Please alllow me to clarify your murky future:
EVs were rushed to market by heavy government promotion.
EVs were (are) not ready for the market.
They will be, probably, but that day is not today.
The forces of the marketplace can not be fooled.
You will probably survice doing something else.
Attempting to skim off $56 billion in corporate profits in the form of a ‘bonus’ wasn’t his best move.
This was bound to happen.
Once, Teslas was the only game in town, but now, every mfr has an electric vehicle on the lot.
Many, many choices out there besides Tesla.....................
EVs had dramatic sales jumps in the last 10 or so years. But, the market available for EVs was saturated, meaning that, those wanting EVs were few and for EVs to continue selling in big numbers. new EV purchasers had to be found, but, they didn’t show. The ‘great number’ of touted EV sales in the last few years, will not be repeated, unless those same EV purchasers decide that they need more of the same, but, that’s very doubtful. In fact, the first-time buyers will not get another EV and will get back to ICE vehicles.
Only governments and environmental wackos want the EV hype to continue, but, reality has set in, and EVs sales will tank and the number of EVs on the road will dwindle over time.
Tesla and other EV makers will have to tell the governments pushing EVs, to take a hike.
Time for Tesla to add Gas vehicles to their repetoire.
“EV’s are toast. Do you think they will ever perfect it?”
No.
The energy density of batteries is almost two orders of magnitude lower than gasoline or diesel.
(that’s the energy density of the electrochemical process. When those EV batteries catch on fire, then they win on “energy density”)
I sold at $256. Tesla will be buy soon at this rate.
All-new high-performance drive units deliver more than combined 500 horsepower and 0-60 mph in 2.9 seconds.
I'm old enough to remember when building fast cars was a good thing.
(I don't own a Tesla. I don't own any Tesla stock. But I'm considering buying Tesla stock if it comes down enough.
There is no doubt in my mind that sooner or later we will have electric cars, but it will only be when we find ways and means for a reasonable quick charge as well as a charge which will last for quite a few more miles than what we have now. If and when this time comes even I would be interested in buying an electric car. But until then we need to make use and do with what is available and for now this happens to be gas powered vehicles which are pretty clean in regards to emissions, compared to what it used to be.
the whole concept of dedicated EVs is insane.
Gas/EV makes sense but dedicated EVs.... what a joke.
Actually vehicles should be gas/EV/Solar and if we were smart enough, using the magnetic poles to generate motion.
Tesla should build a Model S with a mid-engine V or flat 12 engine. That would be cool.
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What about mandates though? Canada for instance is outlawing the ICE by 2036. Will American states follow suit?
Aren’t massive layoffs bad for the environment?
Massive unemployment resulted in WWI and WWII which is not conducive to a pleasant environment.
The world must learn to sacrifice much social convenience in order to maintain their windmills an solar panels.
Fossil fuels is the answer.
LOCATIONS OF LAYOFFS???
China is doing the number to Tesla Biden taps desk counts money.
Nikolas Tesla claimed he could extract and convey electric power from the air or the ground, and there’s an infomercial claiming they have the device. There is research going on that might one day lead to solar power being collected by satellites and somehow beamed down to earth. And there’s this newfangled hydrogen engine, whose proponents claim is safe, efficient and clean, and Musk is quite taken with it. Nikolas Tesla also built an electric car that could run for days on one charge of the battery, but when the public wasn’t interested, he squirreled it away somewhere.
So maybe. Who knows.
Simply put: "You CANNOT sell SNOW to the Eskimos"