Elon Musk
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No, like he came to visit me at the Tesla Gigafactory in Austin and was telling me that it's impossible to have a long range semi truck.
No, like he came to visit me at the Tesla Gigafactory in Austin and was telling me that it's impossible to have a long range semi truck.
And I was like, well,
And I was like, well,
but we literally have them.
but we literally have them.
Um, and you can drive them and Pepsi is literally using them right now.
Um, and you can drive them and Pepsi is literally using them right now.
And you can drive them yourself or send someone, obviously Bill Gates is not going to drive it himself, but you can send a trusted person to drive the truck and verify that it can do the things that we say it's doing.
And you can drive them yourself or send someone, obviously Bill Gates is not going to drive it himself, but you can send a trusted person to drive the truck and verify that it can do the things that we say it's doing.
And it's like, no, no, it doesn't work.
And it's like, no, no, it doesn't work.
It doesn't work.
It doesn't work.
And I'm like,
And I'm like,
Okay, I'm kind of stuck there.
Okay, I'm kind of stuck there.
I was like, well, so it must be that you disagree with the watt hours per kilogram of the battery pack so that you must think that perhaps we can't achieve the energy density of the battery pack or that the watt hours per mile of the truck is too high.
I was like, well, so it must be that you disagree with the watt hours per kilogram of the battery pack so that you must think that perhaps we can't achieve the energy density of the battery pack or that the watt hours per mile of the truck is too high.