Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "The Electric Viking" channel.

  1. A few days ago Munro asserted that hybred capacitor/battery power packs were the next big thing. Elon Musk has claimed that the future belongs to hyper-capacitors, and apparently this was his last field of academic research before he left school. It's something you don't hear about much, but Munro seemed enthusiastic and quite sure it was a thing: a major one.
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  2. Tesla's continual optimization of all components of their EVs makes it kind of ridiculous to try to time a purchase to include the latest improvements. No matter when you buy, in the next week there will be further improvements, so you may as well just buy when you want a car (in a few months) because if you are waiting for the ultimate model Y or whatever, you will be waiting forever.
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  3. Well it seems simple to me. If all the Teslas that are produced are sold: and they are, and they are continually ramping up production: which they are, it is only obvious that their market share will be increasing.
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  4. You may have heard about Centralia PA. It is a town in the old anthracite coal region of the Appalachians, where the entire town was evacuated and given new homes because of the underground coal fires. I drive through there twice a week, and strip mining coal is still very active, enough to keep the highways a dirty mess with coal haulers dragging black culm onto the highways from their dirt roads continually, and the toxic black cloud you have to drive through to get past them. It is literally a black cloud that overhangs everything. BUT if you were to stop on the west side of Centralia (which is now about five or six houses who refused to leave, surrounded by empty lots where their former neighbors row houses were bulldozed (they never did get the underground fire put out) and you stopped right at the nearest strip mine operation and their filthy lots full of giant haulers that are too big to use on roads, and you looked back at where Centrailia used to be, you would notice that on the mountain ridge to the east , right above another mining operation, is the first of a series of wind turbines that generate electricity, that start there and follow that mountain ridge for a good twenty miles or so. Coal is death, and then people wonder why they are dying of all kinds of respiratory and metabolic diseases that are caused by coal and ICE vehicles.
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  5. I agree, and people will realize the best use for extreme batteries is not a thousand mile range but a 300 mile range with a much liter car.
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  6. You ever heard the expression "crabs in a barrel'? That's a way that the black community in the South used to criticize the others who would try to tear down any of their neighbors who would advance and begin to make their way in the world. Because you do not need to keep a lid on a barrel of crabs, every time one would climb close to the top, the other crabs would tear them down as they tried to climb out themselves over him.
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  7.  @mnomadvfx  That's not what the science says Elroy.
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  8. Really: ignore the extremists on both the left and the right, they have way too much bandwidth and far to little signal of any real importance.
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  9. Main plus for the Hyundai IMHO -- lifetime battery warranty. Main plus for the Tesla. It is of another generation than the Hyundai. It's like comparing an F14 which was a really cool fighter, to an F22, which is the next generation and vastly superior in engineering and alien tech.
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  10. The objective of commercial media is not to inform you, it is to sell ad space or time. That's it. . . . Tesla does not advertise. It's competition has to. You do the math.
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  11. Funny: I thought that Porsche came up with that idea with the 911.
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  12.  @kmancrx  The planet will be fine, humanity perhaps not so much.
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  13.  @incognitotorpedo42  No. . . but a lot of them are employed by media companies that are in the ad business. Or interviewed by them. So when a director for a media company has the choice of putting on an analyst who is negative on a company that they view as holding out on the advertising vig, it is only natural that they will tend to choose commentary from the analysts whose analysis supports those companies who pay for ad time/space and is negative about those that don't in the hope that this unstated policy may coerce non advertisers into paying up to protect their product from negative spin. In other words your are right about analytical practice, but you fail to consider the effect of the editorial decisions in media companies whose objective is to sell ads, not as is commonly supposed: to inform the public. Yes the tail does wag the dog, but in Tesla's case it only effects the stock price and not the stellar manufacturing and engineering performance.
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  14. With any luck this FUD will cause another dip in Tesla. So strange to want the stock you own to lose value. Just so you can buy more at a discount of course.
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  15. Please refer me to a statement Musk has made, that is not out of context, or made sarcastically or ironically that attempted to "normalize hate towards vulnerable people". If you can venture into the open internet from your safe-space to find the reference (sarcasm warning for the reading comprehension impaired).
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  16. Didn't Elon already say that 4680 would not be iron base?
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  17. You have to crash into every oncoming car or you lose your warranty.
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  18. Considering that the average driver drives about thirty five miles per day this will not be an issue. People will charge at home with an ordinary 220 connection, and it will be plenty for the average person. Also there is nothing at all keeping independent service centers from working on Teslas. And other than collision repairs, just what service do you imagine an EV actually needs?
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  19. Model 3: Number one selling car model in Germany. That says it all.
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  20.  @xianshep  Yep he was just doing his earthling duty by ramming into the invader. Unfortunately for him, alien tech prevailed.
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  21. I have occasion to drive through the most economically repressed area in the USA every week, that being the hard coal region of PA such as Shamokin and Shenadoah, and even there I occasionally see a Tesla. Which I find impressive.
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  22. You do realize that all the Teslas in the UK are sold -- right? That the waiting time is currently increasing? It is not a sales problem. If Tesla delivered less EVs in the UK last month it is because there were less Teslas shipped to the UK.
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  23. I will not only get excited, I will finally build my electric powered WIG hovercraft and not have to deal with a poison belching turbocharged boxer engine. If any craft could fly electric it's a WIG machine, once your on the bubble nothing is more efficient, not wheels, not tracks, not conventional wings, nothing.
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  24. So smart that Elon should consider it.
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  25. Maybe they figured out that they and the CCP did not have similar interests or priorities and that buying a car like that fake MG brand which is actually made by a company owned by the Chinese state is literally working against their own best interests, as far as their future and the future of those they care about is concerned.
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  26.  @mydogsbutler  Musk couldn't care less. The only one you will be hurting is small retail investors and idealistic employees.
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  27. My dad had the patent on the ground fault interrupter circuit that keeps you from being electrocuted in your bathroom, and welders from the same. Same thing happened. Never got a penny from it and it's in every new bathroom for decades.
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  28.  @darylfoster7944  This seems like a silly comment to me. People will still be able to drive manually Elroy -- so no snow-days thanks to FSD -- sorry.
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  29. Huge numbers of people will not want self-driving cars and others will not be willing to pay for it, and all old cars will not be a part of the network. Cars networked together to control traffic will not work, but cars networked to the traffic control signals will. And it will be much safer, will not rely on FSD, and will be a vastly less expensive upgrade to incorporate any old vehicles into such a traffic control network with cheap transponders, or cellular phones. And in areas that do not have it, traffic will still work as it does now.
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  30. That's why the most advanced Chinese EVs are those that copied Tesla's manufacturing tech. Get a brain.
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  31.  @donreinke5863  That makes a lot of sense if you are poor. So if you are poor it is indeed foolish. Not so much for anyone with a middle class or higher income. And at a certain income level, buying a cheap car becomes foolish if you can easily afford the car you really want.
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  32.  @gridjac  I guess you know that before Elon dropped out of school he was doing advanced studies in super-capacitors. I would love to see super capacitors integrated into the electronics of EVs, but I have a feeling that if Tesla isn't working on it, it probably doesn't really make sense.
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  33. The lowest price Model 3 when they first came out in 2017 was 35k and the lowest price 3 that you can order today on Tesla web site is $40,390. In inflation adjusted dollars the present price is 5.16% less expensive than it was five years ago.
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  34. Sir how is it exactly that one megawatt is not equal to another megawatt? I think you may want to check your facts and revise you statement. Especially the one about a megabyte of coal which makes no sense at all.
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  35. I remember when my 69 Z28 was rated at 290hp by Chevy for insurance purposes. At 6500 it had well over 400hp.
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  36. Then I suggest that you short Tesla stock. If you are correct you will be rich. Just don't think about more money being lost shorting Tesla than any other stock in the entire history of the market. You, unlike everyone else that bet against Tesla have a chance of being correct. Put your money where your mouth is.
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  37.  @incognitotorpedo42  Funny how Tesla can produce the best EVs in the world in the USA, with the most American content and labor, and make the most profit of any OEM, and Ford can barely do a decent one in Mexico and make a profit. Something not right there.
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  38. I own about 15x tesla over BYD, but would be willing to change that ratio if BYD dips to 55.55 USD in the next week.
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  39. Nvidia
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  40.  @lanzer22  So that's the stupid comment you made when I told mnomadvfx that his idea that the CT was the worst aero was not based on the science. What are you drunk or what. Pay attention dude.
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  41. To myself and quite a few others: luxury is a carbon fiber wrapped 20,000 rpm motor.
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  42. I don't think that Tesla or anyone else has to prove anything to you. Just don't buy it.
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  43.  @johndair2116  production will tell. Until then there is nothing to invest in.
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  44.  @hvh377  You are apparently talking about the EV market. I am talking about the entire car market: If the late-starters find themselves incapable of ramping up and producing at a profit which seems to be the case, for most, if not all of the other EV OEMs then Tesla's market share will expand as ICE sales falter. And if the late starters attempts are found to be inept as many have been and will be. And because of scale and manufacturing technique Tesla's are not only more advanced but are rapidly becoming less expensive to produce and buy, they will continue to dominate and their market share will increase in spite of the proliferation of competition, AS IT HAS IN CHINA where the competition is fierce and the market is glutted, yet in the long scope and in recent days, Tesla has managed to increase it's market share.
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  45. Plenty of Telslas have over 2k miles with about 80 percent left. The average of model S that is eighe years old is over 90 percent left.
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  46. Better check the progress on the teslabot before you sell, even at that price. People have no real idea what the end of labor will mean. Better take up the violin or something because free time is coming to all.
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  47. I agree, but solely for the purposes of performance and handling.
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  48. Dealing with the German OEMs is like dealing with the mafia. They have proved this over and over.
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  49.  @domtweed7323  Except the bullet you have to pay for yourself when they shoot you for smoking a joint.
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  50. Diesel exhaust is not only toxic, it is carcinogenic. But that probably doesn't matter to you.
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