Tesla ticked off alot of future interns this past week. They emailed a vast majority if not all and told them they cancelled the internship due to issues. Many college students have already signed on for housing, declined other opportunities and were supposed to start in two weeks. Now it's sorry. Good luck getting people actually wanting to apply for an internship with you in the future. It seems like it's just one thing after the other. There appears to be no leadership or direction any longer. You also have to wonder about that state in Mexico where Tesla promised to build its new factory. I'm sure alot of people were counting on those jobs, and are irritated that Tesla backed out.
The real hero in EV breakthrough is VW! The dieselgate came just in time.
Hey VW's diesel manual wagons were cool.
They were. But they screwed it up for everyone. When dieselgate happened, everyone jumped on EV and European governments started to push it hard as diesel replacement.
The cheating VW diesels were probably cleaner than an EV if you actually do the calculations fairly?
Also must keep in mind. The company sales are down 20%, prices and profit margins are slashed so cutting 10% of the workforce certainly makes sense.
Possibly. But there is more to it. VW really, really tried to screw CARB. CARB was more than willing to work with them, and they kept lying, etc. Then CARB started to play nasty, and here we are, $42bln later.
The cheat was discovered by researchers at West Virginia University. After reported EPA and CARB did their own testing. Once they were caught, they were caught? I never heard CARB trying to work with them at that point, and why would they. What am I missing?
Graduate students discovered cheating. CARB become interested when students presented findings at the conference in San Diego. They gave students lab to do additional work. Once they were sure, then EPA got involved. However, CARB offered VW to fix problem and VW claimed it did, just for CARB to find that they wanted to screw them over. Then they asked them to clarify new discrepancies and they were lying like for 6 months until they summoned VW engineers to CA. That is when one engineer spilled the beans.
Once the West Virginia researchers had published their results, the cat was out of the bag. For VW to "work with CARB" to fix the problem at that point they would have first needed to admit to cheating. Once the software cheat was discovered, there was no way out for VW. Even if CARB was going to let them off the hook (they couldn't by California law if they wanted to) the EPA would still have been after them.
I mean, it is not like this is some secret information. It is all out there.
It's not that the interns don't want to work for him. Tesla cancelled their internships TWO weeks before students were set to begin working with them. Tesla hosed ALOT of people who could have been great future employees but decided last minute nope sorry putting them in a bind. If a company did that to you I'm fairly sure you wouldn't be patting them on the back. The Government isn't out to get Elon. He's promised that "Tesla is so close to fully autonomous vehicles" every year for the last 10 years there's only "A few small hurdles." This is all while Tesla engineers have repeatedly told him they aren't close to level 5. Mercedes is already level 3 certified in Las Vegas, LA, and San Francisco from my reading. Ohnand GM has already stated that they'll be cash positive on ev's by May or June 2024. This was last year.
Not really what its about.
Elon is probably the person who figures it out and willing to bet on it. The only way to hide a $20k battery is in a luxury car.
