The situation inflated used car prices, but not many actually appreciated like the Teslas did back then (meaning used car selling for more than a new one). This has partially to do with how Tesla does direct sales, so there aren’t dealer ”market adjustments”.

Actually what Elon said was true back then he said it in 2019 and was true for a few years. During the new car shortage, there were plenty of Tesla owners that were selling them for more money than a new one, even with considerable mileage. That’s why the prices skyrocketed. Then after supply caught up, the entire…

Wasn’t that hard to Google, it’s a store and service center in one:

Because Tesla doesn’t really care about press vehicles. They don’t appear to do special prep to prepare for press, they just give whatever vehicle is available. When you buy a Tesla you are buying one for fitment.

Yep, I bet that played a much bigger role. Also Ford tried to do semi-direct, but limiting the preorder allocation of their EVs to try to reduce dealer markups, which I’m sure dealers disliked also.

And that’s the problem. When oil supply worldwide goes down, it drives up oil prices, given the US supply does not live in a vacuum. The only long term fix is to reduce the reliance on it. While oil is used in a ton of industries, the most noticeable direct impact has always been in using to fuel personal vehicles.

Did you even read the report? The “implied threat” mentioned in the article was a tweet that was made publicly that had nothing to do with firing:

Any such threats are easily reported to the media. What the employees there instead said they wished to remain anonymous not because of retaliation from Tesla, but rather retaliation from the union!

Such threats are illegal even in the US and can be easily reported to the NLRB and certainly the media, I highly doubt it would even play a factor in Europe where the labor protections are even higher.

The other side of the story not told is that the actual workers working at Tesla have refused to strike, so the Union’s actions have been ineffective.

That map and page you link describes the initial project of 3 stations. The other tunnel is described under Resorts World-LVCC Connector if you simply navigate the site. It’s not fully finished (there should be a return tunnel also), but the Vegas site I linked by the actual operator shows the in-progress sections.

I’m saying the opposite, that this concept can scale, while light rail generally can’t scale downward when demand is low.

It varies enough people to handle the peak demand of the convention center and that is all that matters. That's why Las Vegas chose this system instead of a light rail system. The extra money and time would have just been wasted on running mostly empty trains.

The advantages are irrelevant in this application given even with only 5 seat vehicles it was able to handle peak demand just fine for the convention center. There isn’t enough demand to require a light rail system.

This is a convention center transport system, it’s not an airport commuter train. Having 6x the volume of freeways is irrelevant when there isn’t the demand. Even for commuter trains, the US hardly utilizes it to capacity (we don’t have attendants literally packing people in to get the doors to shut like they do in…

Except it’s not, it matches exactly what the convention demand is. There is a reason why even in cities with light rail, they still have busses and taxies. One size does not fit all, but it seems people can’t see beyond Elon Musk hating to see that. If Las Vegas built a light rail system they would have been spending…

I vote wrong pedal as per 99.99% percent of such cases.

The Las Vegas loop has nothing to do with Hyperloop even though people keep mixing up the two.

But for this project that doesn’t matter. This line is only in higher demand during conventions and it’s relatively easy to scale with a system like this for higher demand (just hire a few more drivers and drive more cars down; there is room to expand also with higher capacity vehicles like vans). Even during peak…

It costs drastically less. The equivalent light rail system cost multiple times more according to earlier estimates, most likely over $100 million (and almost guaranteed to cost overrun as well as being late). This was built very quickly and for relatively cheap.