Let’s also not forget that dealers shot themselves in the foot with the ADM antics last year. Hell, up until ~May this year, the Ford dealer nearest to me was still putting 5k markups on non-GT Mach Es, and 15k markups on the GT variants.

It’s not really a secret that most car dealerships don’t actually like EVs. They need a lot less routine maintenance and repair than ICE vehicles which means dealers lose a lucrative source of revenue. They also require infrastructure that dealerships largely had to pay for. It’s not really a surprise that they are…

My theory is that he saw a spec sheet for stainless steel surface roughness/finish (which is spec’d out in microns) and is he thinks that’s what the whole vehicle should be held to.

I can practically hear the supplier laughing at this hypothetical Tesla RFQ.

“The dealers have pointed to a lack of demand for less-than-affluent customers”

My company does manufacturing at micron scale, and the costs to achieve what he’s talking about on a mass-produced vehicle would be insane. Musk is nuts.  

I don’t even know where to start. Not only do LEGO and soda cans have decades of refinement behind them, they’re not 5+ square foot stainless panels. Fucking hell, how is that even a comparison someone would put in writing?

Another case of Elon trying to sound smart while being completely out of touch. Guy’s an absolute dipshit if he doesn’t understand how this simply isn’t possible at the scale.

What he wants is completely possible. But the time frame and scale are not.

Well, they will have another 5 years to work out the kinks before the truck finally makes it to production.  Did you see that terribly aligned panel gap where the front fender meets the front bumper and headlight?  The gap is a legit triangle.

Regenerative braking is limited in the amount of braking force that it can apply to the vehicle so during harder stops, the friction brakes are more heavily utilized. If the vehicle is repeatedly applying moderate to heavy braking force, the rotors will heat up and require ventilation.

I want to know what kinds of cutting tools they use that can produce something with this degree of accuracy. There’s a reason that factory “blueprinted” engines involve taking a big pile of pistons and finding a set of them that all weigh in at the same amount within a tight window (despite the fact that they are all…

“All parts for this vehicle, whether internal or from suppliers, need to be designed and built to sub 10 micron accuracy.​”

It’s okay to deadname Twitter. It’s a corporation not a person and we don’t have to respect its decision to choose a new name because, again, it isn’t a human being.

That’s a gross understatement.

I test materials for high purity process orbital welding and we don’t even get to those tolerances. Every time he pretends to be an engineer or manufacturing genius I have to laugh. If this is indicative of their work and QC, they’re going to be in a world of hurt.

An island full of living vegetation that floats around aimlessly is some straight up science fiction shit. Wisconsin is such an insane place, rules.

Yeah.... Sorry to say, NO car is gonna be able to just sit there for half a year constantly and just run well with zero maintenance and etc...

If they think finding a rental for a few weeks is difficult, just wait until they have to start getting repairs on a car that sits for 90% of the year...

For anyone curious Bicester is just pronounced Bister. No it doesn’t make sense.