The company was driving and forgot to close the tap that controls the flow of paint it seems and just drove all the way back to their business lol.

Acme Barricades??

Not really a Ponzi scheme because that involves other people’s money paying other people. This is like one guy running a Ponzi scheme on himself. Probably closer to kiting on a grand scale.

Thank you for putting a face to her name.

Take it out of Police Pension funds. “Sorry, Officer Figpucker, but that guy you covered for a dozen times finally getting caught means no pension payout this year”, that’ll bring down that blue wall faster than you can say “Police Collusion”. ‘Cause that is the real problem, it isn’t just that individual “bad” cops…

ETH Zürich is one of the best universities for engineering in the world, roughly the equivalent of MIT or Stanford in Europe. This was a student project with a broader set of goals than real-world application.

Speed records and racing have driven motorsports for over 120 years and ALL of it, all the technology, experiences, failures, triumphs, mistakes, victories, cheating, ALL of it progresses motorsports and real world daily driving. Are cars today are the children of technology born from trying to break records. 

If you allowed all cheating, races would be mostly scraping/hosing the bloody bits of drivers off the track and walls.

“But it does beg the question, why not just film a real pit crew one afternoon?”

This. Exactly. They did zero fact finding and leapt to the most cynical conclusion, which is also the least logical. Financially it makes no sense for Elon to run a mini power plant instead of buying subsidized grid juice for this once charger station.

As I said, this is non optimal.

I’m not sure why having some diesel generations on standby for surge capacity is some sort of scandal. I know they said they had plans for solar powered Supercharger, but I don’t see anywhere where Tesla promised 100% renewable power at all times. At the very worst, the diesel-generated standby power is no worse than…

It’s been known for many years (your article points to a 2015 example) Tesla sometimes hauls in generators to handle peak demand, especially during holidays. No one gives a shit because it’s negligible in terms of impact, as it doesn’t change that probably 90% of the charging is still done using much cleaner sources.…

Lets ignore the fact that Harris Ranch is a huge restaurant and having a back-up power source is a smart business decision on their part but complaining about the state of the place in 2015 now is a weird thing. You’re also ignoring the fact that Harris Ranch might be the only resort at a cattle lot I’ve ever seen.…

The premise of the article is basically “There’s a charging station with some diesel generators nearby that may or may not be used on the regular so Tesla bad. We are now one article closer to our anti-EV quota”

Pick your state and find you annual emissions (studies and citations included): https://afdc.energy.gov/vehicles/electric_emissions.html

A modern gasoline ICE is ~20-25% thermally efficient (that is, they extract 20-25% of the possible “work” from the gasoline and the rest is discarded as waste heat). Turbodiesels can get up near 40%. A decades-old, dirty-ass coal plant can get to around 60%, some of the very modern LNG plants can get to 80%. The…

The piece is written by a self-admitted mentally ill guy who has made picking apart everything Elon Musk has ever done his personal brand, which leads to hyper-focusing on extremely minor controversies as a way to finally bring down big bad Elon.

Seems like a good idea to have a backup. If they lose power (which does happen) there’s a lot of people stuck out there in the middle of nowhere. Are we sure what exactly this diesel generator is for? Is it for backup? Is it just for the chargers, or is it for the gas station and other facilities in general. Lots of…

I agree it isn’t optimal... But it is useful for the environment.