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Since nobody is talking about building more hydroelectric plants or nuclear power plants, most incremental electricity generation will come from natural gas . . . as will make-up generation for when solar panels don't generate electricity at night.
Where do I start? BEVs are not for everyone. I agree, just like a bicycle is not for everyone. But it is damn good tool if it’s right for you. If you live in an apartment, perhaps you can wait for the charging infrastructure to catch up. I live in a SFH with a garage. It takes me 5 seconds each day to “fill the e-tank”. I drive a 1 year old PHEV, so occasionally I have to buy petro. It reminds me how outdated this fossil fuel way of life is, truly the “frog in the pot” mindset.
My PHEV is Camry sized, has an e-range under 50 miles, and beyond that it becomes an hybrid. To me, it is a good compromise. I have no range anxiety. I use 95% electricity and the rest I use petro, at 1/6 the equivalent price my “neighbor” pays for fossil fuel with his ICE Camry. (To be fair you must compare similar size/class of vehicles) I get the equivalent of 230mpg based on $3/gallon petro, ($.09/Kwh EV rate, solar panels and free charge). I get to use OPE (Other People’s Electricity), free charge at w...
MrMagic saysThe end of the year push to try and sell vehicles using a $7,500 Federal tax credit as a bargaining chip appears to be falling flat on its face for Tesla. A new report by electrek published on New Year’s Eve says that Tesla still has over 3,300 Model 3 vehicles in its U.S. inventory, which sent the stock sliding lower by about 2% in morning trading.
Wow. No one wants those rotten, useless cars. It's a complete failure.
Oh wait a minute, they have so much demand they can't keep up with the deliveries. LOL. LOL. ROFL.
Even from the useless zero brain website....."This, again, comes on top of recent news that Tesla is now has offered to shell out cash for those who have who will miss the full tax credit benefit due to delivery problems "
From a more reliable source:
https://finance.yahoo....
2. Saudis and other oil exporters use the money they earn to buy US treasury instruments and park their earnings in investment vehicles conjured up by NY banks. They are part and parcel of the global dollar recycling process. When someone like Qaddafi became too full of himself, he and his entire ill-gotten gain were harvested . . . just like pigs and cattle are slaughtered after they convert grass and slop (nutrients inedible to human) into meat (edible to human). Oil is a vehicle by which the US taxes the rest of the world to finance our military dominance (Saudis and other oil exporters are tax-farmers). If countries like Germany, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China and India could all become energy-independent by putting up some solar panels and windmills, how could they be induced to help pay for US military (or exporting consumer goods to the US, so US companies can specialize on military weapons)? If/when that happens, how would anyone be able to convince the American public to financ...
1. All nuclear power plants currently exist on this planet are primarily for weapons production, not for power generation;
A portion of the oil money Arabs derive goes to fund terrorism. Probably a hundred times that amount is spent by the rest of the world to fight those same terrorists.
The US does not derive money directly or indirectly by taxing the rest of the world for oil. If anything, the US spends a lot more to defend countries that should be spending more for their own defense. Their defense does not come from some kind of a tax imposed on them by the US.
Not sure what you really mean here.
19% of the total electricity generated by the US comes from nuclear power plants.
80% in the case of France.
Germany and Japan both have lots of nuclear power plants, but no nukes.
The money spent on fighting "terrorism" and defending allies is money that has to be spent anyway or has already been spent in order to have a dominant military in the world. In the post-WWII world (or even today), having the US being the dominant power of the world (instead of letting the Soviet Union, for example) was/is a necessary "evil." Active combat against minor opponents in limited conflicts was a necessity to field-test weapon systems as well as personnel training.
Countries under the protective umbrella have been paying for the protection by having to export to the US to earn dollar in order to buy oil. The ME oil exporters functions as a tax-collector for the dollar-denominated world: by recycling the dollar that exporters like Germany, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, etc. etc. earn back into the US. The need to buy oil in dollars is what gives the dollar value overseas, just like domestically it is the need to pay taxes in dollars that give the dollar value. Debt denom...
Both Germany and Japan have huge stockpiles of Plutonium, which enables each country to become nuclear power within a few weeks when there is political will
If I understand you correctly, you are saying high oil prices, and more terrorism would be beneficial to us?
Both Germany and Japan have huge stockpiles of Plutonium, which enables each country to become nuclear power within a few weeks when there is political will
I remember reading that some time ago. Japan has a mountain of plutonium and is only 2 months away from nuclear weapons because they have all the technology and materials necessary for a nuke. I don't think that was the real purpose for Japan and Germany to have nuclear power plants.
Tesla stock price crashes 10% on vehicle price cut, missed production numbers
I'd get out of the car business if BMW and Toyota were coming after me.
Right, did Amazon make any profit for 10 years until they took over the world.
If there were money to be made in the electric car business at this point in time, the big car companies would be heavily into electric cars. The fact is that no company at all has made profits in electric cars.
If the battery tech improves and the market becomes viable for profits, I expect many conventional car companies to move in that direction.
What is Tesla's profit "moat"? How do they protect their business so as to keep profits up in the face of competition? So far, Tesla hasn't made a profit even though there is very little in the way of competition.
As for investing in Tesla… I actually did make some money with some puts I bought the day after the infamous Musk tweet. I was thinking of trying that again a month ago, but never got around to it and it looks like I'm late in the game.
The $7500 taxpayer gift per car was cut in half. So, today Tesla says they will cut the price of their cars by $2000 per car to offset the loss of corporate welfare. Tesla just decided to throw away $2000 per car profit to try to maintain sales.
..."We have seen similar situations happen with the end of EV incentives before. The best examples being Denmark and Hong Kong which used to be two of Tesla’s best markets. But now they dropped down to be some of the worst markets in terms of sales since they killed their incentives.
BMW - Broke My Wallet. They are lovely cars, if you can afford them. You like paying 2-3x for everything, be my guest.
The cheapest electric BMW - i3 - costs $44,500 and is a fucking shitbox compared to the cheapest $44K Model3. Heck, it's not in the same fucking zipcode and it's fucking obvious to everyone.
The consumer has rejected battery cars so everything about how great they are is irrelevant.
If there were money to be made in the electric car business at this point in time, the big car companies would be heavily into electric cars. The fact is that no company at all has made profits in electric cars.
kt1652 saysRight, did Amazon make any profit for 10 years until they took over the world.
Amazon is still hardly making any profit after all that time, and it's been like 14 years. They make like a 2% - 3% net profit and are still posting losses overseas. Not sure if you should use them as a benchmark. Don't confuse sales dollars as making money.
Tesla sales will take an even bigger hit with the tax credits going away. Doesn't anyone remember these two:
I don't know where Tesla shares will go in the future, but I do know where Tesla sales will be. High High and Higher.
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It's over $300, with a loss of $10/share, but revenue just keeps going up. Hard to figure out what a fair price is since it doesn't make money yet.
How would you come up with a fair price per share?