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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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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.
That could be true. I think, the most reliable answer you can get from Tesla employees. And they attribute a lot to Musk.
Nice article. And about energy density.. you should research the Maxwell acquisition and the plans for the battery investor day later this year.
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.
300 Wh/kg and an outlook to 500 Wh/kg is more than that or where is my mistake?
An "outlook to" anything is not reliable. I believe they can do 300 Wh/Kg which results in about a ~15% improvement.
WOW! I've never thought about it!
Yet, if compatible, Tesla can turn into a 'universal gas station' like traditional ones!
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.
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?
That program was cancelled I believe.