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Re: Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%

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Post by TheAceOfHearts »

edgineer wrote: post #374
serf wrote: post #337

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>The model Y is a genuinely good car... I can't think of an automaker with better software. great. I love that comment because software is the one element of a vehicle that we know it (vehicles) can do without from prior art. personally I would prefer a vehicle that emphasizes safety, aesthetics, performance, handling, utility, comfort, or reliability. another opinion : the cars with the best software are the ones wh…

What car exceeds a Tesla in all these categories that I can get used for the same price as a used Tesla? I'm asking this as a challenge; in a Tesla the biggest complaint I have actually is the half-baked music software. You can't set it to start playing USB music when you get in, and there's no button to resume it either. You have to use the voice command "switch to USB" to get it playing where it left off. The car's…

I've watched multiple car reviewer videos where they talk up BYD's software as top-notch, however the price is artificially inflated in the US due to tariffs.

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Post by Aloha »

tw04 wrote: post #396
Aarostotle wrote: post #370

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Well reasoned. Before he smoked that reefer, his space company was catching the largest booster ever made with metal chopsticks, all paid for by global satellite internet revenue. His electric crossover/SUV was the best selling car in America. Now that he’s gotten distracted by politics I dislike, he’s not doing any of that. Definitely no longer the world’s greatest builder. /s

> all paid for by global satellite internet revenue. Huh? You think starlink is funding space-x? If they lost all government and private launch business tomorrow and had to rely on Stalink revenues to stay in business they wouldn’t last through next month. > His electric crossover/SUV was the best selling car in America. It was, and then he fried his brain and decided to support fascists across the globe and can’t un…

I dont think Starlink can actually make money without government subsidies and a whole lot of inactive users. It simply cannot scale, the width spot beams are limited by physics - they cannot get small enough to get the density needed.

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Post by wisty »

mullingitover wrote: post #356
wisty wrote: post #327

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The Lancet[1] forecasted Musk's 'bit of a jerk' elimination of USAID[1] will cause a death toll that puts him around 10x that of Pol Pot. > Projections suggest that ongoing deep funding cuts—combined with the potential dismantling of the agency—could result in more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, including 4·5 million deaths among children younger than 5 years. [1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet…

You mean Trump's elimination of USAID? You really think he's worse than Hitler?

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Post by spullara »

I think the amount of vitriol in this thread directed at one of the most successful tech entrepreneurs of all time is sad. He may be too optimistic in his predictions but at least he has goals worth achieving and doesn't stop just because it doesn't work the first time.

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Post by spullara »

nurettin wrote: post #399
eru wrote: post #345

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What evidence is there for the 'dump' part? Mr Musk is a strange fellow indeed, but he's not guilty of all the vices and sins. Just plenty enough of them.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2024/05/31/tes... > Musk sold 19.5 million Tesla shares worth about $3.95 billion in November 2022 I mean sure it is his to sell, but how is that different?

That was to buy Twitter.

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Post by spullara »

TheAlchemist wrote: post #298
zitterbewegung wrote: post #151

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The Dojo team left tesla to do their own ASIC. https://www.theverge.com/news/756706/tesla-dojo-team-shut-do...

Yeah, that was already almost 1 year after they were supposedly planning to have the top 5 compute ... The reality is they announced that as a pipe dream. Just like the FSD, Robotaxi, Optimus and 10 other projects that will never work - or more precisely, they will work but >10 years from now, and it won't be from Tesla but from a competitor.

I'm sure there is a Polymarket for you to bet against FSD that I use to drive 99% of the time.

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Post by ekianjo »

nurettin wrote: post #399
eru wrote: post #345

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What evidence is there for the 'dump' part? Mr Musk is a strange fellow indeed, but he's not guilty of all the vices and sins. Just plenty enough of them.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2024/05/31/tes... > Musk sold 19.5 million Tesla shares worth about $3.95 billion in November 2022 I mean sure it is his to sell, but how is that different?

You know that's the timeframe of the Twitter acquisition right?

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Post by wood_spirit »

edgineer wrote: post #374
serf wrote: post #337

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>The model Y is a genuinely good car... I can't think of an automaker with better software. great. I love that comment because software is the one element of a vehicle that we know it (vehicles) can do without from prior art. personally I would prefer a vehicle that emphasizes safety, aesthetics, performance, handling, utility, comfort, or reliability. another opinion : the cars with the best software are the ones wh…

What car exceeds a Tesla in all these categories that I can get used for the same price as a used Tesla? I'm asking this as a challenge; in a Tesla the biggest complaint I have actually is the half-baked music software. You can't set it to start playing USB music when you get in, and there's no button to resume it either. You have to use the voice command "switch to USB" to get it playing where it left off. The car's…

I really like my Kia EV6.

However, you asked what you can get for the price of a used Tesla…. :)

Tesla sales have plummeted in my part of the world, and they are a bad buy because their second hand price has plummeted too.

They are cheap because primarily the political views or Musk and secondarily they are no longer the only EV maker.

So you can buy a used one cheap… not necessarily a good thing.

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Post by arghandugh »

spullara wrote: post #414

I think the amount of vitriol in this thread directed at one of the most successful tech entrepreneurs of all time is sad. He may be too optimistic in his predictions but at least he has goals worth achieving and doesn't stop just because it doesn't work the first time.

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Post by fleroviumna »

spullara wrote: post #414

I think the amount of vitriol in this thread directed at one of the most successful tech entrepreneurs of all time is sad. He may be too optimistic in his predictions but at least he has goals worth achieving and doesn't stop just because it doesn't work the first time.

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