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Tesla stock falls after another Model S fire caught on tape
San Jose Mercury News ^ | October 28, 2013

Posted on 10/29/2013 3:36:39 AM PDT by SMGFan

DETROIT -- Tesla Motors (TSLA) shares dropped Monday after reports of a second fiery crash involving the Palo Alto company's Model S electric car.

(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: automakers; efv; electricity; energy; tesla
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To: FrdmLvr

It’s free. You just plug it into that magic outlet and the energy just flows into it from nowhere.

Unless you are not a liberal, then you might just realize that in certain parts of the country, you are driving a coal-powered car.


21 posted on 10/29/2013 5:49:30 AM PDT by Carlucci
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To: SMGFan

Damn, I should have bought in at $100....I’d still be making money.


22 posted on 10/29/2013 5:53:45 AM PDT by Farnsworth (One Big Assed Mistake America)
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To: Gaffer

The “battery compartment” on a Tesla S is the entire chassis. I was in their showroom in Menlo Park last year and they had one on display with the body removed, so you could see the undercarriage where the battery packs reside.


23 posted on 10/29/2013 5:55:35 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: SMGFan

Just a glitch.


24 posted on 10/29/2013 6:19:16 AM PDT by mykroar (China and Russia are playing chess while Obamas's playing 52 card pick-up.)
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To: FrdmLvr

Contrary to Carlucci, it’s not “free”, it’s just free to you, the Tesla driver. It’s paid for by Tesla and is wrapped into the car’s price, so long as you recharge at a Tesla rapid charging station. Tesla is accelerating the development and deployment of these stations.

Tesla tells me that the lifetime free power up policy will continue for the Model X due out next year.


25 posted on 10/29/2013 7:04:20 AM PDT by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: Gaffer
What I do have a problem with, however, is their taking a $465 Million Dollar loan from the US Department of Energy to do that, regardless of whether they are going to pay it off early.

UPDATE: The loan is ALREADY paid off.

http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/22/autos/tesla-loan-repayment/

26 posted on 10/29/2013 7:07:28 AM PDT by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: John Valentine

Is that supposed to make me feel better? They, government took $465 Billion out of service (if they even had it in the first place - likely borrowed it like all the other BS giveaways, and piled more debt on the debt pile).

Where do you think that ‘repayment’ went? It sure as hell didn’t go back into the “we gotta save this for the mortgage” pile. It went right back into cheese doodles for the SNAP recipients of some such other bullshit...more debt.


27 posted on 10/29/2013 7:10:03 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer

I personally don’t care if the truth makes you feel better or worse.

It’s just the truth.

As for the rest of it, it appears that your tinfoil hat is slipping over your ears.


28 posted on 10/29/2013 7:53:13 AM PDT by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: John Valentine

It isn’t tinfoil sir. It is the unending processions of needless taxes with which all of us are burdened. Your like of Tesla-esque technology and worth does not translate to my requirement to fund it.

Take your ‘tinfoil’ comments and shove it.


29 posted on 10/29/2013 7:55:28 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: John Valentine

You mean to tell me even their POWER is subsidized? This is complete B#LLSH!T!!!!!


30 posted on 10/29/2013 9:11:57 AM PDT by FrdmLvr ("WE ARE ALL OSAMA, 0BAMA!" al-Qaeda terrorists who breached the American compound in Benghazi)
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To: SMGFan

How much could you make shorting Tesla stock, buying a Tesla and then setting it on fire?


31 posted on 10/29/2013 9:26:22 AM PDT by pierrem15 (Claudius: "Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.")
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To: SMGFan

Its the ePinto.


32 posted on 10/29/2013 10:10:00 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: FrdmLvr

I can’t imagine what you are thinking. If by “subsidized” you mean subsidized by Tesla to its owners, then yes, but if you mean subsidized by the government than it is YOU who is spouting complete B#LLSH!T!!!!! Tesla’s charging stations use power generated by Tesla itself. Nobody is subsidizing besides Tesla.


33 posted on 10/29/2013 3:50:29 PM PDT by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: Gaffer

Tesla will do just fine without subsidies, and whatever your feelings are regarding taxes (feeling that I am sure we share), you are not funding Tesla.


34 posted on 10/29/2013 3:52:18 PM PDT by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: John Valentine

I meant are the taxpayers subsidizing the power. You cleared that up for me, thank you. But in the end, I suppose we the taxpayers actually ARE subsidizing the powering of the batteries because Tesla will only pass along the increase to the government. So, Tesla owners believe the free power will go on indefinitely? And, where are we going to get the coal to keep manufacturing the power? Rhetorical question.


35 posted on 10/29/2013 4:06:51 PM PDT by FrdmLvr ("WE ARE ALL OSAMA, 0BAMA!" al-Qaeda terrorists who breached the American compound in Benghazi)
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To: FrdmLvr

Due to the zombie minions of libs and lib lovers in this country, we are in very serious trouble on almost every front, and power generation is certainly not the least among these.

The Tesla “problem” is a very small pimple on our nation’s acne ridden face.

I can’t figure out what you are talking about with this remark: “But in the end, I suppose we the taxpayers actually ARE subsidizing the powering of the batteries because Tesla will only pass along the increase to the government.”

What? How?

And this: “So, Tesla owners believe the free power will go on indefinitely?

Yes, they do, and that’s Tesla’s business plan. Of course, if Tesla goes bankrupt, then all bets are off. But so far at least, it’s going to plan. They are so confident that they are going to continue this sales point with the new Model X.

And “we” are not manufacturing the power, Tesla is, at least for its proprietary charging stations. If you charge up at home, then obviously the owner will pay for the metered power.

As for the general problem of electrical power generation in the face of the zombie left hell bent on taking us back to the dark ages, that’s a problem that far eclipses the use of power by a handful of automobiles.


36 posted on 10/29/2013 5:16:21 PM PDT by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: grundle; Salamander; humblegunner
"No one has ever died from a crash in Tesla Model S. It has extra crumple zone because there’s no gasoline engine. The car alerts you before it catches on fire. This may be the safest car ever made."

So the car is smart enough to "know" it's going to catch fire, but stupid enough not to do anything about it?

Does it also have warning lights for "precipice" and "massive object in roadway?"
37 posted on 10/30/2013 12:30:36 AM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: shibumi

LOL!

There’s a commercial for some car that actually slams on the brakes itself before you rear-end another car.

Whiplash will be soon be in fashion.


38 posted on 10/30/2013 12:49:03 AM PDT by Salamander (Blue Oyster Cult Will Be The Soundtrack For The Revolution.....)
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To: Salamander

I saw that.

Maybe the Tesla, knowing it is about to be engulfed in flame, drives itself into the nearest river, lake or stream.

Or sewer.


39 posted on 10/30/2013 12:50:58 AM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: shibumi

If it were a Smartcar, it could simply plunge into the nearest puddle.


40 posted on 10/30/2013 12:55:07 AM PDT by Salamander (Blue Oyster Cult Will Be The Soundtrack For The Revolution.....)
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