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Tesla Just Dealt a Devastating Blow – Elon Musk Trims 7% of Workforce to Cut Costs
Cnn ^ | Jan 18, 2019

Posted on 01/19/2019 8:28:47 PM PST by NorseViking

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To: onedoug

No.
So?
Still a great product.


21 posted on 01/19/2019 9:18:45 PM PST by ctdonath2 (The Red Queen wasn't kidding.)
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To: ctdonath2

It should not be subsidized to one penny by the American taxpayer.


22 posted on 01/19/2019 9:22:14 PM PST by onedoug
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To: noiseman

I’d say getting off fossil fuels is inevitable. That includes vehicles eventually. But I don’t see the need to spend billions forcing people to do it.


23 posted on 01/19/2019 9:26:16 PM PST by jarwulf
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To: NorseViking

Musk hasn’t met his production rate on the low end car. He is the worst kind of boss to work for......unrealistic, egocentric, and sporadic in his behavior


24 posted on 01/19/2019 9:26:40 PM PST by Nifster (II see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: ctdonath2

Yes, electric cars are desirable. Maybe not for everyone, but not for nobody either. If they can hit break-even with ICE vehicles, crossover purchases will be significant.

I had an EV for a couple years. Y’all naysayers don’t know what you’re missing.

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You get it, but it’s disconcerting how many commenters on this thread obviously know nothing about Tesla owners.


25 posted on 01/19/2019 9:27:44 PM PST by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: Wayne07

When you already can’t meet his production demands? Yeah.....because he’s either getting rid of sales or manufacturing or what’s left of his engineering staff


26 posted on 01/19/2019 9:27:55 PM PST by Nifster (II see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Moonman62

They haven’t met product goals for the low end. Musk is a lunatic and the folks who might have directed him to a rational decision left almost six months ago


27 posted on 01/19/2019 9:30:08 PM PST by Nifster (II see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: TigersEye

Depends on where the idiot cuts


28 posted on 01/19/2019 9:31:32 PM PST by Nifster (II see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: montag813

Not true. It depends on what workers are let go


29 posted on 01/19/2019 9:32:44 PM PST by Nifster (II see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: onedoug

Correct.
Blame your lawmakers for enacting those credits, not Musk for making use of the truckloads of money thrown at his customers to encourage them.

BTW: that taxpayer money has been way more than paid back.


30 posted on 01/19/2019 9:33:08 PM PST by ctdonath2 (The Red Queen wasn't kidding.)
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To: jarwulf

Not sure I agree we abandon fossil fuels entirely. Not in our lifetimes and not with gas less than $2 per gallon.


31 posted on 01/19/2019 9:33:15 PM PST by JerryBlackwell (some animals are more equal than others)
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To: Moonman62

My son has a Prius and my daughter has a Volt.

Both were bought to save on gas which is sky high where we live (Hawaii)

They love these cars. It’s my son-in-law’s 3rd Prius.

He’s just waiting for used Tesla’s to come on the market.


32 posted on 01/19/2019 9:34:46 PM PST by altura
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To: ctdonath2

Electric cars require more energy to run than any gas gussler.

I ain’t missing nothing


33 posted on 01/19/2019 9:35:47 PM PST by Nifster (II see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Moonman62
it’s disconcerting how many commenters on this thread obviously know nothing about Tesla owners

Sort of like Apple owners, but that is another thread.

A few parallels would emerge I'd bet.

34 posted on 01/19/2019 9:47:27 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: altura
He’s just waiting for used Tesla’s to come on the market.

I'm no expert, but I would do research on the value of used EV with the remaining battery life left, and replacement costs. I have read they are very costly to replace the battery.

35 posted on 01/19/2019 9:48:32 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: TigersEye

“At least this is just Musk’s car company.”


In our local paper there have been a couple of things about his other endeavors.
1. project to build a facility at the Port cancelled. A big blow to local plans to make a “Silicon” Shore at the Port of LA. Why? “Streamlining” — that rocket will be built at facility in Texas instead.

2. Space X laying off about 700 people in LA. Also “streamlining” to reduce costs.


36 posted on 01/19/2019 9:57:22 PM PST by married21 ( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: montag813
7% is nothing

Jack Welch fired his bottom 10% each and every year. His successors are pissing away GE.

37 posted on 01/19/2019 9:58:26 PM PST by eddie willers
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To: allendale

Right now we’re a center-right nation. But will it remain that way that much longer? We can see how the Democrats are becoming more leftist every day.


38 posted on 01/19/2019 10:03:27 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: jarwulf

Inevitable as in a few hundred years from now.
Not inevitable as in during the twenty-first century.


39 posted on 01/19/2019 10:16:00 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: allendale

The electric cars and hybrids cause significant EMF wave exposure to passengers. Some of the highest EMF exposure areas are back seats, where the kids sit.


40 posted on 01/19/2019 10:20:05 PM PST by inchworm
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