“Naysayers of modern diesel engines, look no further than this truck for proof that you can still hit great miles without an old timey diesel engine.”

you have fudge?

2026: Hire Louis DeJoy, who promptly scraps all EVs in favor of Peterbilt vans running 13 liter diesel engines. Also, he orders the destruction of all sorting machines.

He still pretends California could ban gas powered car sales tomorrow and not cause the collapse of the state’s economy. 

You mean blogging isn’t like running a worldwide logistics company?

I think this isn’t just an Elon-stans thing - it is a media thing. It has long been a media perspective that “If it bleeds it leads” - the media never focus on the positive aspects of stories. Covering the explosion is certainly a part of the story but I have already seen multiple news outlet stories this morning…

Fuck off Torch. The fuck are your bringing stans into this for? Can you not write a single article without including that? No one gives a fuck about whether it exploded or not in terms of how successful the launch was. Elon Musk knows this and no one who gives a single fuck about space flight does either. This is a…

Especially since, as noted, even though “swaps” could be accomplished in as little as five minutes, SuperCharging was good enough in context to make battery swaps a bad idea. Sure, a SuperCharging stop could be 15-30 minutes or so, but it’s not terrible and doesn’t come with the logistical challenges and personnel…

Swaps are a bad idea meant to compensate for slow charging times.  These aren’t your kids RC car you flip over and slap some AA’s in.  the Risk/Reward for battery swaps doesn’t make sense.  Better off working on capacity/charging time vs mechanical swapping of batteries.

The problem with swappables is standardization, which is nearly impossible in a competitive environment, not to mention the speed at which the technology is advancing. 

I said from the beginning with Lucid (and Faraday Future.. remember them?!) that I’ll believe it when I see it.

People have been riding brazed bicycle frames since the beginning of time. It’s plenty strong.

This is a lugged steel frame. They are always brazed, never welded.

In Soviet Russia, rail car rides you!

How has nobody suggested Canyonero yet?

Yeah, it’s an interesting resource, for sure.

1st gear: The “analyst” that claims that they’re “demand constrained, rather than production constrained,” is Gordon Johnson

Thanks for this info. Every time I see analysts say something I’m always like but how full of shit are they. Now I know.