Hey HN community,<p>To my surprise, I don't see a successful thread [0] about Tesla and would really like to hear from this community on what y'all think about what was presented today by Tesla. I really enjoy reading the insights and feedback of this community.<p>Sincerely,
temporalparts<p>[0] Only a bunch of threads by people with only 2 or 3 points. Maybe I'm wrong and there is not interest in the community to talk about this.
It's because nothing of great interest happened. Battery Day is about Musk attempting to lay claim to batteries in terms of attention, in the style of eg Alibaba Singles Day. Maybe future battery days will interesting, that's not what this one was about, this one was an initial attention land grab. The EV industry will grow rapidly and the focus of attention will splinter off from Tesla in the coming years. Tesla will be a comparatively smaller minority part of the industry, rather than its present large center. Musk knows that, so he's going to try to claim as much central real-estate as possible before that happens. Events like Battery Day are simply meant to keep the attention on Tesla, to capture mindshare.
It will be interesting to see if they reach the price for batteries they are aiming for. I think the batteries being that cheap will have more effect on ROI of powerwall/batteries for home solar than on cars. As the battery in cars though expensive they are not majority of the cost anymore. Where as they are for powerwall so a $7000+ powerwall could go down to around $4000.
It is odd. It thought the presentation was compelling and audacious, they really do mean to change the world, and presented a detailed and plausible plan to do that.<p>And yet, no serious discussion on HN except for some halfhearted dismisals. It's almost as if no-one understood it.
Sandy Monroe has some reactions in this video: <a href="https://youtu.be/jKrFAcNgG40" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/jKrFAcNgG40</a>