbers?

That's great. How much has it gone up this year?

In states where Tesla can't sell my understanding is that they put the vehicle on a truck and drive to your house or work place.

I live 5 miles from a service center. My first Tesla was delivered to my door. For the second I was asked to go to the service center and pick it up. In either case you sign some papers and Bob's your uncle.

You don't have to do any of that. All you have to do is vote for the politician that promises to take money from the people that did do all that and give it to you.

I'd definitely say hold. If the ramp is slow and the CT turns out to be a big hit when it actually arrives you might be able to sell it at a handsome premium on the day you buy it.

Yes they do as we found out when we tried to trade in a car. The bank never filed the papers with the DMV when the loan was paid off. And then it got bought by another bank. Quite an Odyssey but we did eventually prevail. My question WRT import regards taxes, federal and provincial.