TESLA and Elon Musk - anything not elsewhere

[raison de arizona]

What’s important about this is understanding that he was an idiot long before he bought Twitter.

Based on current trends, probably close to zero new cases in US too by end of April
5:38pm 3/19/20

[Phoenix520]

Does anyone else watch Aravosis’ 3pm Ukraine ( and other news) updates on TikTok, YouTube, or twitch? He is quite plugged in, it seems. He has a group of soldiers he is in contact with. He crowdsources funds for them and their comrades and they keep him updated in return.

[Slim Cognito]

No but I will start. Sounds like a good cause. Thx.

[pipistrelle]

Musk has been tweeting about some anti-trans propaganda film(?) and saying every parent should see it, which made me remember he has a passel of kids. Given how much time he spends trying to be a Bond villain just on Twitter, I can't believe he's a good father himself. Yeah, this is from People, but I'm guessing it's factual. Probably discussed before, but lines like "It's full-on communism" explain a lot. Nothing is his fault (or could it be it's not a matter of fault? Someone smart might have figured that out.). Win some/lose some. Etc. What a crappy attitude.
Everything to Know About Elon Musk's Family (He's a Dad of 10) Elon Musk is the father of 10 children, including a pair of twins and a set of triplets with his ex-wife Justine Wilson and a boy and girl with ex-girlfriend Grimes

One of Musk's now 18-year-old twins has filed to legally change her name and gender and said she no longer wishes to be related to her father, according to court documents obtained by PEOPLE.

The April 18 petition seeks the legal change of her name to Vivian Jenna Wilson (the maiden name of her mother, Justine Wilson); recognition of her gender as female; and the issuance of a new birth certificate to reflect the changes.

"Gender Identity and the fact that I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form," Vivian wrote in the petition explaining her request for the changes.

In an October 2022 interview with Financial Times, Musk said he believes Vivian doesn't want to be associated with him because of the supposed takeover of elite schools and universities by neo-Marxists. "It's full-on communism . . . and a general sentiment that if you're rich, you're evil," said the Tesla CEO. "It [the relationship] may change, but I have very good relationships with all the others [children]. Can't win them all."

[Suranis]

Tesla gives new owners in the UK a grabbing stick after forcing them to get left-hand-drive

The article is here

https://electrek.co/2023/06/30/tesla-gi ... and-drive/

Tesla has started to deliver new Model S and Model X vehicles in the UK with a grabbing stick after they forced buyers to get left-hand-drive vehicles.

Last month, we were surprised to see Tesla announce that they stopped producing new Model S and Model X vehicles in right-hand-drive configurations. (https://electrek.co/2023/05/12/tesla-mo ... rive-over/)

The automaker decided to stop selling Model S and Model X vehicles altogether in some smaller left-hand-drive markets, like Australia, Singapore, and Thailand, and started offering right-hand-drive vehicles in bigger markets, like in the UK.

This upset many buyers who saw their orders canceled. Some of them had been waiting for years since the Model S and Model X refresh was announced to get the new vehicles. They had been waiting to get the latest Plaid top-performance Tesla vehicles.

Now Tesla buyers in the UK who decided to go through with their purchases despite the change to left-hand-drive found that it comes with a gift called “The Reacher”:

[neonzx]

So in exchange for forcing new Telsa owners to drive on the wrong side of the car, they get "grab sticks" to reach across the car through the other window and collect their fast-food take-away bags at drive-throughs? Is that the purpose?

Elmo strikes again!

[Dave from down under]

Like that will help when at the parking station you need to get the ticket from the boom gate machine or put it in.

[RTH10260]

https://twitter.com/ElectrekCo/status/1 ... 8100026371

Tesla gives new owners in the UK a grabbing stick after forcing them to get left-hand-drive

The article is here

https://electrek.co/2023/06/30/tesla-gi ... and-drive/

I am surprised that Tesla even got the approval of road worthyness for cars with left hand steering.

[Dave from down under]

For the UK - being that there is still a lot of EU cars and especially trucks entering the country it isn’t unusual.

For Australia it used to be (and may still be) required to have a sign on the back
“Warning! Left hand drive vehicle.”

[Gregg]

Drive through ATMs or other places where you have to enter data on a keypad?

"And we shall name it the "Model Blue Checkmark".

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[Suranis]

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Art Of Coop (@ARTofCOOP)
The fit & finish on the cybertruck is… what’s the opposite of chefs kiss

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I put them in a spoiler as the photo sizes are large, and I thought the workmen on the forum would like to get a good look at the panels. To me, they look like they would crumple at the tap of a hammer. And they don't fit together very well.

Also if you look at it on twitter, those pictures are hidden as "potentially sensitive content" and you have to click "show" to see them. Chef's kiss

[keith]

Looks to me like, at best, a preproduction 'representational' rolling example 'proof of concept' kind of thing that has been thru the wars of lugging it around from place to place for dog and pony shows.

ETA: Oh yeah the opposite of a "chef's kiss" might be something like this:

[neonzx]

Wow. What a hunk of junk!

[somerset]

Looks to me like, at best, a preproduction 'representational' rolling example 'proof of concept' kind of thing that has been thru the wars of lugging it around from place to place for dog and pony shows.

Exactly

[RTH10260]

[neonzx]

Musk, Tesla board to return $735M after being sued for overpaying themselves
Shareholder lawsuit said Tesla board pay "grossly exceeds" corporate norms.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/202 ... hemselves/

Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, and other current and former Tesla board members agreed to return over $735 million to settle a shareholder lawsuit that alleged Tesla directors "grossly" overpaid themselves. The Tesla directors, who also include Musk's brother Kimbal Musk, further agreed to forego stock options and other compensation for board service in 2021, 2022, and 2023.

"Musk has installed his family and friends on the Company's Board and through them he dominates and exercises control over Tesla and is able to avoid independent oversight of the way he runs the Company," the 2020 lawsuit alleged. "In return, with Musk's blessing and vote as a director, the Director Defendants have consistently paid themselves unfair and lavish compensation" that "grossly exceeds norms for corporate board compensation."

The settlement filed Friday in Delaware Court of Chancery provides for $458,649,785 in returned options and $276,616,720 in "returned cash and/or returned stock." The money will be returned to Tesla.

The settlement, which is pending court approval, also requires future director compensation packages to be voted on by shareholders. The settlement terms would be in force for five years after they take effect.

The Police and Fire Retirement System of the City of Detroit, a Tesla shareholder, filed the suit as a derivative complaint on behalf of Tesla. The contested stock options were worth $437 million when the complaint was filed in June 2020, but Tesla's stock price has more than quadrupled since then.

[raison de arizona]

"Tesla's used car prices over the past year are down 35%. $F[ord]'s are down 1%. $GM's are up 1%," says @GLJ_Research CEO @GordonJohnson19. "[ $TSLA] is a company that benefitted from a temporary shortage of parts that is now correcting."

[raison de arizona]

Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints
About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” projections of how far owners can drive before needing to recharge, a source told Reuters. The automaker last year became so inundated with driving-range complaints that it created a special team to cancel owners’ service appointments.

In March, Alexandre Ponsin set out on a family road trip from Colorado to California in his newly purchased Tesla, a used 2021 Model 3. He expected to get something close to the electric sport sedan’s advertised driving range: 353 miles on a fully charged battery.

He soon realized he was sometimes getting less than half that much range, particularly in cold weather – such severe underperformance that he was convinced the car had a serious defect.

“We’re looking at the range, and you literally see the number decrease in front of your eyes,” he said of his dashboard range meter.

Ponsin contacted Tesla and booked a service appointment in California. He later received two text messages, telling him that “remote diagnostics” had determined his battery was fine, and then: “We would like to cancel your visit.”

What Ponsin didn’t know was that Tesla employees had been instructed to thwart any customers complaining about poor driving range from bringing their vehicles in for service. Last summer, the company quietly created a “Diversion Team” in Las Vegas to cancel as many range-related appointments as possible.

The Austin, Texas-based electric carmaker deployed the team because its service centers were inundated with appointments from owners who had expected better performance based on the company’s advertised estimates and the projections displayed by the in-dash range meters of the cars themselves, according to several people familiar with the matter.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/sp ... ies-range/

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[RTH10260]

‘The intent is to get us to shut up’: Why Elon Musk is taking on an anti-hate-speech group
The company formerly known as Twitter alleges that the Center for Countering Digital Hate drove away advertisers – but CCDH and legal experts say otherwise

Dan Milmo
08/08/2023

Censorship, or rather his stance against it, is a key reason why Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44bn last year. His social media company’s lawsuit against an anti-hate speech group refers to censorship, or variations on the word, eight times.

But for critics of his complaint against the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), it is Musk who is doing the censoring. “The intent is definitely to get the centre to shut up. That’s the whole point of this suit, to prevent the centre from exercising any speech that Musk doesn’t like,” says Prof Brian Quinn from Boston College law school.

In the civil complaint brought against CCDH by X Corp, the parent of Twitter (which has in turn been rebranded as “X”), Musk’s business accuses the US-UK campaign group of “advocating for internet censorship” by seeking to “prevent public dialogue and the public’s access to free expression in favor of an ideological echo chamber that conforms to CCDH’s favored viewpoints.”

The CCDH, however, would argue that it flags examples of misinformation, hate speech and other types of harmful content that appear on various social media platforms. Ian Russell, the father of Molly Russell, and chair of the Molly Rose Foundation, was among the internet safety campaigners who criticised the lawsuit, describing it as “an unprecedented attack on civil society”. The lawsuit isn’t technically about CCDH’s political agenda, either. As Quinn says, those tilts at CCDH are just “filler”.

CCDH is a thorn in the side for a lot of social media companies, including Meta and TikTok, who have criticised the methodologies and conclusions in CCDH reports. But neither have responded with lawsuits.

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[tek]

Elno is tired of paying his bills.

Tesla says it will build new ‘1st of its kind’ data centers
Tesla has shared a new job posting for a “Sr. Engineering Program Manager, Data Center” role first spotted by Electrek last week.

In the job posting, Tesla says that it will build “1st of its kind Data Centers”:

“This role will lead the end-to-end design and engineering of Tesla’s 1st of its kind Data Centers and will be one of the key members of the factory engineering team.”

Tesla didn’t explain how those data centers will be “1st of their kind”, which is not something you’d expect in a job posting anyway.

When Elon Musk took over Twitter, the company stopped paying a lot of its bills, including some data centers’ bills.

At the end of last year, Twitter stopped using data centers in Sacramento. When discussing the issues regarding Twitter’s data center, Musk said that Sacramento is “possibly the worst place to have a data center” for Twitter Spaces. He especially complained about the heat.

And yet, just a few months ago, The Information reported that Tesla has taken over one of the old Twitter data centers leased from NTT Data that the social media company was using in Sacramento.

https://electrek.co/2023/08/14/tesla-bu ... a-centers/

[raison de arizona]

“The film would have been 4 hours longer due to charging stops ”

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[shannon]

Musk has been tweeting about some anti-trans propaganda film(?) and saying every parent should see it, which made me remember he has a passel of kids. Given how much time he spends trying to be a Bond villain just on Twitter, I can't believe he's a good father himself. Yeah, this is from People, but I'm guessing it's factual. Probably discussed before, but lines like "It's full-on communism" explain a lot. Nothing is his fault (or could it be it's not a matter of fault? Someone smart might have figured that out.). Win some/lose some. Etc. What a crappy attitude.

That would be the Matt Walsh propaganda piece that they lied and creatively edited the content on.

Three Who Were in Matt Walsh's Anti-Trans Film Say They Were Deceived

As for the elongated muskrat's transphobia, there are contributing factors. Having one's kid transition and disown you, not to mention your girlfriend leaving for your a transgender person can certainly mess with his unstable head. But there's another reason - fertility.

See, both Musk and his daddy are firm believers in getting the "right" people to have as many children as possible. (and by "right", it looks like they pretty much mean "white", not an unusual reaction in South Africans who miss apartheid and feel they need to try and outbreed the "inferior" races). While many transgender people do have families and children, Musk sees it as someone who should be popping out babies deciding not to.

And yeah, he's touted claims related to the "great replacement" belief that white nationalists are spewing.

So Musk seems to believe that anyone who is transgender (and preferably white), isn't doing their duty to pass on their genes, causing those they deem inferior to outbreed the "right" people. And so he spews his nonsense accordingly.

[shannon]

And for anyone who bought Mr. Musk's Crappy Ride, make sure you have a screwdriver in the event of a fire.

Tesla Changed the Model Y's Emergency Door Release Again, Tough Luck if You Need To Use It

"In the case of the Tesla Model Y, Tesla fitted an emergency release system tucked inside the rear door pocket. Initially, the system was hidden behind a plastic tab flush with the pocket, making it impossible to remove with bare hands. Last October, Tesla acknowledged that and replaced that with a "hatch" that is easy to grab and remove with your fingers. The change was implemented for cars produced in Fremont and at Giga Shanghai, and everyone hoped it would also be on Model Ys made in Europe at Giga Berlin.

Well, after a video of the emergency door system in the Model Y was shared on social media, drama unfolded in Europe. The made-in-Germany Tesla Model Y owners could not find the emergency release as shown in the video and the car's manual. They shared pictures showing the door pocket liner without the access hatch to the emergency release system. To be sure, the Tesla Model Y owner's manual warns that "not all Model Y vehicles are equipped with a manual release for the rear doors."

After fiddling around the area, a German Model Y owner discovered that the manual release system for the rear doors still exists, but Tesla integrated the access opening in the pocket's liner. In some cases, this is visible, but in others, it's impossible to notice the access opening. The worst part is that access is impossible without using a flat screwdriver or something similar. In an accident or fire, this can make opening the door from the inside impossible."