Tesla announced another recall for its Cybertruck, its fourth since its release in late last year, but within the recall notice is an interesting nugget on how many Cybertrucks are actually out in the wild.
The NHTSA recall notice contains a line saying how many Tesla Cybertrucks were affected by the recall. And we know that its "all of them", therefore the number listed is exactly the count of total Tesla Cybertrucks ever sold.
> Digging through the numbers also reveals estimated monthly delivery figures. Tesla began low-volume production of the Cybertruck at Giga Austin in late November of last year, and a prior recall notice from Tesla revealed that it delivered 1,163 vehicles in December. That leaves 10,525 vehicles or thereabouts produced by Tesla in 2024, giving Tesla an average monthly delivery rate of 1,754 Cybertrucks, with five days left in June.
A complete recall over all Cybertrucks has been filed at the NHTSA.
> On affected vehicles, the front windshield wiper motor controller may stop functioning due to electrical overstress to the gate driver component.
https://electrek.co/2022/11/13/tesla-china-responds-to-dramatic-crash-that-kills-two-video/
This isn't the only SUA incident I'm aware of for Tesla.
The issue is that these events keep happening. Tesla Cybertruck is particularly advertised to be steer by wire and other bits that could be contributing factors.
A Tesla rep allegedly told the owner, "the accelerator may or may not disengage when the brake is depressed."
Another unintended acceleration issue. Fortunately, no one was injured but the Cybertruck still crashed into a house.
This happened in a rich-enough area that it was filmed by someone's doorbell camera. There's apparently 50-foot long line of skidmarks.
U.S. district judge clears owners to proceed with lawsuit, which claims automaker is violating anti-trust laws with policies
Ioniq 5 is too good anyway.
I'm more of a PHEV guy. So Prius Prime for me.
I've been trying to figure out what kind of personal computing device would fit in these power envelope.
I dunno if this is what I want, but I like the idea anyway. ESP32 is like 500mW class or so (very rough estimate because I don't care to look it up right now lol). So you can get more than 24-hours of processing with 4x AA cells or 18650 Li-ion.
I feel like there's something 'under' the classic smartphone that might still be useful as a personal gadget. But alas, smartphones are an always in your pocket device today. Bluetooth keyboard + Phone would be a more practical note taking application.
Maybe this same thing, but instead as a minimalistic SSH shell for computer IT tasks? I like the design of this things keyboard at least.
No no. I mean yes. But no. You've commented on the wrong story.
https://www.axios.com/2024/06/19/elon-musk-advertising-cannes
That's certainly happening more directly in this walkback / apology tour where Elon is asking for advertising money now on Twitter.
Elon said something to that effect. But its all bullshit like everything else Elon says.
Still, its crazy that Elon said that, and that none of his supporters caught how dumb of an idea it was.
Shareholders would hate that!
Shareholders hated that so much they just voted to give Elon Musk $50 Billion in shares.
It seems the EV transition is going just fine — it's only the market leader that's imploding
True but what the poster said is important: polls do not work well in close races because they don’t sample correctly.
That's not my point. My point is that the poll movements are almost always correct, because pollsters are at least consistent with how biased they are / errors in sampling.
Fox News had Trump leading Biden a few weeks ago. Today, Biden is ahead of Trump. We don't know where the "truth" lies, but we can 100% conclude that the typical American has lost a bit of favor on Trump in the past few weeks.
Alas, the most problematic part of the energy curve is the "Duck Curve", of which only natural gas has been identified as a solution so far.
The setting of the sun does not coincide with higher winds. The elevated winds are deep at night when everyone's asleep but the grid is actually 1/2 power usage IIRC compared to daytime usage. Not really the 7pm period where solar grossly diminishes (sun is low enough that solar barely contributes anymore), but the day is hot enough that Air Conditioners run, and everyone is home doing laundry or other energy-costly tasks since they're still awake.
But my net negative power usage from the grid means that I’m using less energy than I feed in when it isn’t shinning out.
Grid scale batteries do not exist yet, outside of pumped hydro. And honestly, they might never exist (Sodium Batteries in 2 or 3 years are our best bet at grid-scale energy, but maybe that's not good enough. We dont know because they don't exist yet).
So, it. Balances out
No. If there's no grid energy storage mechanism, then the power is wasted during the day, and the natural gas spins up at night.
Apologies if you're not aware that the grid isn't a magical energy storage device. But... it isn't. The tech for energy storage does not feasibly exist yet on any large scale.
Wind is an option but only in windy areas and windy times
So, it. Balances out. (And in the near future I’ll get a residential battery for night. Those are freaking expensive, though.)
I wouldn't bother. When battery storage tech becomes feasible, the utility companies will buy it for the whole grid. Residential batteries are just for those who are tricking themselves into thinking these things are feasible.
The #1 "battery" is pumped Hydro right now. No joke. Running water up a hill with excess electricity absolutely works as an energy storage mechanism. The best battery techs will be exceptionally large systems (Pumped Hydro. Compressed Air, etc. etc.) that take advantage of these effects.
Even "Wind" energy is actually an energy storage solution due to the massive momentum the wind turbine arms have. So unlike Solar, a lot of Wind plants self-regulate and self-store their energy.
Polls are dogshit.
But poll movements are worth tracking as long as the dogshit quality remains consistent.
Because I have solar pannels on my rooftop and my annual energy usage is net negative.
That's not how that works. Natural Gas plants turn on at night to supply your electricity usage at night.
No solar panel is working at night.
Shill harder.
No you? You're trying to pretend that solar power somehow is supplying energy to your nighttime car charges. Do you even know what the sun is or how solar panels work?
Unless you live near a pumped-hydro station, you aren't getting green energy at night. Your best bet is nuclear, but for some reason a bunch of asshole environmentalists have hampered our nuclear rollout leading to this unpleasant situation where we have to rely upon natural gas more.
Have you seen the electric Dodge Charger commercials?
Anti-EV language wrapped up in an EV Commercial. Its hilarious. You need to speak anti-EV language to reach this audience.
Where I draw the line is environmentalist jackasses who are out there hating on the Prius (ACEEE's greenest car of 2024), which would extend the climate crisis.
You guys are fucking up the #1 car in today's market for fixing climate issues. Because environmentalism isn't actually about what's best for the environment, its its own insane cult that doesn't actually calculate out the full issues associated with EVs.
Hint: EVs that charge overnight do not use solar power for charging. Think about that for a sec. Its all Nat. Gas in practice. Rerun the calculations and you'll find that Prius burns fewer fossil fuels than most EVs for the typical American.
So stop fucking around with useful cars (like the Prius) and turn your attention to dumbass vehicles like the Hummer EV (which is so big and heavy that it burns more fossil fuels than a damn Corolla or Civic). EVs aren't the answer, they've already been corrupted by the corporations to have insane designs. You need to calculate every car on a car-by-car basis before making large scale environmental policies.
And if you have dumbass policies (like "Advanced Clean Cars II") purposefully leave out highly environentally-friendly vehicles like the Prius, well... guess what? You're part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Net Loss: (327,599.7) (Thousands).
That's $327.5 Million lost last quarter. Holy shit.
Interest rates are 5.25% right now. If they just put that money in a money-market fund, they'd be getting ~$25 million/year in profits alone.
Just $4 Million in profits is hilariously bad. It means the company is doing worse than a pile of cash.
Didn't they at least raise $500 million or something?
It's not a totally worthless company. Honestly, the point we should celebrate is when it drops below the value of the $$$$ that was pumped into the stock. The IPO and SPAC rised nearly $500Million so the company officially loses value at around $6/share or so.
End-to-end documentation of a journey from no PCB experience to fabricating my own Linux-ready system that can boot the latest mainline kernel. This article is the recommended reading for someone building their first embedded Linux board. F1C100s SoC is used for this sample board.
This blogger booted an F1C100s from scratch, even though they made a mistake buying 16MBit instead of 16MByte of Flash. (Requiring to be booted off of USB-bootloader / Allwinner's FEL Protocol instead of Flash).
So a few mistakes were made, but its still a custom booting Linux + blogpost that explains the steps.
Where have all the Teslas gone? Stored in parking lots, every one....
A nice analysis of various satellite images that estimates how many cars Tesla has in inventory.
Investors and Musk’s supporters, including X CEO Linda Yaccarino, applauded the results. The tally will be finalized at a shareholder meeting later Thursday.
> SAN FRANCISCO — Tesla shareholders re-approved Elon Musk’s controversial 2018 pay package by a wide margin, Musk posted on X Wednesday night, appearing to resolve an uncertainty that has loomed over his future with the company.
> A Delaware judge invalidated the package, worth as much as $56 billion earlier this year, arguing that the process that led to the deal had been unfair. As part of the deal, Musk was granted stock options as Tesla hit certain valuation milestones, accumulating massive amounts of shares that led to a record pay deal and played a hand in making Musk the richest person in the world.
Hmm, looks like we're in the "lawsuits" stage of the game. I don't expect that Elon can keep his pay package, so its going to go back to the Delaware Judge IIRC.
The interesting legal maneuver here is with regards to the Texas move. If Shareholders approve the move to Texas, it'd become a Texas vs Delaware issue. But... there's legal precedent saying that such a move would require 66% of the vote instead of just 50%. I imagine that this alone (the threshold of "move") will itself be subject to debate, and likely end up in Delaware court again before they're allowed to move out. Or maybe not? Legal stuff can be quite sharp.
In any case, stay tuned for tonight as the official announcements come out. Things are going to be interesting!!
It got worse.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/elon-musk-vs-organic-farmers-bastrop/
As it turns out, Elon Musk had a bunch of farms + horses from all the land he bought in the 2022-era. Elon Musk was actively trying to get rid of horses on his new property.
Its not that Elon Musk was going to "buy her a horse". He had tons of spare horses and was looking to dump them onto someone else.
Create a portable, solar-powered UV monitor with AVR DB. - microchip-pic-avr-examples/avr32db32-uv-monitor-mplab
What really interests me about this design is the buck Boost-converter
So this buck boost-converter is 100% core-independent. The Analog Comparator, TimerD, CCL, and Event-System are all active while the AVR DB sleeps, meaning that the microcontroller can run this simple buck boost-converter without any cost to CPU time.
An incredible design that demonstrates the flexibility of AVR DB's combined peripherals.
The Nintendo Switch has now sunset its X integration.
Richard Cory
A surprising poem on a dark subject matter. Perhaps one of the best poems that demonstrate how mysterious other people are and how hard it is to truly connect with strangers.
Introduction to implementing USB devices. Minimal overview of hardware and software with an example with STM32 microcontroller. Also contains an index to very detailed guides for more information.
Hacker News discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40560300
Sanctions are ongoing
Venezuela is literally nationalizing US investments, effectively stealing from the USA. Sanctions that punish them for taking our resources is fair. Yeah, Venezuela's Maduro regime wants to piss off the local Superpower. Lets see how that plays out. We don't have to trade with them. Sanctions aren't meddling, its just "we're gonna stop trading with you". If you don't like that, then don't piss us off. If you want to have US trade again, then try to make amends. But Hugo Chavez and Maduro have been actively trying to piss off the USA for the last 3 decades, because they're fucking brilliant at foreign policy, amirite?
Operation Gideon
Silvercorp isn't the CIA. If it were the CIA, you'd know it. USA has god damn supercarriers by the way, we wouldn't need to use paramilitary action to fuck over Venezuela if we really wanted to.
Do you see Ukraine? Afghanistan? Iraq? Syria? Libya? That's what USA-based meddling is. You'd know when we meddle, I promise. All the meddling that Hispanics complain about are largely conspiracy theories. And you know what? I don't really blame them per se, their world is collapsing and they need someone to lash out against. And USA is the biggest target for that.
Whatever. Keep the assholes out, but welcome the migrants who are happy enough to call USA their home.
You're gonna have to explain to me why Argentina needs this conspiracy-based "secret meddling" but isn't important enough for the "real meddling" that we do.
Or maybe, to understand Venezuela, you should look up the history of Venezuela.
That's all I'm trying to say. Venezuela is the #1 determining factor of what happens in Venezuela. This is absolutely outside of the USA's control, no matter how much random nationalists from South America complain.
If we really wanted to mess with a country with collapsing infrastructure, large-scale emigration, and a massive oil reserve like Venezuela... we probably could do so and also do so at a good profit. But honestly? We don't. Our attention and resources are diverted elsewhere (like... at the massive migration wave hitting our border). I'd probably support more interventions because its the only way the migrant waves will stop.
Fortunately, Mexico is on our side on this issue. USA + Mexico can work together to build a more controlled border at Mexico's southern border to better control migrants / filter them out. I'm not against accepting more migrants btw, but the shear number of them arriving is far beyond the resources we've allocated to the border and Congress isn't allowing us to allocate more judges. Mexico is also getting pissed at these migrant waves coming through their country.
Electic vehicle maker Tesla will stop production at its German plant in Gruenheide for five days in June to improve processes in the factory outside Berlin, a spokesperson said on Tuesday. Confirming a report by business daily Handelsblatt, the spokesperson said Tesla would pause production in the ...
Emails circulated inside Nvidia show that Elon Musk was telling the chipmaker to prioritize shipments of GPUs to X and xAI ahead of Tesla.
A random article talking about I2C on the NuttX RTOS.
I haven't heard of NuttX before, but the supported platforms (https://nuttx.apache.org/docs/latest/platforms/index.html) is quite impressive, including several chips I'm interested in. There's a number of 8-bit processors (albeit larger ones) on the list, though I'd assume this NuttX OS is best served on a microprocessor??
Elon Musk's Twitter Purchase, not the $44 Billion part, the 5%+ part in March 2022 (when Elon crossed the 5% legal threshold wherein he was required to report becoming a large stakeholder publicly).
It sounds like Elon failed to report crossing over this threshold in a timely manner, so this large Twitter-shareholder (Oklahoma Firefighters Pension and Retirement System) is suing Elon Musk. Or so they allege.
(Bloomberg) -- Calpers, the largest state public pension fund in the US, tentatively plans to vote against a proposed $56 billion pay package for Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, a sign of opposition from a major investor.Most Read from BloombergWall Street Returns to T+1 Stock Trading ...
> Calpers owns roughly 9.5 million Tesla shares, making it among the electric vehicle maker’s 30 largest investors, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
This is the big letter from Pension-funds about the upcoming Tesla vote on Elon Musk's pay package, board of directors, and the move to Texas (away from Delaware) as corporate headquarters.
Some shareholders, such as the ones who wrote this letter, are very strongly against the $50 Billion (or so) of TSLA shares going to Elon Musk. And the arguments seem valid, based on this letter.
TL;DR: Porsche 911 wins everything, even the 1/8th mile... even the slowest Porsche 911 they could find.
> That starts by racing against a 2023 Porsche 911 Carrera T with a seven-speed manual transmission. This is the slowest new 911 you can buy today, but it’s hardly a dog. In prior MotorTrend tests, we’ve run the 379-hp stick-shift Carrera T to 60 mph in 3.9 seconds and through the quarter mile in 12.2 seconds at 116.4 mph. Per our usual test procedures, we raced the 911 with a full tank of gas.
Elon lied.
Tesla has now disclosed that it is spending money to promote its shareholders vote to approve of Elon Musk’s $55...
