TruthPoint USA
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TruthPoint USA
@TruthPointUSA
Common sense always wins. Constitutionalism. Back to Twitter now that free speech is on the platform.
United States Katılım Nisan 2019
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@TruthPointUSA @scottbuscemi It told you to charge to 85% to get to your next destination at 10%? No custom routing settings?
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I’m lying in bed while my car charges. You’re making a pit stop on your way home from work to fill up your tank.
William Shatner@WilliamShatner
And for the #teslarites who don’t understand 500 miles. Time is money. How long does it take to pump a tank of gas? 4-5 mins versus 30. Early last week I went up to the Yosemite area (about 300 miles.) I got up there, did my thing and got gas (5 mins) and drove back. With a Tesla. It would be drive up (maybe on one charge) charge up 20-30 mins, do my thing. Drive back, stop along the way to recharge (again probably another 20 mins…) That’s too long. 500 would be one recharge so it’s 10 mins gas versus 29-30 mins which I would consider.🤷🏼
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@DakotaGarman @scottbuscemi 17 to 85% exactly as trip planner said to. My m3 "long' range only goes about 165 miles on i70 at 78mph. Speedlimit is 75mph.
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@TruthPointUSA @scottbuscemi Yea and what % were you charging to? Lol
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What is your biggest hope for Tesla Full Self-Driving (Supervised) v14.3?
TESLARATI@Teslarati
Tesla FSD v14.3 is currently in testing and will go for a wide release “in a few weeks,” Elon says v14.3 could be sentient, hoping for big improvements and strides with that version
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@niccruzpatane @Tesla Do it against a 18k brand new Nissan Versa. Be sure to include initial cost of purchase, fsd subscription and insurance cost. For every 200~ miles the ice engine will get 35 mins ahead on average. And cost approximately 35k less over 100k miles.
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I will be documenting my road trip down to Nashville, TN next week in my @Tesla Model 3.
I’ll be including FSD progress along the way, charge times, and charging costs.
There’s a lot of misinformation out there. I hope to shed some light on how great Teslas are for road trips.
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No. Only short range are decent. In a standard range in winter l, maybe 70-100 miles round trip, max. In a long range 150 miles. Its way to short. The charging infrastructure is a joke outside major highways or metropolitan areas. Dcfc is way to expensive. I can't wait for ice, especially hybrids, to get unsupervised driving. Imagine, a hybrid diesel on bio diesel with unsupervised fsd.
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@WilliamShatner At the end of the day nobody wants to force you to drive anything.
But the point is the Tesla experience is better than you think. You can't understand it until you try it.
With that said, those medium range trips are the worst. Short range and long range are awesome though.
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And for the #teslarites who don’t understand 500 miles. Time is money. How long does it take to pump a tank of gas? 4-5 mins versus 30. Early last week I went up to the Yosemite area (about 300 miles.) I got up there, did my thing and got gas (5 mins) and drove back. With a Tesla. It would be drive up (maybe on one charge) charge up 20-30 mins, do my thing. Drive back, stop along the way to recharge (again probably another 20 mins…) That’s too long. 500 would be one recharge so it’s 10 mins gas versus 29-30 mins which I would consider.🤷🏼
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@SawyerMerritt @carwowuk Well, Elon mislead millions on unsupervised so far. Especially hw3. So...
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Carwow just released a new video to its 11 million YouTube subscribers titled: "Why Tesla Full Self Drive is Pointless!"
@carwowuk misleads its viewers into thinking Tesla’s Autopilot is FSD, even though FSD hasn’t been approved in the UK yet. Autopilot isn’t meant for city driving, yet they test of bunch of scenarios that Autopilot wasn't built to do in the first place....
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@briandstone Insurance on EVs is expensive. Maybe not quite those numbers. But way more than a comparable ice vehicle or hybrid.
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Why in the world is Consumer Reports quoting these insane, unrealistic insurance rates for Teslas? I’ve never heard of anyone paying $400/mo to insure a Model 3.
Vasy 👑 🥊@jaws4bolts
@briandstone Per consumer reports….interesting…I’ll give my insurance company a call to see what they say.
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@niccruzpatane I drive 240-260 mile trips a few days a week. Its very inconvenient. Especially in rural areas without dcfc. No reason at all to not have 500 miles of range.
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Unless you’re driving 500+ miles per day, you don’t need an EV with that much range.
The average person drives around 37 miles per day. Current Tesla offerings provide way more than enough for the vast majority of people.
On road trips, I can usually only drive about two hours before I need to get out, stretch my legs, etc. During that time, my car charges. It’s not the inconvenience people think it is.
It doesn’t make sense to lug around a huge battery when most people don’t actually use that capacity.
William Shatner@WilliamShatner
When Tesla’s get to 500 miles per charge; I’ll think about one. BTW there’s an app that allows Waze to work. 🙄 #thinkIdontknow? 🥱😑
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@DBurkland @pbeisel It’s in testing right now. Wide release in a few weeks.
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Tesla’s forthcoming AI5 uses a half-reticle design, which is crucial for yield. A reticle defines the imaging area of a lithography machine, fitting two chips per shot effectively doubles yield.
This means the Tesla chip design team had to carefully manage die features, for instance dropping the older ISP (and classic GPU) to make room for more AI cores.
By contrast, NVIDIA’s Blackwell fills nearly a full reticle, making it a single-reticle design.
If Tesla hits its compute and efficiency targets with AI5 in this half-reticle format, it’s almost like cutting fab requirements in half.
And this has a big impact on Terafab, especially if it carries forward for AI6, AI7, etc.
phil beisel@pbeisel
Terafab may be the most essential vertical integration Tesla has ever undertaken— and it is truly non-optional. It will take years to build and will test even Elon’s speedrunning abilities to the limit, but that won’t stop him from trying. The breakthrough likely lies in overhauling the overall facility’s cleanroom model. By moving wafers in sealed pods with localized micro-environments, the fab no longer needs a monolithic ultra-clean space. Elon’s line about “eating cheeseburgers and smoking cigars” on the fab floor isn’t silly, it’s the practical reality of a radically simpler, cheaper, faster approach that could finally change the economics of chipmaking. This is all forced by the brutal “pinch” in chip supply. Tesla must produce on the order of 100–200 billion AI chips per year just to saturate its roadmap. That volume powers: FSD cars & Robotaxis (tens of millions of vehicles needing AI5 inference for near-perfect autonomy), Physical Optimus (scaling from thousands today to millions per year, each requiring AI5/AI6-level compute), Digital Optimus (the new xAI-Tesla software agents for digital/office automation, running massive inference clusters), Space-based data centers (AI7/Dojo3 orbital compute for GW-scale training and inference beyond Earth limits). AI5 delivers the ~10× leap for vehicles and early robots; AI6 shifts focus to Optimus + terrestrial DCs; AI7 goes orbital. No external foundry (TSMC, Samsung, etc.) can deliver that scale or timeline— hence the Terafab launch. Without it, the entire robotics + autonomy future hits a brick wall. Terafab isn’t optional; it’s the only way forward.
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@niccruzpatane 800 miles per day? That's like 15 hours. Only 12 of you had an ice vehicle
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On Monday, I will set off on a 1,600+ mile road trip to Nashville, TN.
My Tesla will handle all the driving, navigation, and charging. The Supercharger network gives you the freedom to go anywhere.
I will be doing 800 miles in a single day each way. FSD makes it so easy.
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@TruthPointUSA @BLKMDL3 And it could have been stolen for 20 of those months and you would never know
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@30xEngineer @BLKMDL3 What? First of all, gasoline doesnt lose efficiency, maybe ethanol. Secondly, this is a diesel. And battery's, it has 2 read top optimas. Car batteries set on store shelves for long periods without issues, why wouldn't they set in the truck without issues?
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@TruthPointUSA @BLKMDL3 That's retarded. Gasoline loses efficiency over very short periods of time and your starter battery wouldn't even hold a charge that long.
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All evs are terrible in their class.
Nissan Versa (gas) total cost for 100k miles in Kansas: ~$52,200
Tesla Model 3 base RWD total cost for 100k miles in Kansas: ~$74,100
Versa is cheaper overall by ~$21,900 (purchase price + fuel/energy + maintenance/repairs incl. oil changes + insurance + tires + registration + typical fees over ~8.3 years at 12k miles/year). These are 2026 estimates using current Kansas data (gas $3.15/gal avg, electricity $0.15/kWh avg residential, full-coverage insurance, no federal EV tax credit remaining). Real numbers vary by exact trim, driving habits, insurance quotes, home charging, and shop rates. Purchase assumes new base models; no haggling on Tesla.
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$40,000 MSRP
153 kW peak charging
261 miles of range
Terrible specs. You can buy a Tesla Model 3 RWD for $3,000 less. No wonder.
Sawyer Merritt@SawyerMerritt
NEWS: Volvo is discontinuing the EX30 EV in the U.S., just a year after it launched. It will be pulled from the market after the 2026 model year. • Starting price: $40,000 • EPA range: Up to 261 miles • 0-60mph: As low as 3.4s • 69 kWh battery • Up to 422 hp, AWD • 12.3" center display • Peak charging rate: 153 kW • Length: 166", 18" shorter than a Model 3 All current orders in the system will be produced with production winding down for the U.S. after the summer. Dealers have until March 20, 2026 to place EX30 and EX30 Cross Country orders. Volvo said the new EX60 and EX90 electric SUVs will continue in the U.S. with the former set to launch later this year and the latter having just received enhancements for 2026.
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@Tesla 6 years ago you promised me fsd unsupervised on my model 3.
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7 years ago today, we unveiled Model Y
It became the world’s best-selling car of any kind just 3 years later
Tesla@Tesla
Design your Model Y at Tesla.com/y
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Tesla FSD drives on the side of the road onto the dirt to get around a bus crash. Impressive
🛸@drewinnovations
100% Self Driving @Tesla_AI
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@niccruzpatane Good call. Took both my tesla with fsd active, then my 10 year old down the same driveway put in the country. The 10 year old did better.
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The Self-Driving Car Problem isn’t a Sensor Problem, it's a Brain Problem.
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@niccruzpatane Missed the crazy tire rotations, A-arms, alignment, brakes and cleaning every 3 days for the cameras to actually see. To still supervise drive.
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Had to perform some more maintenance on my Tesla Model Y today.
It’s been nuts this winter. I spent a total of $10 on some wiper fluid. 😜
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@_GenesisSystems i made one of these when i went to hvac school 20 plus years ago out of a $300 dollar window unit. took like 5 hours and some sheet metal.
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10 gallons a day. Zero infrastructure. Meet the WaterCube 10: the future of off-grid water.
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