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Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants (gizmodo.com)
submitted 6 months ago by lautan@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Despite its CEO railing against Biden, Tesla was more than happy to take the administration's money.

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[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 70 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Rumor has it that this is a temper tantrum after a competitor unveiled 10 minute charging technology.

[–] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago

Seriously... If that's true this may be the dumbest temper tantrum Elon has had yet and there are a lot of competing temper tantrums.

[–] stringere@leminal.space 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)
[–] sudo42@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Just to be clear, Toyota has been making these claims for quite a while now. Until they making examples we can purchase and verify, I’m going to continue filing these claims under “vaporware”.

[–] macrocephalic@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Yes, Toyota is using these announcements to dissuade customers from going electric while they continue to sell only ice and hybrid vehicles. Remember that Toyota came out with the Prius 20 years ago and have done nothing since.

[–] red@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Polestar has already equipped vehicles with this tech.

[–] You999@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Which polestar?

The polestar 1 is a hybrid (discontinued)

Polestar 2 charges 20% to 80% in 28 minutes using LGES or CATL batteries depending on spec

Polestar 3 (unreleased) charges 20% to 80% in 30 minutes using LNMC batteries

Polestar 4 (unreleased) charges 20% to 80% in 30 minutes using LNMC batteries

Polestar 5 (unreleased) is still in development

[–] red@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago

The PS5, and yeah still unreleased, but already driving prototypes out in the wild. They are using the companys tech mentioned in the article and hopefully we'll see widespread adoption after testing.

I'm usually sceptic, but for once these new battery inventions are actually already implemented, and not just on paper or in a lab.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago

Yeah it's impressive. When this infrastructure is built-out to where I'm at 30 years from now, if I'm still alive, I might get an EV.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

sounds like D'Elon the Musketeer