Yeah...I specifically wasn’t talking about materials changeover, but building a form factor that no other car company wants and requires new equipment to change. Anode materials changeover is possible anywhere.

I promise you if they change to anything other than cylindrical it will require new equipment (and the validating and sign-off of that equipment) to get up and running again. It’s not possible to design one machine that winds cells and stacks cells, so what they have is exactly what any other battery manufacturer…

Except Nissan, Chevy, et al. except Tesla do not use those cells and have no plans to use those cells, because even though their per-cell energy density is better than prismatics, their pack-level energy density is wrecked once you start packaging cylinders into cubes. To say nothing of the…

Yeah, point out where the 18650 fits in a macbook, tablet computer, or smartphone. They were the standard, as things get thinner, smaller, lighter, they’re losing ground. I’ll give you some industrial applications and probably power tools.

His if wasn’t if they will produce batteries. It’s if it “lives up to the hype.”

So...your claim is that their huge commercial advantage is they built a larger warehouse than anyone else?

Source for this claim? Also any estimate for cost to change form factor at same production rates?

I don’t really understand this. They built this factory for cylindrical cells. What else uses these cells these days? I guess their own powerwall...but it’s not in laptops or cell phones anymore, no other car maker wants to deal with the poor packing efficiency. I don’t see the other markets for their tech?

My first car!

when using something “as a transportation fuel” like he qualified, I believe storing it is a pretty significant issue.

Where are bicyclists supposed to ride? And why can’t you be held responsible for being aware of your surroundings while you drive just because you’re sitting in a metal box?

#cheaperthankindling

Didn’t they make a manual transmission Mazda5?

Matching windowpane blazers!

Glasses case?

worked for me.

worked for me.

That’s because it’s more than 4x longer than a 10k, and the average finish time is 50% more than an olympic distance triathlon.

Building muscle in your legs is critical. On a cardio level, I’m in pretty decent shape. But my conditioning wasn’t what was tested during the race. In fact, I hardly ever felt winded. It was all a test of endurance. It was all about how long my legs could function before pain and exhaustion made them completely…

This. I’ve done 2 marathons 6 years apart, and 2 half marathons 3 weeks apart. They....do not compare. Heck, I did a half marathon a month before my last full marathon. Congrats on those halves though. Major accomplishment for sure.

Plus there’s a 68 y/o woman that has run >200,000 miles in the last 30 years....averages 20 miles/day. She’s retired though so “nobody has that kind of time” is probably “very few people have that kind of time.”