Counterpoint re model mix: There are a lot more people who wanted Model S/X and already got one Vs people who wanted a “Tesla” and still don’t have one. In fact, desptie frequent incramental updates both have been around for a loong time (far longer than the start of deliveries would indicate: due to Tesla’s habit of…

Just do a permit system. Buy a permit prior to entering the city center on a particular day that is good for 24 hours for personal and commercial vehicles. Only X number of permits will be sold per day.

Well, what the actual F. ~$900 for a CD player???

Aww, there is that  “It’s popular, so I now hate it” protohipster shitbaggery I come here for.

Except for “...sticken from the record” is actually “...adopted as a policy, cause those damn millenials and their socialist avocado toast lattes! ‘member... back in my day... malt shop... Suzy Johnson... JV baseball... those people knew their place....”

Well that did not sound like an insane rant at all.

Sound familiar? There are two other new electric vehicle companies I can think of off the top of my head leveraging the same strategy: Arcimoto and Elio.

It’s not like there are skateboards and scooters with regen breaking to prove that laughably wrong!

Drive train/exhaust/brakes, sure. Looking at my repair bills over the last few years though, 25% of it was spent on the these, while the rest was wheels, suspension, bearings half shafts and steering components (thank you, upstate NY for ample salt and potholes). Electric cars still have a ton of moving parts that…

First figuratively, then literally, then figuratively again.

I will argue that if your primary goal in really defense (as in, really defending yourself) tanks, as dedicated offensive platform, are not nearly as necessary as they once were. There are a lot better ways to destroy enemy tanks than deploying your own; unless you are planning on conducting offensive operations and…

These stories are pure gold. I love the tales of creative aspirations in the face of systemic drudgery.

Please don’t believe the headlines: while this does look bad, most of the trash eventually got into its lifted pickups and drove off.

Stock market paper gains are not a good analogy because they are production constrained and can not easily scale. If their output is only 50 cars a year, every single one that does not make it to the customer is a $2M less in real revenue, regardless how much below the sticker price the drive-away production costs…

Exactly. Update has to actually have a point. I think there is an clamoring with “all-new” moniker, (no matter if that is actually true or not), without asking WHY things need to change; what is the objective behind them.

Got yourself monologuing there, sly dog?

Because keeping TWO production lines going for low-volume cars is a sure way to lose money. Besides, C7 is not moving well anymore, with less than 10K sold last year. Most of the people who wanted one new got one at this point.

Ha-ha...hahahaha. They are not redistributing shit to the working class paying less that minimum wage without benefits.

Whether the drivers are underpaid or not (or what that actually means in the context of unprofitable business) is agnostic of the redistribution. Uber has provided billions of dollars in wages and services to their contractors and customers that is only possible thanks to a massive subsidy by extremely wealthy people.

For all the criticism toward Uber from various corners of GMG, let’s not forget that it, in its current shape, one of the greatest functioning examples of Socialism in the Untied States, successfully redistributing resources from millionaire-to-billionaire venture capitalists to the middle-and-lower class drivers and…