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Paging Sergio - your "car" lifeline is here. Tell your dealers they have to accept PayPal now.
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I don't think VW is that close to financially desperate. I don't think Musk bought most of the NUMMI factory. From what I read he bought less than a third of the facility. Will Toyota or the current owners be as generous if Musk wants to expand.
I think he is blowing smoke to generate cash from investors. He has never delivered on time. He is half genius, half flim flam man.
At least Musk admitted that, 20/20 hindsight, they over engineered (or how did he put it? Over bedazzled?) the Model X. Which may bode well for the 3.
'21 Dark Blue/Black Audi A7 PHEV (mine); '22 White/Beige BMW X3 (hers); '20 Estoril Blue/Oyster BMW M240xi 'Vert (Ours, read: hers in 'vert weather; mine during Nor'easters...)
"Not only is Tesla prohibited from selling cars here, but Michigan law prevents Tesla from working on customers’ cars within the state at company-owned service centers or using its roving Ranger team."
Talk about idiotic legislation. Sheesh.
All kidding aside, I finally got some "real-world" information about operating a Tesla S in cold climates. One car magazine reports range reduction as low as 134 miles on a charge during sub 40 degree weather, with operation of the heater, and having the car parked outside during the work day.
Not to be outdone, this was just announced - Volkswagen’s $11B Battery Factory (vs Tesla's measly $5 billion dollar one). (learnbonds.com)
VW "revealed that it needs the huge factory because it plans to be selling 1 million electric cars by 2025."
That's 9 years away folks.
The game is changing. There's about 90 million cars produced a year now - EVs will be approaching a good 2% of that by 2025.
And, no range anxiety to worry about.
Our electric rates go up during the summer, so it may be cheaper to use it in gas mode for a couple of months.
The Chevy Volt is an amazing bit of technology and IMO renders most electric cars useless.
And, it's a hatchback.
Today was the first day we've turned on the AC here; was a mild Spring and my May electric bill was $56 instead of last year's $76.
http://www.edmunds.com/tesla/model-x/2016/long-term-road-test/2016-tesla-model-x-14-drawbacks-to-those-doors.html
Imagine living in the snow belt!
I've read the Model 3 reservations aren't able to be re-sold, but I have my doubts that there isn't a way around that claim. I really want to see what will happen when the dopey tax incentive expires, or if they are weasel their way into an extension - sounds like something related to that trickle down nonsense I've been hearing about for most of my life.
It'd be something if similar incentives expired for real estate - it's as hyped here as Tesla, just don't ask where the money comes from.
Fine with me, I struggle with why EV owners should get free fillups, HOV passes, and NO ROAD USE FEES, anyway.
I am by no means against the government momentarily subsidizing new technology that might prove beneficial to society as a whole, but I feel the money should be carefully spent in that regard.
If Elon has a $5 billion dollar scam rising in the Nevada desert, I guess we'll find out by August 1 since the plant is supposed to be open by then.
For Tesla Model 3 owners, Supercharger network will cost extra
Buyers of Tesla's most affordable electric car will have to buy a separate package to use the company's charging station network, CEO Elon Musk says.
http://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/for-tesla-model-3-owners-supercharger-network-will-cost-extra/
Are you suggesting that Tesla wants Michigan to allow them to hire unqualified techs to fix owner's cars in Michigan? Sounds to me more like they want to level the playing field and allow Tesla techs to be certified in Michigan.
Michigan is weird in some ways. Ask me how I know.
Would not be a surprise. The desert seems to attract scam artists. Seems the Mexicans have stuck it to the tax payers with their $2.6 billion solar fiasco. What do all alternatives seem to have in common. THE TAX PAYERS GET the SHAFT.....
An engineer (from India) working on a special work visa was informed in April 2013, that he must leave the country, since his visa expired. His Supervisor, Mr. Diego Manuel Rodriguez Gonzalez told him to stay in Victorville, working out of his apartment, while the company worked on renewing his visa stay. The engineer would come to the office in Victorville, CA, to pickup his work assignments two to three times per week, and work at home. His pay was coming out of Spain and he wasn't paying income taxes. In addition, this employee was enjoying full medical coverage, while staying illegally in the USA.
http://greencorruption.blogspot.com/2014/04/abengoa-atrocities-sequel-california.html#.V08gVpErKhc
Google is not off the hook with their little scam.
“$2.2 billion California project generates 40% of expected electricity” This past weekend’s Wall Street Journal has some unsurprising news about solar-thermal technology. Excerpts to follow, but, in short: It’s very expensive to build, it doesn’t deliver nearly the amount of projected power, and it kills birds: The $2.2 billion Ivanpah solar power project in California’s Mojave Desert is supposed to be generating more than a million megawatt-hours of electricity each year. But 15 months after starting up, the plant is producing just 40% of that, according to data from the U.S. Energy Department.
https://politicalhitjobs.wordpress.com/2016/03/18/ivanpah-solar-solyndra-like-project-in-california-found-to-be-crony-kick-back-scam/
I don't think the various state's efforts to keep Tesla from selling cars in their borders is justifiable and I don't think that preventing a Tesla tech from servicing a car purchased elsewhere is justifiable either.
My VW reference was to their building a battery factory that's going to cost twice as much as Tesla's. Who's getting scammed in that one - the EU government(s) or VW's shareholders or ?
And I think there is a difference between speculation gone awry and outright fraud (the latter being VW).
True, however, with speculation the speculators expect a possible ROI. Way too many of our speculative ventures are just money into fat cat pockets. No gain for the tax payers only loss. That would of course include our ventures into foreign countries like Afghanistan. I like to go back to Warren Buffett's statement that investing in wind farms without subsidies would be stupid. I think most corporate welfare is a form of fraud.
Buffet told an audience in Omaha, Nebraska recently. "For example, on wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That's the only reason to build them. They don't make sense without the tax credit."
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/nancy-pfotenhauer/2014/05/12/even-warren-buffet-admits-wind-energy-is-a-bad-investment