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Link to Dave Lee Interview with Sandy Monroe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOtnmHvR49Y

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Q2 Deliveries! So many deliveries....and other stories

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Tesla club la - Santa Clarita supercharger meetup and Plaid S 

• Marge - a member of the LA Tesla club and all around good person was one of the first 25 delivered at the event in Fremont
• Was kind enough to bring it to see in person
• It’s white - has full self driving - 21” wheels - carbon fiber trim -
• Sitting in it is great - the display just works. So much better in landscape position. And I like how it’s built into the dash instead of floating like in the 3 
• The yoke was really low so you could really see the binnacle very well. 
• Fit and finish seems very good. Almost hand built I imagine since it was first 25. 
• The roof is super dark - seemed much darker than my model three was in 2017 - and even darker than the tint I have on mine now.
• The door handle design was great and seemed much more traditional than the original s design - which I also liked a lot
• The inside of the front hood is redesigned 
• Running software v10.2
• There seemed to be a ton of controls and settings for the suspension,but since I have not been in an model s for a good long while I am not sure if that is been like that for a while.
• I’ll add the photos an maybe they will go on Instagram 
• Seat were comfortable and the mover the lumbar adjuster to in front of the seat back and forward and back adjustment knobs 
• Franz autographed it under the hood
• Pockets in the door will hold a water bottle sort of
• The little rear screen was cool , it be great if it was bigger but that’s pretty nitpicky
• Center console seems a few inches higher. Than in the previous S. Especially right under the dash and wear the phone goes. A really good high ergonomically
• Had alcantara headliner-is this standard in S?
• The graphics are very nice and the screen does seems noticeably higher def/res
• Dashboard seems narrower than on the 3 which is maybe where the additional room in the rear comes from
• Feels very roomy in both the front and back
• It’s new but it’s a Tesla unmistakable design aesthetic 
• If you’ve been waiting. For a redesign.. wait no more.

Trickle down: What Plaid features do you expect to see in other Teslas or EVs ? Pick 3

• Smaht Shift
  • Model S will auto-magically determine if you want to go into forward or reverse. 
• Yoke Steering wheel
  • Tesla’s yoke steering wheel has 7 dedicated capacitive touch buttons and 2 multi function wheel buttons.
  • https://www.motortrend.com/news/tesla-model-s-steering-wheel-yoke-only/ 
• Lithium ion 12v battery 
  • Tesla has eliminated the lead acid battery in favor of a very small 12 v lithium ion battery that is designed to last the life of the car. 
  • https://electrek.co/2021/02/02/tesla-model-s-x-get-rid-lead-acid-12v-battery-moves-li-ion/ v
• Entertainment:
  • The Model S’s entertainment system uses graphics processing system that is on par with processors found in the newest console game controllers. The 17” center screen can pan towards the driver for better visibility. HVACin the rear can be controlled by a small rear touch screen along with being able to watch movies and play video games. 
  • Video game level processing
  • Rear Screen
  • Tilt monitor
• Multi devic

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This is the audio of our LIVE coverage of the Plaid S reveal - not the best audio sorry, and here is also a link to the youtube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNnArk8iGl8

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Mels gets the invite and asks...will we get a 500 mile range Plaid S?

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Electric Vehicle Growth: the brands, consumers, and EV public opinion trends in 2021 (Interesting, the social media side of EV adoption)

https://www.pulsarplatform.com/blog/2021/electric-vehicle-growth-ev-brands-consumer-trends-in-2021/

• Online interest in EVs has more than doubled in the past year & “social chatter” has grown 5-fold per Pulsar TRAC (a social media data aggregator)
• They analyzed over 300k posts & articles authored in the US and UK between Feb 15 – Apr 5, across social and news platforms including Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, TikTok, Amazon
• Search queries beginning with ‘can…’ 
  • can they tow? 
  • will they catch fire?
  • Can they charge at home?
  • Can they use the HOV lanes?
• 
  
• at-home charging stations emerge time after time as a key point of discussion
• Compared to the non-Tesla EV audience, people talking about Tesla are younger, more male, and American.
• brands only making EVs make up almost 45% of the total brand conversation
• 
  

UK: Royal Mail Fully Electrifies Its First Delivery Office (a short story)

https://insideevs.com/news/512067/royal-mail-electrifies-first-office/amp/

• 100% electric delivery fleet… at a single UK post office
• 23 formerly diesel vans replaced with
• Peugeot e-Expert mid-size vans
• The electricity for powering the office and for charging the vehicles is from 100% renewable sources

What OS version are you rockin’?

Versions of all Tesla updates here: https://www.notateslaapp.com/software-updates

• Mel 
  • Model S = 2019.16.2 ??
  • Model 3 = 2020.48.35.11 ??
  • Model X = ??
  • Model Y = 2021.4.6 ??
• Tom 
  • Model 3 = 2021.4.18
• Robert   
  • 2020 Model 3 = 2021.4.18 (4 versions, all bug fixes improvements?!?) as of 06/05/2021
• Joel 
  • In transition...

TESLA,THE STOCK & EV STORIES“Hey SIRI, what’s Tesla’s stock price?”

Tesla Cybertruck UI patent hints at 610-mile range, eye tracking mirror adjustments (a bit more after touching on this last show, wanted to get Tom & Mel’s input)

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-cybertruck-range-610-miles-patent/partial/?_=1622463422905 

• Recall the tri-motor Cybertruck was announced with 500+ miles of EPA estimated range, in a series of images in a US Patent Office document we see a range of 610 miles!

• Images also reveal a much richer User Interface with pitch and clearance data, torque at each wheel
• eye tracking technology to adjust the vehicle’s mirrors, as well 
• an air conditioning system that tracks passengers for optimum climate control. 
• Several images from the patent also hint at the Cybertruck pulling a 20,000-pound trailer, as well as 20 inches of suspension travel.
• There are more details of the pop-up camper with an integrated kitchen, Tom ar<

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TT199 (the Tesla/EV/tech - Short Legs Show)

NEWS:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/climate-change-exxonmobil-harvard-study-1169682/ 

Getting organized category:

National Drive Electric Week (Month...Year) 

Coming up in the Fall (Sept 25th to Oct 3rd), keep an eye out for events in your area and organize one to give ICEV drivers a look at your BEV in all it’s glory, 

https://driveelectricweek.org/events 

What OS version are you rockin’?

Versions of all Tesla updates here: https://www.notateslaapp.com/software-updates

• Mel 
  • Model 3 = 2020.48.35.11 ??
  • Model S = 2019.16.2 ??
  • Model Y = 2021.4.6 ??
• Tom 
  • Model 3 = 2021.4.11 ??
• Robert   
  • 2020 Model 3 = 2021.4.18 (bug fixes improvements) as of 05/28/2021
• Joel 
  • Updates on your Tesla plans!! Gonna ‘Yoke’ next Thursday ?

TESLA,THE STOCK & EV STORIES“Hey SIRI, what’s Tesla’s stock price?”

AUTONOMOUS DRIVING 

BATTERIES, GIGAFACTORY, ENERGY STORAGE

Supercharger Update - RR 

• Thank you to supercharge.info
• Since our last Tesla focused show, Supercharger activity includes:

Open?     (Last show: 108)

Construction  ?      (Last show: 95)

Permit  ?      (Last show: 65)

TodayLast Show(s)

TeslaStations:        (2,633, 2,418, 2079)

Stalls:(23,544, 21,819, 19,409) 

Electrify America (funded by Volkswagen’s penalty money)

https://www.electrifyamerica.com/locate-charger/  

Stations:?(612, 569, 556, 525)

Stalls - CCS: ?(2026, 1892, 1856, 1776, 1752)

Stalls-CCS-CHAdeMO:? (612, 565, 552, 521, 516)

Total: ?(2638, 2457, 2408, 2297)

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Mel gives his 2 cents about the earning call.  Full, large and big show soon...

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TESLA,THE STOCK & EV STORIES“Hey SIRI, what’s Tesla’s stock price?”

Tesla Tells California DMV that FSD Is Not Capable of Autonomous Driving

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a35785277/tesla-fsd-california-self-driving/ 

• Tesla’s Auto Pilot is in fact Full (by yourself) Driving feature
• The key correspondence comes from December 28, 2020, between Tesla’s associate general counsel Eric C. Williams and California DMV’s chief of the autonomous vehicles branch, Miguel D. Acosta

An even bigger story… or a smaller story...

All the coronavirus in the world could fit inside a Coke can, with plenty of room to spare

https://theconversation.com/all-the-coronavirus-in-the-world-could-fit-inside-a-coke-can-with-plenty-of-room-to-spare-154226 

• Christian Yates, Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Biology, University of Bath
• Author of  The Maths of Life and Death
• My wife suggested it would be the size of an Olympic swimming pool
• this is an approximation based on the most reasonable assumptions
• rough estimates for peak viral loads range from 1 billion to 100 billion virus particles. 
• Take a value in the middle, 10 billion. 
• add up all the contributions to the viral load of each of the 3 million people who became infected on each of the previous days (assuming this 3 million rate is roughly constant) 
• then there are roughly two hundred quadrillion (2x10¹⁷ or two hundred million billion) virus particles in the world at any one time.
• roughly the same as the number of grains of sand on the planet.
• remember that SARS-CoV-2 particles are extremely smal
• the diameter range from 80 to 120 nanometres
• gives us a total volume of about 120 millilitres (ml)
• He considers close sphere packing, spheres take 26% more space when filling a space
• Even taking the upper end of the diameter estimate and accounting for the size of the spike proteins all the SARS-CoV-2 still wouldn’t fill a Coke can.

SPACE-X & AEROSPACE

A quickie, science story. To a lot of folks science is too slowly progressing and boring, but here we have a giant leap seen from in a grain of rock from an asteroid pretty much everyone is unaware of! 

SCIENTISTS SHOCKED AT WATER AND ORGANIC MATERIAL FOUND ON ASTEROID FOR THE FIRST TIME

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/space/water-asteroid-hayabusa-mission-space-b1812285.html

• Finding could rewrite our understanding of how the Earth developed
• Scientists have found water and organic matter on the surface of an asteroid sample collected an asteroid.

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The usual silliness. 

Tesla’s 62 stall Santa Monica V3 Supercharger hits speed bump, LA housing crisis takes priority

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-supercharger-v3-santa-monica-emergency-interim-zoning-ordinance/

• Recall the project, the largest V3 Supercharger station in the world with 62-stalls, solar canopies, battery backup and customer restrooms was approved by the Planning Commission on March 3rd
• The final approval by the City Council however took a u-turn for a cliff.
• Why? Housing.
• Santa Monica and Los Angeles is in the midst of a housing crisis with high rents and undersupply 
• The housing crunch occupied much of the Planning Commissioner’s debate, discussed 2-shows ago; commissioners wanted Tesla to build housing units on top of the super chargers.
• Noelani Derickson of Tesla responded “Tesla is a car manufacturer, we’re not in the housing business.
• The Supercharger project has been included in an Emergency Interim Zoning Ordinance for potential housing in Los Angeles.
• The city is working to change rules governing housing project density & profitability leading to more construction.
• In the end City Council actions will likely lead to the project’s demise, but what can you do?
• There are almost 1,000 Tesla owners in Santa Monica, if they wrote to the Santa Monica City Council

Plot Twist: Elon Musk Just Had Tesla Launch a Social Platform (Don’t think we got to this story before? The story above is why Tesla created this platform)

https://interestingengineering.com/elon-musk-had-tesla-launch-social-platform-engagement 

Tesla launches new social media platform to ‘engage’ its community and promote policies

https://electrek.co/2021/03/05/tesla-launches-new-social-media-platform-engage-community-promote-policies/ 

• Tesla’s 2nd attempt at ‘Engaging’ owners for political activity
• https://engage.tesla.com/articles/14-welcome-tesla-engagement-platform
• “Engage Tesla” is a new platform for both Tesla's public policy team and Tesla Owners Clubs
• make it easier for Tesla community members to learn what's top of mind for us, take meaningful action, and stay in the loop."
• this new microsite also signifies the first direct feedback loop between customers and the company's policy team. 
• Thoughts?

What’s up with the new Talking Tesla Logo? -Joel

Tesla’s ‘Technoking’ Musk Joins Long Line of Odd Job Titles Other fanciful corporate monikers include chief pillow officer, chief monster maker and chief troublemaker; ‘Master of Coin’

https://apple.news/AfRvXUaGLSkypPj3vBVTXMQ

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Breaking News:  

Spring sprung, March 20th 

• The spring Equinox (Vernal Equinox) 
• The day (twice a year when day time = night time)
• Beginning of spring
• Plant a seed day, promoted by Kimbal Musk

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