Something to watch: Tesla's Battery Day on September 15

At Tesla's Battery Day on September 15, Company Could Announce Battery Breakthrough:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news...?ocid=msedgdhp

"Essentially, it will be a way to show those who have a large amount of cash wrapped up in Tesla that the company is putting that capital to good use. Tesla is likely to use the platform to show how its battery technology has evolved and where it stands tech-wise against its growing list of competitors in the EV space."

I am pleased to see this as I attended High School while living in Fremont California. I particularly liked the weather, which allowed me to ride my motorcycle all year long.

And, I think the advances in battery technology are a great advancement in power storage and usage.

Hunter

Here’s hoping Musk’s company has put that enormous stock equity to its maximum use toward improving batteries with more electric charge density, faster charging, cheaper, cleaner, lighter and safer. Tall order, but who better to run down the solutions? A “million mile battery” would be terrific especially because the car’s electric motors should last that long easily, where the competing gasoline engines will not. The batteries have been the weak spot in EV’s from day one.

It seems Tesla's quality control could use improvement...They were at the bottom with JD Power, while Dodge is at the top...:bigboy:...Ben

Tesla does not seem to have a happy workforce. That may have something to do with sloppy fit and finish.

"A component-level approach might be one way Tesla could improve its standings in the next IQS. Tesla did not meet J.D. Power's study criteria, so it wasn't technically ranked, but people had issues with their Tesla vehicles."

Tesla is struggling with finding techs still I guess? Your favorite mechanic cant fix them.

We have Teslas here, but I don't know of anywhere you could get your "check turbine light" turned off.

Tesla's are very popular around here. I have no clue where you would get one repaired but will ask my buddy who just took delivery of his. They do have a huge facility in the Scottsdale Air Park so I assume that would be the place.

We don't quite have the infrastructure around here yet. I recently heard a presentation about charging stations, and it's a whole deal. The electric car people have to plan their 4 corners adventures around the charging stations. We have a couple, but they are slow I guess. They will really start showing up when the hotels get one or two so you can charge overnight.

The quick charging stations are expensive and the grid has to support them, so sometimes where you can put them is limited. There are grants available however, but they might not get all the way there. The local governments recognize the need, and there is sort of a "race" to win over the elecric people by Moab, Cortez, Durango, T-ride, and Farmington/Gallup. The black hole is the Rez. Need something in Tuba or Kayenta.

And that is the entirety of what I know about electric car charging.:doh: