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Tesla Holiday Gifts Heavily Discounted With EV Items’ Cyber Monday Sale

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Even though it is still unseasonably warm here in Southern California, the holidays are nearly upon us. For many of us, the holidays are an excuse to purchase celebratory gifts for our loved ones (and ourselves) … and what better things to buy than a few accessories for your EV.

The folks over at EV Items* are kicking the season off with a bang and are starting their Cyber Monday sale early for CleanTechnica readers using code “CleanTechnica.” You can get 25% off all their accessories (while quantities last), free shipping to North America on orders over $50, and a free Tesla-inspired Starman 1.0 or 2.0 air freshener with any order. As a special bonus, there’s also no need to get up before dawn or wait in lengthy lines — just hop online to order.

Here are a few of our must haves from the sale:

Vegan Model S and X Center Console Cubby Drawer: As one of their flagship items, this center console cubby from EV items has a precise fit and dimensions that create a driver-facing product, optimal for single hand use. It may not be obvious, but the center cubby in yours Model S or X is not a perfect rectangle, it’s a bizarre trapezoid that has been matched perfectly with this drawer. The interior lining is a soft, vegan alcantara while the exterior is a black, vegan “leather” (both cruelty-free). The Model S and X cubby drawer is ideal for loose change, sunglasses, keys, and any small items that might need to be accessed at a moments notice. The silver, anodized aluminum handle is very ‘grab-able’, allowing you to open the drawer without looking. The cubby drawer also includes rubber stoppers that are easily installed to ensure the drawer does not fall out of the compartment while in use. They’re bringing back their limited edition cubby with red lining for the holidays, so you’ll want to get one of those before they sell out again!

Just like the Model S/X cubby, the Model 3 storage cubby uses cruelty-free materials with an alcantara interior and a vegan leather exterior. The interior comes in either black or limited edition red. This console storage cubby from EV items is custom made for the center console area of your Model 3 allowing for optimal fit. It’s ideal for storing small items like keys, coins, and sunglasses. It also comes with a removable divider and features a hand-stitched Model 3 badge on the inside. Also, makes for the perfect gift for a Model 3 owner.

It may not get cold and snowy here in Southern California, but for those of you living in places where it does, EV Items has some new mud flaps for the Model 3 that not only keep debris from slingin’ onto your vehicle, they add a nice pop of customization to the car. Model S owners are not to be left out, as EV Items also has a nice set of durable all-weather floor mats for the Model S to keep the debris coming into the car contained.

That beautiful display in the Model 3 was also left bare from the factory, at least for those who couldn’t resist peeling the protective plastic off. EV Items has your back with a tempered glass screen protector for the Model 3 in both clear and matte.

Having sufficient lighting in your Tesla can be challenging, even with the premium interior lighting options. Bring all the brightness of the super bright LED lights to the Model S, X, or 3 with these carefully curated LED lighting kits. LED lighting has been one of my favorite upgrades in my past vehicles because of the noticeable impact to the day to day vehicle experience. The downside of LED lights is that the right sizes can be hard to find and the quality can be questionable when buying from one of the thousands of suppliers hocking their wares on the interwebs. EV Items makes this easy with lighting kits for each Tesla.

If you want to take lighting to the next level, they also have T Logo welcome lights that cast a familiar logo onto the ground as you walk up. In addition to providing a bit of helpful light when approaching the car, they look really sharp at night.

Not sure what to get your loved ones? Here are a few quick and easy sure-fire gifts for the Tesla drivers in your life. The Model 3 Wireless smart phone charger makes docking and charging compatible phones effortless and gives a nice boost of juice when you’re on the go. Model S and Model X owners can pick up some of EV Items’ aluminum key fob covers that give the key fob a nice pop of flair without going overboard.

To take advantage of the early CyberMonday 25% off special, you can visit EVitems website and use the code “CleanTechnica” at checkout!

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No, Machine Learning Does Not Have A Huge Carbon Debt

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No, Machine Learning Does Not Have A Huge Carbon Debt

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As part of the CleanTechnica series on the use of machine learning in advancing our low-carbon future, it would be remiss to not point out the carbon debt. However, it’s not as bad as was reported earlier this year, in my estimation.

Let’s talk about the study itself, and the assumptions it made. The paper that made some headlines was Energy and Policy Considerations for Deep Learning in NLP by Strubell, Ganesh, and McCallum of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and it was published in June of 2019. Strubell and McCallum are part of the team that built a state-of-the-art natural language processing model, LISA. That stands for linguistically informed self-attention, and as followers of the series will remember, attention is core to machine learning.

Some of the numbers provided for the CO2e emissions were quite large, with one model, an advanced translation model referred to as the Evolved Transformer for neural architecture search, having a calculated carbon debt of 626,155 lbs of CO2e to train and optimize. 300 tons of CO2e is quite a bit, but some context is required, and then a recalculation with likely better assumptions.

As a reminder, neural nets are trained occasionally and often used many times. Taking the Tesla machine learning model, it has over 500,000 cars on the road with its neural net chips, and Tesla’s Autopilot and Autosteer features are used by vastly more people than any competitor. As a result, when thinking about the carbon debt of training neural nets, we have to compare that to the number of times that they are actually executed and for what purpose. Given that each Tesla displaces an internal combustion vehicle and that when using autonomous features the cars are actually more efficient, this is a highly virtuous use of machine learning.

As a different example, an earlier article in the series looked at the CoastalDem machine learning model. That use of machine learning took North American satellite radar coastal elevation data, trained it with ground truth from Lidar, validated it against Australian Lidar, and then ran it for the entire world. The model was executed a few times, but the end result is a static dataset of adjusted coastal elevations which is being referenced around the world for policy and climate action planning. In this instance, the understanding of actual threat from climate change and the multiple reuse of the outputs outweighs the carbon debt.

Not all examples are so beneficial, of course. Recently, an article in the series assessed the Heliogen improvements of focusing concentrated solar power (CSP), and found that while the machine learning portion was interesting and potentially reusable in other domains, the end results were very unlikely to be of any value. Certainly, the purported use cases for its higher heat CSP didn’t stand up to scrutiny.

Let’s look at the assumptions made by the research next. The key one I tested was the paper’s assumption of 0.954 lbs of CO2e per kWh for model training. That’s the US average, and as I looked at that I had a hypothesis that it was likely overstated given where most deep machine learning efforts were being performed.

To that end, I first pulled together the data on current state-by-state CO2e per kWh.

Chart by author from IEA data

As can be seen, the US average conceals a wide variance of potential CO2e debts for compute power. A model which is trained in Washington State on compute resources that are powered off of straight grid electricity would have a tenth of the carbon debt of one trained in Wyoming.

My hypothesis was that many of the models in the report would be California-based. The 0.47 lbs CO2e per kWh that is from California’s grid is only 50% of the carbon debt of the US average.

However, after determining this I then went deeper. I looked at each of the major models with a calculated carbon debt in the paper to see where they were actually trained, assuming that at least one or two would be trained in Google data centers, with Google’s 100% renewable commitment and offsets. The results were substantially at odds with my expectations.

Table by author

These are the models and associated training CO2e burden per the paper. When I dug into the compute resources used, I found that in all but one case they were Google or Azure compute resources used for learning. The 3rd through 6th columns are the variance calculation between what the paper suggested and what was likely accurate. To be clear, the NAS Evolved Transformer model still sees 10 tons of CO2e, which is considerable, but also a tiny fraction of the study’s assertion.

I had performed a rough assessment based on publicly available data earlier this year, What Is The Carbon Debt Of Cloud Computing? My assessment found that of the biggest Cloud providers, Google and Microsoft Azure had the lowest carbon debt by far, having not only a commitment to 100% carbon-neutral electricity that they were working to achieve, but also purchasing high-quality carbon offsets for their operations. That puts the CO2e per kWh down in the 0.033 lb range given the full lifecycle emissions of wind, solar, and hydro. Amazon’s AWS wasn’t as good, but had still achieved 50% renewables for its data centers in 2018, meaning its operations are far below the US average.

The authors of the paper used a different approach to assessing data center loads. They started with a 2017 Greenpeace report on the subject, so it was relatively solid, however it doesn’t cite CO2e per kWh at all, but stays silent. Instead, it reports different mixes of electrical generation actually purchased and provides percentages of those. Unsurprisingly, all the major Cloud providers are buying a lot more low carbon electricity than the average for the grid, but also unsurprisingly, they still have to purchase MWh that have been generated from coal and gas. I won’t quibble with Greenpeace’s methodology, but I do find a substantial variance between the bulk purchasing of renewable electricity by Google and Microsoft and the claims that their data centers run in large part on gas- and coal-generated electricity. I suspect that Google and Microsoft are buying sufficient electricity from renewables for their operations, but Greenpeace isn’t choosing to credit them with it.

But that’s not the largest issue with the assumption made by the paper. That assumption is that since Amazon’s AWS is the most popular Cloud compute platform and its breakdown per Greenpeace was roughly the same as the US breakdown, that the US average was appropriate to use. As can be seen from the resulting assessment in the table above, not one of the models assessed used Amazon, so that’s a bit of a problem with the reliability of their results.

To be clear, I’ve taken an average CO2e for renewables assuming Google and Microsoft have purchased offsets to get them there where they are not directly purchasing renewables, but they also might be purchasing offsets for the low full lifecycle CO2e.

This isn’t to say we should disregard the study.

Chart courtesy openai.com

Open AI — back to Elon Musk again — published an assessment of compute cycles required to train machine learning over the years. What they found is that major advances in machine learning capabilities showed an exponential growth in CPU cycles required, shown as a straight line on this logarithmic chart.

The increase in CPU cycles to advance machine learning has been accompanied by advances in efficiencies of computer technology and lower carbon electricity, but it’s worth paying attention to. It’s only going to increase.

Note: I’ve reached out to the study lead author for comment. Should they get back to me, the article will be updated.
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Team Tesla At The Special Olympics Australia

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Spread far and wide over the globe, the Special Olympics is changing the lives of individuals with intellectual disabilities. This worldwide movement is one that empowers the human spirit by lifting limitations through inclusiveness. It encourages people to be a part of something bigger than themselves. We may know of the Special Olympics through its work with sporting events, but it is so much more than that. For those who participate, this culture, by creating an atmosphere of inclusivity, enables individuals to play on the same field — both with and without intellectual disabilities. And Team Tesla is now a part of creating that inclusivity.

Model X owner Tesla in the Gong, will be participating in Team Tesla for the second time. Last year, he tells me, Team Tesla came in second place in the overall fundraising campaign. The funds they raised will go to help athletes in the Special Olympics Australia to participate in sports training and competition. Tesla in the Gong’s goal is to raise $10,000 for the Special Olympics. So far, he has raised $1,490. For those who would like to help, you can by donating any amount here. As for the rest of Team Tesla, they have raised so far (at the time of this writing) a total of almost $5,000.

“Car and bike enthusiasts are called upon and each company has its own team,” he tells me. He will also participate as a driver who will pick up an Olympian and take them to the Sydney Motor Park for some trips around the track. He gives them a good ride in the Tesla and the full Tesla experience. This will be his second time being a registered driver to do this. The idea is to treat the Olympians to some fun, and what better way to hit the track than in a Tesla Model X? Tesla will be well represented and this is due to the fact that like its CEO, many members of the Tesla community care about our worldwide community. Tesla itself has a way of bringing people together for the greater good.

2018 Team Tesla — Soar and Roar Festival Special Olympics Australia
Tesla in the Gong and 19 others participated in The Soar and Roar Festival in 2018. This is the festival they will be a part of again this year. It is an annual event hosted by the Special Olympics Australia to raise funds for intellectually disabled athletes. Team Tesla, with 20 vehicles, managed to raise over $13,000 last year.

Tesla Tom uploaded the video above and was one of the drivers in Team Tesla. In the video, Tesla Tom explains that since Team Tesla raised a high amount of funds, they got to win a prize, which was being the leading team of cars in the race at the motor park. In the video description, Tom says, “We had a wonderful day placing many smiles on the faces of our athletes and their careers along with many other unique and luxury car teams.”

Team Tesla is just a small representation of the Tesla community and how active members are around the world when it comes to doing things to benefit our fellow humans, animals, and the planet. The Tesla community is all about doing good things that help.
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GM Partners With LG Chem In New Joint Venture To Supply Batteries For Electric Trucks

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GM Partners With LG Chem In New Joint Venture To Supply Batteries For Electric Trucks

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General Motors and LG Chem are establishing a new joint venture to build battery cells at scale in the US. The new JV puts both companies on equal footing and will kick off with the construction of a new 30 GWh battery cell plant in northeastern Ohio that will create more than 1,100 new jobs.

The new joint venture will break ground on the facility next year that, when at its full 30 GWh capacity, will rival the current battery cell capacity of Tesla and Panasonic’s Gigafactory 1 in Nevada. That’s enough to produce more than 450,000 of the company’s 66 kWh Chevy Bolts per year, though the cells will realistically be spread across GM’s newer plug-in vehicles.

GM is following Tesla’s early lead on this on by partnering with a battery cell manufacturer instead of contracting it out. Batteries are the most expensive single component in an electric vehicle and GM has seen how that plays out at lower volumes with the Chevy Bolt. Looking to scale that up, GM and LG are now joining forces in a push to “reduce battery costs significantly — to industry-leading levels.”

Battery cells coming out of the new battery factory will feed GM’s new line of yet-to-be-unveiled electric trucks and other electrified vehicles in the GM family. GM is clearly behind the eight ball when it comes to electric vehicles, having abandoned its early entrance into the market with the EV1 back in the 90s in favor of more profitable internal combustion trucks and SUVs. Two decades later, it is GM playing catch up to startups Tesla and Rivian in the electric truck space as the industry’s realization is that the key to electric vehicles is not automotive manufacturing, but in battery cell production.

Hopping in bed with LG builds on GM’s partnership with the firm in prior electric vehicle pursuits including most notably, the Chevy Bolt. The compact electric vehicle was rushed to market by GM in a push to beat the Tesla Model 3 into the “affordable” $30,000 electric vehicle market. To develop and deliver the vehicle on such an unprecedented timeline, GM and Chevy leaned heavily on LG. A fully 54% of the components in the vehicle are sourced directly from LG’s home country of Korea, leaving a dismal 26% of the components coming from the US and Canada.

The JV makes General Motors “the first full-line automaker to manufacture battery cells in the United States” which feels a bit like splitting hairs as the company is clearly not leading in the fully electric or even the electrified vehicle space today. Hey, whatever helps you sleep at night. Longer term, GM has plans for 20 new electrified vehicles to fill the void left by the cancelled Chevy Volt PHEV and complementing the Chevy Bolt.

Whether this is done to meet fuel economy standards, to greenwash the brand, or to turn the behemoth that is GM towards electric vehicles as quickly as possible to truly make an impact on climate change, it is exciting to see this first step. The JV announcement is capped off with a very clear message about climate change:

“Climate change is real. That is indisputable and we take the challenges it presents seriously. The transportation sector must be part of any credible solution and lower battery costs will be a game-changer for EV profitability and affordability.” – GM CEO Mary Barra

By the time this factory breaks ground, Tesla will have broken ground on its fourth Gigafactory in Berlin, Germany. Who knows what the landscape will look like by the time GM and LG Chem’s new factory is churning out battery cells at scale. If GM wants to be competitive in the electric vehicle market, it is going to have to move even faster.

CEO Mary Barra’s language in the announcement of the new JV is encouraging: “Our approach to EV adoption is holistic, and we are moving fast.” It is easy to talk about moving fast, but insanely difficult to actually do it. I’m personally hoping that this new battery cell plant in Ohio is just the first in a long string of announcements as GM takes steps to build out the battery cell production backbone it will need to compete with the other titans in the space.

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Plug-In Vehicles = 14% of Vehicle Sales in Sweden in November

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Norway gets most of the glory for electric vehicle sales leadership, or China does for the sheer volume of sales there (approximately half of the global market), but there are a few other country markets with notable electric vehicle market share (if not volume) that are fun to track and interesting to compare to Norway. One of those markets is Sweden, which very quietly sits near the top of EV market share rankings, only trailing Norway and Iceland.

Another interesting thing about the market is how big plug-in hybrids are there. I assume there are at least a few reasons for this — the long distances people might need to drive from time to time, the extreme cold, the general brand preferences in the country (and what plug-in models those brands offer), and the popularity of somewhat affordable SUVs … while the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV is basically the only affordable plug-in SUV on the market. In fact, this is one of the only markets where the Tesla Model 3 isn’t at the top of the list for year-to-date sales because of that Japanese beast, as EV Volumes data point out.

As you can see from those charts, Swedes are in love with Kia, Volvo, and Volkswagen plug-in hybrids. The fully electric top selling Tesla Model 3, Renault Zoe, and Nissan LEAF also do fairly well. That said, compared to other markets, it seems that the Tesla Model 3 still has a lot of potential for growth in the country, and certainly the Model Y as well.

But the burning question is: how will the Tesla Cybertruck do in this freezing cold market?

Back to 2019, though, Jose Pontes points out that Sweden’s plug-in vehicle market was up 37% in November 2019 compared to November 2018, fully electric vehicle market shared dropped from 5% to 3% in that time period, and plug-in hybrid sales rose from 7% to 11% of the national market. In total, that put the November plug-in vehicle sales at 14% of the market, while it sits at 12% for the year through November.

Further, if you’re curious or confused because you see that Volkswagen Passat GTE (a plug-in hybrid) at the top of the November chart but not very high up in the January–November 2019 chart, note that November was just the Passat GTE’s second month on the market.

If you like seeing these sales charts with “Others” included (all plug-in vehicle models outside the top 20 combined), here are those charts:

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Plug-In Vehicles = 59% of Vehicle Sales in Norway in October

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When it comes to electric vehicle adoption, Norway is king of the hill. Nearly 2 out of every 3 passenger vehicles sold in Norway come with a plug. In October, the plug-in vehicle share was 59%, a bit higher than the 56% plug-in vehicle hold for January–October.

Most of those plug-in vehicle sales are sales of fully electric vehicles (36% of all vehicle sales in October), but plug-in hybrids aren’t far behind (23% of vehicle sales).

The top selling vehicle (of any kind) in the market so far in 2019 is far and away the Tesla Model 3. It holds 21% of this large EV market, which means more than 10% of the entire country’s vehicle sales. However, with 4th quarter boats yet to arrive with new shipments, October’s Model 3 deliveries were just 121. It’s just outside of the October top 10 with that total.

The outgoing Volkswagen e-Golf somehow held onto a strong and easy second place finish. That bodes well for the nearing arrival of the Volkswagen ID.3 and ID.4.

Continuing its steady podium positioning, the Nissan LEAF then coasted in when it came to January–October sales, according to OFV of Norway (hat tip to Jose Pontes).

Surpassing the top 3 vehicles of the year, the Audi e-tron sprinted to the gold medal position for the month of October, its first time on the monthly winner’s stand. That placement is especially surprising considering how expensive the e-tron is, but it demonstrates that Norwegians love the Audi brand, love SUVs, and are not as price sensitive as most other markets.

The only remaining question I have about the Norwegian market: how many Cybertrucks will Norwegians order?

Okay, I’m also curious how many Model Ys they’ll order and how long it will take to replace the Model 3 at the top of the charts.

If you like seeing these sales charts with “Others” included (all plug-in vehicle models outside the top 20 combined), here are those charts:

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Tesla’s Andrej Karpathy Talks PyTorch, Autopilot (Video)

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Tesla’s Andrej Karpathy Talks PyTorch, Autopilot (Video)

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Andrej Karpathy, Tesla’s Director of Artificial Intelligence and Autopilot Vision, is one of the chief architects of Tesla’s self-driving vision. In July, he hosted a workshop on Neural Network Multi-Task Learning, where he offered some detailed insights on Tesla’s use of AI in developing its Autopilot features.

Now Karpathy is featured in a new video in which he describes how Tesla is using PyTorch, an open-source machine learning library, to develop full self-driving capabilities for its vehicles, including Navigate on Autopilot and Smart Summon.

A look at Tesla’s Autopilot (Image: Tesla)

Karpathy explains that, unlike other companies working on self-driving, Tesla doesn’t use lidar or high-definition maps, so the Autopilot system relies on AI to parse information from the eight cameras mounted around the vehicle. Tesla is a fairly vertically integrated company, so it has control of the “full stack” when it comes to AI. The machine learning process is built around “hydranets,” so called because each has a shared backbone and multiple heads (like the Hydra of Greek mythology). Karpathy demonstrates how Tesla’s Smart Summon feature uses hydranets to figure out how to negotiate a parking lot.

Andrej Karpathy discusses the development of Tesla’s Autopilot and Smart Summon features (YouTube: PyTorch)

Karpathy’s talk gets very technical very quickly — only those with a background in machine learning are likely to be able to follow the full story here. However, even we laypeople can appreciate the incredible complexity of teaching a computer to drive a car. According to Karpathy, compiling a full build of Autopilot 2.0 involves some 48 different networks, 1,000 distinct predictions, and 70,000 GPU hours. And, of course, this is no one-time project — the software is continuously being improved, so it must be frequently re-compiled and updated.

This continuous improvement is driven by the massive amounts of data pouring in from the fleet of Teslas on the world’s roads — an asset no other company working on autonomous driving enjoys. Karpathy tells us that the Navigate on Autopilot feature has now accumulated over a billion miles of real-world usage in over 50 countries, including 200,000 automated lane changes. The Smart Summon feature has been used in over 500,000 sessions in the short time since it was introduced. Keep this figure in mind the next time some pundit declares Smart Summon a failure because of a handful of YouTube videos of comical parking lot mishaps.
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LEGO Cybertruck, Cybertruck Sporks, & A Cybertruck Snapchat Filter

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LEGO Cybertruck, Cybertruck Sporks, & A Cybertruck Snapchat Filter

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Since Team Tesla decided to unveil the Cybertruck just before a major holiday centered around family and eating, it’s natural that tools such as Cybertruck eating utensils and memes such as the Cyberturkey have come about. See some of those below. However, my favorite spinoffs was not related to Thanksgiving at all, and I want one — LEGO Cybertruck is one of the coolest ideas to come from the Tesla Cybertruck unveiling.

Lego Cybertruck
LEGO Cybertruck could become one of those LEGO toys you step on in the middle of the night. And let’s admit it, saying that “I stepped on a Cybertruck on my way to the bathroom” has an interesting ring to it. No pain, no gain, right? Cybertruck has been submitted as a LEGO Idea and needs 10,000 supporters in order to be reviewed by the LEGO Group. That shouldn’t be too hard.

The Proposal for LEGO Cybertruck
The idea was proposed by BrickinNick, who writes that many different elements and functions of the Tesla Cybertruck could create a really unique LEGO build. The proposal says that opening the passenger doors, a fold or slide-out ramp, opening charging ports, steering, suspension, a full interior, the Tesla ATV, and other aspects of the Cybertruck could be integrated into the LEGO Cybertruck and could be possible future project updates that would help create the brick version of an all-electric vehicle. The dimensions are 35.6 cm long, 15.2 cm wide, and 12.7 cm high (14 inches long, six inches wide, and five inches high.)

I was supporter 1,266. To support this project is really easy. You don’t need a credit card and don’t need to pay anything. Just simply click here and support it. You do need a LEGO account. We have 604 days left as of this writing to get this supported. I may not want to step on a LEGO Cybertruck myself, but for those of you with kids, this would be a cool building experience for them.

Cybertruck Snapchat Filter
Did you know there is a Cybertruck Snapchat filter? I haven’t really been into the Snapchat scene and only downloaded it to check out this filter, which I used to “drive” on Elon Musk’s Twitter page. The Snapchat filter isn’t easily accessible through the Snapchat app, but you can unlock it by going here in your mobile browser.

Cyber Sporks
“Model 3 Experience” on Twitter posted jokingly that Tesla is now taking preorders for its new flatware set, available in 2025. To be honest, I think Tesla should actually do this, but make them available for 2020 since it’s next month. I think the more interesting piece is the spork.

Cyber Dinner
Perhaps you could eat your Cybertruck with the Cyber Flatware. Greg Milano has a law degree, works in real estate, has studied art history and architecture, but on Twitter will forever be known as the creator of Cybertruck Mashed Potatoes. Yes, Greg has made the Tesla Cybertruck edible. He tells CNN that he is just a big kid and that “Pablo Picasso summed it up well: ‘Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.'”

Just don’t pass Franz the peas.

One of the things that Elon Musk is known for is how to get people to talk about his products without actually creating ads. He does this by thinking outside the box. Think about it, would you actually throw steel balls at your car windows? No, unless you’re in an altered state of mind or feeling really destructive. Further, I am sure Elon and Franz didn’t plan to actually crack the windows of the Cybertruck, but this certainly got a lot of attention and helped make the Cybertruck one of the most-talked-about things at Thanksgiving dinners.

While you run over your friend with the Cybertruck Snapchat filter, or look at flatware from a different angle, know that every time you talk about Tesla is helping Tesla cement itself as a household name — one that is needed to help humanity work its way out of a climate crisis.
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15 Top Products For Tesla Owners

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15 Top Products For Tesla Owners

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It’s a thrilling feeling when you take delivery of your first Tesla. There’s that new car smell. The serene silence of having no internal combustion engine. The ultra-smooth acceleration. The addictive torque when you stomp on the accelerator. However, looking at your perfect all-new, all-electric machine might leave you feeling like something is still missing.

“MaiOnHigh” on top of her Model 3 (Source: MaiOnHigh)

Why? No matter how careful you are, a new Tesla might become less-than-perfect with all the typical wear-and-tear inflicted after owning any car for some time. So, what can you do to protect your Tesla? Are there any cool Tesla-related gadgets? What about spoiling yourself with some holiday Tesla gifts? When it comes to Tesla accessories, let’s check out some “Top 5” lists to make you feel whole again.

Car cover for the Tesla Model 3 (Image: EVANNEX)

Top 5 Vehicle Protection Products
So, what are the top 5 products to protect your Tesla?

Scraping or scuffing your Tesla wheels may lower resale value, look messy, or worse — so be sure to avoid “curb rash” with rim protection. Protect your vegan leather with seat covers. In the sun, keep your car cool with sunshades. In the snow, all-weather floor mats defend against the slushy sleet/mud that mess up your Tesla’s floor. Regardless of weather, a Tesla car cover can protect against the elements.

Kim from LikeTesla saved her Tesla rims using Wheel Bands to defend against curb rash incidents (YouTube: LikeTesla)

Top 5 “Gadgets” for Tesla Owners
Next up, what are the top 5 gadgets for Tesla owners?

Lexie Janson is a tech reviewer, drone racer, and python developer and goes by the pseudonym “MaiOnHigh” on her popular YouTube channel. As a Model 3 owner, she provides her own curated list (see video below). Her picks: Chrome Trunk Molding, Trunk Lift, Frunk Lift, LED Lighting Upgrade, and Dual Qi Charger.

Lexie’s nod to a few cool “gadgets” for your Tesla (Youtube: MaiOnHigh)

Top 5 Holiday Gifts for Tesla Owners
Finally, with Christmas (and Hanukah) fast-approaching, what are the top 5 holiday gifts for Tesla owners? Keep ’em dry with a reverse umbrella and safe with a grab handle multi-tool. And manners, please — be sure to abide by the proper EV charging etiquette with charging hangtags and courtesy notices.

The ultimate comic book for those Tesla, SpaceX, and Elon Musk fans in your life (Source: The Adventures of Starman)

How do you spice up your home, workplace, and garage so you can showcase your Tesla street cred? Easy, display true Tesla pride with a 3D LED lamp.

Or, what about a gorgeous collector’s item for those of us who grew up reading comic books? Alas, my (personal) favorite gift of all — for the diehard Tesla/SpaceX fan, get a signed and numbered Starman comic book.

Originally published on EVANNEX, with slight modification.
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Tesla Deliveries: From DIY Trailers In 2012 To Price-Shifting Leadership In 2019 — Tesla Inside Out, Part Trois

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Tesla Deliveries: From DIY Trailers In 2012 To Price-Shifting Leadership In 2019 — Tesla Inside Out, Part Trois

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Resuming our “Tesla Inside Out” series, this video picks up where David Havasi and I left off last time, chuckling about a wild DIY Tesla delivery story. David and a team of early 2012 employees built a trailer to deliver early Model S’s without having any real clue what they were doing. Luckily, they got the job done. He also mentioned a funny story about a Miami delivery truck in highlighting their overall novice delivery truck awareness back in 2012.

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This provided the perfect opportunity for me to bring up a story I’ve never reported before, based on a conversation I had this summer with the owner of a vehicle shipping company. He told me that it used to cost more to ship a car from the US East Coast to the West Coast, but because of how many Model 3’s Tesla sells and how much it has sucked up vehicle delivery capacity from west to east, it’s now more expensive to ship a car from the West Coast to the East Coast.

We talked and laughed about how crazy it is that in 2012 David and gang were trying to figure out how to build a trailer to ship cars, wheels were rolling off of delivery vehicles, they had to figure out who on the team had a wrench and who had forklift experience, and then 6–7 years later, Tesla has grown to be such a force that it has strongly influenced vehicle shipping prices and flipped the market in terms of which direction it’s cheaper for any company to ship a car in the USA.

David also talked about early delivery targets. They were delivering to people’s homes back in 2012, and each delivery person had a target of just two deliveries a day. If you look back at 2012 sales data, you can see how that makes sense, but it’s unfathomable today with ~100,000 deliveries per quarter.

That led into David describing the crazy tight space at the early Queens service center, the “Tesla Tetris” challenge of stuffing Teslas into small spaces, and the risky work of getting Teslas on trailers next to a fast, busy highway. He also told us about the unusual challenge of working to schedule Model S deliveries as Hurricane Sandy hit. The story even involved David’s first experience with Uber.

Moving on to the end of the year, we started to discuss New Year’s Eve 2012. To set the stage a bit, I provided some context about Tesla’s state at the time (as I saw it from the outside), some challenging hits it was taking in the media, and the fact that it was on the brink of collapse. David mentioned in response that they were so in the weeds focused on getting vehicles to customers that they didn’t really notice all of that, but that it was also “abundantly clear” that every single delivery mattered. From David’s perspective, the focus was just 100% on “deliver these f*in cars” and make sure to give customers the attention they needed with such a young company and so much up in the air to leave them feeling good about the experience (and make it all the way through to delivery). It is certainly interesting — and I think the first time I’ve heard — the situation back in 2012 from the delivery teams’ perspective and how customized their relationship with early buyers was.

I then highlighted the somewhat personal approach to delivery I received with our fairly young Model 3. Tesla employee Sean Ford kept me updated every day on where the car was, which I hugely appreciated. That’s apparently not normal, but it definitely should be, and I think Tesla should offer much more opportunity for customers to track their cars after ordering and before delivery. That pulled another very funny story out of David, who explained that, back in the day, even Tesla delivery specialists couldn’t track cars as they made their way across the US! They finally got the capability to do so after a conference call with George Blankenship in which someone brought up the issue and suggested activating the GPS capability in the cars to be able to see where they are at any moment. (David’s telling of the story is quite funny, so I definitely recommend listening to this, which starts at 27:30 into the video or podcast above.)

David also explained his pitch that Tesla delivery centers should be like “TeslaLand” — a mini version of Disneyland or Legoland for Tesla, something fun and interesting for people who clearly like or love Tesla and would enjoy learning a bit more about it while they wait to get their cars. I think this is a great idea, so we’ll have to come back to it and feature the idea more prominently.

At last, we got to the 2012 New Year’s Eve story. You have to watch or listen starting at 34:40 to hear that one.

In the last few minutes of this episode, I got a full rundown of David’s role changes at Tesla over the course of his time there (2012–2019), just to help set the stage for what’s coming in future episodes of “Tesla Inside Out.”

If you’d like to buy a Tesla Model 3, Model S, or Model X and get some free Supercharging miles, feel free to use my special, magical, unicorn-blessed referral code: https://ts.la/zachary63404. You can also get a $100 discount on Tesla solar with that code. There is currently no use for a referral code when putting down a reservation for a Cybertruck or Model Y.
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Zach has long-term investments in Tesla [TSLA] — after years of covering solar and EVs, he simply has a lot of faith in this company and feels like it is a good cleantech company to invest in. But he offers no investment advice and does not recommend investing in Tesla or any other company.

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