Comments by "Martinit0" (@Martinit0) on "Munro Live" channel.

  1. Couldn't agree more. Materials are the fundamental "unlock" for new solutions to problems. There is a reason eras of human civilization are named after materials: stone age, bronze age, iron age etc.
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  2. I bet Elon's people are taking notes right now and tomorrow teams assemble to fix the 3 issues.
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  3. 14:49 Sandy: Every time I've said something in the past regarding what could be the next wave of technology I get a big blank stare from the others Tesla: Oops, we did it
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  4. ...except that one company that started 10 years earlier
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  5. Bro brakes
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  6. two legs: you forgot the dealers
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  7.  @ClickToPreview  The AWD Cybertruck starts at $80k not $100k and that's without the incentives that would apply and in 2025 the RWD model is expected to become available at $60k (minus then-applicable incentives).
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  8. Agree this color looks really great. Also having seen an i4 IRL recently the grille appears less obscene than in photos. Have to keep in mind that BMW always try to get an aggressive look, so now we have the aggressive hamster. What's really disappointing though is the tiny screen - very impractical for displaying a map. Also no space for putting your smartphones. Then taking off that M-cover under the bonnet I got the same feeling when I opened my first DVD player.
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  9. Sandy should have replied: "The best camera is no camera"
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  10. MG is also successful in Europe, GWM, BYD not so much. Guessing that customers don't realize that MG is Chinese.
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  11. ...and approvals. Before we can implement this idea we need to ask Bob.
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  12. Elon's like: "Back to work I go"
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  13. The biggest reason to own a vehicle vs renting is availability. The second one for families with small kids is convenience: if you own the vehicle you just leave the child seats in place. If you rent one you'd have to remove all personal belongings for each trip or specifically call a car with suitable child seats. Having said that, this Tesla Cybercab is obviously not suitable for families. There is another more psychological reason: if you own a care the direct cost of a specific trip is not obvious to you. It appears to be free. Most people use their cars as if it costs nothing to use them (in terms of what trips they make and the distances). This changes if you use a (robo)taxi. Every trip has immediately visible direct cost attached to it. Quick run to the grocery shop, $7.50. Pick up a friend somewhere across the city $12. Go to the cinema, add $8.75. Visit grandma $350. I'm telling you people won't like this. Having said that, a robotaxi compared to a classic rental car should have much better availability and hopefully lower cost. I have no car myself since a few years but I doubt Americans will easily give up car ownership. It requires a big change of habits. People don't like to change habits. Especially not if it decreases convenience AND adds directly visible cost. I'm saying people who own a car will keep their car and keep buying cars UNLESS they really, really cannot afford it or lose their drivers license. Customers will be mostly people who already don't own a car, travellers and young people who are not used to owning a car.
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  14. It kinda the old way of what OTA does today: every once in a while a new function.
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  15. Great stuff!
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  16. Sell their stock
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  17. Good (and somewhat surprising) to see Ford getting their EV act togehter with the F-150 and Mach-E. Let's hope they can make those in relevant numbers.
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  18. Wasn't it Audi that backed out of a costing deal with Munro when this channel was new?
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  19.  @apricity69  video of Tesla Model 2 prototype driving in unlimited reverse gear: https://youtu.be/J9TyqT0Erpk
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  20. That's strange as the EQS is pretty good in both those metrics so clearly he didn't do his homework.
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  21. Actually it's more of a table of contents of a detailed review.
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  22. I don't think Tesla will put NMC cells in Powerwalls or Megapacks, at least not for first use (i.e. maybe after a life in a BEV it will get a second life in stationary application). Would make more sense to use LFP for Powerwalls, cheaper and can do way more cycles than NMC.
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  23. In case you didn't notice, Munro have a lot of clients in China now. He also mentioned that only the Chinese purchased his Tesla reverse engineering reports.
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  24. The lack of a paint shop alone saves biggus buckus. You can wrap the Cybertruck - Franz Holzhausen drives around in a black CT for example.
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  25. Well for efficiency they'd need several compartments to be able to do a delivery trip to more than one customer. Otherwise they'd have to return to base for each delivery, limiting the delivery throughput (how may deliveries per hour the place can make). But such a compartmentalized box could be an add-on to go into the quite spacious trunk.
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  26. 9:40 Meanwhile we know how Tesla could implement 13 changes in 3 months. Actually they can implement a hardware change within 3 HOURS! https://youtu.be/6edPaRGyHIQ?t=858 and https://youtu.be/6edPaRGyHIQ?t=1886
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  27.  @samjubilee6593 I don't think you can make money in the car industry by making prototypes (or cranking them out) - unless you sell them for millions like the hypercars. You need to set up mass manufacturing and that is what we see here. It takes another level of (manufacturing) engineering and gigabucks, which is why so many car startups fail.
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  28. This is the future of ICE engines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcpKGFRH2o4
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  29. Yes
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  30. That's what the Audi rings are for. Up to four horses. VW brand: only one horse.
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  31. It's a 5G mailbox that is used as inbox for the OTA updates
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  32. Does the platform really affect the user interface? I doubt it - the UI is likely where they will differ
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  33. This thing is huuge.
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  34. In mechanical engineering and manufacturing everybody talks and writes dimensions in millimeters, not centimeters.
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  35. American companies are strong in the semiconductor machinery space. That's valuable too.
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  36. "If you are out there and you are stamping deep drawn oil pans there is still life for you making penthouses for electric vehicles"
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  37. That is a Space Shuttle of a console.
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  38.  @dannylemmon7123  Cybercab will only support singles and couples without kids. No space to put you kid! Unless they also add their regular models to the fleet (which I assume they will do).
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  39. That may be but heat - like electricity - mostly flows along an electrically conductive channel. Most stuff that is electrically insulating is also a bad heat conductor. But very likely Tesla did a full thermal simulation and came up with this solution.
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  40. It HAS to be. It must be indestructible and easy and quick to clean. Subways or city busses are the reference to compare to.
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  41. I think it doesn't matter which hand you use. In fact I heard it's better to use both hands.
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  42. It's actually rational to do that from the point of view of the employee: avoid the large risk of getting fired if a big change doesn't materialize as planned. Even if the probability of failure is small if the consequence is a catastrophic loss of job you'd avoid it. Especially given that implementing such big change as switching to giga castings requires top-notch execution not only from your organization but also from the supplier. The first manufacturer and his supplier both took the risk and proved it can be done. That made it less risky for everybody else to follow. Now it's a question of leadership how they deal with employees taking risks: do they encourage it or discourage it? I'm also 99% sure that a decision like going for gigacastings was backed by Elon himself, maybe he was even pushing for it.
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  43. If you are a Tesla engineer taking notes give us a hint by liking this comment.
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  44. 23:53 Regarding China: it's actually not correct to assign all those Chinese cars to western OEMs, because all of them except Tesla only hold a MINORITY STAKE in the Chinese Joint Venture companies
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  45. If you use a bicycle in the city you can even get away with 1-wheel steering.
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  46. 7:53 "Electrify America ..take twice as long as what a Tesla does" - twice as long to do what? Permit the station? Construct the station? Charge the car?
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  47. Well this video barely shows anything that hasn't been known before. The $$$ report OTOH may have considerable detail, esp. dimensions.
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  48. 4:07 Wow I didn't even know that handheld XRF spectrometers exist
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  49. More info about Bertha Benz's first road trip: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Benz_Memorial_Route
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  50. 19:50 Wait, we got an entire race car in there LOL
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  51.  @raddaks2039  It'd be great to show off how much lumber you can afford.
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  52. Haha, I don't think any of the legacy OEMs dares to make a stainless steel car anytime soon.
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  53. JB Straubel may have an idea ;-)
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  54.  @danielch6662  Obviously there has to be an operating arm of any robotaxi service that is going to clean the taxis regularly. Waymo has hubs/operating centers where their cars park overnight/for charging and cleaning.
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  55. But then the EQS got friendzoned at 26:28 "Would you buy it? No. But I like it."
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  56. Sandy after putting teardown back together: "Look at all those leftover parts! I could make another car of those and open a fastener shop!"
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  57.  @alexhurley7617  Most people in China also live in apartments, not single-family homes like the US. So they don't have at-home chargers or it's not that easy to have them. I am predicting NIO will fail for that reason in the US but so far they are no longer considering to even enter the US.
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  58. My experience is that the phones and macs outlive their chargers. But the point about shareholders is still valid.
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  59. OMG Sandy got a tour of the Boca Chica factory!
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  60. I like to scan though the comment section to see whether some Tesla engineer maybe answered one of those "Why" questions.
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  61.  @michaellowe3665  It would be immensely stupid for Tesla to sell the data itself to others. Data = asset. You don't sell the asset, you sell services on top of your asset, because that insures continuous revenue. Governments are a different beast though. You don't sell data to gov - they will just demand it for free.
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  62. 6:10 By the way, 12 seconds at $100 an hour comes out as $100 * 12/3600 = $0.33 It's 10x higher than the piece cost of a $0.03 screw.
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  63. Great analysis and smart of VW to get a free expert opinion from Sandy. Regarding those fasteners maybe they put these so people can overclock their ID.s LOL
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