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Sunday, February 23, 2025

Tesla Engineering VP Lars Moravy


Tesla’s Vice President of Engineering Lars Moravy joins me for a candid dialog spanning a wide-ranging variety of matters, from the brand new Mannequin Y to his reminiscences of pivotal moments in Tesla historical past to the next-gen Roadster and even the upcoming more-affordable automobiles. Get pleasure from!

Timecodes:

6:39 Interview begins

7:36 Lars on when he first received into automobiles

9:42 Remembering his first job within the auto business, at Honda, and what led him to Tesla

14:01 Early days at Tesla

15:19 He knew the Mannequin S was going to be a particular automobile

17:22 Engineering the falcon-wing doorways of the Mannequin X

19:34 The charger snake prototype and its “hubris”

20:21 The Cybercab will likely be street journey succesful

23:26 Essentially the most satisfying car venture he’s labored on

26:07 Why Tesla doesn’t have any plans to construct any extra HFS autos

26:43 The Cybercab isn’t “painted” within the conventional sense

28:44 Remembering Mannequin 3’s “manufacturing hell”

31:20 Tesla absolutely anticipated the Mannequin Y to turn into the world’s best-selling car

33:50 Constructing the next-gen Roadster prototype

35:36 Standing replace on the next-gen Roadster

40:55 Learnings from the Mannequin 3 refresh which were utilized to the brand new Mannequin Y

43:25 Balancing between pushing the envelope and taking part in it protected on the brand new Mannequin Y

45:42 The explanation the brand new Mannequin Y doesn’t have steer by wire

47:25 Why the brand new Mannequin Y doesn’t have a 48v structure

48:54 The standing of the Mannequin S and Mannequin X

50:45 What Lars every day drives

51:50 Why the brand new Mannequin 3 doesn’t use gigacastings

52:38 Lars’s favourite piece of engineering on any of the automobiles

54:58 Will the entrance bumper digital camera come to the S, X, and three?

55:09 Will the flip sign stalk return to any of the opposite autos in addition to Mannequin Y?

55:38 A teaser for the upcoming more-affordable autos

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