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Abrignac
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2 years ago

#1261

Instead of the government funding a complete paradigm shift that would cost trillions it should encourage future R&D that leads to a greater reduction of harmful emissions from ICE’s.

jeebling
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2 years ago

#1262

They should pass a law requiring mandatory diesel powered generators to be installed and a 2 battery banks. That way they can charge 1 bank while the other bank is in use. To do this, they’ll have another trailer added to accommodate the extra load.

😂

HockeyDad
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2 years ago

#1263

Instead of the government funding a complete paradigm shift that would cost trillions it should encourage future R&D that leads to a greater reduction of harmful emissions from ICE’s.

Abrignac wrote:

Depends on who gets those trillions.

MACS
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2 years ago

#1264

Carbon dioxide is at 0.04% of our atmosphere. That's a FACT. If it goes much lower, plant life will start to die off. That is also a FACT. You can look these facts up for yourself.

The government is telling us that CO2 is too high and we're making it worse. That's a LIE.

Speyside2
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2 years ago

#1265

In 1800 atmospheric CO2 was 280 ppm. In 2023 atmospheric CO2 was 422 ppm. It is theorized that atmospheric CO2 was 6,000 ppm when dinosaurs roamed the earth. 100,000 ppm causes human death. 150 ppm causes plant death. My question is to high compared to what? My second question is how much of the increase was caused by humanity? We now have roughly double the human population that is sustainable on the earth. I am not all that worried about the present CO2 level. If I was to worry it would be about the unsustainable population level. I do not worry about this. The earth will correct itself through disease and or famine eventually.

HockeyDad
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2 years ago

#1266

We’ve been preaching that the Earth is past its carrying capacity since the mid-80s and we are all going to die off from famine but we are all still here and doubled the population.

The entire first world is now facing a declining population crisis. We are actually self-exterminating. It is finally working but it will collapse all pension schemes.

If we can convince half the population of the USA to not breed, abort, and commit euthanasia, can you imagine how awesome the traffic would be getting to places like Lake Tahoe and Yosemite?!

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Speyside2
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2 years ago

#1267

Ok, move to India, the population is increasing there. Since their population is increasing invest in Indian companies through BSA or NSE and SEBI will protect your money. Life will be great there for your retirement. I hear in Bombay or Calcutta your dollar goes a long way. They even have wineries in India!

HockeyDad
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2 years ago

#1268

India is too crowded for me and I’m not really big on the food. As much as they have grown they are not all starving to death from famine.

Rather than invest in India I would rather just keep bringing their engineers here on H1B visas and invest in US technology.

DrMaddVibe
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2 years ago

#1269

Unsold Teslas Pile-Up In Mall Parking-Lots, Big Discounts Likely

Tesla is renting parking lots to store thousands of vehicles. This helps explain the mass layoffs.

Tesla Cranking Out Cars, But to Where?

Please consider Tesla’s Storing Unsold Inventory In An Abandoned Mall Parking Lot

Parking lots full of Tesla vehicles are becoming impossible to ignore as the electric automaker seemingly can’t sell enough cars and trucks to match its rate of production. According to its own figures, the electric automaker produced 46,561 more vehicles than it delivered to customers during the first quarter of 2024. Where are all these cars going? Parking lots at its factories, malls and airports.

Recent drone footage from the automaker’s Fremont, California factory shows that cars are still rolling off the assembly lines at a high rate to fill the site’s lots. Things aren’t different on the other side of the Atlantic. Neuhardenberg, a small town in Germany of less than 3,000 residents, is complaining about the noise Tesla transporters are making as the company parks cars at the nearby regional airport.

Spotlight Germany

From the above link …

The residents of Neuhardenberg and the surrounding communities are annoyed by the traffic noise: many trucks loaded with Tesla cars drive across the streets to the airport where the cars are stored. It should continue like this at least until June.

Around Neuhardenberg the rural peace is over: columns of trucks from the Tesla factory in Grünheide thunder across the streets several times an hour. The reason: Since last summer, the nearby regional airport has been used as a parking area for Tesla vehicles.

The contract between Tesla and the airport operator runs until June 2024. It is still unclear whether it will be extended. The people of Neuhardenberg will have to continue to adapt to the trucks.

In Preparation for Next Phase of Growth

On April 15, I noted Elon Musk Fires 10 Percent of Tesla Workforce, Prepares for “Next Phase of Growth”

Preparing for Growth

Preparing for growth by firing working is like trying to lose weight by stocking the pantry with more potato chips.

Sales Must Be Imploding

On May 6, I commented Another Round of Mass Firings at Tesla, Sales Must Be Imploding

Tesla announced yet another round of layoffs today. News came in the typical way, an email starting “Dear Employee”. It seems “Dear Ex-Employee” would be more fitting.

FSD Vaporware

Ever since 2016, Musk has been promising “Full Self-Driving FSD” within a year.

Clearly this is 4-D chess … in an attempt to hide the vaporware. Full Self Driving (FSD) is nonexistent, but promised “next year”, every year since 2016.

https://t.co/HnT9EhYtm4
— jbulltard (@jbulltard1) May 6, 2024

Musk labels his offering as FSD right now despite numerous complaints from the Department of Transportation. The term is ridiculous at present.

If the Biden administration did not want this so badly, FSD may have been pulled.

Tiresome Lies

Musk statements are no longer best viewed as excessive hype, but rather tiresome lies.

For four years running, Musk promised to make 50,000 electric semis. Tesla delivered a grand total of 100.

The cybertruck is a joke. I expect musk will abandon it. 50,000 semis a year. Forget about it.

Elon Musk has bet it all on the EV taxi despite the fact its FSD is true vaporware.

Good News at Ford

Please note Ford Loses $132,000 on Each EV Produced

The good news was Ford sales were down 20 percent holding the losses to $1.3 billion.

BYD Unveils the “Shark” a Plug-in Hybrid Pickup Truck Built in Mexico

The Chinese automaker BYD (Build Your Dreams) announces a 700-mile range PHEV that will be built in Mexico, this year.

That 700-mile range includes the gas engine. I do not have specks on the EV milage stand alone.

For discussion, please see BYD Unveils the “Shark” a Plug-in Hybrid Pickup Truck Built in Mexico

Meanwhile, Back in Mexico

Back in Mexico, Tesla, Ford, Nissan, and other automakers have announced the construction or expansion of facilities.

Despite everyone rushing to Mexico to build the cars and Trucks that we need to reduce fossil fuel consumption, Biden is going to quadruple taxes on them.

Let’s see how good these vehicles are before we go gaga over them. But at least they aren’t vaporware.

Here’s the final irony Biden Wants EVs so Badly That He Will Quadruple Tariffs on Them

As a result, US consumers will overpay so much, that few people will want them despite huge subsidies. This is why you lose $132,000 on each EV.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/unsold-teslas-pile-mall-parking-lots-big-discounts-likely

Kewl [frypan] [frypan] [frypan]

Keep looking for that union label though!

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Speyside2
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2 years ago

#1270

As of 2021 16.6% of all the people in India were undernourished. How high would that number need to be for you to consider it significant? 98.2%?

Speyside2
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2 years ago

#1271

It seems clear as a bell that EV'S are not ready for the general public.

DrMaddVibe
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2 years ago

#1272

It seems clear as a bell that EV'S are not ready for the general public.

Speyside2 wrote:

Uber trendy influencers like toolin down the road in them. The highest rank you can achieve is the joke on 4 wheels Musk truck. Not only does it cost a lot and is ugly as hell but it proves you dont need a brain or balls to own it!

Abrignac
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2 years ago

#1273

A lot has been said about whether or not the technology is sound and how long it would take to build out the requisite infrastructure. But that doesn’t address the 500 pound gorilla in the room. Why would a country bet its future on a technology when one of it’s greatest rivals controls 80% or better of the mines that produce the natural resources REQUIRED to manufacture its most important component?

DrMaddVibe
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2 years ago

#1274

Tesla tech beloved by investors is being rejected by its biggest fans

Back in March, Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk decided to give owners of compatible vehicles a free month trial of its most controversial software — a driver-assist function called Full Self-Driving.

Though regulators have pointed out that the name of the software is potentially misleading and is linked to a series of serious accidents, the program enacted by Tesla to get more people to try FSD may have not produced the results it wanted.

In a study recently conducted by YipitData and MooMoo technologies, roughly 2% of owners who tried Tesla's Full Self-Driving went on to actually buy the software. In their research, they found that only 3,500 owners tried the service during the month it was first offered and that only 50 actually converted from the free trials into Full Self-Driving purchases or subscriptions within that same period.

It is unclear whether the 3,500 owners represents the full scale of Tesla's 12.3 FSD rollout in the United States, or represents the amount of people who actually took up the offer. In Tesla's Q1 2024 earnings call, Elon Musk revealed that FSD has been pushed to "around 1.8 million vehicles," with "about half" actually using the function.

Tesla has recently reduced the price of the Full Self-Driving feature from $12,000 to $8,000, and lowered its subscription price from $200 to $99; a big ask considering the current implications that the software and its similarly touted Autopilot feature are facing.

The Tesla figurehead has taken to his social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) to dismantle the claims made by Yipit, claiming that the take rate of FSD is much higher than what they expected.

“I don’t comment on everything, as sometimes I don’t see it and commenting on everything makes it easy to fish for information. The take rate is much higher than 2%. Please,” Musk wrote in his post on X.

There are reasons besides self-promotion for Musk to believe so. Tesla claimed in its Q1 2024 earnings slide deck that its vehicles running its Full Self-Driving software have travelled more than 1.3 billion miles.

Related: Mercedes is pumping the brakes on development of flagship EVs

The revelation about the Full Self-Driving free trial comes as Tesla is facing the ire from regulators, investors and disgruntled owners over the technologies.

On May 15, a federal judge in California rejected a bid from Tesla to dismiss a lawsuit over claims about Full Self-Driving.

As per Reuters, Judge Rita Lin for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California said that owners can "pursue negligence and fraud-based claims, to the extent they relied on Tesla's representations regarding vehicles' hardware and ability to drive coast-to-coast across the U.S."

The original suit, which was first brought in 2022 by California Tesla owner Thomas LoSavio, was made on the basis that he was led to buy a 2017 Tesla Model S equipped with Enhanced Autopilot and Full Self-Driving Capability based off of claims that CEO Elon Musk made about the technologies; which he thought to be a lifesaver in his advanced age and capabilities.

Tesla, which trades under the ticker (TSLA) on the Nasdaq, closed the trading day on May 16 at $174.84, up half a percent.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/other/tesla-tech-beloved-by-investors-is-being-rejected-by-its-biggest-fans/ar-BB1mx4OL?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=2147e9ceed684c24be4294bc947f749e&ei=25

MooMoo is kewlkewl for those who drooldrool. Its high tech dammmit!!!! Suppose Musk will just be giving away cars to make sure everyone gets a rebate!

DrMaddVibe
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2 years ago

#1275

Abrignac wrote:

That's already been covered.

CCP aircraft carriers aren't going to just build themselves, and besides who needs G00gl3 maps when you have the CCP collecting data, video streams and audio of wherever their "cars" go? Balloons only go so far.

LET'S GO BRANDON!!!!

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