If the coal industry is any clue. How this transition works is like this. The CEOs and executives steal hundreds of millions from the company as they jump off with golden parachutes. Let the company go bankrupt leaving workers with unpaid work and unpaid pensions.

The NHTSA requires the manufacturers to service a salvage car for recalls, so it isn’t something that is state dependent.

The biggest limitation for these kind of things in US is ownership. In China, they are used to these kind of things. In US, it is a different story. If we all were on self driving cars or driven by uber, its an okay option. But who wants to buy a brand new car and end up with a 5 year old battery at a swapping station?

You can sell it on auction, then it would be up to the consumer. The only issue might be that there could be a contract between the manufacturer and them to scrap them if anything. Cause even if the car is a salvaged car, it still eligible for recalls. Which means the manufacturer would be the one on the hook.

Cause even fiat doesn’t love them.

Is this one of the few EV models with a lithium-titanate batteries? Most EVs out there use NMC, LCA or LFP. But I heard iMeiv use LTO.(though not sure if that remains for US version or not)

Progress is made through testing and pushing to the limits, which leads to explosions.

Technically speaking, the sun is a star and it can go there.

Please point on this doll where Elon Musk touched you.

Technically speaking, the current Falcon 9 FT has done 65 launches without a single failure. The failures were earlier Falcon 9 1.0 and 1.1 which had 1 failure each. But the FT which is the latest model with way more power than the 1.0 and 1.1 has 0 failures.

It won’t suck if you depressurize the craft first. ;)

What makes this exciting isn’t that it wasn’t possible in the 60s. What makes this exciting is because it is much much cheaper and more sustainable than in the 60s. Not to mention safer and will soon create a private space industry.

Despite Tesla’s sales growing? Did you get magically transported to bizaro world? Or simply don’t know what the word peaked means?

They do focus on all of those, they just don’t make media headlines like for cars because media focuses more on stuff that impacts consumers.

Assholes are like people, no matter what one says, end of the day they have one too.

Because most CEOs aren’t owners of the company. When you are an owner of a company, unless you made the company to sell it from the get-go, it is like your child. You spend days and night working to make it successful.

Peaked? Despite the pandemic, Tesla sales have grown and continue to grow when most other automakers sales have fallen. On top of that many suffered delays to their EV programs due to the pandemic as well. And there is the whole thing about even the cars they have coming out in the future having inferior specs to what…

1) That 54mpg is CAFE, not sticker. Sticker it is closer to around 36 mpg

You make no sense, CARB doesn’t just regulate cars, they regulate emissions for everything including trucks, buses, trains, ferries, factories and etc. Taking them out would simply lead to more pollution in all of the above you stated.

Fuel economy standards dictate BOTH local pollution AND ghg. Not to mention being a coastal state, ghg matters to them as well due to their topography.