Why? Lithium Ion already doesn’t require any expensive metals. And as long as lithium ion continues to improve, it’s hard for any technology to replace it. Because it has to not beat lithium ion of today, but the cheaper and better lithium ion of tomorrow.

LFP is nice and all but it isn’t as energy dense. You can still achieve a 200 mile car with it, but not 300-400 miles (EPA).

Work from home should be made permanent. It’s been doing very well for my family and friends. Many of them who have been on meds to deal with headaches don’t need them anymore, they can get more sleep and less stress from the commute.

The refueling hydrogen in a minute or 2 is a myth. The 1st car might refuel that fast, but keeping the pressure at 10,000psi is hard. This is why you see lines at the hydrogen stations of people taking an hour to fill up only to get stuck at half the range. And BEVs can recharge to 80% in 30 minutes. Soon it will be…

1) Fuel Cells will never reach 90% due to theoretical limits. So yes, they can never be as efficient as batteries.

I thought ev was much heavier than hydrogen since it needs to pack a lot of batteries. Toyota mirai weights 4,075lb while Tesla model s hovers around 4,833-4,941lb.

The current fuel cell technology is PEM fuel cells, which go back to the 1966 GM Electrovan. They technology has been improving SLOWLY. In comparison, lithium ion based cars appeared in the 2000s.

1) Closing manufacturing plants means less supply, not demand.

1) The automakers are shut down as well, so it’s still a supply issue.

Hydrogen is the end game when we break fusion, hydrogen fuel cells though are not. That said I doubt anyone will let you put a fusion generator in your car anyways so we’d still be running on something like batteries.

But crashing electric vehicle sales because of the pandemic also hit the battery market, where, for the first time ever, demand is expected to fall this year.

Well to be fair, Tesla has never actually removed options for 3rd party sold cars. What actually happened was the dealer bought a used car from Tesla, then sold it to another person. Now while the original car had a software option, we aren’t exactly sure what the sale contract to the dealer said.

No it does not. We knew exactly how the virus spreads, we also know ways to mitigate the spread. Again, the whole plan was not to wait the virus out, it was to prevent our medical system from being overloaded. By drafting procedures that minimize the threat, reopening could have been done on schedule.

Rumor on the street is Tesla will have the Berlin factory up this year. And another rumor is that UK factory might happen as well. This would make it cheaper.

You are joking right? MS had a decent in windows mobile 6. The problem was that they did not control their manufacturers like HTC who did not put in proper gpu drivers cause they didn’t want to pay $7 for the licensing. They also used 3 year old processors on new phones. This made their WM6 phones run slow like crap.

VW software engineers are having problems, their boss told them to put in an emissions defeat device, but they are having problems figuring out where the tail pipe emissions control system is on the ID.3. That has caused major delays.

“The Model 3 itself had an 11% market share in Norway, with 15,683 vehicles sold. This is over 50% more than the second-place VW Golf.” for 2019.

The EV sector is doing better than the ICE sector, and Tesla has changed prices all the time both up and down once or twice a year.

He isn’t there to micromanage everything and fix every little thing, that isn’t the point. The point is to pinpoint bottlenecks and skip red tape and the game of telephone.

Considering Musk is part of the design process and knows about building the cars himself, obviously 2.