Those $5000 (in this case Ford) dealer markups are just fine – they force their prospective customers to vote with their feet and move to buying a Tesla. Just one more nail in the coffin of dealerships – they don’t have many years left before they will be gone. Also, if the dealer doesn’t advertise
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For more than a year during this ‘chip shortage, I’ve constantly heard, Elon Musk should build a chip fab. Build a chip fab! Build a chip Fab! Over and over again. It turns out that the chip shortage is actually a wafer shortage – there are not enough 200 mm (8 inch) wafers to make
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Suman Rao I’m in Southern California, where billionaires go to Beverly Hills for conspicuous consumption. I see waste every day. I can’t give away things – it’s extremely difficult to change people’s habits. There is not enough time to do that. The governments tried to make people wear masks and then get vaccinated, and antivaxxers
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Mitsubishi beat Tesla for growth in the 4th quarter of ’21. That’s a surprise! https://cleantechnica.com/2022/04/10/us-auto-sales-declined-22-23-in-4th-quarter/
How much does it cost to charge an electric vehicle? https://cleantechnica.com/2022/04/08/how-much-does-it-cost-to-charge-an-electric-car/
It is*not* true that EVs will “cause the lights to go out” because the grid can’t handle the load. People totally forget that reducing fossil fuels means a lot less power will be used to extract, transport, refine, store, distribute and sell fossil fuels. So much of the EV power use will be recovered from
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A 9 month review of used kia e-soul by Bryan Roschetsky.
The $1.35 (Canadian) per liter is equal to $5.11 (Canadian) a gallon. 20,000 kilometers is about 12,000 miles. https://www.theenergymix.com/2022/03/31/evs-much-cheaper-than-their-gas-equivalents-clean-energy-canada-report-finds/
Over 310,000 EVs. https://electrek.co/2022/04/02/tesla-tsla-beats-all-time-delivery-record-q1-2022/
This doesn’t seem to have anything to do with Tesla. NHTSA is reinstating the full amount of the fines that vehicle manufacturers have to pay if their fleet doesn’t meet the required miles per gallon for fuel efficiency. The Trump administration filled the government with their anti-environmental, pro-pollution cronies who “filled the swamp” by cutting
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