Sure, assuming a 30 year repayment and 0 interest, $220M/month. Rivian’s GROSS revenue may have been $4B, but they literally lose money on every vehicle sold. Additionally, they just entered a joint venture with VW worth as much as $5.8B, with at least $1B of that already being transferred to Rivian. Rivian, who lest…

lots of rappers have their “identifiable” car

Could be worse! I’ve known people who’ve smoked cigarettes for decades and never had an issue (go figure). But,  anyone ingesting lead or antifreeze in the water has never had very good results.

Don’t forget Killer Mike’s Grand National.

I mean i question the future of Tesla in general.  They have an aging product line, with designs based on things thought up well over a decade ago.  Musk has made the brand toxic to the college educated crowd...who tend to live in areas with actual charging stations.  Sure there are some country club republican types…

Anti-social types aren’t the best at forced skilled labor. Even employed auto workers have been known to do deliberately scummy things to the cars they worked on when management ticked them off.

“which might lead one to wonder if they’ve ever purchased a new vehicle before. Or a used one. Or dealt with money at all.”

As other mentioned you’re referring to Moore’s Law, but that doesn’t apply in a situation like this. In this case IMO, it’s a combination of high starting MSRP, and consumer worries about batter longevity, and charging infrastructure.

True. Transistors are now approaching atomic scales, making further miniaturization challenging due to quantum effects and heat dissipation.

Sounds like the real issue is road design and the sign should say “INSTALL TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES [blurred vulgarity]”

Moore’s law is what you are referring too, and it is not applicable anymore. He based it on transistor miniaturization, and we are near the limit apparently. Instead of the predicted 2 years we are almost at 4 now. It held at 2 for many decades, though.

 Not so baffling when you consider how many people have their heads up their ass. 

Annoying... trying to edit my post to correct 2H->1He to 4H->1He, but the initial reply is awaiting moderation. I guess that’s what you get commenting after Friday night beers :-)

Speaking as a particle physicist, the energy comes from mass. Some of the mass of the H atoms is being converted to energy in fusing four H into one He (one He is lighter than two H). That mass is turned into mc^2 amount of energy, and that is a LOT of energy. One gram of mass is equivalent to 90 TRILLION Joules of…

stars are massive accumulations of hydrogen. The intense gravitational forces at the center of the stars are so great that the center becomes incredibly hot and hydrogen can be fused into helium, releasing immense amounts of energy and further heating up the star and its system. At some point, the gravitational forces…

The sun turns hydrogen into helium and heat.

Its fuel is finite. Once it runs out of its main source of fuel, it begins burning other things... then that runs out... then it collapses under its own weight.

Atoms, of course, can be destroyed and created.

Absolutely nothing wrong what that!!! :-)