Brilliant! Good way to bring China down, just set it on fire.
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Boondoggle. Writ large.
Brilliant! Good way to bring China down, just set it on fire.
Why do I have an uneasy feeling that this will involve massive subsidies by the US taxpayer?
Palo Alto, Calif., the home of Tesla Motors, is making headlines for requiring all new homes to be wired for electric vehicle charging stations.
I guess we are supposed to think those solar panels are recharging the Tesla cars? But they are clearly way too small to be running the Supercharger station.
The claim is that the panels are putting electricity back into the grid. More than is being used by the cars.
That is likely because most of the time there are no cars charging at the station and the panels just sit there and generate some power on sunny days.
The cars are being recharged from the grid.
Taxpayers pay for Tesla's 'supercharger' stations via their ongoing subsidies/ZEV credits.
Taxpayers also pay (directly) for the electric-car-charging network, via 'stimulus'.
Oh, gee...and what happened to 'battery-swap/exchange'?
Tesla initially got no China subsidies as recently as Jan 2014.
One wonders how many days/weeks it will take for Musk to grease the 'hands of government' to get an announcement of 'China Subsidies include Tesla'...