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BYD Stands Strong In Response To LA Times Criticism — #Pravduh #RealityCheck

7 years ago Kyle Field 0 Comments

A recent LA Times article tore into new energy company BYD’s deployed battery electric buses, continuing a trend of screaming about the house being on fire when it’s really just dad out back lighting the barbecue. Looking back in time, the same unfortunate trend of sensationalizing early problems with new technologies can be seen in its coverage of the early issues with 120 CNG buses that LA MTA had to pull when CNG bus technology was going through the growing pains of a new technology.

NYTimes Coverage Of Elon Musk Twitter Outburst Regurgitates What Pissed Him Off In The First…

7 years ago Zachary Shahan 0 Comments

I just published a long piece on why I think Tesla CEO Elon Musk was so wrong in his reactionary, broad-brushed response to certain media coverage. But as a great reminder of what has been raising his blood pressure for months or years, the NYTimes coverage regurgitated the narratives that have pushed Elon over the edge — without putting them in proper context. Ugh. Do you have to do such a poor job responding to his criticisms when we need to convince Sir Elon to keep away from generic media bashing?

Tesla Airlifts Robots To Save Money, Jumping Last Hurdle To 6,000 Model 3’s A Week…

7 years ago Maarten Vinkhuyzen 0 Comments

Elon Musk confirmed on Twitter last night that 6 planeloads of equipment that Tesla just flew from Germany to California are indeed robots from Grohmann. Don’t envision Westworld-like robots occupying all the seats in a jumbo jet, enjoying the latest movie. These are automated assembly systems for the Gigafactory to solve the last problems with battery module assembly. For over half a year, it is known that the biggest hurdle to ramping the Model 3 production is unexpected limitations of the battery assembly line.