All of the marketing and glamor was Elon, but JB Straubel was the engineering
genius that made Tesla happen! He's continuing his contribution by creating
this new recycling business that should make EV's even more sustainable. I
really recommend reading this article about a humble genius that made Tesla
happen. He kind of reminds me of Lee Hart who has helped so many EV convertors
over the past several decades! I know Lee doesn't post much because of email
issues, but I think he still reads the EVDL. Thanks to JB and Lee for making
EV's happen! I would also like to thank David Roden for keeping the EVDL
alive! I've been a member since 1997 and still read every post!
On Tuesday, June 21, 2022 at 10:33:57 PM EDT, Mr. Sharkey via EV
<ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote:
An interesting read, I'll be forwarding this to several Muskiphiles
who think that the world revolves around Elon, and who've neglected
to consider others in the Tesla sphere who actually made the
technology possible.
Here's a link to the original article:
https://time.com/6176778/jb-straubel-battery-problem/
In September of 2001, JB and I were working out a plan to caravan our
two Rabbit pushers up Interstate 5 to Woodburn for the NEDRA drags.
In the end, his schedule got so compressed, that he may not have made
the event at all. much less with his car and trailer. I ended up
hauling my pusher there behind my pickup truck after a small plasma
fire annihilated the field control relay in my EV.
Moral of this story: Never randomly press down on contactors in your
controller circuitry when the circuits are energized!
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