Posted on 05/01/2015 8:08:16 AM PDT by Red Badger
Battery Tech Ping!..................
Elon is starting to show his age.................
Very cool.
Musk should be careful when driving, dining, etc. Bad things happen to people who upset the status quo and impact the status quo’s money.
The Robber Barons of Energy are upon us.
Happens to the best of us, at least until we get those fancy robot bodies.
I like his thinking here, but I don’t think the current li-ion tech cuts the mustard. Too volatile, charge rate not fast enoigh without trickery, useful lifetime not long enough etc. As always, battery tech is the biggest drag on innovation.
Having one of them in your garage,, I don’t know.
I guess its OK.. A Tesla hasnt torched itself in awhile.
New innovations in battery technology materials, cathodes, anodes and chemicals used will make the systems last longer, maybe even permanent, such that you may never need to replace the battery at all.
Mr. Musk is getting the ‘other stuff’ ready to accept the new technology. So, all he has to do is get it into peoples’ homes and eventually be the sole seller. Say a new battery comes along in a couple of years, all he has to do is replace th old one with the new one and everything else remains the same.............
Maybe it comes with an automatic fire extinguisher system..............
Where would we be without the ‘Robber Barons’ of old?..............
Wiki:
List of businessmen who were labeled as robber barons
The people here are listed in Josephson, Robber Barons or in the cited source,
John Jacob Astor (real estate, fur) – New York
Andrew Carnegie (steel) – Pittsburgh and New York
William A. Clark (copper) – Butte, Montana[11]
Jay Cooke (finance) – Philadelphia
Charles Crocker (railroads) – California
Daniel Drew (finance) – New York
James Buchanan Duke (tobacco) – Durham, North Carolina
Marshall Field (retail) – Chicago[12]
James Fisk (finance) – New York
Henry Morrison Flagler (railroads, oil) – New York and Florida[13]
Henry Clay Frick (steel) – Pittsburgh and New York
John Warne Gates (barbed wire, oil) – Texas[14]
Jay Gould (railroads) – New York[15]
Edward Henry Harriman (railroads) – New York[16]
Charles T. Hinde (railroads, water transport, shipping, hotels) - Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, California
Mark Hopkins (railroads) – California
Collis Potter Huntington (railroads) - California
Andrew W. Mellon (finance, oil) - Pittsburgh
J. P. Morgan (finance, industrial consolidation) – New York
John Cleveland Osgood (coal mining, iron) - Colorado[17]
Henry B. Plant (railroads) – Florida[18]
John D. Rockefeller (oil) – Cleveland, New York
Charles M. Schwab (steel) – Pittsburgh and New York
Joseph Seligman (banking) – New York
John D. Spreckels (water transport, railroads, sugar) – California
Leland Stanford (railroads) - California
Cornelius Vanderbilt (water transport, railroads) – New York[19]
Charles Tyson Yerkes (street railroads) – Chicago[20]
Fine CAPITALISTS, all.............
I wonder if he ‘tests the system’ periodically by turning off the main breaker from the pole?.............
Completely agree with your assessment of his strategy. I was just lamenting the slow progress in tech, though I hear of several really promising new developments lol. Where have I heard that before.
He has many ‘irons in the fire’, as they say..........
The power in theses parts is real unreliable
tin pot fascist won’t put jack in my house.
Yeah I am not thrilled with having that in my garage, but I do like that they are getting into electric cars. Look how many airplanes crashed before getting it right back in the day. This will change our lives for the better especially if they end up driving themselves. That I like most of all so seniors can continue to get to various appointments and shopping.
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