How Tesla Can Continue 50% Growth & Sell 2.7 Million Vehicles In 2024 I have very little confidence in all of Paul’s predictions or assertions. He failed to address other sources of revenue, the biggest of which is the energy storage segment. He didn’t say anything about the Powerwall sales or the VPP electricity arbitrage.
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This sounds like it could revolutionize hydrogen electrolysis from water. Currently the electrolysis requires catalyst made of platinum which is rare and costly. “Graphene discovery could help generate hydrogen cheaply and sustainably.” ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 23 August 2023. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/08/230823122519.htm>.
There are so many LIARs out there who propagate the myths that EVs are worse than gas cars. They are not. This list has several other myths – lies – that it debunks. https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/electric-vehicle-myths#:~:text=a%20gasoline%20car.-,Myth%20%232%3A%20Electric%20vehicles%20are%20worse%20for%20the%20climate%20than,even%20when%20accounting%20for%20manufacturing
This is exciting! The VPPs are going to make liars out of those badmouthers who say that renewables will never be able to run the grid without fossil fuel power plants. We need many more VPPs! Quote: “”PUCT says that there is already 2.3 GW of capacity from small energy storage devices in Texas and
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Australian needs to stop exporting coal and fossil fuels and start ramping up their mines to meet the demands for lithium, copper, manganese, etc. Australian Mining — Can It Power All The New EVs?
Electric car batteries and all other lithium batteries are processed into ‘black mass’ at this Li-Cycle facility in Gilbert AZ. 95% of the batteries is recycled into inert, mostly plastic waste, copper and other heavy metals, and black mass where the lithium, cobalt and other valuable minerals are. The process starts with shredding the batteries
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The problem with the idea of becoming more independent from the grid is something that the utilities will fight tooth and nail to prevent. They don’t want to lose customers and have them go off the grid. So they want to keep the customers as dependent as possible. Doing it the “cut the cord” way
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An article on how Toyota, Peter Coy of the New York Times, the anti-EVers such as Shellenberger and their backers spread FUD – fear, uncertainty, and doubt – and spread “one of the most blatantly misleading lines in the history of marketing.” Quote from article: “”Not to get too carried away here, but Harvard has
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An Op-Ed; at the end she said: “”It’s another strength that will uphold Tesla in times of Elon’s antics, which may serve, again and again, to be little more than a puerile distraction.”” Op-Ed: Tesla Is Too Established Now To Fail — Even With Elon’s Antics
There is so much bad press in the newsmedia about EV fires. But the worst by far are hybrids, then regular gas guzzlers. EVs are a very tiny fraction of the total. Gas cars catch fire 200 times more often than EVs. See image.
