Re:Toyota's game-changing solid-state battery en route for 2...
by DaiPlusPlus on Thursday January 21, 2021 @11:55PM
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> See https://www.tesla.com/blog/secret-tesla-motors-master-plan-j... for Elon Musk laying out that plan back in 2006.
Oh wow, I never saw that, but that's exactly what I saw they were doing and now everything makes sense.
Given they've been literally telegraphing their moves right-up-until the decision to do self-driving tech, I'm surprised bigger automakers haven't reacted at all until now, at which point they're lagging so far behind it's just depressing.
Re:Toyota's game-changing solid-state battery en route for 2...
by xiphias2 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @11:59PM
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In the updated roadmap Elon realized that full autonomy will be ready before the 20 years that it takes to switch all current cars to electric, so it's more important than having the cheapest possible car.
And the vision of becoming that is not exactly new. See https://www.tesla.com/blog/secret-tesla-motors-master-plan-j... for Elon Musk laying out that plan back in 2006.
And he's been sticking to the roadmap. For example that blog post was the first public announcement that they would eventually produce a family sedan called the Model 3. And indeed they eventually produced a family sedan..and called it the Model 3.