Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Tesla's NEW $3.5B gigafactory will be the greatest disruptor this decade" video.

  1. Look Viking, I am totally empathetic to your family situation having been their myself, but I'd be negligent as an engineer who has worked in the automotive industry not to call out the hype in this video. You need to tone down "the Elon will save the human race nonsense." I did my degree in aerospace but have done 30+ years in industrial control systems and automation. I worked in Australia's automotive sector building automated work cells before going off to the mining and resources sector. I have spent a lot of my personal time in the last few years looking into economics because of all the clowns with economic degrees interfering with projects. There are over 1 billion cars in the world and almost 500 million trucks. It is going to take decades to swap them over from fossil fuels. Then there is the EXTRA POWER GENERATION NEEDED to power them. There's all the Lithium, Nickel, Cobalt, Phosphate and other minerals needed to make the batteries and motors and other stuff. NOBODY KNOWS what the operating costs of electric trucks because NOBODY has been operating them long enough. You and many others in the "technology will save us" and "disruption is magic" brigade of cheerleaders need to wake up that all this stuff will TAKE TIME. LETS NOT FORGET that Elon Musk himself promised these trucks and fully 100% self driving cars and neither has come close to fruition. He promised these trucks would start being delivered customers more than 4 years ago and he still hasn't built the factory to make them. Look after your family NOT Elon Musk. Best wishes to your wife and kids.
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