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! _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/sub/index.html CONFIG: http://lists.evdl.org/options.cgi/ev-evdl.org ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20220622/e842a187/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/sub/index.html CONFIG: http://lists.evdl.org/options.cgi/ev-evdl.org ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org