Tesla was also early so they profited from selling emissions credits to the large manufacturers. Those manufactures are now moving in to the EV space so they won’t be doing that as much anymore so other EV startups won’t have that early profit center. 

Hindenburg is a short-selling investment house. Meaning they invested in Lordstown’s failure, not their success. So their name is apropos.

I think Tesla did it right, start off small (use Lotus chassis, add hardware, etc.), and grow over time (2008!-now). A lot of the other ones are just jumping right into full production.

“Hindenburg, a short-selling firm”

It is nice, but a bit too big and definitely too quick.

I grew up in the 80s at a high school that had some uber rich kids. That 735 wouldn’t have fit in the area of parking lot the rich kids used. It would have been relegated to the poors area. We had the Whitman’s sampler of 911s in the lot. Regular, Convertible, Cabrio, and a Slant nose turbo. (What sort of parent gives…

I always felt like Philip, who was starting to surrender to the American lifestyle, chose that car. Kind of a midlife crisis-mobile. The worst part was when he was flirting with the purchase and talking to Henry about the car, and they had him spout some absolute gibberish that made no technical sense. It stuck out…

Well yeah those kids are employees of their parents’ business and those vehicles are delivery vehicles so they’re written off as a businesses expense

That’s exactly the point. Have you ever seen a ‘73 Charger parked somewhere without a crowd of middle aged white guys milling around it? Not exactly ideal for a spy trying to blend in.

It was part of the plot of the show. That car was confiscated by the Miami P.D. from one of the drug lords they busted.

In “The Americans” when Soviet super spies, Philip and Elizabeth, buy a new white 1982 Camaro Z-28, it just seemed wrong, especially in an upscale D.C. suburb.

The Charger on Burn Notice.

That’s a mild car for a rich kid to get... I knew someone from a rich family whose dad bought her an Aston Martin Vanquish in high school. 

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Lets be clear Tesla DOES NOT make money selling electric cars. This is publicly available information in their financial statements. What they did manage to do is get enough investment to produce and sell enough cars that they built up a LOT of carbon credits which they sell to all the other major automakers to offset…

Musk did not start Tesla, that was Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpennning, who Musk pushed aside to rewrite the company’s history.

These guys are pretty much the Sultans of Steam

It’s never bad to point out racist shitbags, especially if they’re politicians. The world is a complex place. You can enjoy riding on the autobahn without feeling guilty because the Nazis built it (before the history nerds chime in, I know that the plan and construction began before the Nazis took over). If billions…

“Why lawmakers choose certain ones to pen up is something always worth thinking about.”