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Tesla's Bad Weekend. Bankrupt.

Apr 2, 2018 11:49AM PDT


In other news, Coal Powered Cars.

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(NT) I don't get it.
Apr 3, 2018 12:30AM PDT
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Elon made an april fools joke that backfired
Apr 3, 2018 2:16AM PDT

he joked Tesla was going bankrupt for april fools day. People believed it and the stock took a dive. No doubt the SEC will take a jaundiced eye on his joke.

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Which part of April 1 needs explaining. Coal powered cars
Apr 3, 2018 6:07AM PDT

Were real!

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Well, one of us needs explaining.
Apr 3, 2018 11:32AM PDT

I haven't yet seen any #muskaprilfool, just the drop in price based on recent non-fake bad news.
Coal is OK, I guess, but I always preferred kerosene [kerosine; paraffin for Dafydd]. The problem was the slow starting of the Whites et al.
And, this is not a personal problem, but April Fools is verboten for us Bible thumpers, so that would have been my last thought, if at all. Pro 26:18,19.

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So you're into jets. Got you covered.
Apr 3, 2018 11:54AM PDT


There are still some out there working.
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Remember the turbine at Indy?
Apr 3, 2018 12:00PM PDT

Scared the recip guys so they mandated air intake restrictions.
I recall one objection to the Chrysler street version was that it was too quiet; danger to pedestrians. Said the man in his Prius.

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I was but a child
Apr 3, 2018 12:04PM PDT

But recall it on the track way back when.

Here we have the 2016 Prius and they added external noise makers to counter the silence issue for pedestrians. My Leaf compared to some Tesla seems to make a backup beep beep beep for safety too. The few Tesla's I've been around seem silent to too quiet in comparison.

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We once owned a Dodge Neon.
Apr 4, 2018 12:04AM PDT

A nice car, with very poor rear visibility. We bought an aftermarket backup light with a built-in beeper, running off the same wire, so it sounded only on reverse. There were two different models, I think, to cover most makes.

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Nice fix.
Apr 4, 2018 7:56AM PDT

That would be cheap too. By the way, I just selected and had a backup camera installed on my Honda Odyssey. Lots of choices out there. But I'm loving it as no more big blind spot.

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Thanks for the link.
Apr 4, 2018 12:15AM PDT

I worked for a time at the fuel farm at the Sunport in Albuquerque. I learned that kerosene is the most common, maybe the only, jet aircraft fuel. The difference between powering 707 and F-35 is the additives. Also diesel truck fuel. It has good heat content and is much less a fire risk than any other. We tanked fuel left over from all the testing of incoming from the vendors, and a local construction company bought it for their off-road Cats and such. Wasn't vetted for highway use.

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One last fuel history or trivia item.
Apr 4, 2018 7:58AM PDT

I recall the early diesel engines were first fueled with rancid peanut oil.