1st & neutral: I find it rather amusing how many of the ones calling Tesla a bubble ready to burst were the same ones saying it would be bankrupt “this time next year!” for several years.

1st and Neutral: Whether Tesla is in a bubble works out to two questions:

Given that more than half of people in the US own stocks (55% per surveys, although the actual number is expected to be much higher as people are woefully poor at understanding how their non-Social Security retirement vehicles work), I doubt that’s quite the evil, exclusive group your wording implies it to be.

No, no author here can.  Anyone who owns stock is rich and evil and bent on our destruction.

None of this really matters unless you are an automaker CEO or shareholder but in the vein of nature is healing, nature is healing.

Concur with the mild shock. It’s so hard to do a “joint venture” vehicle that doesn’t look like the donor vehicle, because the vehicle’s attitude, hardpoints and proportions are always so similar.   Thinking Mercedes-Infiniti for starters.

There may have been a time where power windows were more expensive, but not anymore. It’s more expensive to offer crank windows because you can’t standardize the assembly line, and can’t buy products in as large a bulk order to keep the costs down. It’s one time where restricting choice has a benefit.

The article really needed to indicate how much of a share he has in the company. He doesn’t even have the Chrysler name, and if he doesn’t own any stock, who cares what his opinion is? even if he owns a few shares, who cares? unless he’s a significant stockholder, his opinion should hold no more sway than any other…

Has anyone checked whether he’s technically sane before giving his insanity any coverage?

If Chrysler was so great, it wouldn’t have had to merge with Fiat to begin with. Or Daimler. Or any of the other holding groups that have had to bail it out over the years. 

15% of PSA is owned by Beijing Automotive Industrial Corporation, which is controlled by the government of Beijing, China (and builds the Wrangler copycat, BAIC B-40). And for clarification, the French government owns another 15% of PSA. PSA has been “Government Motors” all along.

I bet I can guess who he voted for in November

“This alternative proposal is in my opinion superior to the planned merger and would result in the return to the United States of the Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep-Ram Brands and away from the proposed Chinese, and foreign control as proposed in the Merger,”

So what? As I recall, he sold his stake in the company back in the 1980s to fund his woodworking business. His historic obsession with and letter-writing campaigns about Chrysler border on the crackpot side of the spectrum.

I get that his great-grandfather founded the company. But if he, himself, doesn’t work in the…

Definitely not. I thought that was strange to include as well. I suppose it could reduce aerosols being recirculated, but so does a regular HEPA filter.

So this was tested on E.coli. IIRC, that is a bacteria. COVID 19 is caused by a virus. Does proving that a filter works for a bacteria prove that it works for a virus?

Since when have fewer EVs been sold than predicted? Way back in 2014, Elon Musk said Tesla would sell 500k cars in 2020.

Don't bother. You cannot correct a worthless old crank.

The trend of EV sales is definitely going up, up, up. Not sure where you’re seeing otherwise. And it will continue as the prices drop and more manufacturers convert over their lineup.

This site is full of dumbasses who have no idea how machine vision works, not even getting into rudimentary ML models or neural nets. Your explanation is totally wasted on them. Engineers will get it, but the commentary base on this site probably has never opened up a computer.