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Hello fellow gamers!

We are almost at 1000 signatures in the petition, as I have sent an email in preparation to send them the list of signatures we have accumulated so far. I also plan on reaching out to Psyonix and Elon to try and gain some more traction. The email is shared below.

Please consider signing the petition and sharing more to get more signatures and maybe we can make this really happen!

​

Thanks everyone ;)

​

Dear members of the board,

My name is Nik-- Luz----,

On behalf of the gaming community, I have began collecting signatures to get the Tesla Cybertruck implemented into a world famous game called Rocket League. Boasting an average of about 30,000 concurrent players per day, this game is comprised of digital soccer matches using rocket powered cars rather than human characters. Psyonix, the company who has developed the game, has a history of partnering with third party brands to bring fantasy cars into the game, such as the the Jurassic Park Jeep Wrangler, the Batmobile from Batman, the Delorean from Back to the Future, and the Ecto-1 from Ghostbusters. All of these partnerships have helped bring more money and players into the game, and more attention to the brands that have partnered. So far, we have collected almost 1000 signatures, and are getting more daily. Elon Musk has always been a hit with is fans, and seems to enjoy interacting with them, even for just the memes. We are all excited, and on the edge of our seats with hope that we can see the Tesla Cybertruck brought into the game. Here are a few select comments from some of the fans based on the original thread (which has been upvoted over 3000 times by the community):

Surkrut says : "I would gladly take a unique car design instead of all these samey supercars."

LinusNyren says: "A partnership would be awesome, DLC cars in rocket league, and then work with Tesla to port rocket league to the infotainment system. (They’re rumored to already working on porting unreal engine support)"

alancarey says: "Would like to see any of the Tesla vehicles added."

PointDexter2291 says: "As a Tesla owner I've been wondering for a long time why they don't have any Teslas in the game. They have everything else"

So, as you can see, fans are pretty excited about this whole idea, and ahy not? It would be a perfect storm of digital marketing.

I am also going to reach out to Psyonix, and hopefully Elon Musk himself, to try and get this pushed forward.

I wish you all the best, and your company is doing some amazing things! I look forward to your reply.

Warm regards,

Nikki Luzader

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The Mechanics of Market Manipulation

The crypto market's fragmented and decentralized structure can make it more vulnerable to manipulation, writes CoinDesk Research’s Galen Moore.

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The Chevrolet C8 Corvette Stingray Is a Loss Leader

The all-new mid-engine C8 Corvette’s impressive $59,995 starting price is only good for the first year, as we reported back in August, and unless it goes up by $20,000, Chevrolet will continue to lose money on low-trim cars, a senior GM source tells MotorTrend.

We had a feeling the $59,995 starting price was too good to be true, and a GM source confirmed as much to us explaining the price would rise for the 2021 model year. This isn’t much of a surprise, as the base price of a C7 rose nearly $2,000 in its second year and by another $2,000 the following year. While we still don’t know how much the C8’s price will rise in 2021, a more senior GM official tells us it would have to go through the roof in order to cover GM’s cost.

According to our source, the original budget for the C8 project assumed a starting price of $79,995. This is certainly reasonable considering the enormous amount of work needed to redesign the car into a mid-engine configuration, but it’s a huge jump from the C7. In order to keep customers from revolting, Chevy is taking it on the chin and willingly losing money on every C8 it sells for less than $80,000. No doubt a factor in the C8’s laundry list of options and dress-up parts is the hope buyers will load up their cars with extras and turn their $60,000 Stingrays into $80,000-plus Stingrays. The C8 Stingray Z71 3LT we tested rang up at $88,305.

More critical are the base prices of upcoming performance variants including Z06 and ZR1. According to our source, the sweet spot for profit and volume is between $80,000 and $100,000. Once the car crests six figures, our source says, sales volume drops off precipitously. This will be a trick for Chevrolet, because the C7 Z06 starts at $82,990, which doesn’t leave the company much room for an increase without upsetting customers and breaking out of the sweet spot in price and volume. The C7 ZR1, meanwhile, already starts at $135,090, so Chevrolet has more discretion to price the C8 ZR1 knowing full well it will be a low-volume car.

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Hyundai Nexo vs. (First-Gen) Toyota Mirai: Hydrogen Head-to-Head

Full disclosure: I remain firmly in the camp that thinks hydrogen is “the fuel of the future—and always will be.” Countless engineer/evangelists nevertheless continue beavering away inside GM, Honda, Hyundai, Toyota, and elsewhere striving to make a nuthin’-but-water-out-the-tailpipe future happen. Recent drives of the first-gen Toyota Mirai and latest Hyundai Nexo plus major pep-talks from the chief hydrogen boosters at Hyundai and Toyota prompted this re-examination of the state of the fuel cell art.

My Beef with Hydrogen

Hydrogen atoms are the Oedipus and Jocasta of molecular marriage. As an H2 couple, they hate each other and want nothing more than to split and hook up with oxygen or carbon or join some other unclaimed valency. Keeping them together and cooped up requires low temperatures, high pressures or both, and as the universe’s smallest molecules, they are Houdini-grade escape artists. This means that when you try to transport them in pipes or tanks, you invariably end up with substantially fewer molecules than you started out with. Hydrogen can’t be considered a “fuel;” it is an energy carrier—it takes energy to isolate it, and you get energy back from it in a fuel cell (or combustion engine, but the car crowd has given up on that). It can be pumped into a vehicle quicker than you can force a commensurate number of electrons into a chemical battery, but the energy itself is only as clean as the source/method of its production, and in the current landscape, hydrogen’s well-to-wheels cleanliness/efficiency picture isn’t much prettier than that of the national electric grid. And because a fuel cell creates water, operation at very low temperatures can be very tricky.

The Pros’ Rebuttals

As Hyundai’s vice president and head of fuel cell group, Sae Hoon Kim is as convinced of hydrogen’s inevitability as I am of its improbability. He cites the 60 million or so tons of hydrogen that are currently being produced and safely distributed globally per year for industrial use in the United States. He’s convinced that hydrogen is the most viable clean energy propulsion mode for vehicles sized between passenger cars and ships or planes (for which biofuels make the most sense) in terms of onboard packaging and refueling logistics. Furthermore, he believes the additional hydrogen needed to fuel a burgeoning transportation sector can in part be supplied by daily surplus wind and solar energy production, which the grid can’t store or use. He also sees this as a viable way for green-energy “have” countries (Australia, Saharan Africa, the Middle East, etc.) to export their surplus green energy to “have not” countries like Japan.

Toyota senior engineer Jackie Birdsall is equally evangelistic in refuting my fuel-cell beefs. By way of assuaging my leakage concern, she notes that Toyota’s modern laser-welded plastic tank linings, extensively wrapped in both carbon fiber and fiberglass (leveraging a historic strength of the Toyoda Loom Works) suffer very little leakage when parked over time. And, she notes, if the tank requires venting, it’s possible to process the hydrogen through the fuel cell to charge the battery or condition the interior, rather than venting it to the atmosphere. Another FCEV benefit over BEVs she’s quick to remind me of: they suffer less efficiency loss in cold weather because the fuel-cell stack can generate sufficient heat to warm the cabin without resistance heating in many cases.

Both of these fuel-cell proselytizers see the challenges facing the technology as a matter of two chickens and two eggs: the hydrogen fueling infrastructure won’t happen until there’s stronger demand for road-use hydrogen. Big fuel-cell trucks could create sufficient hydrogen fuel demand, but low fleet turnover means it’ll take forever for new semi-tractor production bring down the cost of the fuel cell stacks. Each little car uses way less H2 than a truck, but the they sell in large enough volumes to establish economies of scale in fuel-cell stack production.

That’s why both Hyundai and Toyota are working to build both heavy trucks (including Hyundai’s HDC-6 Neptune series of tractors and heavy cargo haulers and Toyota’s Project Portal joint-venture class-8 tractor project with Kenworth) and light vehicles alike. Hyundai was first to mass production with its Tucson/ix35 FCEV crossover (launched in California in June 2014 and test driven by us shortly thereafter) and has just introduced the vastly improved 2019 Hyundai Nexo. Toyota began selling and leasing its first-generation Mirai in the U.S. in August, 2015, and has just unveiled the 2021 Mirai at the Tokyo and Los Angeles auto shows. For the record, my colleagues out west have driven the Honda Clarity FCEV as well.

How Do They Drive?

Because the vast majority of America’s 41 hydrogen fueling stations (as of mid-2019, when 25 more were under development) are in California, nobody keeps fuel-cell test cars in Michigan. So my first two drives in any production fuel-cell vehicles happened very recently and just a month apart. The first-gen Mirai drive occurred first—in North Carolina (where there are no stations, so our drives were limited in distance). The Nexo drive was in Michigan, where fuel is available at Hyundai’s HACHI R&D center near Ypsilanti.

I probably don’t need to tell you that they both drive like EVs—remarkably quick off the line, quiet, and smooth. The newer Nexo, not surprisingly, seems more refined. The Hyundai powertrain seemed quieter and also felt slightly quicker. As these are both front-drive cars of similar weight and distribution, their handling was typical of a two-ton front-drive sedan or crossover—which is to say, unremarkable (we are expecting remarkable handling from the rear-drive 2021 Toyota Mirai).

The Nexo’s design inside and out is far more appealing than the first-gen Mirai; less so than the second-gen. The materials, stitching, grain, and gloss of everything in the Nexo seems to support the vehicle’s $59,345 base price. By comparison, the old Mirai interior’s wild swoops and peculiar shapes seem to be trying a bit too hard to echo the bizarre exterior without sending “premium” signals (it’s priced $110 above the Nexo).

Hydrogen stations will soon be opening in the CARB-compliance states in the northeast, and California has bold plans to increase the fuel’s availability there as well. The U.S. remains way behind Korea (expecting 86 by year end), Japan (roughly 100), and Germany (around 60), however. In view of this burgeoning global hydrogen infrastructure, Toyota is preparing to produce 30,000 new Mirais per year—well up from the grand total of 6,000 first-gen cars produced to date. Maybe we are at last on the brink of a hydrogen future after all.

	2019 Honda Clarity Fuel Cell	2019 Hyundai Nexo	2019 Toyota Mirai
BASE PRICE	$59,410	$59,345-$62,845	$59,455
VEHICLE LAYOUT	Front-engine, FWD, 5-pass, 4-door sedan	Front-motor, FWD, 5-pass, 4-door SUV	Front-engine, FWD, 4-pass, 4-door sedan
MOTOR	174-hp/221-lb-ft AC permanent-magnet synchronous electric	161-hp/291-lb-ft AC permanent-magnet synchronous electric	151-hp/247-lb-ft AC permanent-magnet synchronous electric
TRANSMISSION	1-speed automatic	1-speed automatic	1-speed automatic
CURB WEIGHT	4,106 lb (57/43%)*	4,000 lb (mfr)	4,072 lb (F/R dist: 58/42%)*
WHEELBASE	108.3 in	109.8 in	109.4 in
LENGTH X WIDTH X HEIGHT	192.7 x 73.9 x 58.2 in	183.9 x 73.2 x 64.2 in	192.5 x 71.5 x 60.5 in
0-60 MPH	7.8 sec*	7.7 sec (MT est)	8.6 sec*
EPA CITY/HWY/COMB FUEL ECON	67/67/67 mpg-e	59-65/54-58/57-61 mpg-e	NA/NA/67 mpg-e
ENERGY CONSUMPTION, CITY/HWY	50/50 kW-hrs/100 miles	52-57/58-62 kW-hrs/100 miles	50 kW-hrs/100 miles (combined)
CO2 EMISSIONS, COMB	0.29 lb/mile	0.31-0.34 lb/mile	0.29 lb/mile
ON SALE IN U.S.	Currently	Currently	Currently
*2017 Honda Clarity Fuel Cell and 2016 Toyota Mirai long-term test car results

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Hello fellow gamers!

We are almost at 1000 signatures in the petition, as I have sent an email in preparation to send them the list of signatures we have accumulated so far. I also plan on reaching out to Psyonix and Elon to try and gain some more traction. The email is shared below.

Please consider signing the petition and sharing more to get more signatures and maybe we can make this really happen!

​

Thanks everyone ;)

​

Dear members of the board,

My name is Nik-- Luz----,

On behalf of the gaming community, I have began collecting signatures to get the Tesla Cybertruck implemented into a world famous game called Rocket League. Boasting an average of about 30,000 concurrent players per day, this game is comprised of digital soccer matches using rocket powered cars rather than human characters. Psyonix, the company who has developed the game, has a history of partnering with third party brands to bring fantasy cars into the game, such as the the Jurassic Park Jeep Wrangler, the Batmobile from Batman, the Delorean from Back to the Future, and the Ecto-1 from Ghostbusters. All of these partnerships have helped bring more money and players into the game, and more attention to the brands that have partnered. So far, we have collected almost 1000 signatures, and are getting more daily. Elon Musk has always been a hit with is fans, and seems to enjoy interacting with them, even for just the memes. We are all excited, and on the edge of our seats with hope that we can see the Tesla Cybertruck brought into the game. Here are a few select comments from some of the fans based on the original thread (which has been upvoted over 3000 times by the community):

Surkrut says : "I would gladly take a unique car design instead of all these samey supercars."

LinusNyren says: "A partnership would be awesome, DLC cars in rocket league, and then work with Tesla to port rocket league to the infotainment system. (They’re rumored to already working on porting unreal engine support)"

alancarey says: "Would like to see any of the Tesla vehicles added."

PointDexter2291 says: "As a Tesla owner I've been wondering for a long time why they don't have any Teslas in the game. They have everything else"

So, as you can see, fans are pretty excited about this whole idea, and ahy not? It would be a perfect storm of digital marketing.

I am also going to reach out to Psyonix, and hopefully Elon Musk himself, to try and get this pushed forward.

I wish you all the best, and your company is doing some amazing things! I look forward to your reply.

Warm regards,

Nikki Luzader

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The Chevrolet C8 Corvette Stingray Is a Loss Leader

The all-new mid-engine C8 Corvette’s impressive $59,995 starting price is only good for the first year, as we reported back in August, and unless it goes up by $20,000, Chevrolet will continue to lose money on low-trim cars, a senior GM source tells MotorTrend.

We had a feeling the $59,995 starting price was too good to be true, and a GM source confirmed as much to us explaining the price would rise for the 2021 model year. This isn’t much of a surprise, as the base price of a C7 rose nearly $2,000 in its second year and by another $2,000 the following year. While we still don’t know how much the C8’s price will rise in 2021, a more senior GM official tells us it would have to go through the roof in order to cover GM’s cost.

According to our source, the original budget for the C8 project assumed a starting price of $79,995. This is certainly reasonable considering the enormous amount of work needed to redesign the car into a mid-engine configuration, but it’s a huge jump from the C7. In order to keep customers from revolting, Chevy is taking it on the chin and willingly losing money on every C8 it sells for less than $80,000. No doubt a factor in the C8’s laundry list of options and dress-up parts is the hope buyers will load up their cars with extras and turn their $60,000 Stingrays into $80,000-plus Stingrays. The C8 Stingray Z71 3LT we tested rang up at $88,305.

More critical are the base prices of upcoming performance variants including Z06 and ZR1. According to our source, the sweet spot for profit and volume is between $80,000 and $100,000. Once the car crests six figures, our source says, sales volume drops off precipitously. This will be a trick for Chevrolet, because the C7 Z06 starts at $82,990, which doesn’t leave the company much room for an increase without upsetting customers and breaking out of the sweet spot in price and volume. The C7 ZR1, meanwhile, already starts at $135,090, so Chevrolet has more discretion to price the C8 ZR1 knowing full well it will be a low-volume car.

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