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ENGINEERING NEWS 🚨 Tesla has patented a clever charging line: a solid metal bar that packs twice the conductor into the same space 🆒 When a Tesla fast charges, a torrent of power has to cross a short stretch of the car, from the charge port to the battery. That stretch must stay cool, stay electrically quiet, and squeeze past wheel wells and side panels, all at once. The usual tool for this job is a high-voltage cable, and a cable is flexible by nature. It can't hold a route by itself, so clips and brackets have to pin it in place along the way, and it needs clearance around it to shed heat. It also needs shielding so its electrical noise doesn't bleed into the electronics around it. As charging power climbs into the hundreds of kilowatts, the cable has to grow fatter, fighting for space the car doesn't have. Every terminal fastened onto a cable end adds another joint, and in a big cable assembly a failure can be hard to track down and costly to repair. Tesla's answer is to stop treating this path as a cable and build it as one stiff, three-layer bar. It starts with a solid rod of aluminum or copper. In the version drawn, its cross section is about 200 square millimeters, which works out to a rod roughly 16 millimeters across. Insulation such as cross-linked polyethylene, PVC, or silicone goes over the rod in a layer that can be half a millimeter to two millimeters thick. The insulated rod slides into a metal shield tube just wide enough to fit over it. Tesla then pushes the whole assembly through a compression die, which squeezes the tube down until it presses tightly against the insulation. What comes out is no longer three loose parts but a single bar. Because each layer is formed tightly over the one beneath it, the layers brace one another as the bar bends, so the whole thing can be shaped in three dimensions without coming apart. Like tubing in a pipe shop, the bar can be CNC bent along several axes, even at lengths beyond two meters. Each bend traces the car's interior, curving around a wheel well or slipping under the floor and side panels, hidden from the people inside. Tesla runs two of these bars side by side, one positive and one negative. Once bent, the bar holds its shape on its own. In some versions it is stiff enough to be supported only at its two ends, carrying its own weight in between, which lets the clips and brackets a cable would need drop out of the design. The ends get the same one-piece treatment. Instead of fastening a separate terminal onto the conductor, Tesla can forge the end of the rod itself into a flat tab and put a hole through it, so a bolt clamps it straight onto the charge inlet at one end and the battery connector at the other. The terminal and the conductor are the same piece of metal with no joint between them, which helps make the connection more reliable. The outer tube pulls double duty. It blocks electromagnetic interference and guards the bar against damage, while a rigid ground conductor ties it to the vehicle body, helping the car's isolation-loss detection system keep watch over the high-voltage circuit. Packing the metal this tightly pays off. For the same packaging volume, the bar can hold more than twice the conductor cross section of a cable and deliver twice or more the thermal performance. The design supports 350 kW charging at 400 volts while keeping the shield at or below 100°C, with fewer parts and less mass than a cable assembly. Plenty of owners may already carry one. In the Model 3 and Model Y, the DC fast-charging link from the charge port to the high-voltage battery is a busbar rather than a cable, so a version of this design could be riding along in cars on the road today. The same approach scales up. A set of these bars can wind through the battery enclosure of a semi truck, reaching out to battery connectors along the way. So when that torrent of power slams into the charge port, it doesn’t have to wind through a cable pinned down by clips and brackets. It races straight to the battery through two bars of unbroken metal, bent to hug the body and stiff enough to hold that shape on their own. Between port and pack, the power never crosses a single joint.

Now that we are calmed down, here a list of all the wonderful news we learned about in today's earnings call

SpaceX CFO is spitting all the numbers off the dome, 3 minute monologue and going with no notes 🤯 new boss mode activated

What could @Tesla be worth in 2031? ARK’s long-awaited valuation just dropped. ark-invest.com/articles/valu…

IMPORTANT: Vote ALL of your shares. You should receive a notification **FOR EACH ACCOUNT** It's easy to overlook the additional emails from the same sender as the only difference may be the control number. @TeslaBoomerMama

RT @Tesla: Tesla shareholders: Our Annual Meeting is coming up on Dec 3rd This year, we’re asking you to vote “FOR” all three proposals on…

I’ve spent a few days thinking about the Tesla Roadster reveal and landed somewhere I haven’t seen much discussion. I’m neither a Tesla fanboy nor a Tesla hater. And I couldn’t care less whether what we saw technically qualifies as a flying car. Three takeaways: (1) The risk of that live demonstration going horribly wrong was real. Almost no CEO would willingly expose their company to that kind of public humiliation for a product with so little financial upside. Elon did. (2) That willingness to attempt the seemingly impossible is what makes Tesla special. It’s also arguably Elon’s greatest contribution to America. He’s helped bring back something we’ve lost. The American spirit of chasing big scary ideas that most people think are impossible. That mindset is spreading across a new generation of founders and its long term impact on America’s future could dwarf anything Tesla ever sells. I think this is deeply underappreciated. (3) Can we just acknowledge how insanely cool that moment was? We’ve reached a strange place culturally where even extraordinary feats of human ingenuity immediately become arguments about why they don’t count. Not everything needs to be a debate. Sometimes we should just be able to stand back together and marvel at what humans are capable of. I’ve been both bullish and critical of Tesla’s ambitions over the years. But watching Elon and his team push the boundaries of what’s possible reminds me why I’m glad we have him. Whether the Roadster ever makes Tesla a dollar or impacts $TSLA stock price is almost beside the point. We need more people willing to risk failure in pursuit of things the rest of us think are impossible. Because when they succeed we all win.

General Motors spent roughly $3 billion on advertising in 2025. Ford, around $2.7 billion. Toyota and Volkswagen, about $2 billion each. Tesla spends close to nothing. My rough estimate for what Tesla spent developing the new Roadster: about $3 billion. Could be $2 billion, could be $4 billion. Call it one year of GM’s ad budget. Now compare what each buys. GM gets a year of commercials people skip. Tesla gets a car lifting off the ground in front of a live audience, footage that runs everywhere for free, and a product people actually talk about. Ask which one makes you more likely to buy a Model Y. The Roadster may never be a big business. As marketing, it might be the most efficient spend in the industry. $TSLA

Here is the news article posted on CBS Austin. Please retweet and show our appreciation for the coverage. It is the beginning, and it will start the healing process between our community and the general public. @theXtakeover cbsaustin.com/news/tech-this…

True. You will be able to ask the Roadster to perform any of the tricks shown autonomously, as it will be sentient. Also, we will have a wild looping track (crazier even than Hot Wheels) at our Texas HQ where you can test out your Roadster.

🚨 AOC gets roasted in a brutal new meme as Tesla's flying Roadster soars right past her. The internet showed no mercy on this one. Somewhere, the Green New Deal just got lapped.

You blinked. It landed.

Democrats: the new Tesla Roadster has no practical purpose. Also, Democrats: we built a partial high speed rail line that requires you to fly off the end of it.

The fact that Tesla was able to keep the development of the Roadster a secret for so long is pretty impressive.

I only see comments about the Tesla Roadster on this post. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Someone is getting fired at Porsche.

The official FSD wave. 🙌

What a night at @thetakeover GIGA TEXAS by @teslalightshows, @nlds_DroneShows & sponsored by @play_tediddle! 🚀🇺🇸 An incredible combination of Teslas, lights, music and drones lighting up the Texas sky for #XTakeover 2026! A night we’ll never forget! 🔥 🎬 Watch the magic unfold! 👇 #XLightShows #TeslaLightShow #GigaTexas #Tesla #DroneShow

To the fellow Cybertruck owner in the Starbucks drive-thru in Utah today, thank you for picking up our order! One Cybertruck paying it forward to another made our whole day. Kindness like that sticks with you. 🙏