Axion Power Concentrator 238: May 21: Axion Power Reports First Quarter Results For 2013 [View instapost]
Renim, Are you familiar with the status of Maxwell's requirement to file a compliance plan for getting their filing up to date by May 20th. Do you happen to know the status? Don't follow them that closely but I'm watching like a good vulture! Thanks.
Axion Power Concentrator 238: May 21: Axion Power Reports First Quarter Results For 2013 [View instapost]
Que lastima. Your rounds give you some great contacts. Plus I think you'd find it an interesting very part time job given your interests. Just imagine if E-Power turns into a 20K unit/year contract 4-5 years out. You may get nominated for North America's most competitive salesman of the decade! :)
Axion Power Concentrator 238: May 21: Axion Power Reports First Quarter Results For 2013 [View instapost]
Great, One of Axion's first missions is getting "tanked".
On a more serious note keep us informed on the outcome. Removing the chastity belt from the Axion Warehouse might be a good sign. Also, When he calls back, put in a good word for Rick K. You might just start another trend.
Any interest in technical sales on the side? Least they could do is buy you dinner once in awhile! :)
Axion Power Concentrator 238: May 21: Axion Power Reports First Quarter Results For 2013 [View instapost]
Just one more post from someone who's experience mirrors Dr. Buiel's experience driving the Bimmer. This SS review is pretty close to the 10 or so others I've reviewed.
2013 BMW X3 xDrive28i Review
"Furthermore there’s the absolutely infuriating engine start/stop feature. Its abrupt nature is unbecoming of the luxury price-tag and appeal, and every passenger in the car always asked what was wrong when the engine shuddered off, and then back on at stoplights, or in stop-and-go traffic. While the function is defeatable, it can’t be turned off by default and a short test without the engine turning on and off changed the fuel economy by about 1 mile per gallon. The start-stop is annoying and doesn’t seem worthwhile."
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HTL, It does stink from a public perspective to have this hanging over your name. That being said, When you're a start-up company things can go wrong. It is not a wise choice to give this cushion up early. Musk's hubris is causing him to make a very poor business decision. Pride cometh before...?
I still claim to have called the top. But since I have no money in there I'll just call it early interested party watchin'. I do wish him well and hope that he can get some of this to filter down where it makes sense in the medium time frame. Without taxpayer support that is. Always good for another lawsuit I guess?
Axion Power Concentrator 238: May 21: Axion Power Reports First Quarter Results For 2013 [View instapost]
Too many negative connotations associated with government backing. Just ask GM. Plus the great salesman can turn it into another positive in the public eyes.
Musk says Tesla probably will pay off U.S. loan Wednesday
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Dr. Buiel, I agree with you. This should have been handled in another way like filing it as a trade secret where it does not get displayed to the public. Enhances the opportunities for end arounds.
Axion Power Concentrator 238: May 21: Axion Power Reports First Quarter Results For 2013 [View instapost]
So are you saying that Europe would be testing advanced LAB's from Axion or that the testing might not be the VDA test you reference. I can't for the life of me think that BMW is looking to Axion for anything other than PbC. Makes no sense to me.
Axion Power Concentrator 237: May 16: Axion Power Reports First Quarter Results For 2013 [View instapost]
I think it's also important to note that automakers are always presented a plethora of options that they can offer customers to enhance the many ways that a vehicles has to be marketed. It's not easy to choose which ones to add and which to remove to make sure the marketing folks are given a full portfolio while maintaining a value proposition for the end consumer against a backdrop of competitive offerings.
The good and bad thing for Axion is that we have seen a, shall I use the phrase, sea change in more of the primary automotive markets toward efficiency. But while people want this they don't want to pay for it in their driving experience nor their wallet. It's good because many of the technologies that are offering higher efficiencies require an enhanced electric system which includes storage. This is pushing the engineers to look for better storage but remember that nobody wants to pay for it. The bad thing, short term, for the storage guys is that there are many layers that offer improved performance at a reasonable or reduction in cost. But phasing all of this into your current architecture over time without just starting from scratch is expensive as heck and time consuming. You can't just throw away tens of billions of dollars in capacity and stop selling vehicles while you take a few years to add everything in. Plus the returns on the product are not high enough to pay for it over a short time frame. It all has to be layered in from the old to the new. We're just waiting for the right layer when the AGM battery just looks even more horrific than it does today and the vehicle functions are advanced enough to pay for and force the inclusion of better storage.
BMW just said it's coming soon enough which unfortunately for us is not Axionista soon. But I can smell it!
Axion Power Concentrator 237: May 16: Axion Power Reports First Quarter Results For 2013 [View instapost]
John, Agreed and yes I've heard it from you and many others at least once. ;)
I'm sure someone as proud as TG would have hoped he could accomplish selling this based on his own talent set but he's going to feel a whole lot different walking into negotiations now with some muscle behind him. Still a difficult task but the ear muffs and "Beats" will not be on while he's talking to potential mates. Bringing a product and a market to the table is an easier sell. I think? :))
Axion Power Concentrator 238: May 21: Axion Power Reports First Quarter Results For 2013 [View instapost]
John, The point here is that the salesman with a technical product is really more an engineering function than a sales function. An engineer plus if you will. He/She has to understand the product fully, understand the targeted applications and how the product can be integrated, he needs to know the customer and what their technical challenges are along with their targeted metrics, he needs to understand the competition and their strengths/weaknesses along with his own. And so forth. These are really more engineering positions vs what we often think of as sales/marketing positions.
Axion Power Concentrator 238: May 21: Axion Power Reports First Quarter Results For 2013 [View instapost]
That's going to be one interesting program. And oh, do me a favor, be nice to your battery supplier. ;)
Axion Power Concentrator 238: May 21: Axion Power Reports First Quarter Results For 2013 [View instapost]
Axion Power Concentrator 238: May 21: Axion Power Reports First Quarter Results For 2013 [View instapost]
Axion Power Concentrator 238: May 21: Axion Power Reports First Quarter Results For 2013 [View instapost]
On a more serious note keep us informed on the outcome. Removing the chastity belt from the Axion Warehouse might be a good sign. Also, When he calls back, put in a good word for Rick K. You might just start another trend.
Any interest in technical sales on the side? Least they could do is buy you dinner once in awhile! :)
Axion Power Concentrator 238: May 21: Axion Power Reports First Quarter Results For 2013 [View instapost]
2013 BMW X3 xDrive28i Review
"Furthermore there’s the absolutely infuriating engine start/stop feature. Its abrupt nature is unbecoming of the luxury price-tag and appeal, and every passenger in the car always asked what was wrong when the engine shuddered off, and then back on at stoplights, or in stop-and-go traffic. While the function is defeatable, it can’t be turned off by default and a short test without the engine turning on and off changed the fuel economy by about 1 mile per gallon. The start-stop is annoying and doesn’t seem worthwhile."
http://bit.ly/119KUon
Axion Power Concentrator 238: May 21: Axion Power Reports First Quarter Results For 2013 [View instapost]
He can almost buy himself a great payoff unless he slips on a banana peel.
Axion Power Concentrator 238: May 21: Axion Power Reports First Quarter Results For 2013 [View instapost]
Let me throw my chicken bones for direction!
Axion Power Concentrator 238: May 21: Axion Power Reports First Quarter Results For 2013 [View instapost]
I still claim to have called the top. But since I have no money in there I'll just call it early interested party watchin'. I do wish him well and hope that he can get some of this to filter down where it makes sense in the medium time frame. Without taxpayer support that is. Always good for another lawsuit I guess?
Axion Power Concentrator 238: May 21: Axion Power Reports First Quarter Results For 2013 [View instapost]
Musk says Tesla probably will pay off U.S. loan Wednesday
http://bit.ly/ZaXYzM
Axion Power Concentrator 238: May 21: Axion Power Reports First Quarter Results For 2013 [View instapost]
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Axion Power Concentrator 237: May 16: Axion Power Reports First Quarter Results For 2013 [View instapost]
The good and bad thing for Axion is that we have seen a, shall I use the phrase, sea change in more of the primary automotive markets toward efficiency. But while people want this they don't want to pay for it in their driving experience nor their wallet. It's good because many of the technologies that are offering higher efficiencies require an enhanced electric system which includes storage. This is pushing the engineers to look for better storage but remember that nobody wants to pay for it. The bad thing, short term, for the storage guys is that there are many layers that offer improved performance at a reasonable or reduction in cost. But phasing all of this into your current architecture over time without just starting from scratch is expensive as heck and time consuming. You can't just throw away tens of billions of dollars in capacity and stop selling vehicles while you take a few years to add everything in. Plus the returns on the product are not high enough to pay for it over a short time frame. It all has to be layered in from the old to the new. We're just waiting for the right layer when the AGM battery just looks even more horrific than it does today and the vehicle functions are advanced enough to pay for and force the inclusion of better storage.
BMW just said it's coming soon enough which unfortunately for us is not Axionista soon. But I can smell it!
Axion Power Concentrator 237: May 16: Axion Power Reports First Quarter Results For 2013 [View instapost]
I'm sure someone as proud as TG would have hoped he could accomplish selling this based on his own talent set but he's going to feel a whole lot different walking into negotiations now with some muscle behind him. Still a difficult task but the ear muffs and "Beats" will not be on while he's talking to potential mates. Bringing a product and a market to the table is an easier sell. I think? :))
Axion Power Concentrator 238: May 21: Axion Power Reports First Quarter Results For 2013 [View instapost]
Axion Power Concentrator 238: May 21: Axion Power Reports First Quarter Results For 2013 [View instapost]
Eos Raises $15M for Zinc-Air Grid Batteries
http://bit.ly/1180Tco