None of those are from new brands, though.

Chevrolet, Nissan, BMW, and Hyundai/Kia are not new brands.

I mean, in-ground pools are just wet holes in the ground. What a weird take.

He was paid $650k in cash, and his future options were valued at $421M. Upon sale, they could be worth anything from zero to several times $421M.

new brand

Nissan, Chevrolet, Mini (BMW) and Hyundai/Kia aren’t new brands.

If, as you say, running a startup is hard, then being able to sell your first 200k cars at a $7500 discount (so $1.5 billion in discounts) would seem to be beneficial, especially if it was built into your business plan and your most analogous competitor was able to benefit from the same before it transitioned to more…

None of those are new brands, though, and they’ve been able to rely on thier established ICE vehicles to subsidize their EV efforts. Tesla didn’t have that, but did have a favorable government incentive program; Rivian didn’t have that either, and now they’re getting the incentives pulled from them.

I feel like the income qualification is more important than the price qualification here — if you make less than $150k, you’re unlikely to be able to afford an $80k+ pickup.

I’d like to see Rivian get creative on this to bring the price down. Not in the engineering sense to bring down costs, but in the legal/loophole sense just as a big FU to policy makers.

and now the focus is on making EVs more affordable.

It is kind of a dick move to remove the current structure without a transition period. Tesla made it because they could trade carbon credits and they had a big incentive for their cars. This isn’t going to be the case for Rivian. I understand the criticism for hyper expensive electric trucks as not needing a credit,…

For everyone bashing on Rivian for complaining here: They would get this tax benefit for their consumers as things are now. The new legislation would remove the benefit for them going forward. They’ve counted on this benefit as a part of their model/success/etc...

I’m not saying they should or shouldn’t get this, or…

Elon Musk, whose initial expensive models got the benefit of these kind of tax credits without price or income limits and paved the way for the mass market cars... That will also now benefit from tax credits?

Then what is your complaint? Continuing to push for increased safety isn’t a bad thing. As far as I’m aware, Wolff isn’t suggesting that RB should be forced to spill the beans on their secret or anything like that. He’s basically saying oscillations are a concern (he’s not exactly wrong, even if most teams have found…

Do you even watch? Most of the teams—Mercedes included—have dialed out porpoising. Almost all the teams—RB excepted—have small bits of porpoising on specific tracks that they usually get rid of by race day.

But the collision was 100% his fault. Whether she stopped or not did not change his extent of injury, considering passerbys were able to render assistance.

Not just trash. They lit hay during dry season and even dumped asbestos waste on the road.

This is not about CO2 emissions, which have a global effect. It’s about ammonia and other nitrogen based emissions that have a regional effect. So, it absolutely matters what is emitted locally. It’s even mentioned in the article.

Some background on this... we have an excess of nitrogen pollution which damages what little nature we have left. 60% of nitrogen emissions is from agriculture; meanwhile 75% of produce is exported. So it’s sensible place to start cutting emissions.