I disagree. The point is to move technology adoption forward. Putting in an artificial cap on price causes all sorts of problems that don’t help move the technology forward at all. An income based cap on the other hand is fine, but again, still doesn’t help.

The G20 recently did a peer review of fossil fuel subsidies.

First of all, there are already incentives in place... for example, the DoE loaned Ford $5.9 billion dollars as part of their ATVM loan program. California CARB ZEV credit system is precisely set up to encourage zero emissions or low emissions vehicles.

Some states, especially those with a more EVs have enacted special fees at registration time to cover the missing revenue from gas taxes. Plus, EV owners pay taxes as part of the electricity purchase... as others have pointed out, gas tax doesn’t cover the road maintenance. So really, lots of EV drivers pay additional…

In order to get to decent more affordable EVs, more expensive ones have to be sold first in order to achieve scale. Otherwise, the short cuts cause terrible engineering decisions, like how poorly the battery is maintained in the Nissan Leaf.

The prototype did something like 70 sprints 0-75 mph that night.

The Bolt and the Model 3 likely have comparable highway cruising range due to aerodynamics and the difference between PMAC and AC induction motors, even if the EPA range shows a larger disparity.

Mr. Musk tweeted that first shipments of the dual drive version likely in Q1, 2018. They are shipping the RWD version first.

Ah, do you think there are empty, unused production lines sitting at Magna in Austria waiting a year to build the i-Pace? Not for a mere 13,000 a year. Their production lines will have to be adapted near the start of production just like anyone else’s. Tesla has been testing mules for quite some time anyways...

It is the size of a Model 3, however, not the size of a Model X.

For the vast majority of people around the world, EVs are much more convenient and a full blown replacement. They can obtain energy at very cheap prices where they are usually parked. No need to make special trips to get energy or wait even the 5 minutes every week or two. That’s inconvenient and smelly.

Solar is clearly the answer, alongside wind.

What $4 billion? Tesla got $465 million from the DoE as a loan and paid that back. Federal and state tax credits for alternative energy vehicles go to the buyers, not to Tesla. There is benefit for Tesla, but no straight up money. Same thing with solar install tax credits. Stuff got installed, owners have the benefit.…

Just so you know, someone or some people have been stuffing Tesla’s NHTSA complaint box for years now. If you really go read the complaints, it becomes quite clear that the vast majority of them are made up. It’s a shame because possibly legitimate issues get buried.

Well... Tesla is on the verge of achieving both mass market scale while enjoying the lowest cost and highest production scale on critical EV components like battery cells and high performance electric motors.

The market works only if consumers are rational, have access to information, and does not have external influences. That is rarely the case. The market currently in the U.S. is not set up to deal with externalities like pollution, energy security, national security interests, carbon emissions, and so forth. Further,…

Tesla does make some on regulatory credits, but most of the incentives they actually trade in the U.S. are CARB ZEV credits, which is a state level thing. Plus, overseas, the incentives are only getting stronger as other nations have a better understanding of the science than the U.S.

This is a lithium ion battery. The water won’t react with the tiny amount of lithium in the pack.

What upgrade? They needed to use lots of water. Enough water to stop the thermal runaway. That’s it.

Most people’s houses and the local grid is sized for everyone using the oven at the same time. The grid overall is sized for the peak usage in the evenings. So as long as most EV’s are charged while people sleep, there’s plenty of local and regional grid capacity in the vast majority of places in developed nations.