#Tesla EV factory

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Tesla Gigafactory: A Revolução na Produção de Veículos Elétricos

A Tesla Gigafactory representa um marco na inovação industrial e na sustentabilidade ambiental. Desde sua concepção, as Gigafactories foram projetadas para transformar a fabricação de baterias e veículos elétricos, reduzindo custos e aumentando a eficiência. Este artigo explora como as instalações mudaram a indústria automotiva e quais são os impactos de longo prazo na mobilidade elétrica e na…

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One potential perpetrator is a foreign government. The most well known among such groups are the Wumao, also known as the “50 Cent Party” or “50 Cent Army,” a term used to describe Chinese state-sponsored online trolls. These trolls are paid by the Chinese government to post comments and engage in online discussions that promote the government’s interests and policies, manipulate public opinion, and discredit critics or opposing views. The term “wumao” (五毛) literally translates to “50 cents” in Chinese, which is believed to be the amount these trolls receive for each post they make. However, it’s worth noting that the actual payment structure may vary and some may not be paid at all(..)

P.S. However, it is possible that this disinformation campaign against Electrify America is also organized by some major oil exporters controlled by dictatorial regimes…

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Heya, guys! Just an ask for you guys, especially for Rocky. What do you guys feel about those cyber trucks? To me, I get salty because people drive a frickin TRAPEZOID!! it looks like an oversized microwave with four wheels! Even raccoons are attacking those trucks because they think they are dumpsters. But hey, that’s just me. What do you guys think?

If only the problem would be ONLY that this truck looks like a trapezoid… Someone once joked it’s Lara Croft in her first game - I had to look that up - but to be very honest, I think she has more polygons than a Cybertruck. And that’s saying something for sure.

As the Paw Patrol’s pup who’s specialized in medicine, I'd like to say that this truck is literally a menace on wheels for both passengers and pedestrians. Have you seen the crash tests? The truck doesn’t crush when colliding with something! It’s supposed to crush so the force of impact won’t go fully on the passengers inside. Without it, if it hits against something full force at top speed, people’s organs will practically become puree against their ribcage. And if it hits a pedestrian, even at lower speeds, the chances of major injuries is insanely high because it doesn’t have any smooth lines on its frame to soften the impact against the person! Only sharp edges! It’s absolutely deadly!

It looks like something you'd see in an Atari game, of course there are people who would be a fan of it but that's a very small percentage of a specific public; as Marshall said, the very frame design makes it extremely dangerous; I absolutely DO NOT trust anything that's entirely dependant on a touchscreen to function, once the screen is out, you won't be able to do anything anymore; If you need to look away from the road for more than 5 seconds to do something on that tablet, it should be considered already a failure of programming and danger inducing; a lot of them came out of the factory with already rusty components so THAT SHOULD SAY SOMETHING; oh yeah, you can't even take it to a car wash or it'll come out a huge useless brick on the other side and if you can't wash it, you'd at least want to coat it but guess what, you can't do that either; a bunch of the panels are literally GLUED to the frame...?; every time you go recharge it you need to do it as correctly as possible to not risk the charger getting stuck and eventually breaking it; if you drive in the rain, water will leak in through the edges; you can't even haul stuff or help another car because you'll be risking to snap the back frame - it's not in one piece with the chassis, but connected by a sort of plastic piece to it...???? I swear I've seen Chase's cruiser hold and tow heavier stuff with its winch than what a Cybertruck can ever dream of doing; if anything happens to the back of this truck, you can kiss goodbye to its bed, even though it's not as big as they promised either; they basically made a fool of a lot of people by making them pay a lot more for a "Foundation Series" promising a full self driving feature that, as far as I know as of now, is still not available; the truck just has so many problems someone drove it out of the factory and not even two minutes later it bricked completely and has been at a repair shop ever since; the list goes on and on...

Some Tesla vehicles at least look good and have decent features, though they also have a lot more problems than they should, which could have been solved already by now, but they don't even try, all because the company owner is just... A bad person, let's put it like that. He's got a temper worse than Sweetie's, he thinks he's above everyone else and won't ever take a "no" or "don't". I've heard a lot of other EV companies are making better AND affordable EVs literally by looking at what's wrong with Tesla cars to not repeat the same errors on theirs.

Oh, and one last thing! This guy also went against regulation laws against hate speech in our Mod's country, which resulted on his social media website and app getting banned there. Not satisfied with that, he double-crossed the ban to make it available there again although totally illegally, by using the same IP servers that hospitals, public services and even the very Brazilian government websites use, so... Triple crime? Not gonna lie, it's funny to follow how it's going down there.

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Hello hope your doing well. Can I ask for platonic family ror watching reader as an actress on tv playing a move role(especially if it’s a romantic/ or a fighting scene) with Adam, Hermes, Hades, Buddha, Tesla and Loki? Thank you

-Their eyes were glued to the screen, smiles on their faces as they all had managed to get a chance to watch your newest movie that was just released on streaming.

-Popcorn and other snacks were prepared, blankets and pillows brought out, and smiles all around as your giant adopted family piled into the living room to watch together.

-The only person missing was you, as you were traveling to promote your new movie, but you were due back in about a week, something they were planning on surprising you with a welcome home party with all your favorite foods.

-Brunnhilde dimmed the lights, creating a theatre like experience before sitting next to Buddha, who had Zerofuku in his lap, the younger looking god holding their bowl of popcorn.

-The movie, an action spy movie, started off slow, building up the story as the main character, Agent 777, was gathering intel for a mission, and received orders to meet up with another agent who specialized with espionage and combat.

-When Agent 777 looked trapped by the bad guys, being held at gunpoint, someone threw in a smoke grenade and Loki threw up his hands in a cheer when they saw a pair of legs in tight jeans with combat boots over the top as you entered and cleaned house.

-Watching you in action was so much fun, seeing you fight, ride motorcycles, in a helicopter, and punching the main baddy in the face with a pair of brass knuckles, as he had killed ‘your father’ before blowing up a factory with Agent 777 with fireworks.

-Agent 777 looked at you, “Why are there fireworks?” you just beamed brightly, hands on your hips as you looked so proud of yourself, “I wanted it to be pretty!” laughter filled your home as the movie came to a close, with you and Agent 777 both at a gala ball, with you asking Agent 777 if he was ready to start the next part of the infiltration mission.

-Adam- Adored watching you, he loves watching your movies, feeling so proud of your accomplishments. He was happy you weren’t in a more revealing or sexy outfit like he had seen other actresses in, and he beamed brightly when he saw you using brass knuckles, pointing at the TV in glee. He held Eve in his arms, both of them watching you, happy that you did well and even happier that you would be home soon.

-Hermes- Couldn’t help but feel so much pride, you were a natural, but it was also thanks to years of practicing with Hermes, who was always willing to act out scenes of your favorite movies with you and he knew early on that you were going to be great. Seeing you in such a good movie, playing your role with ease, was so satisfying, and he couldn’t help but laugh when you looked so proud of your fireworks.

-Hades- Was texting you through the movie, as he was sitting in the back, so he wasn’t disturbing anyone, telling you what a good job you did which made you smile, as you were currently on a red-eye flight to Tokyo, happy to hear from him. Hades didn’t say anything, as he was going to show you in the hug he was going to give you, how proud he was of you.

-Buddha- Was like a big kid alongside Zerofuku and Loki, cheering for you when you appeared on screen or did something big. His snacks were gone ten minutes into the movie and it led to his attempted thievery of the snacks of others, which ended in a popcorn fight halfway through the movie. The movie had to be paused, everything cleaned up, and new snacks made to make everyone happy. His snacks only lasted another ten minutes.

-Nikola- Was amazed by the movie, watching it like a big kid, eyes glued to the TV, happily shaking Beelzebub’s arm whenever something big happened which the god thought was rather cute. Nikola began to analyze certain stunts, trying to figure out the science behind how it worked and he actually ended up missing some important parts of the movie which led to Beelzebub answering his questions.

-Loki- Y/N’s Number One Fan and founder of your official fan club! Was your fan before you became famous and you’ve told others who tried to claim that they were your first fan that your family, especially Loki, was actually your first. Cheered for you and got pissed when you got hit in the movie, swearing he would hate the actor who hit you for eternity. Was enjoying the movie until he got into a popcorn fight with Buddha after he tried to steal Loki’s popcorn.

[solarpunks]

India’s electric rickshaws are leaving EVs in the dust

Each month, this upskilled team produces bodies and chassis for nearly 5,000 three-wheeler EVs, locally known as e-rickshaws, for the New Delhi-based YC Electric, India’s second-largest manufacturer in the segment. In 2023, YC Electric alone sold over 40,600 e-rickshaws, while 82,500 electric cars were sold in the country. Even as India awaits its first Tesla, these humble e-rickshaws made by workers like Baran are powering an EV revolution in the country.  Each month, this upskilled team produces bodies and chassis for nearly 5,000 three-wheeler EVs, locally known as e-rickshaws, for the New Delhi-based YC Electric, India’s second-largest manufacturer in the segment. In 2023, YC Electric alone sold over 40,600 e-rickshaws, while 82,500 electric cars were sold in the country. Even as India awaits its first Tesla, these humble e-rickshaws made by workers like Baran are powering an EV revolution in the country. 

The Sonipat plant where YC builds its e-rickshaws is a joint venture with the company’s former Chinese import partners Jiang Li and Xue Jian Nan, who hold a 49% stake in the facility. “The link [with the Chinese suppliers] became so good that they also believed in us, invested money with us, and shared technology with us,” Kakkar said. Chinese engineers stayed “for days” to train welders like Baran when the factory first opened, he said. His company’s ethos, according to Kakkar, is “Make in India, but technology from China.”

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New York CNN — Tesla has beaten back previous efforts by workers to unionize – but the United Auto Workers hopes a successful strike against Ford, General Motors and Stellantis could help it organize at Tesla. UAW membership has declined in recent decades, and the auto industry is moving to electric vehicles. EV battery and production plants thus far in the United States are mostly non-union. To grow, the UAW will have to make inroads at EV plants. “Tesla is the biggest threat in the long term to UAW wages and benefits. UAW doesn’t have any choice but to take on [Tesla],” said John Logan, a professor of labor and employment studies at San Francisco State University. Tesla controls around 60% of the electric vehicle market in the United States, and Detroit and foreign automakers in the South are racing to catch up. Tesla workers earn on average about $55 an hour in wages and benefits, compared to $66 to $71 an hour at Detroit’s Big Three, according to industry estimates. Workers have attempted to organize at Tesla at least three different times. But the company, led by Elon Musk, has been difficult for unions to break into because of weak protections for labor organizing in the United States; Tesla’s aggressive tactics; and Tesla’s strategy of granting factory workers stock options, a rarity in the auto industry. “Tesla will go to extraordinary lengths to prevent unions,” Logan said. Tesla did not respond to CNN’s request for comment.

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timetraveling!Vikings + Christmas

Summary: how timetraveling Vikings would react to modern Christmas/what they enjoy/etc.

Tagged: @majesticwren @obsessiveformiyatwins @leithdragon @demon-of-the-ancient-world @alicedopey @ivarlover @levithestripper @batmandallyboy @akayxo09 @vrtualfairy (hmu to be added to any of my taglists!)

Masterlist | based on this request | requests are OPEN!

Ragnar

I think Ragnar likes modern christmas more than he should

He takes it like many non-christians do nowadays – fuck Christianity, i’m getting presents

Might let Athelstan drag him to church

Leaves midway tho

So bad at gift-giving that he accidentally gets you a great one

Lagertha

The BEST gift giver

Has a little table (after you show her how excel works, obvi) of the people she wants to get presents for and tracks their wishes over the course of a year

You need her at Christmas, actually

She doesn’t like the Christian part of it, but she likes the community it creates and GODDAMN Lagertha makes some good food

Athelstan

Vibes to church service HARD, even in modern times

Big enjoyer of WHAM! And Mariah Carey

Makes small, but very thoughtful gifts

Definitely always gets sick around Christmas and wears a bundle of scarves

Please don’t let him shave his head weirdly, or his brain will freeze

Bjorn

Doesn’t like Christmas

He came to the future, you have planes, let him use them

Spends his Christmas in warm places

Honestly, he might enjoy Aussie Christmas

Any excuse for beaches and bbq

Ubbe

If you want to stage a great Christmas celebration, go to Ubbe

Despite being from Viking times, he will be able to organise it better

He likes bringing people together for any occasion, and will be decorating the venue he chose like a PTA-mom with rabies (so, quintessentially, Ubbe)

Does not let snowy grounds stop him from playing football with friends/brothers

Hvitserk

LOVES Christmas

An endless supply of cookies and chocolate? Are you kidding??? The christians got something right?????

Eats everything you leave lying around

On time for everything during Christmas

Honestly, he gets hilarious gifts for everyone

Surprisingly good at singing christmas carols

Honestly, Hvitserk makes friends in all religions so his year of exquisite eating is just

Easter -> Eid -> Midsommar -> Thanksgiving -> Hannukah -> Christmas

Rinse and repeat baby

Sigurd

Spends the entire time critizising the compository value of christmas songs

Has an enemies to lovers arc with them

One day, soon after Christmas Eve, you will find a slightly drunk Sigurd in front of a karaoke machine with a thousand yard stare and the best interpretation of Last Christmas your ears will ever hear

Ivar

Christmas is a capitalist venture for the foolish designed by greedy christians

Totally does not buy super expensive gifts for his friends to brag

That Tesla outside your door? That’s not a Christmas gift silly, he’s sending you down the frozen road as a sacrifice to Odin so his bleeding ears might be saved from Sigurd

Does make an effort to put his mafia-ventures on hold for you though

He still hates Christmas

Floki

HATES CHRISTMAS. Floki hates Christmas so much. Did he already say he hates Christmas?

Hates it so much he secretly loves it.

‘Annoyed’ at Helga for baking cookies with you

‘Annoyed’ at the celebrations and people coming together

He secretly enjoys the non-Christian part of Christmas

But he just can’t get over the Jesus being born thing

Celebrates the part of Easter where he’s dead for a few days

Helga

Loves Christmas, and without shame

Turns into a cookie factory

Handmade gifts for everyone

Does a lot of charity/social work around Christmas

Enjoys ice-skating rinks as well

Tells Floki to stop moping around (he does)

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The Musk-Trump lovefest is based on Musk hoping a Trump administration would reduce competition in the EV market.

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On its face, a second Trump presidency would be bad for companies [like Tesla] trying to move the country away from fossil fuels.

Musk opened the company's investor call by saying the wave of competition killing its profits and shrinking its market share would pass, but he didn't offer any reasoning.

When asked if he was worried about Trump repealing the IRA, Musk tipped his hand. He told investors that the move would be "devastating" for Tesla's competitors but less so for Tesla — in fact, "long term," he said, it would be good for Tesla.

In essence this was an admission that Musk's best hope is that Trump returns to the White House and dismantles the regulatory regime that has encouraged legacy automakers to enter the EV market. The best thing for Tesla is if US legacy automakers like GM and Ford sit on the sidelines.

Rather than worrying about society's move to an all-electric future, Musk is mainly concerned about maintaining Tesla's dominant position in the EV market. 

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While he's hoping to use Trump to kill of competition in the EV market, Musk is talking up a world of fantastic innovations that Tesla STILL hasn't built yet.

First, he said that Telsa is not a car company; it is an AI company.

Then he promised autonomous robotaxis by August, never mind that Musk has been promising the robotaxi for about a decade.

Then he said the company was making headway with a new humanoid robot called Optimus — never mind that when Tesla unveiled Optimus it was a person dancing in a robot costume, and Tesla still won't say which tasks it can do.

Then he glazed over the product the world really wants: a cheaper Tesla priced at about $25,000 to $30,000. Without providing more detail, he mentioned that those models would start rolling out of factories in the first half of 2025, never mind that Musk has been saying something like that since 2018.

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Pathetic.

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from Inside Climate News:

Paulina Hernández inspected her new BYD King plug-in hybrid sedan when the sales team removed the oversized red bow and cover. She noticed a smudge on the “Time Grey” finish and her sales rep, Veronica Montoya, rushed to her side with a spray bottle and cloth. Montoya held them as she answered her customer’s questions over the next hour, ready to wipe away any mark or doubts that this sale would go through.

Hernández, 33, a classical dance instructor who lives in Mexico City’s tony Santa Fe district, had been looking for a better car for her daily 38-mile commute to the neighboring city of Toluca through the capital’s notoriously bad traffic. The BYD King, with an all-electric range of 31 miles and total range of 730 miles, sells for the equivalent of $24,940 USD.

“The idea is that I’ll pay off this car with what I save from not buying gasoline,” Hernández said.

She was the latest of what the sales team says has been an “explosion” of customers at BYD Santa Fe, the first of 30 showrooms the Chinese electric car juggernaut has opened across Mexico in the past year. The company plans to open 20 more dealerships in the country this year and soon will announce the location for a Mexico factory that will build 150,000 EVs per year.

This kind of rapid growth enabled BYD to overtake American EV pioneer Tesla as the world’s No. 1 electric vehicle company (when counting both its all-electric and its plug-in hybrids) in 2022. It’s now selling twice as many cars as Tesla.

All signs point to an EV future, and BYD’s charge across Mexico is a vivid demonstration of how China has positioned itself to dominate that future. The U.S. presidential election, with two different visions for autos, will help to determine whether the country will try to close the gap with China, or double down on fossil-fuel-powered transportation.

Inside Climate News has spent the year examining the rise of EVs through the lens of U.S. politics. President Joe Biden’s climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act, has set off an EV factory building boom. U.S. automakers are welcoming federal money and want to ramp up their EV lineups to compete globally, which is creating a wedge in the alliance between an auto industry and the oil industry. Auto workers are watching the changes with both trepidation and hope. Car dealers, meanwhile, are trying to figure out how to sell EVs and facing reluctance, especially in rural areas.

The tensions are made even greater by the growing awareness that a geopolitical rival is knocking at the door in the form of Chinese EVs.

Vice President Kamala Harris is likely to continue the Biden administration’s policy of using tax credits to jump-start a U.S.-based supply chain for EVs and emissions policies to nudge automakers away from internal combustion engines, while also using tariffs to keep Chinese imports off of U.S. dealer lots.

Former President Donald Trump, who calls himself “Mr. Tariff,” has proposed astronomical duties to keep Chinese EVs out of the United States. While Trump now says he likes EVs since Tesla CEO Elon Musk became one of his campaign’s megadonors, he sees them as suitable for only a “small slice” of the public. He has pledged to undo the policies that support domestic production of EVs.

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Elon Musk hasn’t been sighted at the picket lines in Missouri, Ohio, or Michigan, where autoworkers are striking against the Big Three US carmakers. Yet the influence of Musk and his non-unionized company Tesla have been everywhere since the United Auto Workers called the strike last week. In some ways, Tesla—the world’s most valuable automaker by market capitalization—set the whole thing in motion.

Tesla’s pioneering electric vehicles kicked off a new era that has turned the entire auto industry on its head. In a scramble to compete with Tesla and make that transition, the legacy automakers targeted by the current strike, General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis, have each pledged billions in global investment and have begun dramatically restructuring their operations. For workers, the “green jobs” being created can be scarcer and worse paying. Electric vehicle powertrains have many fewer moving parts than conventional gas-powered ones, and so they require 30 percent fewer vehicle assembly hours, according to one estimate. Plants that make EV batteries are generally outside the core, unionized auto supply chain. The United Auto Workers has seen a dramatic drop in membership due to jobs moving outside the US—it lost 45 percent of its members between 2001 and 2022. A future with more electric vehicles could mean fewer union jobs overall. “This strike is about electrification,” says Mark Barrott, an automotive analyst at the Michigan-based consultancy Plante Moran.

The new assembly plants that the legacy automakers need to pull off the transition have been stood up mostly in US states hostile to union organizing, such as Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama. And because many of these plants are joint ventures between automakers and foreign battery companies, they are not subject to previous union contracts.

The UAW did not respond to a request for comment, but UAW president Shawn Fain told CNBC last week that the electric transition can’t leave workers behind. “Workers deserve their share of equity in this economy,” he said.

Tesla’s rise over recent years has also put ever-ratcheting pressure on the legacy automakers to cut costs. Including benefits, Musk’s non-unionized EV company spends $45 per hour on labor, significantly less than the $63 per hour spent in the Big Three, according to industry analysts.

Musk’s willingness to upend auto manufacturing shibboleths has also forced his legacy competitors to seek new efficiencies. Tesla led the way in building large-scale car casts, stamping out very large metal components in one go rather than making a series of small casts that have to be joined together. And it pioneered an automotive chassis building process that can be easily adapted to produce different makes and models.

Tesla’s Silicon Valley roots also helped it become the first automaker to envision the car as a software-first, iPhone-like “platform” that can be modified via over-the-air updates. And the company aims to automate more of its factories, and extract more of the materials it needs to build its batteries itself.

Tesla’s novel production ideas could soon lead the company to put even more pressure on legacy automakers. Musk said earlier this year that Tesla plans to build a new, smaller vehicle that can be made for half the production cost of its most popular (and cheapest) vehicle, the Model 3.

Musk says a lot of things, and many don’t come to pass. (The world is still waiting for the 1 million Tesla robotaxis promised by the end of 2020.) But Tesla has been disruptive enough to leave legacy automakers, including Detroit’s Big Three, “in a quest for capital,” says Marick Masters, who studies labor and workplace issues at Wayne State University's School of Business. Detroit’s automakers have made good money in the past decade—some $250 billion in profits—but also paid a significant chunk of it out in dividends. Pressure from Tesla and the EV transition it catalyzed has left them feeling as if they need every penny they can corral to keep afloat as the industry changes.

“They have little money to concede for union demands,” says Masters. The UAW’s wants include significantly higher wages, especially for workers who have joined the companies since their Great Recession and bankruptcy-era reorganizations, which left some with less pay and reduced pension and health benefits.

So far, the UAW has shown little patience for the idea that the automakers it is pressuring are cash-strapped and under competitive pressure. “Competition is a code word for race to the bottom, and I'm not concerned about Elon Musk building more rocket ships so he can fly into outer space and stuff,” UAW president Fain told CNBC last week when asked about pressure from Tesla. He has argued that production workers should receive the same pay raise received by auto executives over recent years.

When automakers have taken the opposite tack, insisting that they’re well capitalized and making plans to put them ahead of the electric car maker—well, that set up conditions for this strike too. The three American automakers are forecasted to make $32 billion in profits this year, a slight dip from last year’s 10-year high. “The more they toot their own horns about profitability, the more the union looks at them and says, ‘We want our rightful share,’” says Masters.

Tesla did not respond to a request for comment, but Musk has, in typical fashion, chimed in. He posted on X last week to compare working conditions at his companies with the competition, apparently seeking to turn the dispute he helped foment into a recruiting pitch. “Tesla and SpaceX factories have a great vibe. We encourage playing music and having some fun,” he wrote. “We pay more than the UAW btw, but performance expectations are also higher.” A UAW attempt to organize Tesla workers in 2017 and 2018, as the company struggled to produce its Model 3, failed. The National Labor Board ruled that Tesla violated labor laws during the organizing drive; the carmaker has appealed the decision.

[qirex-official]

I STILL mean this when I tell people. Electric vehicles are amongst the least explosive propulsion methods ever made

HOWEVER

For a period up to and beyond 2018 Tesla were constructing big car battery packs from the little battery cells they buy from Panasonic BY HAND. Panasonic asks their customers to use robots with accuracy far beyond the millimetre. The Tesla staff constructing these were temps with NO BACKGROUND IN ELECTRICAL DEVICES AT ALL LET ALONE BATTERY CONSTRUCTION. They were traditional temp workers for regular production lines.

AND THEN

The inspection teams to certify these hand made batteries as safe to put in a car were also filled with temp workers who AGAIN HAD NO BACKGROUND OR TRAINING IN BATTERIES AND ELECTRONICS!!!

All because Tesla didn't... Have a robot arm or some stupid bullshit.

The article I remember was on Jalopnik, and discussed whistleblowers in the factories in the states but there is NO WAY it was only one factory, only one model of car, and only one country. DO NOT GET INTO A TESLA.

The real danger from the fire danger is that the door handle inside the car is not connected to the latch that opens the door. It is a switch which tells the car's computer to tell a motor to open the latch. This was a dangerous and potentially lethal feature of every car that has done this. It is not just Tesla's that do this, but the Tesla combination of batteries that can and will catch fire thousands of times more often than other EV's, an overworked vehicle management computer that can be destroyed by THE SUN HITTING THE MAP SCREEN, and door handles that cannot open the doors WITHOUT RHE COMPUTER is unique, horrific, terrifying, and tpsuch absolutely be enough to send someone to prison for a long long time.

If you cannot avoid being in a Tesla from time to time try and clear where the door physical releases are and how to get them in a hurry. They're usually under the floor carpet in some awkward direction below the doors. Knowing this might save your life one day.

This has been a PSA

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

Large companies need to go out further and thus need to use iterative futures methods including environmental sensing, emerging issues analysis, and scenario development. This can take them over reasonably clear territory 10 years out. This is a minimum, as new car models take 3–5 years to go from drawing board to factory floor, so staying 5 years minimum ahead of the market is absolutely essential for survival. From what we see and read, no legacy car company has done this. They are in effect 5 years behind China’s best and at least 3 years behind Tesla. This lag is increasing, as now many Japanese and European EVs are based on Chinese platforms, plus, as of this month, Australia now has standards for EV bi-directional charging!

(..) My worry is that in futures terms it is already too late to save the ship. VW is talking about closing factories — in Germany — and at the end of 2024, the company is immersed in a dire industrial relations furore, with all its union member workers on strike. VW is struggling for its very survival. Having lost three years of strategic opportunity, VW is now paying the consequences.

P.S. The strategy of low-volume, badly overpriced compliance EVs that legacy automakers tried to foist on the public has failed catastrophically.

In 2016/2017, the managers, shareholders and workers of these fossil car manufacturing companies completely ignored the new EV manufacturers like Tesla, BYD, Xpeng, etc., who devoted 100% effort to the production of electric cars...

The main reason for the disaster of ICE legacy car manufacturers: " Too little, too late...!" Some new EV manufacturers have passed a critical threshold and are able to produce EVs profitably as the economies of scale of large production start to work for them...New car manufacturers have access to cheap LFP batteries and are using 100% EV car platforms that are feasible much cheaper and more efficient to produce than ICE vehicle platforms adapted for electric cars...

Volkswagen's management, trade union and employees even now COMPLETELY DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT IS REALLY happening in the global car market...! If they continue as they have been, VW will lose the car market and they will soon be out of business...

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Tesla Megafactory in Shanghai nears completion after 7 months of construction

Tesla’s energy storage factory in Shanghai is expected to complete construction by the end of this year, with production set to begin in the first quarter of 2025. (Image credit: Tesla) Tesla’s (NASDAQ: TSLA) Megafactory in Shanghai is nearing completion of construction in preparation for a planned operation in the first quarter of next year. The US electric vehicle (EV) maker’s Shanghai energy…

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Chinese passenger EV exports surged 107% in Sept, Tesla and BYD lead the way · TechNode

China’s passenger electric vehicle exports surged 107% year-on-year to around 91,000 units in September. Tesla topped the list with shipments of 30,566 units from its Shanghai factory, according to figures published by the China Passenger Car Association on Wednesday. This was followed by BYD and SAIC with 28,039 and 12,678 units, respectively. Geely and Smart, a joint brand owned by Geely and…

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Vivek Ramaswamy says DOGE will 'carefully scrutinize' loans Biden gave to Tesla rivals

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Vivek Ramaswamy says DOGE will 'carefully scrutinize' loans Biden gave to Tesla rivals

The Biden administration is providing financing for two battery factories being built by Stellantis and Samsung, as well as a Rivian EV plant.

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