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Originally Posted by AstulzerRZD
F150 is cancelled because …
1) Aluminum plant for Lightning caught on fire
2) Ford has better platforms and batteries cooling, unlike Tesla whose cars and cells are in the stone ages.
3) range extended EV is almost ready and is cheaper to run
They will relaunch with CATL Shenxing gen 2 packs which…
1) charge 10-80% in 15 minutes even in -10C, compared to 35-50 min on Cybertruck
2) 800V and 400kw charging, average 300+ kW instead of 120 on Cybertruck 800V
Tesla is now back of the pack with the batts, behind VW, MB, BMW, and the big Chinese OEMs because Tesla fucked up their bet on 4680 and their old 2170 also sucks. The 4680 thermals are so bad that even 800V couldn’t save it.
On self driving, FSD is getting BTFO’d by Waymo, which Toyota and other OEMs are starting to license for personally owned vehicles, meaning the tech/models are ready for cheaper sensor arrays and hardware.
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Ok, I'm not sure where you are getting your info and I have always respected your opinion because your background in the business but this is just a bunch of craps.
Tesla is second to none when it comes to their BMS, battery packs and electrical motors. My acquaintance works in a major Chinese EV startups as the chief engineer in electric motor and even he says (off record of course) they have beaten every company be it Asian, European or American (like their techs are all shit comparing to what they have now) except Tesla. He feels that they are about 2 gen behind Tesla and can only try to get close to Tesla by either using higher voltage architecture or larger battery pack.
I don't know where you are in the industry and what your training is, but I think I'd put more weight on an engineer with 2 PhDs and working directly in the most throat-cutting market when it comes to EV.
I asked him why Tesla doesn't go with 800v architecture other than CT or not offering higher charging speed, and he says it's a decision Tesla took based on their BMS. Faster charging is harder on the batteries. In 400v, Tesla is among the best at 250kw+ and chose to taper down much faster to conserve the battery health. 800v, he says from their own teardown on CT, CT has the capacity of doing 600kw at pack level, whatever limit Tesla is imposing is based on their BMS.
Now in FSD, I now drive daily with FSD. V14 is so good that I rely on it to take me to and from Whistler with fog, rain, and snow and never once I felt unsafe and needed to take over. Heck, during some part of Sea to Sky where there isn't much light and marking is shit because of rain and stuff, I think FSD actually does a better job at telling the lines than my own eyes.
Just this weekend, SF suffered a major blackout and Waymo basically paralyzed. Because its system relies on maps that works in perfect conditions to operate properly. Tesla OTOH just drove like any other day.
You clearly have a bias when it comes to Tesla vs. others. But that bias has prevented you to look into the improvements that Tesla is doing and has done. I don't know where European, Korean or Japanese automakers stand as far as EV tech goes, but I know China is nearly industry-leading, and if Tesla is still THE brand that they are all benchmarking against, your comments is clearly showing bullshit and trying to pass it as fact.