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The Brilliance of Elon Musk

Ryland G on June 24, 2019

Cover Photo Credit I always see people talking about how amazing Tesla cars are, what I don't see often, is people discussing how brilliant Tesla'...
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Scott Tadman

Careful with attributing to Musk what he's just appropriated. An argument can be made that he's not Tesla, a daring inventor who was way ahead of his time, but instead Edison, a shrewd and ruthless marketer that was able to capitalize on the innovations of others, including, especially, the work of Tesla himself.

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Ryland G

Careful with attributing to Musk what he's just appropriated. An argument can be made that he's not Tesla, a daring inventor who was way ahead of his time, but instead Edison, a shrewd and ruthless marketer that was able to capitalize on the innovations of others, including, especially, the work of Tesla himself.

I mean, regardless of his public persona, I think it's obvious that he's an innovator. Otherwise he would have taken the paypal money and left.

Also the same thing could be said about Steve Jobs.

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Viktor

That could be true. I think, the most reliable answer you can get from Tesla employees. And they attribute a lot to Musk.

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K.D. • Edited

Nice article. And about energy density.. you should research the Maxwell acquisition and the plans for the battery investor day later this year.

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Ryland G

Yea but even the dry technology Maxwell has is still a relatively marginal improvement. They say 15% increase over existing energy density should be expected. Definitely better than the current 8% but not fundamentally different.

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K.D.

300 Wh/kg and an outlook to 500 Wh/kg is more than that or where is my mistake?

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Ryland G

An "outlook to" anything is not reliable. I believe they can do 300 Wh/Kg which results in about a ~15% improvement.

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Daniel Cunha (he/him)

WOW! I've never thought about it!
Yet, if compatible, Tesla can turn into a 'universal gas station' like traditional ones!

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Ryland G

100% , and if the solar technology is good enough, he won't even have to pay for "gas". He could have a universal, zero maintenance, zero cost refueling network.

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Igor Let

Wasn't there something about Tesla stations where they take out your empty battery and replace it with a fully charged one in something like 30 seconds?

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Ryland G

That program was cancelled I believe.