Dealing with an unsafe item by making it more unsafe is a good way to open the city to liability.

Any bets that you will soon not be allowed to legally register a car with unpaid parking tickets?

And you are free to do so.

Said by someone who has obviously never worked tech support.

It can also be noted that many countries around the world already use phosphogypsum in road construction.

Dominos is decent cheap pizza, but the company has forever lost my business when their response to being out of an item was to offer me a store credit for the amount of the missing item - which was already paid for through their app - and that I would have to physically call the store to even use this credit.

And the only thing they are writing it off of is their balance sheet. An impairment charge is just an accounting method to say that this asset we had on the books for $10M is really only worth $1M now - and to make that change in accounting there has to be a balancing entry - which is the impairment charge.

Your writers or editors need to go talk to a tax accountant. Impairment charges are not a Tax Write-off. An Impairment charge is simply a way to reduce the value of an asset on your books to match what it is really worth when its value changes drastically.

Why is this even remotely an “Amazon” story? The same items are being sold in auto parts stores like AutoZone. If stores that specialize in cars will sell the item and have no better labeling on them, why should Amazon be singled out on this?

You mean the government agencies are going to have to budget the way the rest of us have to for the first time since the Regan administration? (see the Current Services Baseline Act)

I’ve been sporting truth in advertising - “Potential Casualty”

For the person writing the title: Not getting an increase you are asking for is not the same as getting your budget cut.

So, you have to be able to afford the payments on a $35k car to get that car for $20k.  You should also note that the car must be registered and operated in California for a minimum of 30 months (if you have to move - or if the car gets totaled in an accident - you may have to pay back some or all of the CA rebate)

And after looking at those numbers, remember that the US National debt currently sits at $31.47 trillion - more than double all of the billionaires combined...

One thing it appears is not being understood here. Impairment charges are post tax adjustments - which means they don’t get to use this “write off” to lower their taxes - it is basically just a statement that they have looked at the asset on their books and realized that it is worth significantly less than what it is…

Let’s see, that direct competitor (Mach E) sold 5407 in the first quarter of this year (which is down about 1300 from the same period last year). Polestar sold just under 3000 vehicles total in Q1.

Given how Kia/Hyundai have been about getting EVs to dealers in Arizona in recent memory, I’ll believe they are shipping them here when I see it. More likely they will mostly end up in California where they get better credits for selling EVs.

And neither of those two in the top twenty are able to be sold by dealerships... so those do not factor in to what dealerships are able to sell. 

The conclusion here is mind-numbingly obvious to anyone who bothered to think about the setup. Lower income households are less likely to be buying a new car in the first place. And those that are looking at a new car are far more likely to be living paycheck to paycheck, which means they generally won’t be able to…

Wonder how much one that would have a chance of passing NHTSC safety standards would cost (and how much less range it would have due to the added weight)