Constants and variables 109, motor gaff edition
The REAL reporters who cover Tesla are hitting hard on an "endurance test" but they're missing the more serious deception.

Elon is boasting about running the motor and gearbox from a Model 3 for a simulated million miles at steady RPM.... but he makes it sound like the car itself ran a million miles. Well, that's sneaky but it's an answerable charge. Elon could say that the motor was actually tested and actually endured. It still indicates quality and reliability.

Here's the more important deception: THE MOTOR ISN'T THE PROBLEM.

All electric motors run steadily for LONG periods of time. Many refrigerators run 50 years without needing repair of the motor or gearbox. This is harder than the Tesla run because a fridge is starting and stopping every hour. Huge motors in industrial systems run for many decades under heavy loads.

ANY electric car will need less motor service than ANY gas car. Simple physics. An electric motor has one moving part that turns smoothly. A gas motor has dozens of moving parts that are slamming back and forth, enduring 3000 EXPLOSIONS per minute.

Reliability problems specific to an electric car have always been in the batteries** and switching systems. Aside from that, every vehicle has a body and chassis and suspension and tires. Teslas have big problems in these areas because Elon always favors theory over experience. Carmakers have learned how to forge and mold and assemble those parts by 100 years of experimentation, which Elon threw out the window because he knows everything better than everyone.

EXPERIENCE SURVIVES. THEORY KILLS.

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**Batteries: In fact the battery problem was ALREADY SOLVED a hundred years ago with nickel-iron batteries, which have an unlimited lifetime. Another old solution that Elon tossed aside in order to fuck things up with theories.

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