Featured Letter to Biden from 4,000 US car dealers: Slow BEV production and distribution

Dealers typically don't handle those types of repairs. That's business for body shops.

 

then they should be opening more body shops. it's interesting how few dealers have them

 

Amazingly, one of the dealers who signed that letter just had 2 chargers put in front of their store. I wonder if they can charge a customer for charging their plug-in vehicle as part of a service visit?

 

i've never been to a dealer with gas pumps

 

And how much different dealer body shop estimates ( bottom line ) typically are when comparing them to independently owned and nationwide corporately owned body shops.
Repairs when needed aren't cheap most of time. At least $100 ( to cover equipment costs ) just for requesting a techstream health report.

 

a classic business model for dealers, and often necessary for electrified vehicles.

 

Because Rivian & Tesla design vehicles so almost all components can primarily be worked on via software changes it's clear that the future of car repair is going to have more to do with computer repair than mechanical repair.

If we had better consumer protection laws and actual competent political leadership to help in this massive transition, we'd be seeing dealerships transitioning to online services and mobile support rather than a big box location.

And the 800 pound gorilla in the room is the pandemic proved that most commercial real estate investments aren't viable with more than 1/3 of all leases in the US behind on their payments.

Of course nobody wants to talk about what's going to happen to both of these sectors if the economy has another downturn, but it's gonna require a massive bailout.

 

i was responding to your first sentence, nothing to do with the best market performance, although i'm sure you're long retired on your excellent stock picking.

 

There are various company rules that prohibit moving Roth retirement funds until certain parameters were met so it couldn't be done until it WAS done - or believe me that would have been ideal. Nevertheless with Tesla bringing more and more product online by the time we cash out - it may possibly be much higher. And since it's roth funds - it will be tax free, my favorite tax rate

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..... or sell out due to emotions

 

the only way to keep china from dominating in the us is to place burdens on them that will create a level playing field. otherwise, we're screwed.
but tesla has a huge advantage and should be able to compete well.

 

i'm not invested in tesla, so i have no dog in the fight. i admire what they have done, and how far advanced they are over the competition. it isn't even close, except maybe the chinese because of cheap labor and stolen tech.

 

yes quite

DOJ charges ex-Apple engineer with theft of tech for China

Chinese espionage in the United States - Wikipedia.

no point wasting a whole page here of links to help understand reality
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