How is all this paid for?

Not really surprising. In California they are the today, not the future. EV’s are literally everywhere. I have one already and the wife wants one now after experiencing it for 5 months. 

Where does the electricity required to charge the vehicles come from?

This asshole probably has a 30 second youtube add that comes on(every fucking time you’re trying to watch a video)...he’s in a garage surrounded by a 5 year old R8(murdered out) and 9 year old 458 (of course its red), and starts telling you about what books he reads, and how you can have the type of financial freedom…

But r/personalfinance told me that anyone buying something other than a 20 year old Honda with 200k miles is throwing their money away. There is no reason why literally anyone, needs anything more than a two decade old Japanese compact car.

1st gear; This is not a Packard 110/Cadillac Cimarron desperation scenario. It was part of the plan all along and anyone who bought TSLA should know that. Musk announced it at the ur-Roadster launch, he announced it at the Model S launch, he’s said he’s working his way down into the mass market from Day One.

Or they made a calculated decision to trade a loss “today” for the chance at profit “tomorrow”.  Get cars on the road even if it costs us money in order to make money down the road.

Neutral:

with a margin of error of +-20 years

Tesla is on the brink of bankruptcy, they will likely fold before snow melts in Canada.

if that’s what you wanted to call it back then

The Polestar is made in China and might be subject to random 50% tarrifs at the drop of a hat, and you can't even buy it best case scarious for 12 months. Competition is good though!

Cancelled my 3 pre-order and I was looking at the Polestar 2, but it looks like a discount Chevy Cruze. It’s so remarkably unappealing visually. Maybe I’ll get over it by 2020.

Tesla’s service techs are mostly mobile now. So they’ll come to your home or work instead of you having to go to them. A co-worker had a mobile tech replace the charge port on his Model 3 a couple months ago in his driveway.

Good. Fuck the current dealership model. Fuck Lobbyist. 

The question is how much Tesla will profit on a vehicle sold for 35K. They already have pretty remarkable pricing for what they deliver and this 35K offering is bad news for GM, Nissan and anyone else trying to nudge their way into the EV space. (But, great news for customers.)

Material savings in the form of 8" panel gaps.  You heard it here first.

The biggest thing is the economies of scale for their battery production. The more batteries they produce, the less each cell costs. Combine that with their recent acquisition bid of a partner company (Maxwell Technologies) signal that the Maxwell dry electrode technology might be going into production, as it allows…

Finally.

“unless they find a way to liquefy electricity, not interested. Also, panel gaps and tv’s”