“In ten years when most cars and stoplights have them it’ll be great, but you can’t demonstrate it without building a miniature city or funding a real city putting all the sensors/communicators in. Several other companies are much further along with the (more important (in the short term)) actual driving part.”

It takes a lot of people to design a car...

Which is one way of looking at it I suppose, but why block a company from selling something directly to consumers? It’s dumb. Especially for a company that makes practically all its shit here.

“say your average apartment building has 5,000 square feet of space for solar panels on the roof, and 1,000 occupants”

If you’re fitting 1,000 occupants in 5,000 sq ft of land, then it must be a skyscraper. You’re correct that a solar roof on that building wouldn’t make much of a per capita impact, but in much suburban areas (most of the country) where typical residences are 1-3 stories it becomes worthwhile.

And if they produce nothing more than vaporware, they wouldn’t be paying any taxes anyway. Nothing lost in that regard.

How is this a corporate bailout? This company is being bankrolled by a Chinese Billionaire.

“They can sell in every state they just choose not to”

Explain. I was under the impression that Tesla’s direct-sales model is blocked in the majority of the US

My comment is slightly off topic, but your logic is off.

Trump’s head might explode on this one: Tesla will make the “most American” car available on the market, built with American jobs, but the cars don’t use gas...which his oil buddies want everybody to use. Jobs: good. Not use oil: bad.

You’re talking about a 50-100 story apartment building assuming 500-1000sf units and 2 people per unit. There are a huge number of people living in lower density without being “in the middle of nowhere”

The world is not divided in 2 categories, the condos and the farmers. There is also the suburb, ya know, where the average mcmansion has 5,000 sqft of roof that covers about 4 people. That’s where the solar roof makes sense.

I find it ‘funny’ that many southern states tolerate the organization of dealerships to fight for what they want, yet continue to chip away at employee unions’ ability to do the same..

Funny how conservatives have been so antagonistic towards an American company producing American cars while keeping jobs in America. “Not in my state!” the GOP shouts when Tesla wishes to sell their cars.

So, why exactly are you guys at Jello Picnic so bullish on Lucid while you’re so bearish on FF? Both companies are being bankrolled by LeEco, and the FF91 is actually much closer to production. Yet, you are constantly shitting on FF and orgasming about how great Lucid is.

Yes. Now the question is “can supercars get lighter and go as fast as the cars of yesterday using far less fuel?”

Money fell out of the sky from his daddy’s inheritance. Forbes once calculated that if Trump had invested his inheritance in index funds in the stock market in the ‘80s and sat on his hands he would be worth approximately $20 billion today in wealth.

The answer to any question that begins with “is Trump smart enough” is no.

Most likely, it had nothing to do with Trump and everything to do with the cliff that small car sales fell off. But yes, Trump will claim this for himself.