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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

@BrentHende36514 @YTJustGetATesla @Twizz7871 @rafal0077 That was the claim made by TheLastTesla@YTJustGetATesla

@YTJustGetATesla @Twizz7871 @rafal0077 She was not using FSD 🫵😂 you people are retarded.

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…

7 Within the next ten years, those companies that do not have the Tesla Semi or equivalent will find it increasingly difficult to compete. The last refuge for diesel will be long haul, until the Megacharger structure is built out.

6 If that were not enough, it's highly likely that once there are sufficient EV Semis on the road, diesel semis will be banned in an increasing number of locations. There is precedent: old diesels were banned in the ports when "clean" diesels were introduced.

1 What does the Hornsdale battery in Australia and the recent Tesla Semi test in Texas have in common? Everything. Logistics companies that do not have these are going to be at a competitive disadvantage going forward. reneweconomy.com.au/tesla-big-batt… tesery.com/blogs/news/tes…

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

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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.