I bought solar a couple of years back and it made financial sense depending on your local electric rates. In effect, it’s like buying a tax-free amortizing bond that’s inflation protected. Tax free because reducing your electric bill isn’t subject to tax, and inflation protected because as energy rates go up, the…

Yeah, I guess “selling back to the grid” is the wrong term. Every kWh that I send to the grid is taken off of my bill, so anything I power at night would then come from that credit. 

I wouldn’t at all expect Stellantis would piss away 100 years of brand equity by eliminating the Dodge and Chrysler brands.

There’s some truth in the above, until an EV Stealth comes out and it’s ‘91 Dodge awesomeness all over again.

I agree, and it’s really their own fault that they went all-in on Hellcat and didn’t really do anything else.

that’s not just the “Chinese market” odyssey.

Pretty sure they always cycle through different special editions during each generation. 

Surely most of the really fast EVs that currently exist are already traction-limited. I mean, a Model S Plaid will do 0-60 in two seconds. At what point do people just stop caring about 0-60 times for EVs? It just seems like a bit of a party trick that you might try out on a track three or four times (if that) and…

That’s when we’ll know Tesla has really made it.

Did he tell you they were “chick bikes” and question your manhood? ( I hate that crap HD people pull about masculinity and CI displacement of thier bikes)

I have a black on black ‘08 C30. It’s OK. Great seats, pretty good storage for Depot runs. Performance parts are pricey! Bought it for the wife. She liked it more than a RSX. She also likes to blow the doors off Civics with it!

As a long-time owner of thirsty cars, I say target the fuel and not the cars. Those who consume the most should pay the most, and face the strongest incentives to buy fuel-efficient vehicles and drive in fuel-efficient ways.

For vehicles no longer in production: I have no idea

Exactly. I was interested and waited with bated breath for it. When it was finally here, it was just unimpressive. You trade off HP for torque and efficiency. You expect to pay more, but not $14,000 more. It just wasn’t good enough for the price tag. I’m getting tired of car companies treating things like diesel…

Chrysler could/should just be a way to sell Peugeot/Citroen and DS brands here

Yeah this article is totally asinine. They should really stick to cars and leave capital markets out of it here. 

Yup, and Amazon hit 3600 P/E ratio in 2012. When a company flips from negative to positive profits, P/E ratios are often out of whack until they scale a bit more in the profitable side. This P/E ratio for Tesla doesn’t really say as much as people are assuming.  I’d be glad to have bought Amazon in 2012 during their…

Market cap is not the same as “the amount of money the stock market has put into it(tesla)”. Market cap is the current combined valuation of all shares based on current price. But the vast majority of those shares were purchased at an earlier date/lower price, or were even given for $0 cash as equity awards to Musk…

I learn something new every day. Today just happens to be a day where the usefulness of such new knowledge is highly questionable.

Kia already changed last week. New logo is not so bad.