Recent content by gearchruncher

If this is true, then why does the last 1%-5% of a charge slow down so much and take so long, and why is it so variant? If it was balanced all along, all the groups should arrive at full charge at the same time. Just because it knows they are out of balance does not mean that it is balancing...

Yeah, that was my point. Unless this car was parked with less than 0% indicated, it had at least 5% of the rated battery left to keep it healthy when it sat idle, and likely much more. I don't see anywhere where I claimed you couldn't drive on this buffer.

No system I have ever heard of attempts to balance until the first cell is at max voltage. There's really no point, and voltage is an imperfect measure of the state of the cell until you hit the max voltage.

I'm sorry, but this is just full of lack of knowledge of the Tesla architecture. The center computer, sentry, etc, all run off the 12V battery. Nothing to do with HV. The HV battery absolutely has a contactor that disconnects it from the whole car. This is critical to safety. This is the...

All L2 charging is slow at about 1/10 C. There's no difference between slow and really, really slow.

NACS Rollout timelines appear to be slipping: https://www.pcmag.com/news/tesla-supercharger-access-delayed-for-gm-polestar-next-crop-of-ev-brands

Technically you don't need to change the 12V to see if it works. You can jump the car off another 12V car. There are instructions in the manual. You may want to do this first to see how healthy the HV battery is. Personally, I would: 1) Make sure I have a charger accessible near the car (even...

No, just like you get taxed where you earned your income, Elon pays taxes in the place he earned it. If you work from home you don't pay taxes where the company is incorporated, you pay it for your home address. Which gets very complex for people that travel a lot, but it has absolutely nothing...

Tax is owed where it is earned, not where the company is incorporated. If tax was owed where a company was incorporated, every company would be incorporated in South Dakota or Wyoming, and every person in the USA would run an LLC in some zero income tax state, The shareholders have to approve...

You're right, as the Chancellor already argued, he was already fantastically rich off Tesla stock, so he has already been paid and doesn't need more from Tesla to maintain alignment with them as a public company. As for what you actually meant, the Chancellor is unlikely to accept any...

Read the article. The board didn't even bother to get independent legal review, didn't do any diligence on the compensation relative to other executives, and then both made false statements in the proxy materials while also leaving out all of the disclosures that were needed. As the article...

Well, the judge found that they were not. That's what we have judges for, and the judge was following pretty solid, non-subjective rules for public companies like "family members are not independent." Read these articles if you actually care to understand why Tesla's board is problematic for...

Doesn't matter. You don't get to lie and then when it all turns out OK say it didn't matter. Just like the police don't get to break into your house and find evidence of a crime and say it was OK in the end. Same as you can't steal $100 from someone, go gamble it, win $200, and return $101...

The issue is that Tesla indicated as part of the ask for the pay package was that these were targets beyond internal company expectations. That was untrue, there were internal estimates that were expected. If Tesla hadn't said that, it would be OK, but they decided to say it, and that set up...

"He" (Tesla) claimed the board was independent and thus their suggestion to accept the compensation structure was not biased. The judge ruled that this was not true. "He" (Tesla) also claimed that the tranches represented unusual growth that were unlikely without amazing performance from the...