I’m guessing that you meant "Volvo" when you wrote "Tesla" there :)

At that kind of price it’s an interesting possiblity.

“You’ll never make it with THAT attitude!”

You make a compelling argument. Though some enterprising young tech-bro had surely disrupted the paradigm and is running his yacht on crypto.

If you can find modules in good condition for that price you should be grabbing as many as you can and on-selling them. The cheapest I’ve seen from a reliable source is around $500/module more (with some discounts for volume purchases).

We’ll likely see this kind of practice happening with electric motors, given that automotive OEMs don’t have much institutional expertise with such motors.

“A car that runs 1000 miles on salt water” sounds like a weird way of describing an ocean-going yacht.

The slight issue of functional fusion reactors of any scale not existing may factor into it.

Or a LEAF?

Is the remanufactured battery a swap? A lot of people use Tesla packs for retrofits into other vehicles, or for applications like stationary energy storage, so there are reasons people would want to buy one.

By the same token, there is no evidence that the person who locked the bike to the post was the rightful owner.

My understanding is that masking is primarily about reducing the chance of breathing out enough virus to make other people sick.

The rate of seatbelt use in the US is... not great. 10 percent of people don't wear them while in a car.

Well look at mister fancy here!

Explicit permission is not required, only that the previous rightful owner renounces all property rights to the object in question.

Thank you - I must admit I was pretty happy with it.

“In the United States, if the owner of a property has renounced all property rights in the object, then the property is abandoned. Since theft is the unlawful taking of another person’s property, an essential element of the actus reus of theft is absent.

This seems like a much better candidate for rescue and rehabilitation than one of Tracy's fifteen Cherokee-oxide hybrids. For one, it's small and doesn't leave fluids/particles of itself wherever it goes...

Fair enough. I would argue that it's gone past uncool and back to a point where it's cool again.

That’s the other option. We’ve got a “street trailer” - a neighbour has it for work, we let him store it at our place because we have the space, neighbours can use it as needed. I can’t think of a time in the last five years when two different people needed to use it at once.