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  1. William Redoubt

    William Redoubt Senior Member

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    Good plan. US gov does the same with the EV credits Tesla used. Are you saying Tesla is doomed?
     
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    They won't shutter the gas plant. They will just sell its output to other buyers.
     
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    Tesla is already in federal tax credit phase out. Buyers are currently getting only half federal credits the first 1/2 of this year then reduced another half the last 1/2 of this year before completely gone.

    Still, with limited supply in the U.S. they sold >10k Model 3 vehicles here last month.

    Doomed?
     
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  4. William Redoubt

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    Electricity is a better source of power than gasoline. More efficient. Prove me wrong.
     
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    Better can be a highly subjective term.

    In terms of objective health effects, gasoline is a much poorer source of power than batteries. One persons gain is anothers greater loss. Tragedy of the commons...
     
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    Exports tell us:


    Bob Wilson
     
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    Bob Lutz: "...even the high end cars that they build now cost more to build than they are able to sell them for..."
    :ROFLMAO:

    Model S and X are quite profitable. Volume is the issue with those.

    Model Y will be both handsomely profitable and sell in large volume.
     
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    earth to automation ceo: almost all stock values are inexplicable right now.
     
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    poor poor Bob klutz. He says Elon Musk's success is inexplicable ..... like someone that's been beamed down from another planet to tell people how to run the global auto business.
    Pretending poor poor Bob Klutz's reality was in fact real for a moment , if that's the case, I wonder why the Bob Klutz's within the industry don't listen - so they too, instead of going into bankruptcy again, don't follow the same 'Musk' business plan.

    Risk aversion .... it may be that the USA will never again try for a moan shot type experience. What was it that John Kennedy said? To paraphrase , something like, ...
    We don't do it because it's easy, we do it because it's hard.
    Yeah, not anymore. Now - the government has to give everyone a free cell phone, so we can call to see if our other free government stuff is already ready.
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    New infrastructure is different from older infrastructure, geez!
     
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    FD38B86C-55C4-422E-8473-B0D5C48E0CD3.jpeg Went for a drive today! Wow! Okay it is fast! It’s nicely put together and it did put a smile on my face!
     
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  13. hill

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    You Kool-Aid Drinker you. Careful, it can be addictive. Whatever you do, do not try out the model 3 Performance. (... & nice picture angle!)

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    I didn’t go down without a fight! LOL
     
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    What's the story! Did you take the test drive out of Mission Viejo? Costa Mesa? A friend?
     
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    Friend bought one, Performance model with all the bells and whistles, all wheel drive!
     
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    Too late!
     
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    Sweet! ...
     
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    E7E1C23E-9F39-4966-83AD-16FCAD60D1B6.jpeg Today was a good day!
     
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    Was your friend's ride the dark charcoal metallic? or black. Hard to say from the pictures.
     
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