...climate change deniers...
...won't put their mouth over a tailpipe and breath deep because they know it would kill them...
...will insist that emissions from billions of taipipes spewing into the atmosphere for over a hundred years will have no negative consequences whatsoever...
...are they...
...in my country, nobody ever asks...
"What if I get shot just for buying a truck?"
...in your country, people do ask that, apparently...
...making your countries attitudes and policies about firearms, a bit shit, compared to mine...
...if you held a vote about whether people like getting shot...
...you could always try not selling guns to lunatics...
...not basing an economy around arms manufacturing...
...not glorifying the use of guns through media...
...well the battery manufacturing is a clear partnership arrangement...
...they need as many batteries as they can get so they teamed up...
...with Tesla shouldering a lot of the R&D so Panasonic, LG Chem, CATL don't have to...
...also you could use this same rational against legacy auto...
...i would do this...
...but not sure it would survive the trip back across the Pacific...
...even if I had Sandy Munro make some modifications first...
...i can see the benefit of it...
...but the trunk where the yoke connects seems quite robust if it's just wires in there...
...maybe it's an evolutionary step...
...my main concerns about recent history are Xi Jin Ping declaring himself President for Life...
...the Uighur concentration camps...
...increased hostility in international relations...
...and their refusal to accept that Taiwan is no longer a part of China...
...I believe Hong Kong was a dry...
...it would be smart to have an Asian backup factory...
...I know Tesla has a privileged position there...
...but China politically is heading in a very unseemly direction...
...multi layered Solar Cells are on the way...
...capturing different wavelengths of light with the different layers...
...therefore becoming much more efficient than 30%...
...I think what Elon doubts is the ability to mass manufacture those cheaply...
...which is where his focus lies...
...but...