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[Mike K.]

Negative!

But I might buy their phone when it comes out.

[Victoria Watcher]

They aren’t making a phone.

And Apple is not making a car.

[Mike K.]

I thought they are working on a secret project that will connect to Starlink.

[Victoria Watcher]

No. The starlink satellites are 535km away. Any way you do it you need a funny antennae array to connect to those particular ones. So a handheld phone does not work.

It’s different and non compatible technology with the older generation satellite phones.

There will be some uses for it though for ships and planes.or other data uses in areas away from terrestrial cellular coverage. And some compatibility with Voip. So you might be able to use it for VoIP when camping away from cell towers. And of course use it as a hotspot at your campsite.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 31 October 2021 - 09:24 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

I'm sure the silly steering wheel yoke won't confuse anyone

 

 

Toyota’s new electric SUV has a solar roof and a steering yoke like Tesla

 

The first all-electric vehicle from the Japanese automaker

 

https://www.theverge...yoke-solar-roof

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 01 November 2021 - 04:53 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

GM WANTS TO SELL MORE ELECTRIC VEHICLES THAN TESLA BY 2025

 

 

https://www.auto123....sla-2025/68627/

 

 

WHEN IT COMES TO ELECTRIC VEHICLE MARKET SHARE IN THE U.S., TESLA CURRENTLY DOMINATES WITH 63 PERCENT; GM IS AT JUST 9 PERCENT

 

 

https://twitter.com/...106523132080139

 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 01 November 2021 - 05:08 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Rivian made a big splash last month when it announced on September 14, 2021 that they had officially begun series production of the R1T electric pickup truck.

 

Reservation holders were hoping that meant deliveries would begin in September as they has promised just a few weeks earlier. However more than one month later we have yet to see an excited new customer receive their R1T.

 

The reason for that might be because Rivian is, on average, making just over one R1T each day at their facility in Normal, Illinois.

 

Rivian revealed the shockingly low production rate when they filed Amendment No.1 to their original S-1 filing October 22, 2021. According to the filing, Rivian manufactured 12 R1Ts between September 14-30, or just 0.75 per day.

 

The rate has improved slightly since then. As of October 22, they had made 56 R1Ts, or 1.47 per day since the first unit rolled off the production line last month.

 

 

 

https://driveteslaca...-truck-per-day/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 01 November 2021 - 05:29 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Shares of Lucid Group surged as much as 9% on Monday, extending its week-long gain to nearly 60% as the electric vehicle manufacturer begins deliveries of its Air sedan.

 

The company plans to only deliver a few hundred of its premium Air Dream edition cars into year-end, but early reviews are proving to be positive, with The Wall Street Journal calling it a worthy opponent to Tesla. And Road and Track said last month the Lucid Air "is so good it should make Tesla sweat."

 

The $169,000 special edition vehicle has more than 1,000 horse-power, a range of more than 500 miles on a full charge, and can go 0-60 miles per hour in under three seconds. The luxury EV also has lidar, optical, and radar sensing abilities to help assist drivers on the road, along with the ability to download over-the-air software updates in the future to enable new features.

 

https://markets.busi...petitor-2021-11

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 01 November 2021 - 05:31 AM.

[lanforod]

 

Rivian made a big splash last month when it announced on September 14, 2021 that they had officially begun series production of the R1T electric pickup truck.

 

Reservation holders were hoping that meant deliveries would begin in September as they has promised just a few weeks earlier. However more than one month later we have yet to see an excited new customer receive their R1T.

 

The reason for that might be because Rivian is, on average, making just over one R1T each day at their facility in Normal, Illinois.

 

Rivian revealed the shockingly low production rate when they filed Amendment No.1 to their original S-1 filing October 22, 2021. According to the filing, Rivian manufactured 12 R1Ts between September 14-30, or just 0.75 per day.

 

The rate has improved slightly since then. As of October 22, they had made 56 R1Ts, or 1.47 per day since the first unit rolled off the production line last month.

 

 

 

https://driveteslaca...-truck-per-day/

 

 

I seem to recall that Tesla had an abysmally low production rate at the start as well.

[MarkoJ]

Rivian review -> https://www.youtube....h?v=A1uYhkMRLWg

[Victoria Watcher]

That tunnel is neat.

[Victoria Watcher]

Let's Go Brandon! 

 

Up 50% in one month.  Elon made another $24 Billion today.

 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 01 November 2021 - 12:05 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Tesla is rolling out a pilot program in the Netherlands that opens 10 Supercharger locations to non-Tesla electric vehicles for the first time.

 

Non-Tesla drivers that want to use a Supercharger location will first need to download the Tesla app and create an account with the company. From there, they can select “Charge Your Non-Tesla,” search for a location, add a payment method and start charging, according to information on Tesla’s Netherlands website.

 

 

 

https://techcrunch.c...the-first-time/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 01 November 2021 - 01:06 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

But the real reason that neither GM, nor Ford, nor VW, nor any other legacy brand has come anywhere near Tesla so far, is a very simple one: Tesla doesn’t sell gas-powered vehicles. It devotes all its energy to selling EVs, while the other firms are caught in the Innovator’s Dilemma: if they want to go “all in” on EVs, they’ll have to go all in on selling them, and that means telling their customers: “Don’t buy a gas vehicle.”

There’s no sign that GM, or any other legacy OEM, is yet willing to do that.




https://insideevs.co...ossibility/amp/


What percentage of families are 2-car households?

Maybe what needs to happen is a shift away from “his car” and “her car”. So instead they have the daily drivers (both cars) plus the extended trip car (the gas SUV).

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 02 November 2021 - 05:51 AM.

[Mike K.]

With insurance being what it is in places like BC, that’s an expensive scenario.

[Victoria Watcher]

I would guess most households are multi-car. At least in suburbs.

[Mike K.]

Definitely in the suburbs. As kids grow older two cars turn into three or four, I guess.

[Mike K.]

Musk is asking the United Nations to detail the accounting of its claims that $6 billion is needed to patch a global hunger gap, and if their claims are backed up, he’ll sell $6 billion in Tesla stock to fund it.

Things are going to get very interesting in the years to come. Musk is not letting go of Biden’s snub of the company at his EV summit. And he’s taking on the world’s biggest institutions, one small step at a time (it started with the securities commission).

[Mike K.]

When CBC does allow comments:

"no one makes a billion dollars a year, they steal it from workers"

- https://www.cbc.ca/n...unger-1.6233103

[Victoria Watcher]

a billion a year?  he made $24 billion yesterday.

 

but lost $3 billion so far today.