Where are we on the Cybertruck forecast now?  100, 75, 50, 25,  or 0%

Most people I know who need or want work trucks are really into the Lighting and will likely feel the same way about offerings from GM and Stellantis make their way to the market. Cybertruck may be popular among techies and might even steal a few buyers away from Rivian but typical truck buyers will stick with the…

Found Elon’s alt.

I bet a lot of influencers and trendsetters will hop on it as well since it stands out more than the Hummer EV. Definitely a “look at me” sort of vehicle.

They’re going around saying that the recently deceased Diamond of Diamond and Silk fame died of the vaccine she very publicly refused to take. So apparently the vaccine is so deadly it can kill people that didn’t even get it.

I guess they were even saying the reason that football player went into cardiac arrest must have been due to the Covid vaccine. It never ends. 

That these people made videos ‘proving’ that common household keys were sticking to their bodies after the shot (i.e. the mRNA shot magnetized your body?) is something that must never be forgotten.

I used to work in healthcare and once had a patient fake a seizure for attention. I was a brand new nurse at the time and ran for my preceptor. She strolled into the room, checked to see if the bed was wet and then walked away and told me to request a psych consult. People who fake seizures never remember that they…

BEV drivetrains are much, MUCH cheaper to develop than ICE. They’re also MUCH cheaper to manufacture.

As an accountant and solely looking at the graphic above the reasoning given in the article for the gain don’t quite make sense to me. I would expect to see bigger gains in the gross profit per vehicle if they were the sole reason. It looks instead a massive jump in the net profit per vehicle, which to me implies the…

Those FSD subscriptions are paying off!

You mean to tell me that selling non-luxury cars at luxury car prices nets more profit? 

An alternative to these rosy numbers exists. Tesla uses possibly fraudulent accounting practices to make themselves look completely differentiated in the marketplace. Elon has established a culture of fabrications and exaggerations to raise funds and boost his stock price to line his own pockets. The recent spate of…

Oh man, whoever dug up that email is such a pedo. 

Coming down the grapevine into the Central Valley or the 405 into LA through the Sepulveda pass are good examples. I lived several years in Porterville CA and you did not need any elevation to see the  brown air

Much of California is backed by a mountain range that traps and concentrates pollutants as the wind flows to the east. On the other side of that range is the remainder of the US. Personal observation: Flew out of LA and as the plane passed over those mountains I could see what might be described well enough as a very…

Remember when Tesla touted their used resale value by guaranteeing a certain residual amount? This is basically the opposite of that, they are going to ruin the used value of their cars doing this. Your X you bought last week is now $13k less valuable even if you have not taken delivery yet! 

This story is more than nothing but it is not the bombshell that many believe it to be. Tesla is reducing the price of its vehicles, a manufacturer incentive. Jalopnik commenters love to wax poetic about a lovely future devoid of dealers and price negotiations. That has always been Tesla’s model and I have always…

“We know, for example, that the concept is based on a new, modular body-on-frame platform for EVs called STLA”