Musk on suicide watch

in french, "étron" means shit.
Musk is ourguy
Audis are overpriced

You don't know anything about cars do you? Older jap cars are best though yes.

350 kW infrastructure is due to start getting deployed next year and the deployment alongside major highways will probably go a fair bit faster than 150 kW (more interest)

At a 250 mile range, the battery is likely a 60 kWh battery. That means a 10 minute charge.

While I understand why you would find a 25 minute charge a bother (as you have with current chargers), at 10 minutes it's starting to not be a meaningful difference (since if you've used up the whole battery, you're on a longer trip, and as such 10 minutes of charging out of 3 hours of travel in between charging should not be a large problem.

That's disregarding the time savings from not having to visit a gas station when just using the car to commute (point charging and home charging eliminate any need for that).

Why is it so hard to engineer the battery in a way that it could be just changed to another one in 45 seconds. Like what are the hurdles? Tesla's Batteries are on the bottom of the car anyway. Why not build additional infrastructure at the Supercharge stations that automatically switch the battery, put in a charged one and load the low one to put it in the next car that comes. Like how difficult is it going to be building a standartisized battery that fits in a norm - that they are interchangeable?

Still has a massive grill. Fucking awwdy

They definitely had problems with their timing chains a while back, but besides that they are not worse/better then all the other more expensive car brands.
US cars(not trucks) on the other hand...

t. Audi owner(with working timing chain)

German engineering is shit in 2018, they are riding on the brand built in the xx century

The biggest concern I know of is actually not technical. Tesla has already experimented with battery changing, and they can actually do it pretty fast (though the new Model 3s are designed in a way in which it isn't really possible to do it anymore)

The actual problem is that batteries have to be kept in a good condition, and the incentive basically changes a bit much when you're replacing the battery. A customer who doesn't own his own battery is going to be reckless with it, or not as careful to keep it in top shape - that's going to degrade it faster - which in turn makes it more expensive. Heck, Renault does sell rented batteries, but they don't do changing because over a single battery cycle it's hard to tell how the customer has been treating it (and not only that, you'd be kinda pissed if one day you felt like driving fast in your Tesla and oops, your bill is 5 times larger - even if it's justified).

So it's not that the batteries aren't standardized or anything, they used to be. It's just that QA becomes too hard and you end up with a lot of expenses which you either have to offload onto the customer, which will only piss them off especially since the method for evaluating how they treated the battery is not quite reliable.

Oh, and it also implies even MORE battery packs that aren't going into cars, when there's a shortage of batteries. Guess what - that's going to increase the price further. On the other hand, charging stations are acquiring storage so they can get better offers from energy distributors, but that storage doesn't have to be built to the same standards.

Nice try, Grimes. Musk decided it was worth committing securities fraud and getting sued by the SEC just to make a retarded 420 joke. What the fuck did you do to him?

This is a based and well informed response. Thanks user.

T. QA Technician