This is actually making me a bit nervous. This is exactly how you get the plot of 13 ghosts. Is he going to be opening a portal to hell at the gigafactory because I might want to be getting to work on a few things if Lucifer and the demon lords are going to be stomping around in person to inspect my progress. Anyone around here want to become really gay and sign their soul over to me?
At this point, if you want anything Elmo's hands have touched running a vehicle travelling at 60mph with you in it, you may as well shove your dick in an electrical socket. If you're the sort to own a Tesla, it'll fit.
Tesla's New CFO Will Have To Do Double Duty In New Position The previous CFO resigned abruptly for unspecified reasons. He was also the guy on the investor calls who everybody listened to.
A Totaled Tesla Model X That Was Sold For Parts Came Back Online In Ukraine The article does mention that this isn't an issue unique to Teslas, but only briefly.
new note to self on when to consider an EV: The day they have a universal charger so I do not have a garage full of charger wires like my fucking cell phone charger wire box. I know someday I am going to be at what was a gas station looking through a rack of charging cable adapters wondering which one fits my fucking car. I am going to buy one and go outside only to find out it is the 2034 Icar 8 adapter and doesn't fit my car because it is 1mm different.
For our Canadian posters some free money is out there for you (from a Reddit thread on how a person got their Tesla repoed because Tesla forgot to cash their cashiers check): https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/comments/15u8wuv/tesla_repossessed_my_car_due_to_an_extreme/
This is the right call. Tesla’s actually opened NACS, but their superchargers and all current and future non-Tesla chargers are going to speak CCS, not CCS+proprietary Tesla crap, and for old models other manufacturers will be providing dumb adapters for older models (previously, the adapters would have had to have electronics). The opposition at this point is dumb. There’s almost no advantage to the CCS1 connector over the NACS connector, and many disadvantages. And I say this as someone who daily-weekly drove a car with a CCS1 connector. I’m no Tesla stan. There’s a better argument against the NACS connector in parts of the world where 3-phase outlets are a thing, but that would not be North America. ETA: the only open question was whether NACS could handle 350+kW charging (its power pins aren’t quite as large as CCS1), but in the last few months, the first 350 kW superchargers came online with no problems.
I don't think considering an electric's a great idea until there's an industry adopted standard for charging, but that's just me.
The chargers have the two kinds of plugs. Tesla is the third, and they use adapters. But they have their own charging network so there. Here's a free one a mile from my home. Fast charge. Two plug types. It's sponsored by the county utility coop. Did I mention it's free?
It has solar flower solar panels. They follow the sun around. There's a park with picnic tables. Come to the dark side...
Tesla's Carmaking 'Breakthrough' Also Comes With Plenty Of Downsides Remember when unibody cars first started becoming common and people called them "disposable" because it seemed like even a minor fender-bender could cause the insurance company to total the car? This is like that. Only worse, because Tesla hasn't had a lot of luck with their casting processes, and a number of drivers have reported that critical castings in the cars have failed under normal use. Now, imagine if the entire bottom half of the car is a single casting. Castings that aren't properly annealed can shatter (which, I suspect, is what's happened in the case of several owners who've had problems with their Teslas). I'd hate to be in one that shattered (or even severely cracked) while driving at highway speeds. Things could get very ugly, very quick.