Ahem: “Is it car-related? Not at all. It is, however, plane-related, or at the very least plane-adjacent, and we write about plane stuff all the time. So why should this be any different?”

I need this gif, it expresses things I have difficulty putting into words.

I’ve wondered about this for a while. For one...even with ICE production the amount of automation in production was likely to increase and remove jobs. I’m not sure how significant the amount would be, but it’s pretty easy to see that even without EVs, the number of auto workers was going to go down over time.
As we…

We need more news like this.

You mean I can’t trust what lying orange man says ? 

Im the opposite...well, not that my nuts are cold.  I just love heated seats because of the therapy on the back.  I went out of my way to get heated seats installed in the cruiser

I’ll be honest with you, on long trips it’s usually obvious who isn’t using cruise control, and they kind of drive me crazy. Cruise keeps things orderly on the interstate. 

Probably, but it was 100% uninsured, hence the attempt to sell it mostly destroyed....

People in Australia...

Yes the original turbo era of F1 was known for their extremely robust and mechanically reliable power.

Yeah, I saw those videos too. I suspect the conclusion was that, while feasible and within the limits of our technology available today, the cost of the equipment (servos, cameras, computer, control units, etc) would make it outside the budget of the average EV buyer and cost prohibitive for deployment at public…

I’m a bike commuter. I bike to work three days/week and I walk the other two. Cycling infrastructure in my city is horrendous and people here are outright hostile to bikes and the people riding them. When our city tried a bike lanes pilot project, people acted like we were killing babies in the street.

In q2 they had a $412mm loss in just gross profit (revenue-cost of revenue), total losses were $1.285bn with $873mm of those attributed to SG&A along with R&D, almost even split at 429 and 444. I don’t have exact sales figures, but it looks like Q2 production was about 16,304.

I mean, if you normally buy gas at the current national average of $3.81/gal, would you spend $4.95-5.70/gal just to not have to touch the fuel pump? That’s where my head goes when thinking about tech like this.

Some of this is to be expected.. as you can’t come out the gate with a vehicle that is priced out of reach.. (not many are willing to dump 120K on an unproven vehicle, especially a truck)... But as production ramps up, the name becomes established, and positive reports keep coming in, they can actually raise prices…

I’m wagering that a large part of it is simply scalability. I doubt they actually lose $33k every time they sell a truck. The $33k number likely just comes from their revenue minus expenditures divided by number of sales. Meaning, if they sold one additional truck, their expenditure would increase by $80k (or whatever…

“Wells Fargo analyst”?

Cutting 40 grand from production seems like an nearly insurmountable challenge. If you didn’t engineer in profitability from the start of a product its going to be REALLY hard to find it later.  I have no doubt there is still some low hanging fruit, but that is a lot of needed fruit and not all of it is going to be…

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