Teslas and other electric vehicles

[bundabergdevil]

Anybody else holding out for solar-powered flying cars?

Why don’t we just call flying cars “planes”? Never made much sense to me.

[budwom]

Anybody else holding out for solar-powered flying cars?

my neighbor's VTOL aircraft company, Beta Technologies, has just the thing ...but it might set me back $5 million or more which is something of an obstacle::https://www.beta.team/

[jimsumner]

Why don’t we just call flying cars “planes”? Never made much sense to me.

The Jetsons promised us something entirely different.

[mpj96]

my neighbor's VTOL aircraft company, Beta Technologies, has just the thing ...but it might set me back $5 million or more which is something of an obstacle::https://www.beta.team/

< 300 mile range is very inconvenient in an automobile. It is downright scary in an aircraft.

[bundabergdevil]

The Jetsons promised us something entirely different.

The Jetsons promised us a lot. Some of us more than others…

[jimsumner]

The Jetsons promised us a lot. Some of us more than others…

Genuinely perplexed. Not as much as I am by the officiating in Miami tonight. But perplexed.

[rsvman]

The Jetsons promised us a lot. Some of us more than others…

Were you in love with Judy or something?

[budwom]

< 300 mile range is very inconvenient in an automobile. It is downright scary in an aircraft.

UPS and Amazon don't think so. They see it as a very useful tool for delivering important packages. As battery technology improves, Beta's range will increase along with that of automobiles.

[bundabergdevil]

Were you in love with Judy or something?

Rosie. And she loved me…for a while. It was rivet-ing.

[camion]

Were you in love with Judy or something?

Jane his wife?

[OldPhiKap]

His dog, Astro?

[LasVegas]

Tesla in trouble again. 750 complaints in the US about vehicles just randomly stopping in the road while driving. Maybe they need to rethink their software development strategy over there.

[CrazyNotCrazie]

Tesla in trouble again. 750 complaints in the US about vehicles just randomly stopping in the road while driving. Maybe they need to rethink their software development strategy over there.

Maybe Elon should focus more on running his primary business than flirting with Twitter and his other projects and seeing how many press mentions he can get.

[bundabergdevil]

Maybe Elon should focus more on running his primary business than flirting with Twitter and his other projects and seeing how many press mentions he can get.

They’re about to have a talent problem, too.

[sagegrouse]

Just saw the new Cadillac Lyrik at the local Caddy store. It was a preproduction model, not available to test drive. The price fully loaded, including Supercruise, was $63,000. About the same as a Tesla model Y, not fully loaded and pretty spartan inside compared to the Cadillac. The comparable electric BMW is a out $20,000 more. The Cadillac may be serious competition to Tesla. Not sure how Cadillac is selling a fully optioned electric for $63,000 in light of comparison to comparable electrics. Cadillac sold out the entire 2023 model year in a few hours on May 19, roughly 25,000 cars for delivery this fall and early next year.

0well, the answer to "how can Tesla compete" is that Cadillac's production run is only 25,000 cars. Production -- and pricing -- will change,of course.

[howardlander]

They’re about to have a talent problem, too.

Yes they are, at least on the engineering side. No talented software or hardware engineer actually needs to work for Tesla, even if they want to work on electric cars. Elon really needs to stop behaving so erratically. His threat to lay off 10% of staff because he has a bad feeling about the economy seems almost psychotic to me.

[budwom]

Yes they are, at least on the engineering side. No talented software or hardware engineer actually needs to work for Tesla, even if they want to work on electric cars. Elon really needs to stop behaving so erratically. His threat to lay off 10% of staff because he has a bad feeling about the economy seems almost psychotic to me.

and the flirtation with Twitter is something of a minefield...Elon's reliance on China is getting a lot of attention on that front now (not to mention the decline in the stock price of Tesla). Elon rarely asks me for advice, but he'd do well to drop the Twitter notion, focus on Tesla, and try to retain his good engineers who must be fielding a lot of tempting phone calls right now.

[Section 15]

OK, Deja Vue all over again:

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It's the Delorean Alpha5 EV, gull wing doors and all. According to sources, it will be available in 2024:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...date#xj4y7vzkg

No word yet if it includes a flux capacitor, but apparently it has a robust electric motor that can go from 0 to 60 mph in 2.99 seconds. Cocaine is optional...

[acdevil]

How long to get to 88 mph?

[PackMan97]

How long to get to 88 mph?

I wonder how the original got to 88mph.

When it launched in 1981, the car had a 130-horsepower 2.8-liter V6 Peugeot-Renault-Volvo engine in the rear of a Lotus frame. Available with manual or automatic transmission, it went to 60 mph in 10.5 seconds and got just 18 miles per gallon

By comparison, by 2003 Toyota Corolla can beat that on the strip.