the waiver clause in the 1970 clean air act states

Uber’s own argument for why they are not an employer is that they do not hire the drivers. They are only the platform for connecting the driver to the passenger, i.e., the passenger is the doing the hiring. So, setting the price undercuts their argument that they are not an employer. Compare it to a company like Home…

reply to myself.. I just read that IIHS doesn’t like to use white cars because their facility is white and the cars don’t show up well in the video or pictures. So, Tesla has them by the balls on the color up-charge.

The Uber/Lyft model is to take over the market by selling rides at a loss until their competition goes out of business. Once they are the only game in town, they’ll raise their prices to make themselves profitable. 

It is 14 states counting CA, but they are states where 40% of new cars are sold.

That’s load-bearing paint.

$500/month total might actually be a little low for one person if their insurance is through their employer, but it is probably close for an example like this.

There a bunch of possible ways, and plenty of proposals out there. As I said, I would prefer a cap and trade, but if I were doing a carbon tax, I’d do something like this:

You have never taken (passed???) an economics class.

Not quite - what they’re saying is UAW employees pay 3 to 4 percent of their total healthcare premiums with the automakers picking up the remaining 96-97%. So if healthcare premiums are $500 per month for a typical worker, a UAW member pays about $20 per month for healthcare coverage while the average US worker pays $1…

And yet they still saddle us with a Continuously-variable Tenderloin!

At least Nissan actually released a new model, and not a 5+ year old one

Perhaps if it was designed to disproportionately target larger, beefier cars

So do you live in a truck then?

They are as large as my house, can sleep as many people as my house, and are about the same price as my house.

Which works out to about $583,500 after interest, loan origination fee, doc fees, and dealer prep.

That $640,000 is before rebates. It’s more like $400,000, right?

The short answer is that, because of the center axle, there’s not enough weight over the drive axle (the rear axle).

your statement that this was done “on a whim” is wild speculation. you have zero idea whether that’s true or not. you’re only assuming it is because you were surprised by the announcement. you honestly think they built up an entirely new drivetrain and arranged to ship it to Germany “on a whim”? it’s no wonder people…

I’m not sure a Tweet declaring “Model S on Nurburgring next week” (which is exactly when the car arrived and began track testing) provides enough information to talk about the level of planning that went into this effort from Tesla.