It is not that simple, it is unlikely that Musk will sell Tesla. Which means if they want to buy Tesla they would have to do it at market prices. The moment they start buying up shares, the shares will skyrocket in price. So Apple may end up paying 100 - 200 billion if they try for going it at the market price. And…

Just out of curiosity, how is Nvidia not anti-consumer? Remember that time when Nvidia knew about their GPUs in laptops being faulty, but instead of a recall or pulling them from the market they bribed the manufacturers to continue using their GPUs in a scheme where manufacturers made the fans run above 100% to keep…

ISIS is not trying to draw us into WW3. ISIS is to weak to accomplish anything of that sort. This isn’t like 100 years ago where the world wars were fought between countries of equal technological caliber. Western technology is so far advanced at this point, that if morals were truly thrown out, we could level the…

The solution is cut off the source of their funding. At end of the day it all goes back to who is funding them. These people get training and stuff from somewhere, and that takes money.

Except the 2nd guessing does not go in your favor. Initially the guess is that you don’t have a gun in a gun free zone. So if the criminal wants something like say money, they will take it and leave. If they have to 2nd guess, they will shoot your first, ask questions later. Because people tend to second guess in the…

Sure, that is simple to answer. The theater in question has 1,500 capacity. Let us assume 1000 people. In comes in the bad guys with AK47s (possibly bullet proof vests, since they are going in with intention of fighting till bitter end and are more well prepared). They come in and start shooting and panic ensues.

Out…

Tesla hired people who knew how to build cars. Buying up gliders in no way helped them learn to build cars. At best it showed them the value of building things in-house. Because again they only used 7% of the lotus which was the shell, which had to be modified, that is about it.

Ironically the EPA 5 cycle test is currently the best test in the world, NEDC and JC08 are far more terrible.

The biggest issue with the current 5 cycle EPA test is not that it is not repeatable. The issue is that it is based on the concept of people driving according to the law. Aka, obeying speed limits and the like.…

Tesla did not save any money by buying a Lotus chassis. Musk has said it was his biggest regret because they ended up having to make too many changes keeping only 7% of the parts. In terms of cost it would have been cheaper and easier according to Musk to start from scratch which they did for the Model S.

Except you are ignoring that in the US, the population that lives in apartments accounts for only 13%. The top 5 cities with population that lives in apartments:

When is ticket avoidance mode coming?

Right now, the biggest barrier is not range or refill times but cost. Which is being addressed by economies of scale. For those that happen to need more range, that is what plugin hybrids are for. But for majority of people, 200+ miles is more than plenty.

Statistically speaking, based on data from Department of…

You are a little confused, so it should be clarified:

It should be noted that not all lithium batteries share this problem. Lithium Ion which is used in EVs does not have free floating lithium. All lithium is in compound form, so exposure to oxygen is not a problem for the lithium ion battery as far as lithium is concerned.

While I agree with your overall sentiment, Tesla battery packs right now are closer to 20k. I also don’t see Tesla cutting the cost of the Model S regardless because:

You are totally confused. Lithium Ion varies SIGNIFICANTLY between chemstries. Take for example LTO chemistry. It allows 5-10 minutes recharge to full and has over 50 years lifespan, downside is it is expensive and low energy density so it is mostly used in buses.

The LCO chemistry used in your laptop offers good…

I am going to do some translations:

1) Lithium-oxygen battery is better known as lithium-air batteries.

2) 400 miles range for lithium-air is not that impressive, actually in a decade lithium ion will be 1/5th the price and have over 500 miles range, maybe even 700 miles range.

3) That said, despite my comment in #2 and…

They said many unrealistic things to make them sound good. Remember that promise about hydrogen being made from renewable energy? Well apparently only 10% has been set aside for renewable energy and 90% for fossil fuel based.

http://cleantechnica.com/2014/06/04/hyd…

Sure, here you go:

The thing is, superchargers are cheap to build, hydrogen stations are not. Based on my calculations, it would cost Toyota 69 million to 115 million to build hydrogen stations just for a cross country route. This doesn’t include maintenance costs.