This is the most productive assembly facility in the US, but Giga Shanghai is what’s carrying Tesla’s eggs at the moment, with 60% of production.

I mean the tunnel is a bit dumb to me but this “jam” of a minute and 20 seconds seems pretty comparable to how a train stop would work.  I expected to see someone stuck in the tunnel for 5 minutes or something.

I have ridden the loop at least 10 times so far at CES this week and it was running smooth each time. I made the mistake of going to the south exit where nothing is open, so people only going back and forth to west or Central could potentially overrun the system.

I don’t understand what I’m seeing or what the point of this article is. At the end of the loop the traffic seems to slow down as people disembark. And? There was nothing clogging the tunnel, no break down, traffic didn’t even come to a complete stop. Is this just a hate on Elon post?

He DID NOT “have to sell”. But his options had a 10 year term and they are worth hundreds of billions...

Agreed, Matt Farah isn’t even a good automotive journalist....and that’s what he’s supposed to be famous for.

matt farah is just incorrect in his tweet. the very rich person still pays taxes when they sell their assets to make loan payments. 

We all know Musky is a supervillain but that Matt Farah is an insufferable douche.  That was clear even before I learned that he calls himself “Boosted boi” on his twitter.  What a tool.

This is where its apparent that people do not understand how money works. Elon Musk and many other billionaires do not hold their wealth in liquid assets. Elon’s wealth is stocks. He claims he does not get a salary from Tesla or Space X, I have not tried to verify. He takes out loans to live on and then sells stock or…

Sounds like they are pulling up the ladder behind them. What were engineers called before that definition was drawn up by people who have an interest in there being a distinction?F

It is the position of the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) that the title “engineer” should only be used by qualified individuals.

This is incorrect.

There is so much wrong with the calculations in columns B through R. The weighted averages for the consumption and temperature don’t compensate for the speed at which each of the models was run for each test. I’ll give you an example:

Having owned Lexus cars with both Leather and Nulux, I can tell you that the Nulux is softer and a nicer to sit on. I only lease so didn’t see any wear issues in the first 45k miles with either.

Nothing casual about trading in a car you were paid to drive for a year, if other similar anecdotes are to be believed. That’s just financially prudent.

Meh, seems like a mountain and a molehill situation to me. Production variances do vary by vehicle.

That is nothing more than elitist bureaucracy designed to keep the mass of less fortunate innovators suppressed. If some “uneducated buffoon” takes it upon himself to “engineer” a device that changes mankind for the better, I’m sure universities would be clamoring to have him/her associated with them by bestowed…

Insecure group of people self-define group as exclusive. Cool story. (Btw - that's not a definition of engineer) 

PEs everywhere just felt a disturbance in the force prestige. Better hide; the iron ring bridage is coming for you now. I suggest hiding out amongst software engineers. The PEs won’t know where to swing first.

The guy is building car factories and rocket factories, not cars and rockets.