Yet another perfect piece of toast
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Tesla workers "are scraping to get by?" Those workers get a decent wage/salary, bonuses, and stock options. The latter have been highly lucrative for many. I'm not aware that Tesla, despite high turnover from a pressure culture that trickles down from their demanding CEO, has a problem recruiting talent and workers due to compensation. IF the UAW cared at all about the competitiveness of the companies that pay their workers, they would be seeking a partnership agreement that minimizes labor costs with an upside on profit sharing and wealth creation that comes from a highly functioning management/labor relationship. This fencepost hard ball negotiating philosophy from the UAW is so last century, and completely out of touch with the competitive reality of this century. The "bailout" by taxpayers of GM simply burdened the company with ongoing costs from the UAW, since it was structured as a blatant political payback to the UAW by Obama/Biden. Allowing GM to go through bankruptcy, as every other company in their situation does, would have led to a healthy GM not burdened by UAW in every factory. The highest performing factories at GM were NOT UAW factories. Sadly, in a nasty payback fashion, all non-UAW factories were closed in the "bailout" negotiations. Some Unions get it, the UAW doesn't.
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
Tuning color of the glass roofs in Tesla cars
The glass roof on every Tesla car should be adjustable to three modes: fully transparent (viewing starry night), fully silver (deflect sun light in hot days), fully black (absorb sun light in cold days to warm cabin).
The car console can have a triangle-shaped UI to represent the three extremes, and let user select any point inside the triangle to tune the color of the glass.
Friday, April 1, 2022
Tesla robotic vacuum
Robotic vacuum should be the next little thing that Tesla makes and sells.
Can play out the full advantage of the huge charging cycle abilities of Tesla battery tech, e.g. 4680. If i run the vacuum twice daily, for two years, that will be close to 1,500 cycles. Batteries of most robot vacuums never survive that many cycles.
in addition: electric motors (tiny), metal construction body (compared to flimsy plastic bodies of vacuums on market), running on wheels (also tiny), auto sensing -- all the reason for Tesla to spare some time on this and disrupt the market.