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love it! there was a thread a while back where someone said the CT wouldn’t be useful for backcountry 4wheeling due to range/battery issues. I said all you need was an extra battery pack like you might take an extra can of gas for an ICE vehicle (and some solar panels). Glad to see it actually...

Love it. I currently work at home, but if I had to commute it is about 4 miles one way. The average US driver goes 25.9 miles per day. 15 miles a day of on-vehicle solar is super helpful. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1007157/us-daily-miles-per-driver/

Great points. It’s not so much that sentiment will go against Tesla, but that other car makers absolutely have to, and will, make competing EVs, so there is no future where Tesla is the only maker of decent EVs that people want to buy. When that happens they will no longer have a corner on...

Awesome video! See, that IS an exciting adventure! ? (as long as your on a big empty test track. LOL!)

Actually you can tax the rich enough to pay for it. The tax rates on the very wealthy used to be upwards of 40-50% in the 1950s/60s. After decades and decades of lobbying the rates are the lowest they’ve EVER been, hence the huge gap between rich and poor in the US. In any event, the tax on a...

Confused. when would you buy your shares? The number of shares does not decrease based on the price, they appreciate, which is the while point of owning shares. A MUCH better strategy would be to make your monthly deposit into a stock index fund, which would grow at the rate of the index. Of...

What happens when the trailer brakes lock up? Sounds like an exciting adventure ?

Good points. Less efficient on a highway because less regen braking and higher speed/more drag

good idea! ?

yes, because Tesla gives you so many options when you order. LOL! ?

Tesla and Elon Musk’s other companies generally do not chase other companies. They typically are the ones being chased. It’s a fundamental part of the company cultures.

By Jove, I think you’re right! looks about half as deep

NO opt outs for you!

Nice cherry picking. Those pages do not support your assumptions. Interpreting a corporate financial statement is not so straightforward. Earnings per share and net income are more interesting, but still not the whole story. And paying off debt is pretty easy when you are a much smaller...

Ford has been in debt and been squeezed before, so it’s not like this is any kind of monumental challenge. Like I said earlier, there is a major bias in this forum to see Tesla succeed and drive all the other automakers out of business. That simply will not happen. And if it did happen, it...

As I said in another comment, Ford has extensive EV and PHEV offerings, and has made a huge commitment to further expanding EVs. They will milk ICE for all it’s worth, until forced away from it by market forces, which Tesla is helping to drive. Ford is about 4 times larger than Tesla based on...

No worries. ? Watch the video, it really is pretty cool. I might go watch the whole episode!

Its even more true on a larger scale. more heat equals more convection, higher wind speed, and faster upslope burn. downslope burn rate is in fact limited by that same convection. People dying on roads is mostly a different scenario. They are overcome by smoke. Anyhow, that’s my two bits...

My points are still valid. I listed some facts, you give me conjecture. ? Go look at Ford’s website. They have many hybrids and full EVs. If you look at their actual commitments, they are starting to move in a big way. In any event, I otherwise like your reasoning about EVs in general...

the same “supply chain shortages” effect Rivian and Ford, so no worries there.