The Trolley Problem... that’s my reason for not trusting AI to drive me anywhere. Add in I bought an EV to have a little fun jamming the pedal to the floor and momentarily get pushed back into my seat! FSD isn’t going to voluntarily do that...

China can afford to make these statement due to high investment in African Infrastructure. Belts & Roads along with electric grid improvements gets you to a point where the native population is going to need means of utilizing them.

This was the breakdown of the compensation package...

I can’t imagine what the Environmental lobbyist are doing right now. Millions spent to convince Government to make paradigm shifting investments in infrastructure and rule making only to have the Domestic OEMs slow product development.

The US doesn’t want to get into a subsidy race with China, which they would lose. Getting Congress to vote through $100s of Billions is a fool’s errand. It’s the arbitrary timeframe that is creating the issue, along with the manufacturers telling people they can’t do it fast enough.

Bloomberg is reporting that Biden will be imposing a 102% tariff on Chinese EVs. Simply to protect domestic manufacturers who don’t want cheap EVs flooding the market and collapsing their market share.

The California has Mecum tags on the keychain... Any chance one or more of these were auction items? Might explain the odd collection and pricing scheme.

2nd Gear - These are going to be continuations of Trump Era tariffs and a continued growth in the with-holding of technology transfers from US companies.

Came to say the same...

Since the Pandemic hiring in most tech companies (and Tesla is valued like a tech company), the higher interest rates are creating a slow-roll of lay-offs. Zero-interest Rate money let companies hire and shelf/warehouse talent and now those cheap loans are coming due. People are ALWAYS the first cost-structure…

3rd Gear - Last week Marketplace did a week’s long series with The Washington Post about training and hiring of people as a result of the CHIPS ACT. Arizona had setup training programs and had identified hundreds of people to form a pipeline and continued bench strength.

The Wilson came in about $90M below budget, but I would have to guess that 2008 gave them some slack in the financials. Construction was bottoming out and people were glad to just have jobs in that sector and raw materials were lower at that point as well.

The largest issue is going to be the daily traffic they are going to want crossing. So far it hasn’t been a huge pain for the people to go 695 around the West side of Baltimore, but we also aren’t in winter weather mode either.

This will be tied up in courts for years and having a fixed point of reference to re-coop expenditures is a better outcome than having money deposited only to have the costs double. (Since this will very easily increase by 15% from overruns and inflation on materials/labor.)

With the regular turnover at Tesla, I can’t imagine what kind of Bench Strength they are developing. Even odder when you cut the staff that was un-paid interns rather than identify potential hires.

Tesla is going full “Burn the talent” pipeline. They recently reneged on 3200 internships, some of them un-paid(?)!

I thought he had some deal with duPont Registry... I recall that “Holiday Sale” last year. Maybe he just wants to pocket a bit more cash off the sale?

Having spent a year teaching at Nova in the late 90's, you nailed the undergrad student body. Burnt out, wanna be pro-athletes hoping some scout will see them. Hated the entire experience!

Levante Modena Optima with all the options - $118,950.

$108K in lease payments? On a SUV that, double checks website, runs around $130K loaded (assumes Grecale Folgore with all the boxes checked.)