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1 posted on 01/15/2019 11:54:34 AM PST by lowbridge
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This is why Tesla cars never stood a chance in the long term. The hard part of building an electric car is the car, not the electric. Musk was naive to the extreme to believe the major auto manufacturers would sit idly by and let him dominate the market, and they all already have decades experience in building the car part of electric cars. Plus they can sell electric cars as loss leaders and subsidize their production with profits from ICE cars. Musk can only subsidize his losses with government charity.

And it also was inevitable that the existing manufacturers eventually would “Preston Tucker” Musk.


2 posted on 01/15/2019 12:03:24 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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Senator Bob Corker got us into this fiasco...

TN had top pay MILLIONS to VW to get them to come here...

Crazy Corker thought he did a wonderful thing...


5 posted on 01/15/2019 12:40:42 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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electrified........ hybrid or full electric?

I think hybrid will be what they are building


10 posted on 01/15/2019 1:38:05 PM PST by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Princess Gray Beaver, for President?)
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To: lowbridge
Good looking lineup, too. Yeah, they're concepts, but at least they have some useful designs ...

And VW says they're making them "for the millions, not the millionaires" so that's good.

16 posted on 01/15/2019 2:21:33 PM PST by al_c (https://conventionofstates.com)
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What a bunch of dinosaurs. Don’t you know manufacturing is dead?


19 posted on 01/15/2019 2:47:06 PM PST by spintreebob
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Democrats are deeply saddened, but gain strength from knowing Obama did this. ROTF LMAO


20 posted on 01/15/2019 3:51:43 PM PST by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 from 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
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Send all the electric cars to California while Pacific Gas and Electric is entering bankruptcy.

What could go wrong?


31 posted on 01/17/2019 9:19:05 PM PST by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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