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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 59.436.153 von faultcode am 14.12.18 00:08:06

nun auch BILD mit dem Wired-Artikel aus der "Production Hell"

https://www.bild.de/geld/wirtschaft/wirtschaft/ex-manager-pa…


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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 59.485.752 von faultcode am 21.12.18 00:00:48

2 Meldungen noch von ~heute

(a) ein weiterer Abgang:

Tesla loses former Gigafactory boss to start-up that makes designer molecules for food and drugs
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/21/tesla-gigafactory-vp-jens-pe…




=> und:
(b) wieviele Model 3-Mühlen versteckt Elon Musk nun in der Gigafactory 1 in Nevada??

=> siehe:
Tesla starts selling and delivering cars out of Gigafactory 1 – comes with a tour
https://electrek.co/2018/12/20/tesla-sale-delivery-gigafacto…

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As part of its end-of-the-quarter sale and delivery push, Tesla is starting to sell and deliver vehicles out of Gigafactory 1, its battery factory in Nevada.

Tesla is currently in the middle of an important goal to deliver a record number of vehicles in the US during the last week of the year before the EV federal credit starts to phase out for Tesla buyers.

They have been deploying new efforts to facilitate sales and deliveries, like introducing a new 5-minute buying and delivery program.

The automaker’s latest initiative involves selling and delivering cars from Gigafactory 1, which has previously only been a manufacturing and engineering facility...


=> ..hours are 9 a.m. -5 p.m., 7 days a week, excluding December 24 and 25

...und weiter:
...As we reported earlier this week, a source familiar with Tesla’s sales in the US told Electrek that the company was still about 81% to its delivery goal for the quarter in the US.

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Today, Tesla said that it “released all their fleet vehicles – like those used for test drives – and vehicles where the original customer can’t take delivery by the end of the year.”

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off-topic: Wirtschaftsprüfer und ihre Unabhängigkeit

da ja auch teilweise EY bei Tesla mitmischt:


Unit of Equifax’s auditor EY certified the information security that was later breached
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/unit-of-equifaxs-auditor-e…

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...Equifax Inc. used a consulting arm of its auditor to certify that its information-security risks were under control — a possible conflict for a company that missed the system vulnerability that gave hackers access to the personal information of 143 million consumers.

Equifax never disclosed that a subsidiary of its auditor, Ernst & Young, is the consulting firm that provided services that failed to detect the control weakness that led to the massive breach. What are called ISO certifications are relied upon by the auditor when assessing controls over information systems that support financial reporting.

Lynn Turner, the former chief accountant of the Securities and Exchange Commission, said it’s a gray area.

“It’s not clear if SEC auditor independence rules prohibit EY from issuing an attest opinion on a company’s information security controls, including an opinion that covered whether or not Equifax had proper controls in place to ensure necessary software changes (updates and patches) were properly authorized and done in a timely manner,” he said in an email. “That is something the auditor would need to test as part of their audit of internal controls. Provided EY had nothing to do with the design, implementation or operation of those IT controls, I think it would be OK.”

However, Turner cautioned, “The problem here seems to be that EY issued an Attest Opinion on the Equifax IT security controls that was apparently not supportable. That calls into question the quality and veracity of their work and that report. It also calls into question whether EY has support for any report issued on the adequacy of the internal controls of Equifax, issued in connection with their independent audit.”...

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nun kündigt auch noch die IR-Abteilung

20.12.
A Tesla director of investor relations just left the company
https://www.businessinsider.de/tesla-executive-departure-aar…

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Chew joined Tesla in 2016 after its acquisition of Solar City in 2016, where he reported to head of investor relations Martin Viecha. Chew was previously a sell-side equity research analyst on Wall Street with stints at Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan...

=> interessant

--> da hatte wohl jemand zu große seelische Qualen auf sich zukommen sehen in 2019Q1, dann erzählen zu müssen, daß das mit der nachhaltigen Profitabilität und positivem, operativen Cashflow in 2018Q4 doch nichts geworden ist


=> ich wette, daß nun auch (wieder) Interna rübefliessen zu Morgan Stanley und JPMorgan, und die dann intern ihre Modelle weiter anpassen, während sie dem Publikum noch ihre "Sell side"-Käse-Kursziele weiterhin vorgaukeln -- bis es wirklich nicht mehr anders geht

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 59.474.892 von faultcode am 19.12.18 23:10:06

=> heute schwächster Wert im NDX!

--> die maßgeblichen Shorties, die den anderen Shorties das Leben zuletzt so schwer gemacht haben, sind nun ganz offensichtlich fertig vor Weihnachten mit dem Rebalancing ihrer Long/Short-Portfolios - sprich Hedge Funds:

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Eines muß man der Tesla-Aktie heute wirklich zugute halten - sie hat sich mal sehr marktkonform verhalten:

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 59.471.046 von faultcode am 19.12.18 15:28:23

der L.A. Times-Bericht der Premierenfahrt (demo ride)

Elon Musk unveils his company's first tunnel in Hawthorne, and it's not a smooth ride
By Laura J. Nelson
Dec 18, 2018 | 9:15 PM
https://t.co/JBEy6e8NcZ

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Billionaire Elon Musk envisions a world where commuting in Los Angeles is as easy as pointing a self-driving car toward an elevator platform embedded in a city street, sinking into a tunnel and zipping seamlessly beneath the traffic at speeds of up to 150 mph.

So far, his company’s progress toward this goal has been a bumpier ride.

On Tuesday night, in a parking lot next to SpaceX, the Boring Co. unveiled its first tunnel — a 1.14-mile route that runs 20 to 40 feet beneath the streets of Hawthorne, through a neighborhood sandwiched between the 105 Freeway and Hawthorne Municipal Airport.

Musk had promised modified “but fully autonomous” vehicles at the unveiling, but the reality was more modest: a Tesla Model X that reached a top speed of 53 mph, manually driven by an employee who previously drove in the Indianapolis 500.


The trip through the tunnel took about two minutes, illuminated by the car’s headlights and a strip of blue neon lights tacked to the ceiling. The Model X rolled on two molded concrete shelves along the wall, which were so uneven in places that it felt like riding on a dirt road.

The car emerged from the tunnel on an elevator erected inside a round shaft lined with corrugated metal. The shaft, named O’Leary Station in memory of a longtime SpaceX employee who died, is at the site of a shuttered cabinetry store on Prairie Avenue.

“We kind of ran out of time,” Musk said, attributing the rough ride to problems with a paving machine. “The bumpiness will not be there down the road. It will be as smooth as glass. This is just a prototype. That’s why it's just a little rough around the edges.”


Building the 1.14-mile tunnel took about 18 months and cost about $10 million, Musk said. The figure does not include the costs of research, development or equipment, the company said, and it is not clear whether it includes the money spent on property acquisition or labor.

Still, the $10 million is orders of magnitude lower than a typical subway project, Musk said. Part of the Boring Co.’s goal, he said, is to create a tunneling process that will be 15 times faster than the “next best” option.


So far, the company has used the tunnel exclusively for research, searching for ways to make tunneling faster and cheaper. But Musk said he hoped the route would “ultimately be part of a much larger network in greater Los Angeles.”

A map the company published last year showed a network of stations, including stops at the Getty Center, Union Station and Los Angeles International Airport. Musk also has announced plans for a 3.6-mile tunnel between Dodger Stadium and a Metro Red Line station.


He said the tunnels would be restricted to autonomous, electric cars, but not just Teslas. There will also be vehicles circulating for people on foot or with bicycles.

If work goes well, Musk said, the company could have the whole system running by 2028, when Los Angeles hosts the Olympic Games.

“Ten years sounds like infinity,” he said. “I damn well hope we’d have that thing done.”

Musk said he has spent about $40 million of his own money on the fledgling Boring Co., which was started after he tweeted that traffic was driving him “nuts” and that he was going to “just start digging” to escape it.


The company previously said its planned urban transportation network, called the Loop, would whisk cars and pods through multiple levels of tunnels on autonomous, electric platforms called skates.

But Musk told reporters that Boring officials have abandoned the concept of the skate, saying it was “far more complex” than his new plan: guide wheels that can be attached to the front tires of autonomous, electric cars, steadying the vehicles as they move forward through tunnels.

The company modeled that idea on Tuesday, attaching horizontal wheels to the Model X’s front wheels.


Musk played a simulation showing the wheels folding neatly underneath the car’s undercarriage when not in use. Adding them during assembly or after-market would cost $200 to $300, he said, and would not interfere with the vehicle’s normal operation.

Musk said his first ride in the tunnel was bumpy but “epic.”


By 6 p.m., hundreds of chattering people had lined up to enter the invitation-only event. Many were Tesla owners, some wearing Tesla hats, T-shirts and fleece jackets.

“I’m intrigued,” said Kash Jayawardena, 36, of Venice Beach, who owns a Model S, as he stood in line. He came to the event with his friend Tito Vecchione, 39, who said he was looking forward to hearing more but was concerned that Musk's vision did not encourage people to get out of their cars.

Musk has said the company could build several layers of tunnels to accommodate as many people as necessary. And because the tunnels won’t run above ground, they won’t divide communities like a freeway project would, he said.

Inside, on the construction site near the tunnel’s entrance, the Boring Co. had hung long, black curtains to mask a boxy construction trailer, and laid down plush gray carpet to disguise the asphalt — kept tidy by cleaners who stepped in with vacuums after employees and journalists walked past.

They started digging in the SpaceX parking lot, Musk said, “so I could see it from my desk, so I could see if we were making progress or not.”

The first tunneling machine is called Godot, after the play by Samuel Beckett, “because we kept waiting for it,” Musk said. “It took a lot of time to get it active because we didn’t know how to work the thing.”

The company’s next machine, which Musk says will run more efficiently, will be named Line Storm, a reference to a Robert Frost poem.


=> das hier “It took a lot of time to get it active because we didn’t know how to work the thing.” ist eigentlich (mMn) die bedenklichste Aussage in diesem ganzen Zusammenhang



=> fooling around with funny money (from Scotland e.g.)

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 59.470.425 von faultcode am 19.12.18 14:23:20

das Marketing-Video von Boring Company selber..

..ist hier zu finden:
https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Boring-Company-Elon-…

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=> was man im Video natürlich nicht sieht:
• wie kommen die Stützräder an die Wagenvorderräder vor Beginn der Fahrt?
• wie kommen die Stützräder wieder weg nach Fahrtende?


=> wenn man genau hinsieht, kann man auch dort schon ein gewisses Rumpeln erkennen; das Video ist mMn sowieso nachbearbeitet und stellt nicht den Echtzeitbetrieb dar

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 59.470.425 von faultcode am 19.12.18 14:23:20

Resonanzen

Zitat von faultcode: => um es gleich zu sagen: dieses Billig-System Fahrzeug-Tunnelkontakt und damit -Kräfteübertragung wird so nie funktionieren!! Und schon gar nicht nachhaltig profitabel...

=> mal jemand vorher die Eigenfrequenzen dieses Systems durchleuchtet?!?

=> da kann Elon Musk so viel "glätten" lassen wie er will; er kommt ganz offenkundig auch bei sehr viel geringeren Geschwindigkeiten als ursprünglich erhofft (nicht geplant!) sehr nah an diese Eigenfrequenzen, und dann rumpelt es resonanzbedingt eben entsprechend heftig


=> somit hat er sich endgültig bei einem (fachkundigeren) Publikum weltweit als Schaumschläger geoutet -- ohne Aussicht auf nachhaltige Lösungen (dieses durchaus anerkennungswürdigen Verkehrsproblems)


=> das Ding hier wird ihm noch richtig schaden (ganz abgesehen von der zweifelhaften Finanzierung - siehe oben)



(nur als Idee - bei obigem Tunnel-System ist der Aufwand natürlich erheblich aufwendiger)

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The Boring Co.: Der Rohrkrepierer von Los Angeles

=> um es gleich zu sagen: dieses Billig-System Fahrzeug-Tunnelkontakt und damit -Kräfteübertragung wird so nie funktionieren!! Und schon gar nicht nachhaltig profitabel.

-> setzen 6, Herr Physiker!

Elon Musk verpatzt Eröffnung des ersten Elektroauto-Tunnels
http://www.spiegel.de/auto/aktuell/elon-musk-tesla-chef-eroe…

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...Bei Testfahrten für die Medien in der Nacht zum Mittwoch war ein weißer Tesla Model X mit angeschraubten Seitenrädern allerdings deutlich langsamer unterwegs - weil der Boden laut Musk noch nicht geglättet war. So geriet auch eine Fahrt mit bis zu 80 Kilometern pro Stunde ziemlich holperig, wie der Reporter der "Washington Post" berichtete...


=> mal schauen, wann die ersten Videos dazu auftauchen.. bis jetzt finde ich nichts