Posted on 09/28/2024 5:56:04 AM PDT by central_va
You left out one thing . . . a lot of those “extreme” profits are a result of Musk’s expertise at grabbing government grift, i.e. the sale of carbon credits. Whether Tesla products are “the best cars in existence” is a matter of personal opinion.
The government made carbon credits. If Musk hadn’t gotten them someone else would have. Don’t curse him for taking them, curse the government for making them. Most people won’t turn down free money. How many people said no to free Covid bucks?
Hmmmm, that means they’re sort of like those cornfield clicking aliens in the movie “Signs”, who are fatally allergic to water yet decide to invade a humid planet 70% covered in ocean. Both plots make about an equal amount of sense.
That statistic is out there. I believe it was 80% also have an internal combustion vehicle. That leaves 20% or so that only have a battery electric vehicle.
Aka not many
They also know that EVs knows where they are and their owners can look on their phones and know where the car is.
Tesla’s can go that far. That’s not to say all or most will. There are model 3s in the mid to high 200s already with good battery health.
Auto auction rebuilds seems to like buying them.
Learned the hard way on a model 85 when the rear drive motor failed and cost him 7k. But the battery was still good.
Oh, I agree and I’m certainly not cursing Musk. I was just attempting to point out that his “extreme profits” aren’t all coming from his “amazing” cars.
I favor: Knowing where places and things are, without requiring a computer.
I find: People with mobile computers, are losing (not gaining) the practice of location orientation - navigation that we learned as part of the necessities.
Ah, but what about mandates? I fully expect that Harris will pass a national mandate like Canada has done. All electric by 2035.
if she isn’t cheated in to presidency, then the next liberal who is will likely mandate it
Agree
EVs are the computer boat anchors of the 90s
All car manufacturers want that level of obsolescence
Musk once again promised the full self-driving “robotaxi” was coming soon, most recently by August 8, 2024. Now he says October. An “October surprise”?
The August reveal didn’t happen, just like every other one of his self-driving promises as far back as 2016.
The robotaxi doesn’t run on electricity, it relies on snake oil for power.
That's the same excuse Soros used to justify his participation in the Holocaust.
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