Now when you pick a pawpaw
Or a prickly pear
And you prick a raw paw
Well next time beware
Don’t pick the prickly pear by the paw
When you pick a pear
Try to use the claw
But you don’t need to use the claw
When you pick a pear of the big pawpaw

Also, these funds have tons of money (Saudi Arabia’s Sovereign Wealth fund has over two trillion dollars) I don’t see why they can’t, or wouldn’t, invest in multiple companies if they decide to invest in EVs. The article asserts that an investment in Lucid would preclude an investment in Tesla, not sure why that would…

I did a co-op at NUMMI in the late 80s. There were lots of line workers there from that plant’s GM days before it became NUMMI and they had plenty of stories about gambling, drugs, fights etc. One memorable one was that in the GM days every Friday there would be several hookers driven around on the back of tugs (the…

“the Clarity isn’t the most attractive car”

Should probably compare a BRZ to a Model 3 so it would be less Kwh used. But come on, a BRZ!!! Who wouldn’t want to drive that instead?

You’re right on the nose. Calculated ROI was 7 years when panels were installed almost 4 years ago. So far it’s working out to be just about that (see my other response if curious about how I calculated costs).

I have solar so actual costs are much much cheaper :-)

I got that number from a Model S (not model 3) forum because I figure the Porsche will be more similar to an S. Data pasted in below. I’m sure it varies beyond this depending on driving styles and weather:

I want to know what that glass tower of cars (all Porsches I assume?) is in the background. Tried Googling for it with no luck.

You got me wondering so I searched some numbers. It looks like a median Model S uses about 330 Whr/mile. If I did the conversions right that would work out to 99Kwh for 300 miles. For me I pay about $.24/Kwh so your scenario would cost .24*99 = $23.76 for 300 miles of energy (or thereabouts).

He seems to claim a lot of insider knowledge from various aspects of the factory and production process. Maybe it’s true, but how an IT contractor would “know” all of these things smells fishy to me.

I refuel at home and haven’t been to a local gas station in over five years. When will petroleum provide the same convenience?

Awhile back I got an Altima Hybrid when renting a car. Maybe they get some tax breaks to purchase them?

90' means degrees, not feet...

Haha. Just yesterday I was in San Francisco and there was a RAV4 trying to parallel park into a nice big spot. As I was slowly passing by (traffic) the driver was almost 90' to the curb so I could tell it wasn’t going to go well. I was able to watch in my mirror (did I mention traffic? It was stop & go, emphasis on…

Long term the pension savings from him being a Private versus a Sargent should more than make up for the Humvee costs. So he’s doing us a favor ;-)

You forget the Model X which is plugging along at about 20k units annually. Sure it was delayed, but once it got going has been a good seller for Tesla.

Here’s the key (from another post above) “the enclosed rear makes them eligible to be registered as commercial vehicles.”

Saw this Pagani at Alice’s Restaurant in Woodside CA about a year ago, with the carbon fiber body option. I didn’t know these were even street legal in the US.

Seeing that guy chip away with all those open coolant passages makes me irrationally angry.