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Eco-skeleton is a unibody, no question about that. But that doesn't make it 'marketing'.

Interior unibody was just always assumed because in cars (unlike planes) nobody ever did exo.

And its not a marketing features as it has a number of real advantages. Part reduction being one and smaller easier bodyshop. Not needing any paint anymore (a modern Painshop cost 500M).

> Not sure what you mean by power and data on the same lines, sounds like a horrible plan.

Well we have this things called Ethernet and PoE. Works pretty well for me.



the stainless yes, no paint shop.

> Well we have this things called Ethernet and PoE. Works pretty well for me

maybe I’m just being nit picky, but Poe isn’t power over the same data lines, it a separate set of wires in the same insulation jacket carrying power. I don’t see Tesla switching away from CAN to flex ray or something custom.


Fair point. But Musk actually said he wanted Ethernet at one point. Or maybe he said something like it, I don't remember.


PoE can run data and power on the same pair. Gigabit-PoE doesn't have spare pairs anyway.




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