It is probably more important to get proper data submitted then meeting short term deadlines. An investigation only works out if you have all the details. Something done right is better than done quickly.

Long story short, BS. As mentioned, high amperage is no worse than high voltage. That said, high voltage wires are covered in bright orange. Overall though, there is little reason to be working on a car while its on. Generally there is a switch to turn off the electricity while you are working on it.

You should really note that lithium ion is also a moving bar. So it is not about surpassing lithium ion of today, but lithium ion of tomorrow. If 10 years ago you told me you have a new battery technology 1.5X better, and would be commercialized in 10 years, it would be dead in the water, because lithium ion has been…

I never said one is worse than the other, but when looking at finances between companies who operate differently, in the approach Tesla is using at least on paper makes their finances seem worse. Especially during their growth phase where there is bound to be a longer chain.

Regardless of how they call it, it isn’t going to stop people from using it in that way, and in these cases of blaming the autopilot is nothing new. When was the last time you have seen an accident and someone say “It is my fault”. That is right, never. This is not uncommon that people don’t want their insurance to…

Meh, the Tesla Model S looks way nicer than the Fisker. And just an fyi, the creator/designer of Fisker worked for Tesla, but got fired because his design was pathetic and he tried to also steal trade secrets from Tesla.

Except while the Mission E is a smaller roadster car, it still has worse specs even on paper than a Tesla Model S of today, and the Mission E is 3-4 years away.

Tesla is more profitable than any US automaker. Their losses are more tuned to their spending into rapid growth allowing them to almost double in size every year.

Except no such claims have been made. Tesla at no point made any such claims. The issue comes down to poor media reporting who keeps insisting that it is self driving when Tesla has constantly said it is not.

I know ti gets accounted for as well, but it is not put in the initial accounting, it is only accounted for when it happens. It is effectively a shell game for the automakers to offload their stock in this manner and accounting for it when convenient. If it was accounted in the same way you do lease accounting, it…

Or you can use a high power laser to blind the human driving the car. Where is the study on that? lol

Having redundant sensors will insure autonomy will be just fine. An fyi, humans don’t have redundant sensors.

Except here is the thing, if the car remains unsold, car manufacturers pay the dealer money to hold the car on the lot. So in reality it should be accounted more similar to lease accounting where you only account for part of the revenue and get the other part when sale matures.

That is cool, but it lets them play a financial game to cover up their finances. Effectively, other makes are going around a loop hole in accounting.

But it is true.

Kosch, of course everyone spend on R&D. But Tesla again spends 5X more on R&D as percent of revenue compared to their competition. As they grow, their spending as % of revenue will decrease like all other automakers. COGS will also go down as % of revenue as well.

Based on? How about providing some numbers and sources?

Tesla is not calling deposits revenue. If they did they would have had FAR higher revenue. And in the breakdown of financing it is pretty clear they aren’t. So not sure why you are making a baseless accusation.

I am not Elon. Would be nice if I were a billionaire though. Are you volunteering to make me Elon?

Nope, they have plenty of money to last them till Model 3.