Posted on 09/09/2020 7:17:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Elon Musk test-drove the ID.3 when he made a final stopover to meet with one of his biggest competitors, Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess.
Musk also inspected the ID.4 electric SUV that Volkswagen will launch later this month.
Before Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk returned to the US after a three-day visit to Germany, he made a final stopover to meet with one of his biggest competitors - Volkswagen AG CEO Herbert Diess.
The two auto executives met at a small airport in Braunschweig for about two hours on Thursday evening and Musk test-drove VWs ID.3 electric-car, according to people familiar with the matter. Musk also inspected the ID.4 electric SUV that VW will launch toward the end of the year, said the people, who asked not to be identified as the meeting wasnt public.
A spokesman for VW confirmed that Diess met with Musk, but declined to comment on details.
Musk had toured Europes largest economy since Tuesday, visiting pharmaceutical company Curevac GmbH, before moving on to Berlin for meetings with politicians and a visit of the factory Tesla is building outside the German capital in Gruenheide. The site would be Teslas first car-factory in Europe and could assemble as many as 500,000 vehicles a year, underpinning Musks attack on the German auto establishment.
Diess has praised Musks achievements several times in the past, both publicly and during internal events.
The VW CEO on Friday lauded his rival yet again, saying in a LinkedIn post that Teslas new factory brings trend-setting future automotive technology" to Germany.
Tesla will live up the competition in Germany and accelerates the transformation of our established industry significantly," he said.
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Um, no. That’s some horrible landbarge thing.
If you cannot understand the pathological flaws of someone claiming to be a cultural and industrial visionary who parades themselves on a public podcast while using a mind altering drug and who claims his fervent wish is to take a one way trip to a barren distant planet, then you ought not to post anything
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Wow. You are one scary, self righteous monster.
I think I’d rather sign up as a guinea pig for novocaine free root canals done for a month rather than have to be around someone like you for 5 minutes.
‘H L Menken’. Get it right if you want to defend a point for gosh sakes.
I think he was talking about the springs in front of the wheel. Called them ‘curb feelers’.
I’m aware of what those are, yes. They don’t seem to help; back when they were more commonly seen, the cars they were attached to often had horrible and increasing sidewall and wheel damage anyway. It got to the point where if we saw a vehicle with curb feelers we knew the driver sucked at parking and probably at driving. :P
I had a 1st gen. Golf made in that plant.
I had a 64 Dart and a 68 Cadillac Sixty Special and have driven many of the vehicles you mention. In fact, the last of the land yachts is parked out front, a 94 Cadillac Fleetwood that belongs to a friend. All of them could have seasickness induced through driving in modern Dallas traffic; note that the marketplace has basically agreed with this. We retrofitted the Caddy with better shocks, springs, bushings and tires to moderate the boat action.
Also, Jaguar produced superior ride and handling by using stiff sidewall tires and letting the suspension deal with it long before the current era - without nausea, so it not only could be done but was.
Elon is one of those visionaries that society needs every generation. A bit eccentric—self centered ass at times—but that is what geniuses are...
There was a movement in Silicon Valley and it might still be happening—of micro dosing onself of LSD to unlock the creative parts of the brain that sometimes get, well—locked away— fascinating topic.
We know that shamans and other seers used a Soma, or other mind altering substance to transcend this plane to the next. There is also the theory that we are descended from proto humans or apes that may have accidently eaten magic mushrooms. (and later not accidently)
This current level of humans(later western civ) for the most part eschews mind expansion through substances...much to our detriment I think.
Which isn't saying much. The average worker in North Dakota makes more than the average German.
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