For the most part, nothing. People took investment costs unrelated to the production of individual vehicles and acted as of those costs were for vehicles in production, just as they are acting as if Lucid’s losses can be divided among vehicles produced, which would mean that the Gravity is being developed for free.

Yes, but they are developing the Gravity absolutely free, with no production costs, no engineering costs, no software development costs, no design costs, etc. Do the math. Take Lucid’s total loss, divide by the number of vehicles made (meaning that every penny of it is attributed to vehicles produced) and that makes…

I have no problem with you commenting on here. The problem I have is with the haters. I don’t drive a Buick or a Mitsubishi or a Ford. It doesn’t mean that I spend my time reading articles about them, and making comments bashing them. Normal people don’t read about things they they aren’t interested in.

Yes, and no.

No. He promised back in 2017 that all superchargers would eventually all be entirely solar fed. That hasn’t happened, but Tesla solar panels have put more into the grid than has been used by all Tesla Superchargers and factories combined, as well as enough to charge every Tesla car at home for the entire time that…

Actually, the battery swapping station proved that there was no demand for it. It was easier and cheaper to pull into one of the Supercharger stations near the swap station, plug in, go inside for a meal, and come back to a charged car. Solar has been working quite well.

What you are saying about Musk may be true, but it doesn’t make the article true.

Indeed, Tesla solar panels alone have produced more power than has been used at every supercharger session and all of Tesla’s factories since inception. Electricity is fungible so it doesn’t matter where the solar is. If more solar power is put into the grid than is obtained from the grid for those purposes, it means…

No, fans are pointing out that the article is just plain wrong, Tesla has no diesel generator, Niedermayer admitted in the source article that he had no such statistics, it’s based on a temporary charger brought in on a trailer in 2015, and Tesla doesn’t use diesel to power superchargers.

It’s about 16 times as many. They had six and now have 95.

That’s not accurate. They sometimes did it in 2015, but there’s no practical reason these days. Back then, Harris Ranch had six superchargers. So adding two level 2 chargers temporarily added a significant amount. There are no Supercharger stations in busy areas with so few chargers and none others nearby. Bringing in…

He admitted in the SFGATE article that he has no statistics. He also went by his belief that they were using diesel rather than evidence that they are using diesel (they aren’t) because they had two temporary Superchargers in 2015, that were there for a matter of weeks, powered by diesel since there was no…

The 2022 article was a rehash of a 2015 article that was misleading even back then. It tried to convince people that because Tesla brought in a Supercharger on a truck as a backup, when there were only six chargers, and it was used only when all were in use on a holiday weekend, that Tesla was powering things with…

If there was, it would be very high. It wouldn’t include this, though, because it’s Niedermayer talking out of his ass.

Nobody does that. Harris Ranch is in the middle of nowhere, on a big empty stretch between the Bay Area and Los Angeles. When it was relatively new, and had only six chargers, Tesla had to bring in a backup diesel generator on a truck for peak holiday weekends. It was off most of the time and gone within months. Now…

And Tesla haters seem to think that if a headline has a question mark in it, they get to decide for themselves without evidence whether it’s true, rather than doing the slightest bit of research. Musk IS full of it on a lot of things, such as his claims that FSD is around the corner. But Tesla doesn’t have diesel…

Your guess is wrong. And going by guessing is the problem. Tesla has no diesel generators there. Guessing that a diesel generator in that area must belong to Tesla is equally bad, especially when it makes no sense. Diesel generators are used for backup in emergencies because they are far too expensive otherwise. Tesla…

This is fake news. The slightest bit of fact checking would have shown that. The Niedermayer video is on Youtube and it shows that Tesla brought in a diesel backup in 2015, back when they had only six superchargers, to handle the excess on holiday weekends. They were there for a few months, used on days with a backup,…

Musk did manage to do the impossible, which was to get people to root for Zuckerberg. 

This is not true. Live view camera isn’t a feature that anyone pays for. If a car has the connectivity feature, which itself might be free, the user has access to the camera feeds. When Tesla added live feed, they did not add a fee or increase connectivity charges by a penny. The connectivity fee has little to do with…