Elon is such a genius and philanthropist. This should send TSLA to that $1,000 price point that we were all waiting for. Feels good to be talking about Tesla again. --- Tesla’s engineering team released an update on Tesla’s progress making ventilators — something that hospitals desperately need to fight the coronavirus-caused disease COVID-19. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has already helped hospitals by donating CPAPs that doctors can convert into ventilators, as we’ve covered a few times. This is something different. In the video, Tesla’s engineers explain that they have been working on developing their own ventilators — specifically, one based on Tesla car parts. “We want to use parts that we know really well, we know the reliability of and we can go really fast and they are available in volume.” The engineers also demonstrate how they made the ventilator and how it works. The system uses the Model 3 Infotainment System for much of the work. The Model 3 touchscreen is used for visualizations, and is powered by the Infotainment computer. The computer powers Model 3 vehicle controller that “talk to precision-variable valves.” There’s also a battery-powered backup system for when you need to move a patient while keeping the system hooked up and working... https://cleantechnica.com/2020/04/05/tesla-is-making-ventilators-from-tesla-model-3-car-parts/
Until they actually churn out a few hundreds of those (and I will applaude them for it), let's quote a redditor, Lacrewpandora: "Here's what you already know (because I told you last week): Musk initially promised Tesla and SpaceX would start manufacturing ventilators, because in his words, they were 'easy'. Well turns out its not quite that easy, so Musk bought 1,200 CPAPs from 5 year old warehouse stock in China, and announced to the world that he had imported 1,200 "FDA Approved Ventilators"...tricking health officials across the globe, to include the mayor of NY, to grovel for his ventilators. Teslaq called him on his lie. (Yes I know CPAPs have some purpose, but they just flat out aren't ventilators and only a cynical son of a bitch would advertise them as such to people desperately in need of ventilators). So now Musk has found and donated at least one ventilator to a hospital. He is using that to perpetuate the idea that - SpaceX is building ventilators - Tesla is building Ventilators in Freemont - Tesla is building ventilators in Buffalo - Tesla really does have access to 1,200 actual ventilators to give away And you are choosing to be willfully ignorant an perpetuate the ruse. In this time where the accuracy of information is critical, conflating stock pumps with critical medical care is poor form. But where did Musk get the ventilator anyway? The governor of NY just decreed he was going to seize them, vets are shipping theirs, so are plastic surgeons, etc. IOW, tons of people are scouring the land for ventilators...whoever had that ventilator could have simply delivered it to the hospital directly, but instead it took a (potentially time wasting) detour through Musk...just for the PR value. I guess its good the ventilator eventually made its way to use...but for the love of Musk, please don't pretend for a moment that Tesla made this thing, or really has 1,200 vents to dole out. Its one vent they helped find its way to a hospital. That's all it is."
it was such a scummy move, but at least it looks like the doctors managed: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6651594857875861505
This time in 6weeks, maybe somewhere about to surge somewhere in the world. Makes sense, using as much tooling you've got as possible to make, it's setting up the tooling for mass production which takes the time, smart lad!!
He gives all of his Car tech away aswell, no patents, why the other car makers are catching up so soon, he wants EV's for everyone.
That anyone falls for the marketing ruses of this mutt (Elon Musk). The same crap now than with the kids trapped in an underwater cave in Thailand. This guy is as selfish as humanly possible. It's all about marketing and image, yet he steps time and again into the banana which exposes his borderless arrogance and shortsightedness on so many issues. When everyone followed orders to shut down operations in California he came with bullshit arguments why his factory should be deemed essential business. His ventilator hoax is the next bullshit story. What shocks me the most is not his arrogance, lies, and many mishaps, or even his complete confusion about Mars colonialization and the uselessness of such pursuit. It's how so many people can be led astray by clowns like Musk. Some people want to believe anything you feed them. Boris Johnson in ICU now (where this horrific being belongs after he cost many their lives with poor decision making). This is the same fate that Musk should deserve. People like those attach zero value to human lives but instead gamble with the public health. It's much more beneficial to not have such narcissists around us.