Except Tesla had way less money to work with than the big automakers. So their ability to invest isn’t as big. Despite that, Tesla and Panasonic probably output as much automotive batteries in kwh as everyone else combined.

And this is why everyone has been skeptical of big autos entry into EVs. They were too slow to get into battery production. They should have been focused on the supply chain ages ago.

That’s nice but your own charts point out your arguments flaws. Why does US require 4.1X earths while france require 2.5x earth? an almost 2X difference?

To note a few things:

That is relative. Part of why consumers are not buying “clean” vehicles is because manufacturers are half-assing them (because most of their profit at this point comes from ICE, so they don’t want fast EV adoption), you have to actually make GOOD “clean” vehicles.

No, he simply thinks he can stop progress by throwing out ridiculous strawman arguments he doesn’t expect to be implemented.

Why do people throw out this ridiculous strawman argument?

I’m quite curious on why they think the pooling agreement with Tesla won’t cut it? FCA sells about 1 million cars in Europe. Tesla sells slightly above 100k cars in europe. But it’ll probably be closer to 300,000 in 2021. That should be enough to get them under 95g/km. And that is not considering FCA may add their own…

“In best position” means virtually nothing if you aren’t actually following said position. Effectively, they are forcing them to adapt by either investing in cleaner and more efficient vehicles or lose that money in fines.

They don’t need to stop driving pickup trucks. They simply need to be driving more efficient pickup trucks. Like hybrid at least. Though this is EU, not US.

It all depends where you drive. LA where they are has a lot of pot holes can do a number on your tires.

To be fair, they operate in LA which is one of the worst cities for pot holes.

Considering this is a 1st year production model and the Model X is considered relatively the worst reliability compared to other Tesla models, it didn’t do that bad.

I don’t see why you would have a massive scale in mining and processing operations. Simply a shift from mining/processing one thing to another thing.

It’s not that high really. Pretty average for manufacturing.

Not exactly. You don’t need to seal your entire car to prevent air from going in. As long as you create a positive pressure inside the car, it would prevent any new air from coming in. Because air moves from high pressure to low pressure.

Technically, there is nothing that scientifically disproves the existence of cthulu, or cathulu too.

The electric cars themselves are zero emissions.

A farm?! How dare Tesla cut down wheat plants to build their factory?!?! /s

Michael, I would love to see you this outraged when wheat is cut down to make your food. Cause there is no difference between a tree plantation and a wheat plantation.