Elon Musk tweeted that the Full self driving beta version 9 will be released this Saturday. There will be about 2000 Beta testers initially. It has previously been reported that it would be about a month after initial beta release before it goes to wider adoption. Saturday — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 8, 2021 SOURCES …
Tesla delivered 201,250 cars in Q2 and produced 206,421. This was slightly higher than analyst expectations and was in spite of automobile industry chip shortages. The production was up 14% of the first quarter of the year and up 115% from 2020 Q2. Tesla delivered about 17000 more cars in Q2 vs Q1. This means …
David Lee summarized and analyzed Andrej Karpathy recent technical presentation on Tesla FSD. Andrej indicated that Tesla already has over 1.8 Exaflop of processing power with 10 Petabytes of storage for its AI training computer. This is the training supercomputer that Tesla is using before the full Dojo system is set up. Andrej also indicated …
Elon tweeted that the Tesla AI Day will be in about a month or so. Tesla will go over progress with Tesla AI software, hardware, both training and inference. Purpose is recruiting. Looking at holding Tesla AI Day in about a month or so. Will go over progress with Tesla AI software & hardware, both …
James Stephenson has made detailed projections for Tesla financials focused on the last three quarters of 2021. James also has projections for estimated Tesla car sales by quarter through 2023. Tesla has had strong growth of about 50% every year for over a decade. Tesla now is the fourth highest volume of sales for all …
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 …
Mr Know It All has a projection that Tesla should solve FSD (Full self-driving) to a six sigma level within 275 days. This is based upon the improvement of the FSD system matching to the amount of data from the number of miles driven used by Tesla. Tesla currently has about 35 billion kilometers of …
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 …
The China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) has again raised its forecast for new energy passenger car sales for 2021 as the industry grows rapidly. The 2021 forecast for new energy passenger car wholesale sales was raised to 2.4 million units which is up from a forecast of 2 million in February and 2.2 million in …
Tesla Model S Plaid delivery event highlights and summary is below. The refreshed Model S has a drag coefficient of 0.208. Model S Drag Coefficient at 0.208 Cd. That's better than the Taycan's 0.22 Cd pic.twitter.com/mlC7IGSJAv — Rohit🇮🇳🔱 (@rohit000000000) June 11, 2021 Elon Musk drove the Model S Plaid around a track and then onto …
The Limiting Factor indicates that Tesla is getting more range and performance from existing battery form factors. This means improvements from 4680 and structural battery packs will provide even more cost, weight and performance improvements. It also means that Tesla will be able to get more from existing production lines. The Tesla Model S Plaid …