I give up on trying to time this shet. Stock down 7% this morning. investors don’t believe the promises anymore. Last night, We heard a concept of a plan not an actual plan. Lots of sizzle and a small steak, Hollywood production, robots dancing, lots of music but the details were sparse.
Details:
2 seater, no steering wheel or pedals
$20-30k price tag
No word on production numbers
Charging Method:This was exciting to me: the car comes with no charging port. It charges thru “inductive charging”, it drives thru an inductive charger and comes out charged in minutes. How do I get one in my garage though? But here it is, gas stations will be replaced by drive thru inductive charging stations. You will charge in minutes for just a few bucks. Get used to it. It’s happening. The Jetsons are here.
Interestingly, Uber and Lyft are rallying today on the news. WTF.
Disappointed but still long on this bitch. It’s gonna go to $500 p/s. The tech lead Tesla has is insurmountable. Also, Elon has juice with Trump, when Trump wins, Tesla wins.,
The beauty of induction charging stations is that if you put your lonely man microwaveable entree on the dash you can have a hot lunch waiting for you with a full battery.
I’ve experience in this arena so allow me to opine:
Induction charging may work OK with the robo taxi, if you’re using it at city speeds, You could get away with a lower-voltage battery setup making charging attainable. It’s probably the best use case. And if you think it doesn’t have a plug port anywhere…well there’s a bridge…that would be absolutely stupid. Plus how am I going to make any money without selling cable copper? 😀
If you’re whipping your 400v model s, induction will get difficult, you’re talking high V and high A to get a large battery from 5 to 80% quickly, after 80, forget it they all charge at a lower rate.
And with any induction there’s a comm problem that needs to be resolved. Look at a j1772 plug and you see three poles and two comm contacts, so the charger and battery can talk via CAN . ‘Hey, too hot, slow current’ ‘Need more juice’ ‘fck off i’m full’. Im sure the nerds will figure that out eventually. As java said below, the phone induction was a bust. Showing 100% surface charge and down to 50 in an hour.
Anyway YMMV
Hope that works better than my contactless charging on my iPhone. Remember that promised scam? Another thing that doesn’t work
Now 8%. Doesn’t make much sense. Wonder if that new Kammel commercial has anything to do with it.)
I like Musk and hope the stock rebounds. Christmas is fast approaching. A few shares of TSLA would be a really nice gift (HINT).