• bartolomeo@suppo.fi
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    11 months ago

    It’s interesting timing, right when Sweden is making a breakthrough with sodium ion battery tech. Especially considering that batteries are the only thing Tesla actually produces, and that other EV companies are investing in Northvolt (the company that’s pursuing sodium ion battery tech).

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      11 months ago

      on top of everything else, Tesla insists on using their own chargers rather than anything standardized (like CCS in EU) similar to the whole custom-phone-connector mess that EU has been trying to move away from

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        11 months ago

        Elon Musk thinks big. While most people would shoot themselves in the foot with a pistol, Elon dual wields sawed-off shotguns.