There’s a lot of contention that Ford never made that quote. And as ivan256 pointed out, the motorized vehicle is basically a faster horse that can carry more without tiring while requiring far less maintenance and upkeep.

Yeah, Porsche was doing quite well before the Cayenne and already a very profitable company even given their small production:

Or perhaps they don’t have an EV because they don’t have an easy way to charge it overnight.

And I bet very few of those cars constantly compare themselves to super and hypercars like Tesla does.

And so has things like Nurburging lap times.

Only up to a point; after which traffic flow and signals determine how fast you can go. A car that does 0-60 in 9 seconds is more than adequate in any real-world public driving situation.

5 minutes at a gas pump gets you a full tank from empty, 30 minutes at a supercharger for an empty 85 kWh battery gets you about 225 km.

“low price of electricity due to renewable generation”

But if you had a dedicated co-driver who’s only job is to take over whenever you had or were going to screw up (like the Google Car), your accident rate would be much lower too. The Google Car has numerous disengagements due to software and hardware issues and outright poor decisions requiring “HumanPilot” to help it…

Ideally it would slow to a stop in the lane it’s in. But as evidenced by recent crashes, if it had encountered harder driving conditions it would have turned off and crashed, or it if had encountered a stopped vehicle it would have crashed into that.

That’s pretty standard in the US; aluminum body + limited number of body shops authorized by Tesla for work + poor Tesla parts availability.

From Tesla’s filing:

For Tesla, it would be Gross Profit - (Selling, General and Admin Expense + R&D).

Now compare their Selling, General and Administration Expenses.

It doesn’t. Spending on capital assets like the factory goes under Balance Sheets and Cash Flows, not under profits and losses.

Or maybe it’s more like the late-war factories Germany desperately tried to build in order to build the fancy new weapons they had to match Allied numerical superiority.

Thanks for the video. From it I see the truck start moving at 8 seconds and getting hit at about 14 seconds. However, this crash differs because the truck is hit by traffic perpendicular to the truck’s original orientation while the Florida crash occurred when the truck was hit by traffic in the oncoming direction to…

Most of those deaths are in the developing world who drive horribly maintained vehicles with negative star safety ratings. They’re not going to be able to afford self-driving cars, even if they become available.

There’s no way a semi-truck with a trailer makes that left turn in 5 seconds from a dead stop. From what I’ve seen of left turning semi-truck and videos on youtube, I’ll be surprised if he could do it in 15 seconds considering the width of the median, the two highway standard width lanes, the 105-110 degree angle of…

All the problems I’ve describe still affect the current Model S. Even the drive unit issue, while better than before still isn’t fully fixed. Here’s an owner who’s in line to get his 6th drive unit replacement: