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Well, it's a good start that they don't have to operate the cells at 80C anymore. Still, I wonder if they got the power density of these their cells up to a useful level yet.

Your numbers are way off, even if you include "dramatic emphasization". There is more than 1 long range fully electric vehicle for ever 20 Million Tesla cars. Just look at electric buses with longer range. Tesla cars aren't going to outsell the Chevy Bolt 2000:1. Is Chevy going to sell less...

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Three things I don't like: * 20 post per page limit: Slower, more page loads. I prefer 50+, or even better auto-updating (ajax?) * Vertical spacing: Slower, more time needed to find posts content. I vastly prefer neogaf.com, where they god rid of everything directly above or below posts...

The newest version (Feb 26) has a much narrower definition of "public charging spot". Tesla's Supercharger Network now doesn't have to fulfill it's requirements now. Entscheidung des Bundesrates zur LSV Freunde

Thinking about it more I'm not so sure anymore. I just saw third party mention 5000 cycle life and the powerpack inside showing 15 module banks.

AFAIK the 10 kWh Powerwall cells are the same cells as those in the S/X Most cells for Tesla Energy including all PowerPack are MNC, not the NCA types used in Model S/X. So I doubt that much excess pre-silicon anode 18650 cell inventory will be used for Tesla Energy. That math doesn't check...

It is a mid-size vehicle, albeit barely. The Bold has 111.3 cubic feet net interior volume. gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-1996-title40-vol16/pdf/CFR-1996-title40-vol16-sec600-315.pdf

Misleading headline, it even says so in the article:

(5) Purchase price after "gas savings" using $3.3 per gallon and a 20 MPG car.

GmbH = Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung = Company with limited liability = limited liability company = LLC

I'm sure Tesla will mention this in the 2016 Chinese New Year address, but here is the latest update I could find (January 14, 2016). ÌØ˹À*³äµçÉèÊ©½«ÊÊÅäйú±ê

My guesses: purple: steering violett: lead acid "starter" battery sky blue: fluid bottles cyan: part of inverter pink: Air conditioning green: traction battery red: charger brown: MacPherson strut suspension not pictured: Bolt electric motor

Seems like NVIDIA have lots of work to do. Cars literally popping in and out of detection right next to their car. And I don't see how their system with 100x more power consumption can compete with EyeQ4. Mobileye's free space algorithm seems much more accurate. They also explain that Lidar...

Riiight. Maybe in martian years.

Posted yet? Mercedes Ecolux project has gotten the greenlight. They will spend $2b for four car models. The platform is now known as "electric vehicle architecture (EVA)". Derivative of MRA platform. Anyway, more info here: Mercedes signs off four electric Tesla fighters by CAR Magazine

Bolt in production this year, production version revealed. Bolts available for CES attendees to look at and sit inside. I think it's safe to say that the Model 3 will launch some time later.

production version reveal live stream (edit: over): https://www.facebook.com/chevrolet/videos/vb.77589292295/10153831975917296/?type=2&theater about $30,000 after incentives. 200 mile range 80% charge in 60 minutes rear camera mirror 10 inch capacitive touch screen with CarPlay and Android...

Happy New Year. I'm looking forward to FY15Q4 delivery numbers.

Well I've got a 2016 map from January 4th, 2015.

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The final, unified Guobao charging standard specifications have been released on the 28th, effective on the 1st of January. Tesla have committed to supporting it, including existing infrastructure. I'm not aware about an update on that front, but maybe the new year address will mention it again...

Nothing new. They did the same the past years. Fun fact: They believe HFCV will do even worse. The source, not mentioned in the article, is OPEC’s yearly World Oil Outlook. 2015: 2014: zoom of 2015: Direct link (4MB)...

Well done. "You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to wk057 again."

Not even a problem if it were 0.2 seconds to 60. Then again I doubt we'll see rocket cars soon :biggrin:

D pillar sedan, wagon, hatchback

The P90DL acceleration isn't anywhere near problematic levels for health. On top of that positive linear horizontal acceleration is the easiest for the human body to handle, the car accelerates more than an order of magnitude less than problematic levels. g-force - Wikipedia, the free...

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Exactly. You want the wheels to be as light as possible to have an effective suspension. Alloy wheels were introduced to reduce wheel weight and improve heat conduction. Now you want to put a hot and heavy motor inside the wheels? Makes no sense in a performance car.

"Car needs service", ha

Rember the state grid "superchargers"? Well, they recently opened a 26,500 m² charging complex consisting of 25 chargers at 360 kW and 5 chargers at 90 kW Green Car Congress: Largest ultra-fast EV charging station goes live in Beijing; supporting electric buses out of Xiaoying Terminal...

I have mixed feelings about nuclear. One issue nuclear advocates in the US seem to gloss over is nuclear waste management. Very costly at best, potential environmental hazard for decades to millenia at worst. Simply storing it within some mountain ranges is not as permanent as previously...

1. Bury or fortify habitats with regolith. 2. NASA Office of Planetary Protection exclusion zones. Very stringed sterilization limits.

wrong.

Update: The bill didn't pass the Federal Council unchanged. Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern und Berlin requested to postpone the decision for two days. The reson for the delay were concerns about the scope of the consequences. Hessen und Niedersachsen proposed many amendments. For instance...

My guess is some of the density improvements will be used to reduce cost or improve margins instead. That would also be my guess as well.

If you don't want to give up meats, substitute red meat with poultry, farm fish ... or insects. All of them have a much lower feed conversion ratio, the mass of the food eaten divided by the output. Healthier too.

That assumes that Tesla won't increase their Model S pack capacities, which contradicts Musk's predicted capacity upgrades. Unless you mean pack cost reductions after accounting for capacity increases, in which case that's premature.

Actually JB Straubel expects about a 40% volumetric energy density improvement for the Gigafactory/Model 3 packs compared to the first Model S packs. This is mainly due to a improvement in packaging efficiency with a bit of cell chemistry improvement (10-15%). So I expect a bump in capacity once...

First 2015 map posted in 2015 (January 8th)

My guess was 60 and 85 kWh for Model 3, while Model S will get much higher capacities. Remember that the Model 3 packs will have a 40% increased volumetric energy density Source: Tesla Reimagines the Century-old Power Grid - JB Straubel | SDF2015 - YouTube

I remembered that the Dalhousie University has a 5 year research deal with Tesla. On July 30th, 2013, Professor Jeff Dahn of Dalhousie University delivered a lecture at Waterloo University about battery degradation. Professor Jeff Dahn - WIN Seminar Series - YouTube

edit: nvm.

This is one of a series of attempts to stabilize high silicon percentage anodes using graphene and/or some other carbon structure, in this case polyacrylonitrile. As long as graphene remains prohibitively expensive, those advances are not market ready.

Faraday Future is privately held. They are hiding who their CEO is.

I don't get why Apple would want Chinese investors, unless they want to deliberately obfuscate outsiders. Apple are siting on an enormous pile of offshore cash. So my guess is that this rules out Apple.

37 million horsepower (the main engines with solid rocket boosters) https://www.nasa.gov/returntoflight/system/system_SSME.html

This is exactly true, as you can see in the discussion of the draft bill at earlier parts of this thread. Also each new or upgraded supercharging cabinet (counting as "public") would have to enable Combo 2 charging and be certified regularly.

Tesla Germany posted an official complaint letter (Nov. 1st). http://tff-forum.de/download/file.php?id=14506

For Tesla Energy products the target gross margin is 15% IIRC.