I don't care what anyone sense... this company and the cars it makes are absolutely positively insane.
Sits... 7
Goes 300+ miles on a charge
0-60 in under 2.5 seconds.
NOTHING COMES CLOSE PERIOD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbr3hHy28AA
If I had start up money. This would be my daily.
Lets talk about Tesla.
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New report on the new Easter Egg update taking another 1/10th off the 0-60 time. The car continues to blow doors off over priced euro trash so called 'hyper' cars. Amazing what the car is capable of--
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... ven-faster
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... ven-faster
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Neat.
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Ok, so for real. I had beers last night with a dude I used to work with. He has a number of friends at Tesla who said that the Model 3 is being designed for 100% autonomous assembly...as in no human workers. Just some dudes cruising to make sure everything is going right. Ballsy because starting this with the volume model could be disastrous, but if it works out, Tesla would easily have one of the lowest assembly costs per vehicle in the industry. And very possibly how the Model 3 will hit its price point.
But really, that's just more rich getting richer, less jerbs for the working man. Wonder how Trump would approach that?
But really, that's just more rich getting richer, less jerbs for the working man. Wonder how Trump would approach that?
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it sure does look like it, but im not betting Against Elon... i fell like he has a "trump" card up his sleeve?[user not found] wrote:Tesla is the heart of a giant Ponzi scheme.
brain go brrrrrr
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He will take everyone's money and to mars.Big Brain Bradley wrote:it sure does look like it, but im not betting Against Elon... i fell like he has a "trump" card up his sleeve?[user not found] wrote:Tesla is the heart of a giant Ponzi scheme.
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It seems to be his end game.troyguitar wrote:He will take everyone's money and to mars.Big Brain Bradley wrote:
it sure does look like it, but im not betting Against Elon... i fell like he has a "trump" card up his sleeve?
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Like dis....[user not found] wrote:I can see a shit eating grin from his face as he uses cash to fuel his rocket boosterstroyguitar wrote: He will take everyone's money and to mars.
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[user not found] wrote:Big Brain Bradley wrote:
it sure does look like it, but im not betting Against Elon... i fell like he has a "trump" card up his sleeve?
I love what he is doing.
problem is...just a sniff of a recession and the jig will be up and all his hard work might be lost.
I fundamentally believe that electric (cars) is the way of the future, and hes end goal is making it affordable.
brain go brrrrrr
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It isn't. And he doesn't care because he's a master at continuing the ponzi scheme.[user not found] wrote:Yeah the debate (for me) isn't if he is doing great things for the industries he is in, it's if there is actually a sustainable business.Big Brain Bradley wrote:
ol:
I love what he is doing.
problem is...just a sniff of a recession and the jig will be up and all his hard work might be lost.
I fundamentally believe that electric (cars) is the way of the future, and hes end goal is making it affordable.
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I am highly skeptical that those are real and/or even remotely economically feasible. Especially for those of us in the northern part of the country.[user not found] wrote:As long as it lasts long enough for me to get my solar shingles.Detroit wrote: It isn't. And he doesn't care because he's a master at continuing the ponzi scheme.
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Agreed.[user not found] wrote:Agreed but a boy can dreamDetroit wrote: I am highly skeptical that those are real and/or even remotely economically feasible. Especially for those of us in the northern part of the country.
If it actually happens, I'll be pretty since I just replaced my roof this past summer, and could/would have held off for a while to do this instead.
Oh well.
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Thought the same until I saw solar panels on roofs all over Germany.Detroit wrote:I am highly skeptical that those are real and/or even remotely economically feasible. Especially for those of us in the northern part of the country.[user not found] wrote: As long as it lasts long enough for me to get my solar shingles.
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[user not found] wrote:I have 10-15 years left in mine which, even if this doesn't work, seems like I'll be hitting it perfectly from a tech perspective.Detroit wrote: Agreed.
If it actually happens, I'll be pretty since I just replaced my roof this past summer, and could/would have held off for a while to do this instead.
Oh well.
Oh look, another thread had become one of the three types of threads we have at dfd.
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I know it works, just not as efficiently as in sunny areas. Without serious .gov subsidy (like in Germany), there's not much hope without more breakthroughs in tech.coogles wrote:Thought the same until I saw solar panels on roofs all over Germany.Detroit wrote: I am highly skeptical that those are real and/or even remotely economically feasible. Especially for those of us in the northern part of the country.
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SOLAR ROADS!
Wait, that's not a thing?
Elon is a smart fella, and I wish him well in his adventures.
Tesla is making a thing people buy, an electric car is now seen as a luxury item, instead of a geeky thing like the Gee-Whiz.
Totally automated production doe, man, talk about quality control issues.
Wait, that's not a thing?
Elon is a smart fella, and I wish him well in his adventures.
Tesla is making a thing people buy, an electric car is now seen as a luxury item, instead of a geeky thing like the Gee-Whiz.
Totally automated production doe, man, talk about quality control issues.
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Melon wrote:SOLAR ROADS!
Wait, that's not a thing?
Elon is a smart fella, and I wish him well in his adventures.
Tesla is making a thing people buy, an electric car is now seen as a luxury item, instead of a geeky thing like the Gee-Whiz.
Totally automated production doe, man, talk about quality control issues.
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Can somebody explain his Mars fetish to me? I just don't get what anyone gains by going to Mars unless there's some massive store of some resource there that could be mined and sold back here.
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Wouldn't you?troyguitar wrote:He will take everyone's money and to mars.Big Brain Bradley wrote:
it sure does look like it, but im not betting Against Elon... i fell like he has a "trump" card up his sleeve?
Nothing like the vastness of space to make a damn fine wall between myself and stupid.
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Just to do it.coogles wrote:Can somebody explain his Mars fetish to me? I just don't get what anyone gains by going to Mars unless there's some massive store of some resource there that could be mined and sold back here.
I mean why not?
We went to the moon, drove around and played some golf, took a few selfies and planted a flag.
Other than the massive tech boost required, scientific discoveries to be made, and don't forget, drawing a dick on the martian surface.
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Sure, but he's talking about colonizing Mars and putting a million people there. What the fuck is the point?[user not found] wrote:For me it's the amount of tangential technologies we will have to develop to get there. Huge benefits.coogles wrote:Can somebody explain his Mars fetish to me? I just don't get what anyone gains by going to Mars unless there's some massive store of some resource there that could be mined and sold back here.
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[user not found] wrote:Because it's there?coogles wrote:
Sure, but he's talking about colonizing Mars and putting a million people there. What the fuck is the point?
Human experience is a constant journey of going to live in the next harsh place.