Munro Live have dissassembled the Tesla Structural Battery pack cover and car seat mountings. They show that the seat mounting has substantially fewer parts and are lighter weight. Reducing parts and lowering weight lower the cost and improve the performance of the electric car. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular …
Munro Associates has dropped the 4680 structural battery pack out of Texas Model Y. The battery pack plus the seats and carpet only weighs less than 1200 pounds. It has about 68 kwh of batteries. Munro and Associates tore apart a Rivian electric truck with 135 kwh of batteries. Just the Rivian batteries was over …
Jordan Giesege of the Limiting described the 20-35% range improvement possible by increasing the silicon in the anode of iron LFP batteries. This could be used to reduce the weight and lower the cost while keeping the 260 mile range of a made in China Model 3. This could take the cost down from a …
The DOE has information about adjusting the energy grid for mass EV adoption. The problem is the DOE assumes it will take until 2050 when mass EV adoption will occur 2025-2030. Natural gas electricity generation is relatively easily scaled to handle a sharp increase in demand. More solar and nuclear power can be added to …
Nextbigfuture has said that Elon Musk is wrong to say that immortality would be a bad thing. Elon said “It is important for us to die because most of the time people don’t change their mind, they just die,” Musk said at the WSJ event. “If you live forever, we might become a very ossified …
Motor Trend confirmed that the Tesla Model S Plaid accelerates from 0 to 60 mph in 1.98 seconds. The tested model was using 21 inch wheels. The Plaid launches so ferociously hard, it generates more than 1.00 g from 0.2 second to 2.6 seconds after launch, peaking at 1.227 g at 32 mph. That’s more …
The Tesla Plaid electric motor has several innovations. Elon says the Plaid’s carbon-wrapped motor is the most advanced motor on the planet outside of a lab. The motor is able to go to over 20000 RPM. Elon Musk described the carbon sleeve. A carbon sleeve must put copper rotor in compression or it loosens at …
Many will say that a claim that Elon Musk and China are competing for the future of space and energy is excessive hype. I will review the current data as people may not be aware of where China and Elon Musk companies are already the top competitors in space and electric cars. I will provide …
Youtuber Chicken Genius Singapore argues against the X Holding Company. He is also a large Tesla shareholder. David Lee who made the suggestion is also a large Tesla shareholder. Chicken Genius thinks SpaceX, Tesla, Boring Company and Neuralink are stronger separately. Any gigantic accident with SpaceX would not take down the other companies. All Tesla …
The Lucid Air electric car has been independently tested with an estimated EPA range of 517 miles on a single charge. This range appears to be for a 175 or 205 kWh from two battery packs for an extended range vehicle that costs over $100,000. The Tesla Model S has a range of just over …
Tesla is preparing to restart some car production in Fremont according to The Chronicle. The planned reopening of some production lines is between now and next week. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. …
