Tesla 2020
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They were talking about improvements in lithium-ion battery technology. The use of new materials and supply considerations. They expect these improvements to play out it the next three years or so. Tech feel good session.
I thought they were going to come out with a new battery technology. Musk overhyped the "insane" part. It might as well be a cure for Covid. Thus, the stock tanked in the AH.
I thought they were going to come out with a new battery technology. Musk overhyped the "insane" part. It might as well be a cure for Covid. Thus, the stock tanked in the AH.
I'll buy into the pure EV BS when every gas station in this country also has a universal charging station that fits all electric cars, and the 400-mile range car charges from empty to full in 20 minutes. (That's as generous as I'll get on the recharge time, because that's about how long a rest stop will take on a road trip with stretching and bathroom breaks, and filling up the ICE gas tank.)
But if I am in the middle of bumfuck, and have to divert 100 miles to find a charging station to get an extra 200 miles down the road I am on, fugheddabouddit.
Soon that will be a US and developing world oddity. Even parts of the US will mandate EVs by 2030-35. Soon enough you will have to drive 100 miles to find a gas station in order to drive 200 miles.
Soon that will be a US and developing world oddity. Even parts of the US will mandate EVs by 2030-35. Soon enough you will have to drive 100 miles to find a gas station in order to drive 200 miles.
I'll believe it when I see it. Like the flying car.
And where does the power come from?
It comes from the plug, of course. If you have the means, load up on Dec 2030 NG contracts then.
As a Tesla trader and believer in Musk's grand project, I was a bit disappointed by this event. Musk knows that enormous speculation surrounded this event and should have managed the message far better than was done there.
Lots was left out, from million mile battery, powerpacks, power stations to grand projects with electricity distribution in Europe. Then V2G was dismissed as barely relevant when a few months ago it was the big deal. In the end, there was lots to talk about Tesla the company that wasn't addressed.
The event did focus on battery technology and some amazing things were brought out, the key ones being that Tesla is far ahead of the battery competition. If anything, Musk showed that Tesla is primarily a battery manufacturing company that also makes cars.
His aim to replace oil, gas and coal with clean electric energy is a worthy goal and one that takes huge tech breakthroughs and as much money. He will succeed because many of the key world governments have already committed themselves to the transition. The losers are those who don't believe it will happen.
Lots was left out, from million mile battery, powerpacks, power stations to grand projects with electricity distribution in Europe. Then V2G was dismissed as barely relevant when a few months ago it was the big deal. In the end, there was lots to talk about Tesla the company that wasn't addressed.
The event did focus on battery technology and some amazing things were brought out, the key ones being that Tesla is far ahead of the battery competition. If anything, Musk showed that Tesla is primarily a battery manufacturing company that also makes cars.
His aim to replace oil, gas and coal with clean electric energy is a worthy goal and one that takes huge tech breakthroughs and as much money. He will succeed because many of the key world governments have already committed themselves to the transition. The losers are those who don't believe it will happen.
I'll bang on about this until I die...
Straight from Boris's mouth...
The plug. The bloody plug. MORONS, all of them.
I know you obsess about the plug as if you were the only one to know where electric power comes from. Renewables are increasing their % of produced energy and will continue to do so in the coming years. We may also have to look at nuclear again. And of course we will still depend on oil and gas for some years. But if we can eliminate coal or force the remaining power plants to cap their freaking chimney stacks, we'll be moving in the right direction.
Where does this happen? Can you find an example? There isn't one in my life.