“@zatulsky Shai actually got the idea from a visit to Tesla. The idea is obvious (many things allow battery swap), but the technology is not.”
The tweet archive.
15 years of Elon, fully searchable. The production archive uses Supabase as the source of truth, with 94,952 indexed tweets available in development as a full-archive fallback and a curated annotation layer for context, theory, and how major claims aged.
“@BigBalli High pressure helium. Needs to be ultra light. All 4 legs together (~60 ft span) weigh less than Model S.”
“@TeslaTrip you're welcome :)”
“@walalm Yes, my absolute goal w Tesla has always been mass market electric cars. Will finally get there with Gen3 program.”
“@RaimisJ Tesla software knits together Google Voice, Slacker, Gracenote & others and streams over 3G (will be LTE later)”
“@JoeBeernink Back of the envelope calc: Merlin wd accelerate Model S at 25 g's, so wd break sound barrier in <1.5 sec”
“@MichaelLindahl It will be slightly smaller w fewer features as std. Think Audi A4 or BMW 3 vs Model S being S7 or M5”
“@vicorly Yes, usually several times more energy over the course of the year than is needed by the Model S”
“@tomleykis Thanks Tom! Support of real Tesla customers like yourself who drive the car every day is v much appreciated.”
“@realbhuwan @teslamotors Cool :)”
“@flyguynscc @teslamotors yes, that has been the goal from the beginning”
“@NycomWireless @TeslaMotors Cool, thanks for buying our car!”
