Coulda shoulda woulda Mercedes, the company that saved Tesla in 2008 with a $50 million contract to electrify the Smart car, that said in 2010 or something that they learned a lot from Tesla about innovation and working fast. They waited too long, by the time Mercedes has anything to sell that is a ground-up EV…

Yeah, like the Tesla Cybertruck with its 650,000 reservations. Such a dull design, right?

Called it. Gave more stats than most EV startups, of course they are planning to make it. The skills for making top notch EVs are skills Sony has, why not? 

Now Fisker can buy his old car company back, once the reorganizing fails. That will be great. Remember back shortly after buying the company how the CEO of Waxiang or whatever it is called said his intention was to crush Tesla even if it was his grandchildren who achieved it? Yeah, that was epic, like one a them Hong…

Because you are vastly overestimating Fisker. 

Now all Fisker needs is the money, a factory, 1000 times his current number of employees, factory equipment, a battery supplier, a battery pack design, even a slight intention of trying to manufacture cars, and intervention on his behalf by God and he can get these cars out to buyers in late 2021.

Yes. For example, Tesla has patented their own inverter that they make in-house, they have had multiple generations of motors to make them lighter and more efficient, etc. They have improved the efficiency of Model S by 27% since it was released. Probably more than ten over the air updates have also improved…

Every journalist is clueless, that is why you got no answers. Tesla has spent the last seven years paying some of the best engineers in the world to improve the efficiency of the Model S a total of 27% since it was released. Porsche just started making EVs, it is absurd to think that they could start where it took…

Agreed. I don’t think this article was remotely on the right track to answer the question in the headline. Actual answers include the form factor of the battery cells, Tesla uses cylinders and everyone else is doing pouch or prismatic. This changes how high the car is and affects battery cooling and management and…

Good quality FUD there. Yes, Tesla has not been profitable while they have innovated and grown as rapidly as possible. But they are building a profit machine never before seen in the industry. When Tesla can launch Tesla Mobility, they will stop selling cars and demand for cars will be irrelevant. They will also…

The drivers are employees. But soon it won't matter because Tesla Network will launch and Uber and Lyft will quickly go bankrupt and die. 

If Jaguar wants to survive they have to cut all the hybrid models. The time for hybrids has passed already. 

These companies are clearly not going to win the race for self driving. Even if they did, they don't have any automotive manufacturing, so they would have to depend on automakers to produce for them and all the automakers want to have their own mobility services. Mapping is just the simplest part of self driving…

Uber and Lyft are the MySpaces of future mobility. If I could not sell their stock for five years, I would not trade a six inch Subway sandwich for both companies. Tesla Network will crush them, and all this other business with scooters and bicycles and apps is at best a nice idea for a company of a few friends trying…

Our best hope to beat Trump is nominating a candidate who costs us women and minority and leftist and liberal voters? How do you figure? Opposed desegregation. Wrote the Drug Czar bill. Cosponsored the 1994 Crime Bill. Called for 700 miles of border fencing in 2006 and prosecution of employers who hired undocumented.…

There are several difficulties. First, Tesla is paying lots of world class software engineers to work on autonomous driving, and the main hoped for return has taken years longer than planned already. Second, they will need, by my estimate, four times the battery packs to launch the Model Y and Semi than they can make…

How crazy that Elon Musk is right about this and all the "experts" were wrong. Just like every single other time the "experts" weighed in on Elon Musks plans. So it actually was incredibly predictable, and I did years ago. Can anyone explain the utility of letting people make a good living being completely wrong every…

None of what you wrote is true. EVs produce significantly less carbon emissions than gas cars do right now. And the power grid is getting cleaner rapidly as wind and solar costs drop, so over the lifetime of an EV purchased today the car's emissions will continue to drop (unless the owner already has home solar, in…

Model S had few changes? Added dual motors, increased range by like eighty miles, halved the 0-60 time, added all the autopilot functions...

People seem to forget that it is less than seven years ago that Tesla sold their first Model S. Four years from now, this new car better be amazing or it will be far from competitive.