Agreed jim, also 10 second Google search came up with this https://investingnews.com/daily/resource-investing/critical-metals-investing/cobalt-investing/top-cobalt-producing-countries-congo-china-canada-russia-australia/ while the DRC is the biggest I wouldn’t say “there really isn’t any cobalt mining besides Central…

“I think you’ll find that most of the cost of building a standard rechargeable lithium battery has been squeezed to about as low as you can go already.”
and you would be 100% wrong! Lithium battery cost can be reduced 30-50% by economies of scale(that’s Tesla projected reduction from building the Gigafactory) plus you…

Lithium battery contains around 2% of lithium. Lithium is only used in the electrolyte, and even then it’s a small portion of the electrolyte. Love all the arm chair researchers that think they have it all figured out...

You mean a billionaire that can actually deliver, unlike Cheeto Von Tweeto.

They’ve made 3 cars and you tin foil hatters think they haven’t figured out they can’t treat hardware as software? Give me a break.

It’s not uncommon new car companies like this use steering wheels and lots of other components from established companies... Tesla for example used/uses Mercedes steering wheel and steering column.

Most of it is future revenue tax breaks.

When Tesla tried to use battery swapping practically no one used it, people instead used the superchargers(which are free for S/X owners). The turning point will be when you can buy a 200+ mile EV for the price of a Civic and can charge 80% in 10 mins. Battery swapping will probably never be in high demand(maybe for…

Ummm I’m sorry but ICE is not better technology than electric. Gasoline is more energy dense than batteries, however we have not nearly reached the potential of batteries there is also a huge distinction, you burn gas... You cannot expect something you don’t burn to have more energy than something that you burn.…

“In order to attract Faraday Future, the State of Nevada voted in favor of offering the company $215 million in tax credits and $120 million in public financing for infrastructure improvements for the factory in North Las Vegas.”

Yeah you go girl! Tell people what they should do with their money and what they want!

You’re crazy. Go on the thread on /r/teslamotors some of the highest rated comments agree Autopilot is not the proper name. Get over yourself.

Are you special? Half baked? Yeah okay. You apparently have no knowledge of how the system works. Name one system in production that does a better job than Autopilot. By the way there are plenty of videos of Autopilot avoiding accidents on YouTube. The car industry couldn’t go from no autonomy to full autonomy in one…

Because there is such thing as “language settings” baffling I know...

Also the P90D had about 5-10% less range than the 90D, the 90D had around 295 miles of range which means once you can buy just the 100D it should provide around 330-335 EPA. I don’t think the 100 kWh is even using the new battery cells yet which means next year when they start using the 21-70 cell that should provide…

“doesn’t mean they are behind” “likely” “easily could if” “could be done” “but tends to”

You are way behind the times... All the problems you mentioned are early models from 2012/2013, the Model Ss being produced now have improved tremendously. The Model X is a brand spankin' new car and they did have initial quality issues but seem to be mostly resolved. There's a quality issue here and there which they…

TIL Diesel and gas refines itself

Is this stackable? I bought it, I assume its not stackable... anyone try it?:P

Is this stackable? I bought it, I assume its not stackable... anyone try it?:P

>a man decorating a Christmas tree

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