Unlikely; HD already burned itself with italian bikes. Bought MV Augusta in 2008 for $109 millions, sold for one dollar two years later to the same seller.

Can you imagine the out cry if another automaker did this but since it’s Tesla people will defend Musk and his business practices. Can’t wait to see him negotiate with the Unions.

Electrical problems you say? British engineering you say? I've got just the thing!

No, it's the failure of limies to engineer their warships properly. Notice the US isn't having a problem.

No. This is a failure of the military industrial complex for building crappy products that cost too much.

I am very much a believer in doing everything we can to prevent climate change. But this anecdotal evidence at best.

Six British warships stationed in the Persian Gulf are breaking down because the water is too hot they were built by the British.

I had the Titanium model a year ago when my car was in the body shop, other than the somewhat laggy transmission (Ford has never really impressed me in this area), the car was great! So much better than American sedans of the past, and this is coming from a BMW/Porsche enthusiast.

My mother grew up in an Eastern Bloc country, and every time I find a ZiL, ZiM, etc for sale, I send her the ad and threaten to buy it. This usually prompts pretty good stories.

I get annoyed with these sorts of things that go off of stock valuations. Elizabeth Holmes didn’t lose a billion dollars, her shares lost that valuation (which wasn’t real anyway). Samsung shares dropped in value, unless you owned them at their peak and just sold them at their nadir, you didn’t lose anything.

It would be more accurate to say rumor mongering inflated Samsung SDI’s value by $580m rather blame Musk for deflating it with his honesty.

If half a billion dollars can vanish from a tweet...then the problem is not the tweet, but how companies are valued.

That report is so bunk. If I, as en engineer, submitted that crap to my bosses as justification for a new project, they’d laugh at me and probably show me the door.

Firstly, there are the numerous assumptions made, which go unaddressed. Secondly, there are the figures, which seem to be pulled from nowhere, and lean…

I’m almost positive had well OVER 100 years of legitimate development on solar and wind power.

Payoff period for the energy input to produce batteries is well within the lifespan of a BEV, for what it’s worth: http://www.ucsusa.org/clean-vehicles…

.....strangely enough, I agree. Pure electric is not the answer, batteries aren’t good enough, and probably never will be.

Traditional batteries aren’t the future either, or anything requiring a hard connection to a grid for multiple hours a day.

No sorry the problem is not power storage but power output first of all.

His overall point being that electric cars aren’t pulling a sustainable profit. All the electric cars you’ve mentioned are loss leaders with heavy subsidies. All the manufacturers are developing electric cars because it’s the most cost effective way to improve their figures. If they happen to sell well, that’s just…

Seriously? Jalopnik staff doesn’t have acccess to Car Magazine?