Count on it... The guy is an alien, sees opportunities and potential in things that most can't.
Revolutionized the finance industry with PayPal, started a rocket company and car company at the same time... competing in the most capital intensive industries against juggernaut companies and making them look like rank amateurs.
He's going to put most auto companies out of business by the end of this decade, and probably several news organizations as well.
Except you just compared apples and oranges. Do it again for gas from wellhead, to gas tank and recalculate them efficiencies.
It's not even a contest... Electric as a fuel source wins by a lot. Nor is it a contest on which has better energy density and portability. Electric vehicles are also far more energy intensive to build due to their battery packs.
For the vast majority of people electric cars will work just fine with batteries alone. Adding additional complexity and weight would be detrimental. For others that need additional range or flexibility a series hybrid is definitely something that could make a lot of sense.
But even those will get rendered pointless when battery energy densities exceed 400w/kg which will make all but the most extreme cases manageable with batteries alone.
The loss occurs primarily when converting AC power to DC power. You take 10 units of AC power put it through a transformer but only 9 units of DC power comes out. It's much easier to generate and distribute AC power, but all batteries store that energy as DC.
The charging a 12V battery with 14V is just how charging works. Think of voltage kind of like water pressure, you won't be able to push energy into the battery if the battery has higher or similar "pressure".
What you're referring to is charging efficiency... yes, it consumes more power to charge the vehicle than is stored in the battery. It's like 90+% efficient.
Combustion engines turn about 35% of the energy available in gas to work, and waste the remaining 65%.
ICE engines have nothing to brag about in the efficiency department.
Only fraud is the person representing this as something that's recent. This is from 3+ years ago.
Tesla's charging network has expanded like crazy since this video. Not to say this isn't possible now days, but this isn't a common thing.
If starlink could establish a link with a cellphone, it wouldn't need a $1000 phased array antenna to facilitate the connection.
Cellphones do NOT have the capability of transmitting signals hundreds of miles away. That requires far more power and/or much higher performance antennas than exists in cellphones.
You think starlink satellites are communicating with cellphones? Why would you need a $1000 high power antenna to communicate with the satellites if they could easily communicate with existing cellphones?
All of this data comes directly from the phones and various apps that are tracking your every move...
Mark Spiegel is a well known Tesla short seller that has been wrong about everything he has prognosticated for years. Guy brags about his fund doing better in April relative to the market... Check to see how it has done historically, over many years, not a single month.
10:15 of this video shows you what a clown he is. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ffPXyNxkOQA
I was there... Was pretty disappointed with what I saw in terms of trucker support. It was 95% pickup trucks and a handful of semis. That said, it was still a great sight to see a decent number of people protesting.
Also the fact that the protests on each side of the road were split by several blocks made the task of containing and dismantling it much easier.
The part that references .Net CLR is called the User Agent, it's basically a relatively generic set of information about the system that is making the request. When it's not being tampered with (which is very easy to do), it generally can be used to determine some details and features of systems/browsers making the request. I.e. Is it a phone or desktop, windows/linux/osx, google chrome/firefox/internet explorer, etc.
That .Net CLR line specifically is there because is using a tool/client developed with a .Net language and that's how it's choosing to identify itself via the User Agent.
CLR itself isn't anything nefarious, it's ultimately just a bunch of libraries/code that Microsoft created to simplify developing with .Net languages (C#, VB.net, etc). Think of it as a code infrastructure/toolkit that you use as building blocks to make something.
I didn't examine the log entries too closely, but it appears that a file is being submitted/uploaded through a SOAP api call.
The guy in that video has an Audi e-tron... $2700 mentioned definitely seems steep but it's Audi in LA so I'm sure there's lots of markup going on.