Every HFCV has a lithium battery pack on board, the power from the cell stack is not nearly enough for acceptable acceleration (0-60 in ten seconds) without one. Battery packs can catch on fire and burn at 1,000 degrees. When the hydrogen is heated it expands and increases tank pressure until at around 230 F the…

Yes, but sadly for HFCV technology the Solid State batteries that can make it safe and feasible also make EVs have double the range, and recharging times comparable to an HFCV, making the EVs even more superior to HFCVs.

EVERY HFCV has a lithium battery pack, because 0-60 times of forty seconds or longer are not marketable in the modern era. There is a standard safety test for hydrogen fuel tanks called the “bonfire test” and the one I found showed that the pressure safety valve opened when the hydrogen reached 230 F, turning the fuel…

Also, batteries do NOT burn for “days or weeks.” They burn hot and fast. Are you SURE you want to be in the cab of a semi that just had a crash hoping the hydrogen tanks hold up after being crashed into and then rapidly heated by your battery pack catching on fire? The weakened dented wall of the tank being further…

Okay, but hydrogen vehicles ALSO require large battery packs. I believe the Nikola Semi is supposed to have a 135kwh battery pack on board too. Now, what do you suppose will happen to those large hydrogen tanks when they are rapidly heated by a very hot large battery fire? Really really big explosion, and for sure…

A hydrogen Semi on fire would be a “get far away and watch it burn” situation because they have BOTH the potentially explosive hydrogen tanks AND a huge battery pack with lots and lots of lithium batteries that can have really hot fast burning fires. Whichever one caught on fire first would be very likely to set the…

Horrible idea that will never happen. Hydrogen is significantly WORSE for climate change and clean air than diesel, because 95% of hydrogen is from cracking fracked natural gas using electricity mostly from coal and natural gas plants. It depends where you charge an electric car how “clean” they are but unless it is…

Uhm, all the high end luxury cars being electric won’t help adoption? Since when don’t poorer people try to get what the wealthy have?

Have not worked at Tesla for long, but even as someone who generally supports unions (and has been a member of two) I am not seeing that Tesla should have one. Tesla is not a company where you come to work and are sure to do the exact same task as yesterday and last week. Everyone needs to pitch in and help out where…

Bunches of articles have proclaimed that the sky is falling at Tesla because undisclosed sources say they are “building cars by hand!” Lots of other articles state that Tesla’s big mistake is to try to automate too much of their car production. By hand or automated, those are the only two choices, right?

You have a huge amount of design freedom when you are actually never planning to make any cars, which is the case here.

Can we be honest about why his last company died? Yeah, some cars spontaneously burning, inventory lost to flooding, A123 going bankrupt...main reason was it cost them an estimated $900,000 per car to make them and they sold wholesale for $70,000. They also sucked, broke down a lot, had cramped rear seats despite…

The issue is that Fisker is, in fact, NOT TRYING. His stories about batteries have been a pile of lies, he has no offices or labs or production facilities, no capital, no employees. He is not trying to make cars, but he is taking deposits for them. This is called FRAUD. Yeah, he could sue me if what I was saying was…

Uh, why would venture capitalists give Fisker money when he lied his rear off to them and lost over a billion dollars of their money, the most venture capital ever lost, last time? They are not giving Lucid money, and Lucid has a very nice actually working prototype while Fisker has a car that does not move under it’s…

Try to think this through now: where will Fisker get the money he needs? Okay, low volume, sure...that means much higher price per unit bought from suppliers, and he is not making anything in-house because he has no house. Even Tesla while getting the Roadster out burned like $60 million, and that car was based on a…

No one is giving Fisker money, he is just running a scam and/or trying to somehow hurt Tesla. All he actually has is a shell made at VLF. It does not run. He had to share a booth at CES because he has no money. No one will ever give Fisker the billions he would need, or even millions. Fisker Inc’s corporate HQ is…

Oh, Fisker Inc will indeed be the opposite of Tesla. While Tesla is selling hundreds of thousands of cars, Fisker will sell zero. While Tesla has 30,000 employees, Fisker has zero. While Tesla delivers what they promise, Fisker is just plain making stuff up here.

They are going for the luxury market because the battery supply to profitably go after the mass market does not exist. Basically they can make twenty or thirty thousand EVs, and mass market cars are lower margin so they cannot hope to cover their development costs, which are the same for mass market or luxury. With…

The 2017 Tesla models have replaced a lot of the plastic with alcantara.

I am surprised that this surprised you. Batteries and likely lots more from LG Chem, and manufactured by Magna Steyr....The more hands making the pie the more it costs to buy. Indications are that GM loses $10,000 per Bolt selling at $37,500, and this is bigger, much larger battery, and a far higher luxury class. The…