You’re acting like this is far off from the current pricing for an XC90 Recharge, which is their customer base for this Polestar. Hell, my dad’s with just a few options was $80K. (He absolutely is a easy mark for upselling B&W upgrades!)

There is plenty of philanthropy that occurs without the press notices or names being plastered on a building. To ignore the number of people who have made significant monetary contributions to museums, educational scholarship or targeted programs.

Pretty good 3 minute watch on the Chicken Tax...

Meanwhile MacKenzie Scott has given 2x the totality of Musk’s Foundation in the last 4 years. Her approach has been “I trust you do to the right thing with the money” and pushes it out the door.

The scope of the national growth and distribution of people wasn’t something The Founders took into consideration. In 1776 the US population was roughly 2.5M, today it is 330M (assuming the smoothed data is correct.)

Hertz dumping a bunch of Model 3s on the market doesn’t help...

Public transit is the only option which utilizes the infrastructure to the benefit of all persons. Roads are a shared resource but funding and distribution are a mess.

It feels like the lawyers told someone to write an article correcting yesterday’s Gizmodo article...

There is an equity issue that dictates how most public companies rely on stock or cash assets. The difference between liquid assets and leveraged property can be significant when taking loans.

Alignment issues are the wet-dream of economists...

The effects of stock buy-backs rests solely in the reduced funds going into R&D and rather into the pockets of shareholders. The general public is led to falsely believe in the stability of a companies future relative to the marginal positive effect of higher valuations.

2nd Gear: Who would have thought that years of self-reporting would get you lax standards?

Three years of living in Boca while I was teaching at Nova Southeastern in the mid 90's taught me that the people in Palm Beach County have little patience for Spring Break nonsense.

You recognize that the ability to leverage those shares is removed? Tesla would no longer control them and raising funds based on the ownership is what I am referring to. The equity position shifts to the lawyer without the benefit of having sold them.

Tesla won’t actually lose “one cent from the Tesla balance sheet to pay fees.”

You really don’t want the lowest bidder to design software to cover a system with a few nuances. Making the assumption they would get legitimate exemptions correct is just nuts.

I buy new for the simple reason that I no longer possess the basic skills to fix any newer car. It’s a time sink I don’t wish to invest in simply to go from module to module trying to understand the codes and fix them properly. (I am 2 months into a R1T and would only rotate the tires on that thing, electrocution is…

The louder people of the internet have spoken, life is a binary choice where you have to pick a side. Even finding some small portion of a person’s identity defensible, which some group despises, means you have something wrong with your mental state. 

Wasn’t it only yesterday when Colin was cut and pasting Consumer Reports article that Mach-Es were going for OVER MSRP and therefore a poor deal?

Maybe I’ve driven Volvo for too long... But don’t more cars have proximity sensors showing objects? Blind spot camera picks up the dog, who loves to follow car down the driveway, before I even get a chance to pull out of garage?