Model S
product on 6 shows · 9 statements across 8 episodes
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9 statements about Model S, every show
D'Amico: Tesla won by building cars end-to-end like consumer electronics
“The big innovation of, like, Tesla versus Other car companies that, like, Tesla did a couple key things. One is they made the electric car work, but then the second thing they did is they built it like a phone, where they controlled, like, and the Model S was …”
Baglino: Tesla Built 1,000 'Powerwall Zero' Units From Model S Batteries
“Tesla had done a very early, we call it like, it doesn't even have a name, it was called, you could call it like Powerwall Zero. It was like a sort of cobbled together Model S battery module. I think we did a thousand of these early systems with SolarCity. And…”
Baglino: Early Tesla Superchargers Reused Model S Onboard Chargers
“The first supercharger, it's sometimes called, like, V-II or V-I, you know, the chargers in the supercharger are the onboard charger for Model S. Like, it's, it really, like, that's just, I think, exemplifies the platform play that is possible with smart reuse…”
Sonnad: Musk assured free lifetime Supercharging for Model S long-distance travel
“So I brought the idea up with Elon Musk at the shareholders meeting in 2015, and at that point he assured me that Tesla would pay for all of the fuel costs for long distance travel in the Model S forever.”
Pfund: Tesla Could Not Go Public in Today's Market
“When Tesla went public in, you know, the Model S didn't come out until, I mean, there were no real cars there. That, that wouldn't happen today.”
Arc One electric boat features 220 kWh battery capacity
“The ARC-I has Two battery packs totaling 220 kilowatt hours of battery capacity, which for reference is well over twice the size of any car that you'd find on, on the market today, like a Model S or Model X. It's identical to what you put in a full-size school…”
Wesoff: Tesla likely would not exist today without $465M DOE loan guarantee
“Without that diving save of getting that venture capital, and without the half a billion dollars in loan guarantee, it's quite likely that the Tesla of today would not exist.”
Peter Thiel Called Tesla a Bankrupt Idea Before Model S Shipped
“So like Tesla, I remember famously Peter Thiel's are saying it's a bankrupt idea. The battery technology will never scale. Batteries will never improve. UVs will never work. And I was like, wow, that was just before the Model S. I mean, literally a week before…”
Allred: Tesla Model S build quality is worse, but user experience wins
“The Model S, like, the materials are worse. The build is probably not as good. Like, they're not as good at, like, assembling the pieces, but just the experience of that car versus the other one, it's not even close. And so Tesla's probably the canonical examp…”