It’s amazing what you can learn in an afternoon. While I just followed YouTube videos back in 2016, I learned many texture techniques where with different variables applied could have a lot of applications. I also got introduced to Cycles Render, which suprisingly wasn’t the default rendering engine (or wasn’t when I played with Blender). […]
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Mutt Cutts Providence RL
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9 Ways Tesla can make Money other Car Makers yet cannot
*prices in CAD Full Self-Driving Capability On/Off $9,200 Tesla Supercharging Cost $0.00/(0.18/kW)/($1.00/min) Tesla Premium Internet ($0.00/month)/($10.00/month) Battery Soft-limit (50kWh/60kW/75kWh/100kWh) Heated Back Seats (On/Off) $300 Premium Surround Sound Speakers On/Off $300 Service Cost ($0.00/hour)/($175/hour) Tesla Insurance Off/($100/month) Sentry Mode ($0.00/month)/($10/month) Everybody reading this should know by now that Tesla can enable FSD on their cars. The […]
Holding TSLA – Good idea? A look at the ARK Investing Model
Years ago, I read on Facebook, somebody say TSLA should be traded, not held. I didn’t disagree. With all the volatility, if you could time the stock right, you could make crazy gains. While, I just hold, after seeing the stock go from ~$900 to ~$600, it makes me wonder, *what if I timed it […]
February 22nd, 2020
Tesla’s Success due to “Make it Better” Attitude
When products are developed, there tends to be a point where most workers will state “Good Enough!”. But not at Tesla. The question is always, “How Can We Do BETTER?”. Technology builds upon itself. In order to improve, most look to the latest superficial customer facing issues. But to really improve, to the point where […]
The Limiting Factor
I love this new YouTube channel. You should check it out:
Canadian Nickel Stocks
If you’ve been following Tesla, you will likely be aware of the upcoming Battery Investor (Company Day) in April at GF2 Buffalo. As Ivan from the EV Stock Channel points out here: Nickel takes up a large percentage of the Li-ion cell composition. And with Canada being near Tesla and a producer of nickel, it […]
Will Dojo be run on HW2?
This is one of my least certain speculations, but it stems from the question, what is Tesla going to do with all the replaced HW2 in the HW3 upgrades? Thousands, if not tens of thousands (or hundreds of thousands?) of replaced HW2 modules will be inherited by Tesla in the coming months as they upgrade […]
The Great Talent Multiplex
Getting Talent for Tesla is a challenge. Elon has said recently that they are spending money in ways that make sense. Money isn’t the issue, it is getting superb talent to spend money on that is the real challenge. Enter the Design Factory in China and also Berlin. The best European and Chinese Designers and […]