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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...

Except the judge ruled he lied to those managers by saying he had an independent board which advised this was a good and audacious plan, when the internal metrics showed it was already likely to happen, and the board was not independent. So those managers did not have the opportunity to make an...

Elon does not own Tesla. As he likes to point out, he only owns about 12%, and that's not enough to make him very interested in the company, and he's threatening to punish Tesla unless the shareholders give him another 12% out of their own pockets. Elon is the CEO, and his duty is to run the...

@RandyS - Is George Bahadue your friend? https://electrek.co/2024/05/28/rehired-tesla-supercharger-manager-beautifully-explains-why-came-back/

As a bit of history, the M3P moved to SS in 2019 after David Marcus (multi time champ) drove his Blue M3P to a BS win at nationals (by 0.017 seconds) that year. He then went and argued to the SEB that it should be an SS car because it "might" get a software update that makes it faster. The SEB...

I've charged at 5+ superchargers in WA and CA over the last 3 weeks and have encountered 3 dead or very slow stalls. Very odd for a network that supposedly has 99.95% uptime. Unless you are measuring uptime as "at least one stall at that location can charge a car" (I still find the supercharger...

Want to explain what you meant by the above? You said the only job of the "Tesla folks" is to acquire "high-value sites." You didn't say this was only your friend's job. Was this what all 500 people did?

If that is true, the contractors actually building all the new sites are all new and weren't doing this before? Who is managing them? The point here is that 500 people were fired (and I say fired, because they were let go for "cause" of working for a manager that "needed" to be punished). It's...

Tesla had 500 people just acquiring high-value sites? I think you're being pretty disingenuous about what the team did.

Top two EV-X beat fastest AS at Nationals last year, by a fair amount even, and the AS cars were Z06's driven by national champs. The data we have so far is that the 2023 and earlier M3P cars are BS cars when stock, and faster than AS (but slower than SS) in EV-X trim. At least until someone...

It's not that this is the EV-X thread, it's just that the Model 3 isn't competitive in street class if you have solid competition. Of course some random local events it might win, but you would have won in those locations with basically any random AS car as well. We just want people to be aware...

That car at Crows didn't even beat the fastest BS car and was a full 6 seconds off the fastest SS car. The top AS car was 5 seconds off the SS car. Meanwhile at Nationals last year SS and AS were only 2 seconds off. That was not a top tier AS class at Crows, although the M3P may have done...

Are you winning in AS? If not, does it matter if nobody else is running EVX? It's quite expensive to stay in AS and you end up with a worse car both on the track and day to day than you would in EV-X. Just go compete in a PAX class. Plus, more EVX participation is good for the sport and the EV...

FYI for anyone looking at suing Tesla, they conveniently have a "how to serve us" page that makes finding their registered agent easy: https://www.tesla.com/legal/contact (choose "process of service")

Is your friend convinced that Tesla will lead the fast charging space? What is making them so sure given how fickle the leadership is on this topic and how they want to be an AI/Robotics company that spends $10B a year in R&D on those efforts while questioning a <$1B a year "spend" on DCFC...

Plus billions in fines, having to recall all the cars, and criminal indictments for some people which Germany shielded from extradition. Not saying they didn't get off easy for such a crazy conspiracy, but creation of EA was a small portion of the consent decree and people should understand the...

The language here is the problem. There was no "Verdict" - there was a settlement, and part of that settlement was creating EA. They didn't get "convicted" and then after that decide to comply with that conviction by creating EA. They specifically offered the creation of EA to the regulators as...

The EPA literally has a list of VW executives that are fugitives in the USA from dieselgate. It's just that they can't get them extradited from Germany: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/fugitive-information-vw-executives-2021 We actually did catch Oliver Schmidt in 2017 when he came here for a...

VW did not "decide" to do this. They agreed to do it as part of their consent decree agreement with the courts and regulators. They specifically "agreed" to create an electric vehicle charging network, and if they had not, they would have had to negotiate a different settlement. I mean, you can...

Sawyer quotes 10% for layoffs in 2024 when it's already higher than that and Musk has stated closer to 20% is the goal. It's not just the normal media that is biased, you have to be careful of using these "OSINT" sources too. (side note, did Elon re-friend Sawyer? Why is he back to shilling for...

If you want to know about EA's history, read the wikipedia entry. It was 100% created by VW as part of the agreement to invest in electrification as part of the settlement over Dieselgate. It's still 82% owned by VW, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrify_America

Electrek was not the original source, and there has been zero denial that the email is real over the last month. Yes, there are 42 pages of this story arc. There really has been zero pushback that the simple story is this: Elon told Tinucci to lay off ~20% of her staff. She pushed back at...

But your "exec and auditor" "friend" for sure knows what is going on here, and we're all dopes for believing the email Elon sent, which must be fake. Care to share any of your "Open Source Intelligence Channels" on how people can get news on Tesla that can be trusted instead of just telling...

Suuuuuper useful for some management styles to know that everyone working for your is scared of losing their job and thus will not offer any pushback to what you request no matter how insane. What better way to find these people than to fire everyone, wait two weeks, and then offer the job back?

The energy always has to end up at the battery in DC form and go through a bunch of safeties, all of which apply to combined or separate pins. This is effectively identical in combined or separate pin configurations For instance, the CCS port doesn't have 400V DC on it until it communicates...

Fun Elon news: Tesla is advertising to get shareholders to approve the compensation package: https://electrek.co/2024/05/13/tesla-spends-ad-money-influence-shareholders-approval-elon-musk-55b-payday/ Elon, who hates advertising, and so clearly deserves his massive compensation package (sorry, I...

Got it. So what happens all the time in corporate America is that there are divisions with a few people taking kickbacks, this is a massive federal crime, so the company fires every single person in that division in order to avoid that federal investigation, then hires back some of the people...

Care to share any common examples of a company firing everyone in a division then re-hiring some back as a way to clean up a dirty division, rather than just firing the ones that are dirty? There should be a lot, right? What does your professional auditor friend say about the highly reported...

I would have thought with all of Tesla's AGI, this would have been the first thing they used Dojo for before using it to learn to drive.

And here it is. Elon is hiring back people after his highly planned firing of everyone as part of a well thought out strategy of punishing people for being disloyal: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-13/tesla-rehires-some-supercharger-workers-weeks-after-musk-s-culling...

I've mentioned it at least 3 times: Daniel Ho was laid off, but not his entire team. Laying off the whole new vehicles team would be even bigger news than the superchargers.

If you're going to play pendant, it works both ways. I said his "pay" not his "salary." The IRS taxes him on what Tesla gives him, and the shareholders have to vote on it. That's pay. And the pay being considered is higher than anyone else. Do you really want to go down the route of arguing...

Yeah, that's not FSD. Go look up images/videos of actual FSD options in those menus. Bring those to court and just honestly tell the Judge that you don't have FSD, that's not a lie. You don't have to report what the SC told you, that's just one random person on earth and the factual evidence of...

Unless you have evidence that Tinuuci was specifically told "you either fire 20% of your team or I will fire all of them" then this was in no way Tinucci's "trolley problem" choice. The whole point of the trolly problem is that you can see both outcomes. The most common public story is that she...

Any good manager will tell you that you only leave decisions up to people you trust. Why did Elon trust her enough to decide if 20% or 100% of people get laid off when he requested 20%? And did someone say Trolley problem? Ahh yes. More gaslighting. The enemy is both weak and strong. She was...

What data do you have for this in 2024? High ranking people are resigning in droves and posting stories about it on linkedin. It's not 2019 anymore. https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-exec-rich-otto-says-resigned-layoffs-hurt-morale-2024-5 That's from Rich Otto, the ex head of product...

Check that return policy before you buy. A company that can't align their primary website spec sheet with their VIN checker is to be questioned, especially with an extraordinary claim that they can add HP to a M3P with just a plug in device, which nobody has ever achieved before with any process.

Cool. So what "strategy" was involved in allowing Tinuuci to pick either laying off 20% of her team or laying off the whole team? Why did Elon leave that up to her instead of him? What is the well thought out strategy in not telling your customers that supposedly Superchargers will sill expand...

What do they mean by "you already have FSD"? Do you actually have it? Does the AP screen in the MCU give you the option to enable some sort of FSD? If not, who cares what the SC says? If you do and your argument is that you aren't getting updates quickly enough, that's trickier, but then you...

They made your argument for you- "you're already on the latest firmware for your configuration" Well guess what, that latest firmware for that configuration doesn't have FSD, despite 99% of cars having it. They just literally told you that you don't have the HW needed for FSD, despite the car...