Fanbois gonna... fan? I’ve got a friend or two like this guy, too.

You forget that no one else WANTS in right now. It’s a waste of money. Tesla isn’t MAKING money, they’re still majorly in the red. Once there’s a large enough market for the other OEMs to get a chunk and do it with positive margins, it’s going to get ugly for Tesla.

The other OEMs aren’t playing catch-up - they’ve been sitting on their hands, letting Musk spend the money to make a market. Now that it’s starting to look like a real market, they’re all starting to get into it.

While the other automakers are playing catch-up, and despite Tesla’s obvious challenges, they are still managing to put out great product after great product.

Neutral: Tesla will be absorbed by another manufacturer before it figures out how to build a quality car well.

If you were a particularly enterprising hacker you could set the car to shut off when it reached an area with zero cell phone signal then flash a message “welcome to the dead zone” some faint banjo music would be a nice touch too....

106hp used to be family sedan territory when I was a kiddo. We have come a long way.

You are speaking for yourself, not the rest of the market. Bring their rates up to taxi pricing or above, I e. To be able to actually pay their drivers a reasonable wage, and see how things go for these companies. 

A group of three or more white people is called a colony. A group of two is called military advisors*.



(That’s a reference to the CIA’s role in destabilizing democratically elected governemnts in Central and South America throughout the 70s and 80s. Too obscure? I’m trying to make my humor more relatable. Let me know…

It is far less clear what FCA gets out of a merger with Renault or Peugeot...

Lotus could establish a presence in Le Mans, thereby pinning the Irony Meter. But we live in interesting times.

Lower ride height? It’s only 1.6" higher than the Honda Fit, which is also “egg-shaped”. They are sub-compacts; they’re all egg-shaped.

The Bolt is squat, egg shaped, and it’s proportions are awkward.

David,

You don’t have to necessarily stick to car people, but you need to stick with someone with manufacturing experience. Someone who worked somewhere where they have to actually produce a physical product and get it out the door to the customers.

And I wish that we had the technology necessary to clone Mulally and…

There are a lot of charging stations open now. Who is building them depends on the area. A lot of them are built by businesses as a cheap perk to attract customers or help employees. They also get setup by municipalities to get people to come downtown. The Tesla charging stations are built as a partnership. The gas…

I’ve seen it too. Everything he said in regards to the overall concept makes sense and I think the final product is entirely possible, it’s just I think people were expecting something closer to the eventual product of a whole network of these:

The plan is small diameter tunnels. Thats it.

Ok. But again what’s the new idea here? They bought a used boring machine and dig a tunnel. So any new tech to dig tunnels clearly is not it. They said this thing costed 10 million, but excluded any land acquisitions or terrain entrance and have not really clarified what exactly that 10 million tag even is.

Except there is zero indication that there will be meaningful process development.