{"id":7059,"date":"2019-11-29T17:37:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T17:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=7059"},"modified":"2019-11-29T17:37:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T17:37:20","slug":"teslas-cybertruck-almost-does-two-things-ive-said-for-a-long-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=7059","title":{"rendered":"tesla\u2019s cybertruck [almost] does two things i\u2019ve said for a long time"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cTelsa will add solar power to the Cybertruck to generate 15 miles per day. Fold-out solar wings for the Cybertruck would generate 30 to 40 miles per day. The average daily commute in the US averages 30 miles per day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><cite>https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2019\/11\/solar-power-tesla-cybertruck-could-have-free-15-40-mile-daily-commutes.html (https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1197889310550216704)<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Or remember my comments on SolarCity <a href=\"https:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2016\/06\/26\/teslas-solarcity-bid-isnt-about-energy-production\/#.XeFB5CVOlgo\">3 years ago<\/a>? <\/p>\n<p>Offering a solar option (or standard) tonneau cover for the bed is an absolute no-brainer. When you own the solar production plant, why <em>wouldn&#8217;t<\/em> you include it?<\/p>\n<p>But more than this, the multi-motor options are a real-world implementation of something I&#8217;ve been saying for 20+ years: it makes far more sense to put a motor at (or very near) each wheel or at least axel in an electric vehicle than it does to have one that&#8217;s distributing its work everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, running the cabling to each wheel\/axel is a <em>little<\/em> complicated &#8211; but it&#8217;s a lot <em>less<\/em> complicated than drivetrains.<\/p>\n<p>from antipaucity https:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2019\/11\/29\/teslas-cybertruck-almost-does-two-things-ive-said-for-a-long-time\/<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTelsa will add solar power to the Cybertruck to generate 15 miles per day. Fold-out solar wings for the Cybertruck would generate 30 to 40 miles per day. The average daily commute in the US averages 30 miles per day.\u201d https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2019\/11\/solar-power-tesla-cybertruck-could-have-free-15-40-mile-daily-commutes.html (https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1197889310550216704) Or remember my comments on SolarCity 3 years ago? Offering a solar option &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=7059\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">tesla\u2019s cybertruck [almost] does two things i\u2019ve said for a long time<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[95],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-7059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-antipaucity"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7060,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7059\/revisions\/7060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7059"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=7059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}