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You can tell the big auto makers are worried because these “hit-piece”articles are showing up more and more.

Here are a few fun facts:

Half of Tesla cars and most Chinese EVs now use Lithium-Iron-Phosphate batteries. No cobalt or nickel at all. They are working on sodium ion batteries so even the lithium will be gone.

The next generation of Tesla cars and trucks will use 800 volt architecture which will cut the amount of copper required.

The next generation of Tesla motors will use no rare earth materials.

Teslas are the safest cars made. They even have fewer car fires than ICE cars. Some idiot in California recently tried to kill himself and his wife and 2 children by driving of a 250 foot cliff. The children in the backseat were uninjured. The man and his wife had minor injuries.

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Teslas are the safest cars made. They even have fewer car fires than ICE cars. Some idiot in California recently tried to kill himself and his wife and 2 children by driving of a 250 foot cliff.

That happened not far from where I live. Not just any cliff, but Devils Slide. Notorious for being almost vertical and all rocks and boulders. Most people die if they sail over the cliff. These Tesla occupants survived despite the driver going over the cliff at high speed and crashing into boulders 250 feet below.