Waiting for the Cultists to turn up and claim they'll "charge on solar panels" at the base camp. Ahem. 

EarthCrusher

This.

Pfft. The era that produced the best W126s and W201s? I have one of each from 1991, along with a W124.

(...my E46 of the same vintage and mileage feels like its much older...)

Hydrogen is a verboten word, but the zeal for it stems from the much better resource utilization. And the ability to be completely sustainable, even if at the cost of some imagined “efficiency disadvantage”. Musk seems particularly fixated on abstract issues of efficiency, while completely ignoring the Big picture.

That we can agree on.

Great comment.

Its actually funny (bad funny) to see how nickel mining and extraction maps the Inverse Economic Scale problems of gold.

Nickel.

Heh. They SAY that but just released a new 2,7 turbo, a better Dmax and plan to do a new LS generation.

You can hope but the math says you are hoping in vain

Er, look at the Periodic Table, please, Madame Curie.

Watch the MARK MILLS video.

Because sodium isn't flammable? 

2% per year is all the batteries are “getting better”. Nowhere near fast enough.

And that’s the rub— it’s impossible across all industries to build the gear, equipment and mines to “fulfill the wacked out vision”

Nickel is a huge problem.

He always posts the same nonsense.

People who actually understand the math? Repeatedly come to the conclusion you’re delusional.