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The much bigger news is they completely walked back FSD (full self-driving) into something that you have to monitor at all times by changing the description on their website. The release of a proprietary charger is somehow completely overshadowing that news. It's changed from driving itself around in a ride hailing network to earn you money while you sleep, to now making you always be in the car and pay attention and…
250KW. JFC! That's enough to power 100 average houses, all going into one car. I'm both impressed and slightly terrified.
This is awesome. I'm particularly happy about the on-route battery warming. Since I can't charge at my apartment, I tend to charge my car in the morning. If it is around freezing temperatures, it will charge at a rate of 0 miles per hour.
Can you speak more to this? Similar situation. Interested in a Tesla but live in an apartment without a station but during winter have well below freezing and sub zero temps. Seems difficult.
When I would use the supercharger on cold mornings, it would charge at 0mph for 10-15 minutes and then slowly increase. The worst I saw was it stayed at a rate of 25mph for over an hour before I finally had to leave. However, using a regular wall socket has consistently given me 4-5mph even in subfreezing temperatures. For comparison, a supercharger on a warm day gives >300mph.
If you can drive for a bit before charging then it charges much faster. That is why I'm excited about the on-route battery warming!
The much bigger news is they completely walked back FSD (full self-driving) into something that you have to monitor at all times by changing the description on their website. The release of a proprietary charger is somehow completely overshadowing that news. It's changed from driving itself around in a ride hailing network to earn you money while you sleep, to now making you always be in the car and pay attention and…
Link the change?
https://electrek.co/2019/03/06/tesla-self-driving-language-w...
Old language:
https://i1.wp.com/electrek.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/201...
New language:
https://i1.wp.com/electrek.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/201...
All mention of the ride hailing service is gone, and now unsupervised driving isn't just dependent on just regulatory approval like they said before but now is instead dependent on it ever "acheiving reliability".
Just for the sake of comparison a slow gas pump (5 gal/min.) fueling an average (25 MPG) ICE car works out to fueling at 7500 MPH.
250KW. JFC! That's enough to power 100 average houses, all going into one car. I'm both impressed and slightly terrified.
The much bigger news is they completely walked back FSD (full self-driving) into something that you have to monitor at all times by changing the description on their website. The release of a proprietary charger is somehow completely overshadowing that news. It's changed from driving itself around in a ride hailing network to earn you money while you sleep, to now making you always be in the car and pay attention and…
Musk once again overestimated by a long shot how good and safe autopilot will be. At least it seems he is becoming more responsible or maybe he is forced to by the new board.
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Can’t wait for 1.21 Jiggawatts.
I can't wait for the wireless charger that lives up to the name "Tesla".
