Tesla Now the Most Valuable Car Company in the USA
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If they would just bury them where they stop the problem would be solved quicker.
Oh my! Cannot do that? The battery would turn the whole region into a superfund site. Then the Americans would come in and spend 6 years studying the site, 6 more working up a mitigation plan, and then carefully remove each spoonful of dirt and "rehabbing" it in special dirt rehab machines costing 60 million each. All to find out the battery was intact and had leaked nothing. A follow up study would be funded and implemented to make sure the new dirt was comfortable and a monitoring system would be invented to follow the movement of anything in the patch.
Can you tell I grew up near a federal operation?
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(Horse fly)ing camper.
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Pretty cool photo! Theres a man who passed thru here at least once, Lee the Horse Logger, with a large covered wagon being pulled by work horses. he lives year round in it I think, traveling the country. People give him money to live his dream I guess. I wasnt jealous.mntbugy wrote: ↑Sat. Jul. 17, 2021 1:55 pm(Horse fly)ing camper.
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So now instead of crashing and burning you will have the terror of the trip to the ground, and if you survive you will likely burn....sounds great, where do we sign up? Is it free? Why not? Everything is free for running across our imaginary border. Why should I pay to crash and burn?
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Electric cars and planes will be more reliable, simply less stuff to break and maintain. The issue with the plane is the energy density is big hurdle. They are already using electric planes commercially in at least one location I read about but they only carry a few passengers for very short hops. They replaced gasoline planes doing the very same thing.
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Actually, The issue with the planes will be the people flying them.
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Commercial airplanes are fully capable of autonomous flight. This is actually much easier to do with planes and easier to implement. Far less obstacles and other problems to deal with.freetown fred wrote: ↑Tue. Jul. 20, 2021 7:26 amActually, The issue with the planes will be the people flying them.
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16 grand to fix a coolant leak on a model 3. these cars are junk!
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A few years back my Uncle drove a brand new GM truck off the lot and broke down a few miles later. Ended up being a significant repair, someone didn't tighten a bolt on the transmission at factory or whatever it was... Certainly GM isn't junk because of that singular failure.lincolnmania wrote: ↑Tue. Jul. 20, 2021 7:46 am16 grand to fix a coolant leak on a model 3. these cars are junk!
The big issue is the 16 grand, this is not something specific to Tesla. It's industry wide and spans all industries. I went to get a thermostat for 2006 Lacrosse, the guy looks at me and goes that thermostat is $80 because you had to buy the whole housing. Fortunately it was wrong engine he looked up and and mine was still standard, that will be $5. It's something that has evolved over the past 2 decades plus and is pervasive in most products, especially electronic devices. A lot of this is controlled through patents, e.g. instead of using common connector they use a proprietary one. If you buy a desktop computer from major name brand good luck fixing common problems like a power supply failure.
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