If he gets to stay on at Tesla in any position, expect one precondition that he either gets off social media or never discusses Tesla on any social media outlet ever again.

Except that Toyota committed to a huge EV push last year.

I think they backed out of the market when they clearly weren’t profitable, but now see a vision going forward...

Parked next to a new model 3 the other day at the grocery store.

There are some very cool features and touches in that car.

And then there was the panel gap at the driver’s side door, which was approximately 6 mm wide at the top of the door and 2-3 mm wide at the bottom.  I know I worked for years spotting such defects…

No kidding - Wisconsin has guaranteed that wages won’t keep pace with inflation and that the government can simply cut benefits to pay for any marginal wage hike. With their government you can guarantee the workers will face significant loss of income after adjustment for inflation, and the only way to slow or prevent…

Instead of a smaller number of pension funds, suddenly there were thousands of small 401k plans, each with shitty fees paid to managers to do something less effective than just mirroing the s&p 500

Yep.  Sad because if you look at Google Earth’s historical imagery, you can see the ripped it out sometime between 1/17 and 3/17.  In 4/17, they started putting a new building on top of part of that land.  But they easily could have aligned that building elsewhere and kept the rail spur.  Or built a new rail spur…

Umm.. no, if you buy a vehicle in California but live in another state, CA will issue a special temporary permit to allow you to transfer the vehicle to that state (including driving it on the road). It only lasts a few days, and you’re expected to register the vehicle immediately upon arrival. In CA’s case, it’s a…

Case in point:

Ohio, under John Kasich, decided to gut state funding of local governments. This broke a decades old commitment where the state used statewide taxes to guarantee a revenue stream to fund basic local services. Above that level, though, and the local government had to pay for it. The state did this not to…

Any company worth spit has figured out how to make it work already. Why can’t Tesla?

Quite a few companies have warehouses or distribution centers that deal with 300+semis per day at each facility and they’re able to make it work still.  Tesla needs just a fraction of that and can’t figure out how to do it.

No other automaker is having these problems.

You can’t make up an excuse when its so blatantly false.

But no other manufacturer is having this problem.

Given that, it’s entirely Tesla’s poor management.

Actually, the Fremont plant doesn’t have rail loading capabilities anymore.

Tesla, in their infinite wisdom, tore all that out.

You know, it’s almost as if it was a really bad idea to demolish the rail loading area at the plant that GM/Toyota had used to successfully ship half a million vehicles per year from...

Most likely not.  Most states have arrangements for such a deal.  I’ve done it myself not that long ago.  

Although in your case it was a problem from a natural disaster that couldn’t be predicted. I mean, a well run business will have some sort of plan for dealing with it, and you did - but for Tesla this was entirely forseeable. You’re increasing production, you contract with carriers to increase their supply. Hell, do…

And all the fanbois were insisting that I had to have my head up my ass to say that Tesla’s claims were clearly bullshit....

That’s a problem all over the place. Wisconsin is particularly bad - wages historically have gone up faster than inflation. Total compensation (wages+benefits) have generally gone up a fair bit faster than inflation. Among college educated workers, we’re actually talking a significant chunk above inflation.

And…

First - it doesn’t matter why it was offered in the first place. Total compensation is what management always negotiates around. Pension pick up instead of an increase in base pay? Who cares.

Second - not the case. Many taxes are applied before deducting pension contributions.

Finally -no, again - its a question of…

Makes me glad that we were able to repeal Ohio’s attempts to do the same here. Kasich (who, I hate to admit, seems damned reasonable compared to Trump, even though he has some awful ideas on education and taxes) kept insisting that he wasn’t trying to eliminate collective bargaining -but his law forbade negotiating…

Most pension plans actually have to put out their actuarial reports per state laws. It can be hard finding them, but they’re out there.

For example, here’s one for Cincinnati, OH. On page 1, you can see that the actuaries report that the city actually has to contribute 4.32% of pay to match the employee’s 9.0%…