Wow, I did not realize that California was also mandating their entire grid be renewables only by 2045. That does affect the equation, but it just means that there is a lot of opportunity for those already in the solar and wind industry to really make coin.

Well, you may be right, but there are a lot of projects on the table for new California power plants, just waiting for them to be built. And not with state funds, but rather via normal investor money. So if the investment community sees potential for making money by building new electricity generating plants, they…

I foresee Tata buying Harley in a few years at a cut rate price.

The issue with your statement is that the pitch can be stopped, without worry of any issue, as soon as the customer says to stop it. It really is that simple. You can tell them up front you know about extended warranties and such, and you do not want to hear about them, and that you are willing to decline moving…

I agree, but don’t think for a moment that having the ability to be a dick does not hold value. Sometimes, after the charm offensive does not work, you have to pull out the hammer and smash a few heads. I only do this as a last resort, and thankfully very rarely, but it is a valuable tool when nothing else works. I…

Hate the game, not the player.

Actually, those stocks this guy owns, or anything valued by Wall Street as in the Billions, does indeed get preferential treatment by banks. Especially since the loan pays a commission to the person writing it, and the bank uses that loan amount to make it look more valuable on paper. If you have a valued $6 billion…

Well, the problem is that the “worthless” stocks you mention count as net worth to banks. And banks lend guys like this a lot of money.

What was left out of the article are a few pertinent facts about Carvana.

Thanks for a good counterpoint. I will agree with you that one should be just as willing to praise as criticize. But the issue is that a lot of folks just do not see GM doing anything right.

I also agree that Tesla quality is suspect at this point. It may, or it very well may not, get better. But the comparison with Apple was not my comparing quality, but in creating a self-contained universe, as Apple has done. Everything is proprietary, and conforms to their rules, not Apple complying with anyone else’s…

Tell me that the car is a Dacia, or Lada, or Tatra, or any other car not sold in the larger NA and EU markets, or that it is a Chinese brand, and it looks....okay. But for BMW to somehow think that this is an attractive look, that’s just insane.

Ah, the vagaries of Venture Capital, and the way it finds one particular thing fascinating. The tech bubble of the 1990s, the dotcom bubble, and now EV manufacturers. All companies that have no viable product ready, but people are clamoring for whatever promise they make. And all of them fail, for the most part.

Guess what, kids? There is someone who absolutely hates women who designed this. And another one that approved this for sale. And one who works at the store where it was purchased. Because nobody who loves women would make crap like this and then sell it to a real woman as anything other than a costume, or for full on…

Uh, no.

The simple fact is that he is rich based on shares in Nikola. Should he stay, Nikola shares have a very, very high chance of tanking to $0. By walking away, there is a chance he will be able to see some money from selling his shares in the company.

How is Nikola a bad name compared to, oh, I don’t know, Tesla? A ripoff, as it is Tesla’s namesakes’ first name. But no worse than Tesla as a name when Mr. Tesla did not found the company, nor did he have any heirs to say okay to using the name. It would be like building a proto-F150 (like the Chinese Foton knockoff)…

PitchBook mobility analyst Asad Hussain describes a nightmare scenario where Waymo develops its own network, Amazon gives free rides to Prime subscribers, and Uber becomes irrelevant. “Self-driving is the next smartphone,” he said. “You don’t want to get left out.”

You are correct, my mistake. RR was using the BMW’s 7 as a base for the Ghost. Bentley was said to be using the VAG Panamera platform for the new Continental, and I am not sure if that happened or not. And boy howdy, do I remember that a Bentley and a Rolls shared everything but the badge. Yeah, the Continental GT…

I think that the rolling blackouts in California are more due to the wildfires and PG&E bankruptcies than a reliance on renewables. California relies on 32.35% for renewables. That means that they rely on fossil fuels quite a bit. And my colleagues in Germany (where my company is based, and who I contact daily) seem…