always love to see how Wiki is the definitive source. surely your "anecdote" (to type the way Dawny does) isn't actually real! bet that story is wild. a billion in a day. what a ride.
No, I think you'll find you're wrong. All the motors are brushless AC induction, and I'm pretty sure most, if not all, are 415V 3-phase. There's an inverter which converts battery DC to AC. DC motors would never cut it for the horsepower requirements of a modern EV. They also need to be high voltage AC (415V) to use smaller gauge copper wire in the motor core windings. At lower voltages, you'd need very heavy gauge wire to carry the hundreds of kW, which would make it impractical.
Experts Say Sam Bankman-Fried's Best Legal Defense Is to Say He's Just Really, Really Stupid "Mismanaging your company and losing a bunch of other people’s money is not criminal." https://futurism.com/the-byte/sbf-ftx-legal-defense-ignorance As the the FTX implosion continues, the company's figurehead and just-resigned CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, may end up facing significant legal peril. If he does, experts say he may end up employing an interesting defense: that his actions weren't criminal — and instead, he was just a staggeringly entitled and incompetent moron. "Mismanaging your company and losing a bunch of other people’s money is not criminal," Randall Eliason, an ex-prosecutor who now teaches law at DC's George Washington University, told Fortune. "It happens all the time. For a criminal case, there has to be deception." In order for Bankman-Fried — who achieved a level of notoriety that he's probably better known by his initials, SBF — to be successfully prosecuted in a criminal court, lawyers for the government or FTX's customers and investors will have to establish that he actually intended to commit a crime, rather than just being terrible at handling billions in crypto. Eliason told the magazine that prosecutors would something big to establish that SBF and FTX intended to deceive customers and the government — a smoking gun, or an outline of past behavior that establishes a history of fraudulent intent. Another crypto lawyer who spoke to Fortune on condition of anonymity said that they don't doubt that Justice Department prosecutors will be able to establish such a history, particularly if they bring a case under Section 1343, a federal criminal law that technically covers wire fraud but could be applied to electronically-aided fraud charges as well. As Fortune notes, prosecution under Section 1343 carries a maximum 20-year prison sentence — which, while not the stiffest penalty, could put the 30-year-old crypto CEO away for a significant period. This story is continuing to unfold rapidly before our eyes, but as it stands now, neither SBF nor any of his alleged polycule members and/or fellow executives at FTX have been charged with any crime. If they are, however, prosecutors may have a hard job proving that they weren't just millennials who suck at money and business management.
Meet Caroline Ellison, Sam Bankman-Fried’s top exec — and rumored ex-girlfriend https://nypost.com/2022/11/14/meet-caroline-ellison-sam-bankman-frieds-rumored-ex-girlfriend/
The squirreled some of the ill gained money into real estate. FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried and his parents built 100 million-pound property empire in the Bahamas Together, the family, the company and its executives bought nineteen properties over two years https://www.standard.co.uk/business...ty-empire-in-the-bahamas-crypto-b1041660.html
Fraudin' away again in Margaritaville Searchin' for my lost crystals of meth Some people say a sultry wood nymph's to blame But I know, it's my own damn fault https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...owes-55-000-Jimmy-Buffets-Margaritaville.html