Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

[TheGrimSweeper]

Where's my stream bro!

 

[Todd Burch]

Given how critical charging time is to the public’s perception of the practicality of EVs, I’m surprised Tesla isn’t making a bigger deal out of this. Maybe they’re saving it for the Model Y reveal?

 

[mongo]

But I have a tire, but I only use the air in the bottom to hold up the car. Why should I pay for more air than I need? WHY!

Interestingly, the car hangs off the hub which hangs off the sidewall which hangs off the top of the tire which is supported by the air pressure which is in turn reacting against the ground. So all the air is useful.

If you had a tube tire where the tube was sized such that it only contacted the hub and tire at the bottom, then the bottom air would be all you needed, until it rolled.

 

[MP3Mike]

Given how critical charging time is to the public’s perception of the practicality of EVs, I’m surprised Tesla isn’t making a bigger deal out of this. Maybe they’re saving it for the Model Y reveal?

Or maybe they are waiting until there are a reasonable number of V3 sites available. You can't really tout the charging speed when there is only one site, with only 4 stalls, in the world.

 

[omarsultan]

Or maybe they are waiting until there are a reasonable number of V3 sites available. You can't really tout the charging speed when there is only one site, with only 4 stalls, in the world.

Didn't stop Porsche.

 

[Cosmacelf]

InsideEvs has a livestream link but so far it is a black screen with audio of a guy clicking on a mouse.

Livestream: Tesla Reveals Supercharger Version 3.0: Up To 250 kW

 

[⚡️ELECTROMAN⚡️]

Loved it up to the five asterisks.

Maybe I’m naive. I feel that Tesla’s domination will be more dramatically successful if it comes via a people propagated epiphany - where the populace learn through experience and an overwhelming number of friends and family reporting that Teslas are amazing. They then learn a second thing - that they’ve been lied to by the media.

Pls add the word ‘accident’ to item 1.

Several of those points are amazing. It’s a list to ponder, not speed read.

Hopefully they don't need to advertise, but if they need to, they should. Maybe just like a month long media blitz to counteract all the misinformation out there. I was in Atlanta last weekend and I only saw five Teslas the whole time. I did a lot walking throughout the city, putting over 40,000 steps on my phones pedometer in two days. I was dumbfounded. There's enormous untapped markets out there. Tesla's come too far to screw it up now. Hopefully they don't have a demand problem and advertising isn't necessary..

 

[printf42]

Introducing V3 Supercharging
Tesla’s blog post about SC v3

• 250kw, allows M3 to charge @1000mile range/hour
• V2 will be unlocking 145kw in coming weeks.
• Pre heating when you navigate to SC allow 25% faster charging
• Capex and Opex saving is because same amount of stalls can serve more cars
• Available to early access only now. GA in US in Q2
• Thousands more SC in 2019, able to serve “more than 2x more vehicles per day at the end of 2019 compared with today – easily keeping pace with our 2019 fleet growth.” Seems to be bullish estimate of fleet growth.
• M3 from the beginning, later expend to wider fleet which they did not specify model years.

 

[omarsultan]

Article: Tesla launches faster third generation Supercharger

 

[eloder]

Additionally, we are also unlocking 145kW charge rates for our 12,000+ V2 Superchargers over the coming weeks.

Wow!

 

[MP3Mike]

Introducing V3 Supercharging
Tesla’s blog post about SC v3

Here is the part that everybody really cares about:

Beginning today, we’re opening the first public beta site in the Bay Area, which will incrementally be made available to owners in Tesla’s Early Access Program. We’re launching V3 Supercharging for Model 3, our highest volume vehicle, and we’ll continue to expand access as we review and assess the results of millions of charging events. We will increase Model S and X charging speeds via software updates in the coming months. V3 Supercharging will roll out to the wider fleet in an over the air firmware update to all owners in Q2 as more V3 Superchargers come online. Our first non-beta V3 Supercharger site will break ground next month, with North American sites ramping in Q2 and Q3 before coming to Europe and Asia-Pacific in Q4.

So it doesn't sound like this is actually a public site, and the public still has months to wait before they can experience V3 charging.

Hopefully the "On-Route Battery Warmup" feature will come sooner, since people in cold climates could really use that now and it would make for less crowded Superchargers.

 

[mblakele]

I wonder how SCv3 will affect pay-per-use in per-minute areas? Will they add a third tier, maybe "above 120-kW"?

 

[TheGrimSweeper]

Wow!

 

[StarFoxisDown!]

So the Model 3 does in fact charge faster than the more expensive S/X and it's just......weird. There's gotta be an update coming to address this. Tesla is saying that they will update the S/X through software but that it won't be at what the 3 can do.

 

[Pezpunk]

it's not weird. news flash: technologies developed in 2016 are superior to ones developed in 2011.

but i'm sure we'll get an X/S refresh soon.

 

[X Fan]

So the Model 3 does in fact charge faster than the more expensive S/X and it's just......weird. There's gotta be an update coming to address this. Tesla is saying that they will update the S/X through software but that it won't be at what the 3 can do.

Hopefully S & X will be able to charge at the 145 level noted in the release.

 

[SebastianR]

Great solid progress. Seems like a practical, thoughtful, well paced approach.

I particularly like that even V2 is getting more powerful, I love that each vehicle is getting full power. Well done!

Now watch the shorts finding fault with this somehow...

 

[Mars ☰mperor]

It’s happening!

1000 mph!!!!!

That is a symbolic and monumental number. Just like the 1000 km range of Roadster 2020.

 

[StarFoxisDown!]

it's not weird. news flash: technologies developed in 2016 are superior to ones developed in 2011.

but i'm sure we'll get an X/S refresh soon.

It's weird when the 2011 is double the price of the 2016 tech.

 

[30seconds]

And a new iPhone Xr is cheaper, faster and had better specs than my 14 month old iPhone X