This kinda reminds me of what I heard about the downfall of the AMC Pacer. It was a cool car and a lot of people liked it. the problem was that eventually pretty much all of those people had one.
It’s going to be a challenge to kill all internal combustion by 2030.
It could only be one thing. Panasonic is a Japanese Company, and Japan wants into this business big time.
Panasonic Cobalt is needed for other Japanese car companies to get into the market, and Japan is playing the Nationalist card.
Panasonic is into much more than just audio equipment, stereos, TV sets, etc?
Toy electric cars were never going to be mainstream, folks. The electric grid is NOT designed for such.
Solyndra II
Recent Musk Tweets about this issue:
Incorrect. Pana cell lines at Giga are only at ~24GWh/yr & have been a constraint on Model 3 output since July. No choice but to use other suppliers for Powerwall/Powerpack cells. Tesla won’t spend money on more capacity until existing lines get closer to 35GWh theoretical.
There is 35 GWh/yr “theoretical capacity”, but actual max output is ~2/3. It was physically impossible to make more Model 3’s in Q1 due to cell constraints.
Wow, a lot of people don’t know much about how manufacturing works! If you have peak capacity of X, actual average weekly output will necessarily be less than X. First 6-12 months, it will be much less than X. Impossible to predict exact production ramp S-curve.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1117347290585243648
No, how could this be? I keep hearing about the awesome sales numbers of Tesla, they’re right up there with Toyota. A guy from my locale ripped my head off when I said that nobody wants this thing. I asked him, “I’m from the same locale you are, where’s the damn Teslas? I’ve seen like three of them ever.”
This company has been polishing the brass on the Titanic for 3 years now. They can only keep an executive for longer than 18 months if they hold him at gunpoint. In a year or two when this thing goes the way of the A380, all the Tesla fanbois will be going, "Well that came out of the blue!" This is Theranos all over again. Elon and his groupies see what they want to see. You can want and want and want something all day long. In the end, if you're headed east looking for a sunset, you've got a problem.