Comments by "Fred Bloggs" (@fredbloggs5902) on "The Electric Viking" channel.

  1. I’m guessing the dealerships still billed Ford for the recall work.
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  2. Sorry, this looks like a ridiculous scam to me. PVs are already approaching 30% efficiency. Clearly 6,000% efficiency isn’t possible.
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  3. It was smart to show the uphill performance using a visible load whose mass could be easily calculated, yet as usual the haters are claiming it’s all fake.
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  4. The problem for GM is that they can discount as much as they like but their dealers will still charge whatever they think they can get away with.
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  5. In twenty years time, the way Tesla balanced demand between factories by using price and specification will be studied in MBA courses.
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  6. The key data is at 03:15 If they’re 100x lighter per area and 18x the output per weight then they have only 18% of the output per area of current panels. This means that they’re probably only viable in applications where weight is important. For roofs you’re probably better sticking with normal panels.
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  7. If Toyota had a genuine breakthrough in battery technology, they wouldn’t be hedging their bets with hydrogen, they would abandon it.
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  8. If Toyota’s batteries were so good they would have abandoned hydrogen… …have they?
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  9. Hydrogen is STILL hopelessly inefficient regardless, you lose 30% liquefying it and fuel cells are another 50%.
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  10. The main advantages of LFP over Li-Ion are: Their cycle life is greater They’re cheaper The fire risk is reduced They don’t use cobalt They can be charged to 100% without degradation Disadvantages: They have a lower energy density
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  11. Sounds like GM are doing what they normally do - going bankrupt.
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  12. Imagine if in 2 years time they set a new lap record and at the end the driver gets out and… …it’s Elon’s Mum!… …Because FSD did the driving 😂
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  13. “You did it Mary”... ...You bankrupted GM ......Yet again
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  14. “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” ― George Carlin
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  15. VW have entered a death spiral. Lower sales -> lower revenue -> lower investment-> delayed EVs -> lower sales
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  16. “You did it Mary”... ...you bankrupted GM yet again.
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  17. The Aptera covers the entire car and gets at best 40 miles per day, most locations most of the time will only achieve around 10, but certainly the weight reduction will improve on this.
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  18. I’d rather be a multi-millionaire from my Tesla share options from working for Tesla for ten years... ...than be in a union from working for legacy auto that will make me redundant in five.
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  19. If the hydrogen is sourced from fossil fuels - it’s more efficient to use the fossil fuel directly. If the hydrogen is sourced from electricity (eg. From solar panels or wind turbines) then it’s more efficient to just distribute the electricity and use it to charge EVs.
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  20. 02:12 The size/chemistry stated in ‘Master Plan 3’ is the predicted average across ALL that class of vehicle for ALL manufacturers, NOT the Tesla CyberTruck specifically.
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  21. TLDR: They’ve found a better way to monitor the degradation of PVs so this MIGHT eventually lead to PVs that degrade less.
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  22. For oil companies, the only path is down from now on.
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  23. To anyone familiar with software development, having 1,600 developers on a project is a major red flag.
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  24. Given that Tesla is going to be at $1,500 after the next earnings call (26th January) in my opinion... ...selling now is probably a bad idea.
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  25. Rivian management being the geniuses who massively increased prices for existing orders and then had to backtrack when everyone cancelled. They’re a bunch of clowns 🤡
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  26. When Powerpacks only cost $1k, everyone will want them, they’ll pay for themselves in less than 5 years and last 20+.
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  27. This is definitely an interesting and slightly odd story, please keep us posted.
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  28. You’re confusing the 250 Li/day of gaseous hydrogen produced by these panels with the liquid hydrogen used in cars which is 853x denser.
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  29. Electro-chemistry is well understood, getting the high energy density required for most useful applications inevitably requires certain combinations. This sounds like another U-Beam or Solar-Roadways.
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  30. If you look historically at GM company purchases (Lordstown, Nikola etc.), the simplest explanation is that through sheer gross incompetence they bought the wrong company 🤣
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  31. Fusion has been ‘within a few years’ since the 50s 🤣
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  32. You only have to compare the latest Tesla video with GM’s Lyriq video to see why GM are doomed.
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  33. Every kid in the world shouts out when they see a Tesla... ...when they see a GM, not so much.
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  34. The weight of the battery pack has a significant effect on the range so calculating the pack size from the range when the size is reduced is a non linear equation. I wouldn’t be surprised if the size is halved.
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  35. You’re utterly clueless
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  36. When everyone wants an EV, but there aren’t enough available (and the ones that are, are too expensive)... ...They stop buying ICE cars completely and make their current car last a few years longer.
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  37. The reason Karpathy took his sabbatical was he knew they’d solved the basic AI core programming for FSD, all it needs now is data and time.
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  38. GM will go bankrupt by 2025 and get another bailout. The big question is what happens when they go bankrupt again in 2030?
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  39. The reason he wouldn’t discuss battery chemistry is because... ...Ford are buying into Li-ion technology at the very moment that Tesla are moving to much cheaper and sustainable alternatives like LFP. (Maybe a Ford exec confused ‘ion’ with ‘iron’ ? 🤣).
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  40. Whenever Elon is asked about hydrogen vs. EVs he just laughs... ...enough said.
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  41. The figures just don’t work. The energy required to drive a vehicle at a reasonable speed for a reasonable distance EXCEEDS the total amount of solar radiation received by an area the size of a car even with PVs operating with 100% efficiency, especially in winter at higher latitudes. The area of a car available to receive solar radiation is physically constrained by practicality, you’re better putting the panels on your house.
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  42. Having more than one credible EV manufacturer is great for customers because competition drives developments and pricing.
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  43. People said the same about Japanese products after WW2. Ten years later they were happily buying Japanese cars, cameras, stereos, radios…
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  44. I’ve heard that the Toyota Mirai has the same problem (much lower range than claimed). My understanding is that the claimed range is ‘over 400 miles’. Note that even achieving that range shows hydrogen to be hopelessly inefficient, with the fuel cell operating at only around 50% efficiency.
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  45. O’Dowd has obviously realised that if he can’t destroy Tesla’s FSD all his current customers will eventually abandon him and licence it from Tesla. Elon Musk has openly stated he’s happy to do this.
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  46. Tell that to Nokia, Kodak, Ever Ready, Enron, Lehman Brothers, Dutch East India Company...
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  47. Elon’s stated reason for establishing a base on Mars is to preserve Mankind in event of an extinction event on Earth (asteroid, WW3, plague etc.). ‘Improving life on Earth’ does nothing to address that issue.
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  48. The impact on rotor drones will be negligible, but it looks viable for something like a powered glider where the wings have a much larger area.
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  49. Vapourware, the range claim has no credibility.
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  50.  @Robert...Schrey  1) Tesla make a car in ten hours, VW take 3x longer, I’m guessing other companies like GM are worse. 2) Outsourcing components moves profits to them. 3) Tesla cars being more efficient means that for a given range the battery can be smaller/cheaper. 4) Tesla don’t spend billions on advertising. 5) Tesla don’t have a dealer network. 6) Tesla negotiate supply contracts for longer periods and larger quantities for things like batteries which gets the prices lower. 7) Tesla innovate faster.
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