this is what happens when the gov interferes with the free market and clueless people think electric (burning coal and storing the energy in a bomb/battery) is cleaner than gas

Which can end up costing more money in the long run. The travel authorization request I submitted 2 weeks ago for $800 plane tickets to perform a site visit for one of our customers? Well now it’s the day before, and the price is $2000. What’s the goal again?

It’s funny how you can compete when you don’t seem to care about making money.

He also said they will be profitable from every quarter hereon (this was a quarter or two ago) and not have to raise any more money. And yet...

Their high risk high reward phase is already over and done with.

Regulators will regulate, and politicians will politic. But eventually reality catches up. There’s no guarantee that people will all want EVs, not is there any guarantee that we will be able to produce enough batteries if they did.

The original Insight was an engineering exercise. It was never ment to appeal to the larger market.

Quite simple : Japan is very bad at producing clean energy, and since the Fukushima incident, their main objective was to get rid of the nuclear plants as soon as possible. This meant it would not only make it even worse from an environmental point of view, but also created uncertainties concerning the ability to…

What this article missed is that maybe it’s a good thing that they are behind in Electric cars. It was a smart decision to bring hybrid cars out because, as you note, they are now widespread across the car industry. True EVs represent a tiny fraction of new car sales and it would have been silly to waste R&D money…

What Toyota and Honda didn’t expect was that the consumer demand for EVs could upend the market without policy help. 

1st gear- why should Honda/Toyota rush into a segment of questionable demand and limited supply? Various companies have had to delay or scale back EV launches due to supply issues. Tesla deliveries are way down indicating a slump in EV demand.

I’ll never understand why the 2 companies that brought hybrid electric cars to the mainstream bet against electric cars.

And they’re still there, 20 years later. The Prius isn’t wildly more efficient than it ever was. The Insight is now a hybrid version of the Honda Civic. Neither is particularly interesting, or notably efficient in a world where a hybrid option is a box to check off on a dealer order form for dozens of models across…

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False.

i think you are overestimating what grown ass adults would be capable of... working in management, even with professional people, is a lot more like teaching kinder garden than you may think

Analysts seem convinced the issue will quickly clear up, but now we have to fear the solar industry seeking revenge by, uh, I don’t know, maybe blocking out the sun? Sounds cool, to be honest.

1st Gear: Tesla’s Raising Money Again Just a Year After Musk Said It Wouldn’t

I prefer the V8 as well. The turbo can be more efficient OR more powerful, depending on the motor, but there is something to be said for having a simple NA V8 in a truck that, frankly, doesn’t get poor mileage(for a truck). My GM V8 regularly returns ~20mpg highway. Friends with Ford and ram V8's are in a similar boat.

You’d think it would be that easy, but lets say a dealer does just that. Sets fair prices, etc. But the cutthroater dealer in the next city over is willing to undercut him by $100. And guess what? More buyers will go to the dealer in the next city over because $100 is $100.