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Things Tesla will "never" do: •✅Model X •✅Gigafactory •✅Model 3 •✅European homologation •✅Model Y •✅Build a factory in one year •✅5 year (now 8) CAGR of 50+% •✅Make a profit •✅Pay its debt •✅4680 cells •✅Semi •✅Cybertruck •Roadster •FSD •Robot

WSJ: Tesla Finally Has Its First Semi-Truck and It’s Already a Hit With Truckers. "Truckers who drove it in pilot tests say they loved features including a centered driving position, faster charging and longer range for about $100,000 less than other battery-electric trucks. Angel Rodriguez, a 56-year-old truck driver for Hight Logistics in Long Beach, Calif., recently swapped out a 13-gear diesel truck for a Tesla Semi, which is automatic, for a one-month pilot test. “It’s just easier on your body. It’s less stressful because you’re not really having to engage the clutch and the stick shift.” Big F Transport employs five mechanics to service more than 40 diesel-powered rigs and a fleet of trailer chassis in Wilmington, Calif. “If we go all EV we will only need one [mechanic] to service chassis,” said Geovanny Melendez, the carrier’s VP of operations, who went to see the Semi earlier this month at a ride-and-drive event near the Port of Long Beach. Jennie Abarca, co-founder and CEO of King Fio Trucking in Long Beach, Calif., once worked as a truck dispatcher and her husband is a truck driver, so she knows all too well the toll a diesel engine takes on people’s lungs and hearing. She eventually wants to swap out King Fio’s 27 diesel trucks to create an all-electric fleet. King Fio already has 11 battery-electric trucks from Volvo and Nikola. But the company limits those trucks to shorter trips to and from local ports because they only have a range of about 225 miles. The Semi, by contrast, can travel 500 miles on a single charge, according to Tesla. For King Fio that means two or three round-trips a day from Long Beach to warehouses in the nearby Inland Empire or a single round-trip to Las Vegas. She has 20 Semis on order. “The Teslas change everything,” Abarca said. “It opens up a whole different type of delivery that I can make.”

@_bcbread @SawyerMerritt CDL here. Does fully chained through the 12,500 foot Eisenhower tunnel on I-70, past Vail and into Denver count?

@SawyerMerritt Holy shit…have ANY of you ever driven a manual transmission downhill pulling a trailer in the snow?

@_bcbread @PTrubey @SawyerMerritt A diesel semi has a Jake brake , which uses engine compression to slow the rig. The Tesla Semi has regenerative braking, which is the same general principle. Both the diesel and the Tesla Semi have air brakes. I would judge a Tesla to be safer because the computer controls.

@PTrubey @SawyerMerritt Thank you for a REAL answer. How hard is it on the parts under a full load? If your brakes are hot how else can you slow down? Is there any way to “gear down”? I understand there is no transmission.

@_bcbread @SawyerMerritt Better than a diesel.

@SawyerMerritt With no gears, how do these handle steep grades in adverse driving conditions??

@JaxJacksonw1fk @belliott123 @SawyerMerritt Next.

@belliott123 @SawyerMerritt Probably won’t replace ICE trucks any time soon for cold areas.

@Karntima_Siboun @belliott123 @SawyerMerritt Nope.

@belliott123 @SawyerMerritt A separate gas powered heater for the battery.

@GeoDent7277 @belliott123 @SawyerMerritt Donner Summit between Fremont and Sacramento. Next.

@belliott123 @SawyerMerritt Range is reduced dramatically in cold weather. The EV trucks will be concentrated in the west and SE. Short hauls in the north in winter.

@belliott123 @SawyerMerritt This is Donner Summit between Reno and Sacramento.

@SawyerMerritt This sounds great. I’m wondering how electric semi-trucks will perform in cold winter weather. I remember reading articles about EVs not operating well in cold conditions in northern states. I wonder what can be done to address these issues.

@CheatingN2020 @SawyerMerritt Just in case this question is serious, the Tesla Semi can go fully loaded up in mountain grade doing the speed limit. A diesel can't.

@SawyerMerritt How well do they climb mountain hiways? School busses in Colorado couldn't do mountain roads

@FredLambert x.com/i/status/20346…

-- Please read before commenting. This is taken from Fred's take in the article and auto posted on X by Fred's agent. See pinned post in profile for details --

Tesla fans using the “4-second disengagement” as a gotcha are missing the forest for the trees. Yes, the driver was technically in control of the vehicle at the moment of impact. But she was in control because FSD was already failing by driving too fast ahead of this sharp turn — it was heading straight into a concrete barrier at highway speed with no sign of correcting. Everyone who has frequently used FSD or Autopilot and paints this 4-second disengagement as a “gotcha” moment is being disengenous, and that includes Elon Musk. I have tens of thousands of miles on FSD, and I’ve experienced the system coming too fast into a turn at least half a dozen times. We’ve said this before and we’ll keep saying it: the problem with FSD isn’t what happens when the driver is paying attention and the system works. The problem is what happens when the system gives you every reason to trust it, and then suddenly doesn’t work. The driver has to recognize the failure, assess the situation, decide on a correction, and physically execute it, all in less time than the system needs to create the danger. Musk and Tesla’s propagandists can point to the logs all they want. The video shows what actually matters: FSD approaching a standard highway curve at full speed with zero indication it was going to navigate it. That’s the failure. Everything that happened after, including the panicked disengagement, is a consequence of that failure. The framing that this was “manual driving, not FSD” is technically true for the final 4 seconds and deeply dishonest about the full sequence of events. It’s exactly the kind of liability shell game that courts are increasingly rejecting, as that $243 million verdict makes clear. Tesla created the system, sold it as “Full Self-Driving,” and profits from the ambiguity. At some point, it has to own the consequences.

@mellodysmiles @TRUMP_ARMY_ To be prosecuted there first must be a crime, not a conspiracy theory.

@TRUMP_ARMY_ Are the leaders behind this going to be prosecuted?

🚨 BOMBSHELL EXPOSÉ: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. drops the ultimate truth bomb on the COVID era: "They had to destroy ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine… because if they had acknowledged that it was effective in anybody, the whole $200 billion vaccine enterprise would have collapsed."

@TRUMP_ARMY_ The problem with the "ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine" theory is that if they had been effective, "big pharma" would have made a fortune off of them. The COVID drugs that were developed were not any more profitable.

@IokSotto @IanCopeland5 The smallpox vaccine was derived from cowpox. There was no way possible "that vaccine gave a bunch of healthy people smallpox" (oopsie).

@IanCopeland5 That's how the smallpox vaccine worked (after the vaccine gave a bunch of healthy people smallpox - oopsie). The reason people keep going on about smallpox is that it's the only disease vaccines have eradicated. So it's not really indicative of how vaccines work.

This is what Smallpox looked like in a world without vaccines. You've never seen such a thing. Know why? Because vaccines work...

@Gambs74076 @IanCopeland5 The last known case of smallpox was in Somalia. Explain how "better nutrition, better hygiene and better sanitation" achieved that. I'll wait.

@IanCopeland5 Small pox vaccine had nothing to do with eradicating the disease we know as smallpox, better nutrition, better hygiene and better sanitation did!!

@Overlordmainst1 @IanCopeland5 Not so! The smallpox vaccine was derived from cowpox, a disease generally harmless to humans, after it was observed that milkmaids in Britain were immune to smallpox.

@IanCopeland5 Nothing to do with vaccines. Cowpox is harmless in it's tranmitted form. When it mutates in the human population it becomes dangerous Smallpox. Automating the dairy industry fixed it.

@JesseGenX @IanCopeland5 Your history is skewed. The smallpox vaccine was derived from cowpox, a disease generally harmless to humans, after it was observed that milkmaids were immune to smallpox.

@IanCopeland5 Smallpox was primarily fought using inoculation, not vaccines. Inoculation was the practice of taking a sick person and use their infection to intentionally affect others. Many survived, many died, but this was literally forced herd immunity.

@SamaHoole And yet those pesky vegetarian 7th Day Adventists have the highest longevity of any American population group. Very strange...

The RDAs don't apply on carnivore. Because it's a different fuel state with different needs. The fewer carbs you eat, the less Vitamin C you need. The less seed oil you eat, the less Vitamin E you need. The less Omega 6 you eat, the less Omega 3 you need. The less sugar you eat, the less magnesium you need. The fewer vegetables you eat, the less sodium you need. The fewer phytates and oxalates you eat, the less calcium you need. The RDAs are written for the person following a high-carb inflammatory diet. Those rules don't apply to carnivore. So don't fret if you're not maxxing Cronometer.

@TechTonik808 @scottthomasm @GregTomaselli @JoshKale This is the same delusional person who confidently compared Tesla to Theranos.

@scottthomasm @GregTomaselli @JoshKale “Cybertruck will never happen” x.com/scottthomasm/s…

Nobody understands how much of a disaster this Rivian <> Uber deal is Rivian lost $3.6 billion last year on 42k deliveries. That's $86,000 of value destruction PER VEHICLE that left their factory. Their solution? Partner with Uber to turn a $58K camping SUV into a robotaxi... to compete with Tesla's Cybercab... YIKES Every 12-18 months, this company finds a new partner to write a check: - Amazon: $1.3B equity + 100K van order - VW: $5.8B joint venture - US DOE: $6.6B loan - Uber: $1.25B robotaxi deal (today) The moment they announced the Uber deal, they admitted they're pushing back profitability AGAIN to fund an autonomy program that can't even handle stoplights. Tesla's Cybercab is purpose built at $25,000 with no steering wheel. The cost per mile math isn't even close. The Uber deal is to deploy 50,000 robotaxis by 2031. Slight problem: The car doesn't exist yet. The factory doesn't exist yet. The autonomy software doesn't exist. Manufacturing is HARD. good luck have fun

@YTJustGetATesla @leeburridge Was FSD going too fast or the human operator? x.com/i/status/20345…

@leeburridge We know what happened - it misread the speed based on the freeway below. As locals who have had the exact same thing have posted. As we've all seen FSD / EAP / AP do. It went too fast. But they can't admit that because it might makes the share price go down. So lie lie lie!

So, to summarise the Texas Cybertruck crash: FSD is flawless and never makes mistakes and The woman should have taken over it’s her fault But if it was flawless and not to blame there would be no need for her to take over and slam the brakes on…

@YTJustGetATesla @Twizz7871 @rafal0077 You failed to ask why the vehicle was going sixty miles per hour.😏 x.com/i/status/20345…

@Twizz7871 @rafal0077 Ok. So the car driving up to a 15mph bend and 60mph definitely had no impact. Thanks for confirming 🙄