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"CNBC says Elon dampened expectations :" designing new tech and the production line takes time like fine wine. Still, less than two years to be in full scale production? This is good news for investors (long).

"This affects long-term production, especially Semi, Cybertruck & Roadster, but what we announce will not reach serious high-volume production until 2022." -Musk The new battery tech may be manufactured in Austin. It will be used on CT (all of them?) Semi and Roadster. The texas factory...

I don't remember tuning in to see the Tesla CT introduction but rather saw a youtube video of the event. I don't recall being shocked or surprised by the design but the $39k price stole nearly all my attention. Even though I have a Ford explorer sporttrac I am not really a "truck guy". However...

I did. When I saw that 40k price it was apparent that Tesla had better battery tech. So I mentioned it to my wife and asked why I didn't buy TSLA years ago. Anyways I can currently afford about 4 dual CTs. I am looking forward to battery day.

the saying "if you build it, they will come" seems aspirational for many. "if you can lie and get their money we can build anything" seems the M.O. for too many entrepreneurs.

A quick design could be sent to protomold and you would have parts in days and it would cost a few grand. This looks like a production fix and not an engineering fix. But if you listen to the arguments here such as this is not a professional fix on a $50k car I agree. I also know from...

The demise of ICE was always on the horizon. EVs were here in 1832 but the cost of storing energy in fuel was better/cheaper than the tech to store electrical energy. The trend in battery improvement continues to happen and EVs will be the future as BEVs are simpler and efficient . The...

They show a planetary gear AND a gear reduction system. Seems redundant.

I recall some quote from a Saudi oil minister that 'the stone age did not end for the lack of stones'. Electrical energy storage is the key/sole technology that kills the fuel use of fossil fuels. There is no law of nature that potentially prevents batteries from achieving much higher ED using...

Family vehicle? for sure! For me it will be a retirement /grandparents vehicle. It was interesting the last time I talked to my financial adviser I mentioned that my retirement budget could be different than the default model they use because they factor vehicle maintenance and gas into...

There are many private prisons within a few miles of the Nikola site. Perhaps they will "borrow" workers? For me (I live in Mesa) this location is remote and about half way between Phoenix and Tucson and nowhere close to a place where high quality workers would want to relocate.

it is a mostly empty factory. They are just starting to bring in the robots.

Rather than modify the original I suspect they would build newer prototypes. The original is likely going to end up in a museum or collection. Tesla will need many development mules and the manufacturing tooling and lessons learned will be the basis for the design of the line(s) in Austin.

range is mentioned as a knee-jerk criticism of EVs by folks who for some bizarre reason hate EVs and bitterly cling to ICEs. It is not rational and I think it may be an American "culture war" remnant. As if EVs in 2020 are associated with peaceniks, environmentalist tree huggers and hippies...

regarding getting from point A to point B. It is based on fundamental needs not "wants". transporting perishables, mail, people etc. time matters as much as the cost. I am sure everyone would "want" supersonic or hypersonic transport but it didn't last long. The interstate highway system was...

I would guess batteries would be the bottleneck but perhaps we may hear otherwise towards the end of september.

it was still mallets aforethought... With mallets towards none -A. Lincoln

a psi or so is more than sufficient.

high speed police drones with technology to paint the bad guy's windows or inject some tranquilizer into the cab or perhaps a bomb to disable really bad hombres... disabling/ or taking control of a vehicle is a better idea. When flight by vehicle is futile it will not be an option. But it...

Perhaps Tesla could design batteries in 30kwh modules and you just lease the number of modules you feel you need. A road trip would encourage using all four modules and perhaps a mini trailer with 2-4 additional precharged modules and some room for suitcases. But yeah, leasing just one module...