But its free, right?
Posted on 06/03/2021 8:28:22 AM PDT by mylife
In January 2018, Elon Musk kickstarted several years' worth of speculation that he was going to enter the restaurant business, and of course he did it in less than 140 characters. "Gonna put an old school drive-in, roller skates & rock restaurant at one of the new Tesla Supercharger locations in LA," he tweeted at the time.
In subsequent tweets, he hinted that his Teslafied drive-in would also show clips from the "100 best" movies, and that Tesla drivers may be able to see the restaurant's menu on their cars' touchscreens as soon as they pulled into the joint. Later that year, Tesla applied for a building permit in Santa Monica for a combination restaurant and Supercharger station, but that application—and Musk's brief social media spitballing session—was as far as the restaurant idea went.
That all changed earlier this week, when Tesla filed a trademark application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for "restaurant services, pop-up restaurant services, self-service restaurant services [and] take-out restaurant services." According to Electrek, the company applied for a trio of trademarks that include the word "Tesla," its 'T' logo, and a stylized version of the company's name. The application is currently "awaiting examination," and will be reviewed by an attorney sometime within the next three months.
If this actually happens, it will be interesting to see what a potential restaurant will look like, how it's staffed, or even if it's staffed at all. Tesla already operates charging stations that have self-serve lounges that sell coffee and sandwiches.
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Might be better to connect the treadmills and stationary bikes of a fitness center to charging posts in the parking lot.
thermodynamics does not work like that.
he is a brilliant huckster
The map about 10% to 20% down on the page lacks a zoom feature, but out west you can see that the superchargers are located along interstate highways. Tesla also has them along the Trans-Canada Highway.
https://www.tesla.com/supercharger
“thermodynamics does not work like that.”
If man was meant to fly he would have wings.
Tesla cars and Tesla Superchargers are their own proof.
in every power conversion there is a loss of energy.
period!
in other news... warren buffet and bill gates are building a nuke power plant...
😀😀😀😀😀
A Model 3 can get 75 miles of charge in 5 minutes. It takes about 37 minutes to go from 5% to 90%. EPA estimated total range of 353 miles on a charge.
It’s not “an hour and a half”.
Still sounds like plenty of time to settle down and each lunch.
But its free, right?
The cost to the restaurant to charge the cars will be passed on to all diners who will pay higher food and beverage costs.
Enjoy your meal folks, you’re paying that dudes recharging costs.
Local watering hole is getting rid of neon signs, because they drive up the electric bill. Imagine charging ten cars continuously during operating hours. Ha
I did the calculations for a local gas station pumping 200,000 gallons of gas and 700,000 gallons of diesel fuel per month. It would take a dedicated 30-40 MWs to replace that fossil fuel with electricity. And that’s one single station.
There’s no way our current grid can takes the peaks of lots of electric vehicles charging without MAJOR upgrades.
Elon should forget about cafes and focus on finishing the factory in TX that will supposedly make the CyberTrucks, because it looks like Ford is gonna eat his lunch...and judging by the stock action lately Wall St. agrees.
looks abandoned.
Fast DC charging always damages batteries to some extent. Continual use of them is not recommended by EV manufacturers. Also, you should not discharge below 20% and charge above 80% to get the most life out of the batteries.
They will find the hard way with rolling blackouts for all of us.
They left simply does not want to face reality, wind and solar will not be able to supply all the power they think it will.
You would think that all the braniacs out there creating things that need infrastructure would be thinking about that.
Musk is to obsessed with escaping to Mars to worry about charging stations for ‘your’ electric car here.
I have a relative who is an actual rocket scientist/genius. He says electric car manufacturers are dumb. He says they should standardize about 5 battery sizes for compacts to semis and have battery exchange stations where you pull in and your battery is swapped for a charged one in 5 minutes. No one would own batteries or ever have to buy a new one. No more hours of charging.
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My impression was Tesla is doing this.
Maybe it was never implemented?
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