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Chris Cowan
@ChrisCowan_ · May 3, 2013
@elonmusk @TeslaMotors Will Chris Porritt be working on the Gen III or the new roadster?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 3, 2013
Chris is great. Took a long time for me to find someone w truly hardcore engineering skills, who fully understood the system.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 3, 2013
Am getting lots of questions about the big Supercharger announcement. Aiming to do that the week after next.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 3, 2013
Replying to @stoneymonster
Yes, this does put an indirect floor on resale value. Should help all owners.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 3, 2013
Tesla raises Model S resale value guarantee to highest in auto industry
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 3, 2013
Replying to @yatpay
Side boosters fall short & center core goes too far + Florida is heavily populated. Landing permission tricky :)
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Patrick Sullivan
@pataneous · May 3, 2013
@elonmusk Does the new resale value work for those of us who bought an S before the finance program existed? (Not that I would sell it).
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 3, 2013
We can't formally provide a guarantee w/o restating accounting, but I feel confident about the value anyway.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 3, 2013
Replying to @2552nsf
Yeah, that is super tricky. Will have to sacrifice a lot of payload to boost back or land on ocean platform.
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Sal Demir
@rebel_sal · May 3, 2013
@elonmusk
Please let me know if my article helped with "fixing the mistake",
it would mean the worlds to me!
and... rock on!!!
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 3, 2013
Yes, your article (and many others) rightly identified that we made a mistake. New financing is not perfect, but much better.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 3, 2013
Replying to @Alan_Nestos
The legs are nested tight against the body of the rocket in flight, so rotate about 120 degrees to deploy
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 3, 2013
Replying to @darma_setia
More likely that pigs will fly over the frozen wastes of Hell. Clarkson doesn't understand technology.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 3, 2013
Replying to @grub_down
We did a ton of testing until they could handle 4X legally required impact energy. Extremely tough.
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🐗 Giacomo Balli
@BigBalli · May 2, 2013
@elonmusk is it hydraulic?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 2, 2013
High pressure helium. Needs to be ultra light. All 4 legs together (~60 ft span) weigh less than Model S.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 2, 2013
F9R (pronounced F-niner) shows a little leg. Design is a nested, telescoping piston w A frame.
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Roulez Électrique
@roulezelectric · May 2, 2013
@elonmusk Part 4 of the 5 parts trilogy? The Superchargers announcement?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 2, 2013
This is about getting a prior announcement right. Not part 4 yet.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 2, 2013
Time to up the ante (and fix some mistakes). Tesla announcement tomorrow.
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Tim Stephenson
@astrostephenson · May 1, 2013
@elonmusk Is it true that it is 2017 before you can provide human transport to space on your Falcon 9 rocket? (according to Charles Bolden)
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 2, 2013
We're aiming for late 2015, but NASA needs to have overlapping capability to be safe. Would do the same
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Melissa Montoya
@MelissaMontoyaO · May 1, 2013
Hey @elonmusk why doesn't Anne Chinnery want media around in #Brownsville where you want to build #spacex launch site. @spacex
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 2, 2013
Anne's role is launch site engineering. Don't think she has anything against media -- just not her role.
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bhuwan
@realbhuwan · May 1, 2013
check out what the local #boston tesla model s owner's did this past Sunday (4/28/2013) @elonmusk @TeslaMotors
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 1, 2013
Cool :)
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Sal Demir
@rebel_sal · May 1, 2013
@elonmusk please read my article, more important you read it than it being published in NYT for me, thank you!
m.seekingalpha.com/article/1381001
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 1, 2013
Just read it. Good piece.
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Tom
@RealTomLangel · May 1, 2013
@elonmusk Do you envision TSLA as a dividend paying stock five years from now?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 1, 2013
Maybe a v long time from now. Paying div is a sign that a company cannot find good ways to spend money.
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