Tesla Diner
Jul. 27th, 2025 01:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithELON MUSK’S TESLA DINER IS THE CYBERTRUCK OF RESTAURANTS
The retro-futuristic Hollywood establishment opens as a tourist trap whose nicest amenity is probably the parking lot.
For such a smart guy, he can be awful dumb sometimes. There is a logical, effective combination of "Tesla" and "eatery."
Terramagne-America has a much bigger network of electric car chargers, and most of those are bundled with places to do things other than sit in the car waiting. The location notes for "In the Depths of Your Grief" reference programs to preserve small-town gas stations, which often have a store or eatery attached, by adding green energy infrastructure such as ethanol and later electric car chargers. Somewhere I have, but could not find, notes for the nationwide network and how the chargers are commonly included at rest stops and eateries. You pull over, plug in your car, take a leak, get something to eat, and by the time you're done it's fully charged. It works anywhere people will be spending time, such as a library, community center, etc. But it's most effective at things like eateries, rest stops, or roadside attractions where it's easy to catch tourists passing through.
From an electric car company's perspective, there's no need to own an eatery or gas station. You just make deals with the ones that already exist. You get to roll out equipment that makes your cars more attractive, and they get a value-added parking lot amenity that encourages customers to choose their establishment over competitors. That network, attached to extant infrastructure for travel, neatly solves the problem of range anxiety.
The retro-futuristic Hollywood establishment opens as a tourist trap whose nicest amenity is probably the parking lot.
For such a smart guy, he can be awful dumb sometimes. There is a logical, effective combination of "Tesla" and "eatery."
Terramagne-America has a much bigger network of electric car chargers, and most of those are bundled with places to do things other than sit in the car waiting. The location notes for "In the Depths of Your Grief" reference programs to preserve small-town gas stations, which often have a store or eatery attached, by adding green energy infrastructure such as ethanol and later electric car chargers. Somewhere I have, but could not find, notes for the nationwide network and how the chargers are commonly included at rest stops and eateries. You pull over, plug in your car, take a leak, get something to eat, and by the time you're done it's fully charged. It works anywhere people will be spending time, such as a library, community center, etc. But it's most effective at things like eateries, rest stops, or roadside attractions where it's easy to catch tourists passing through.
From an electric car company's perspective, there's no need to own an eatery or gas station. You just make deals with the ones that already exist. You get to roll out equipment that makes your cars more attractive, and they get a value-added parking lot amenity that encourages customers to choose their establishment over competitors. That network, attached to extant infrastructure for travel, neatly solves the problem of range anxiety.
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