Except the $35k M3 is never going to happen, which is why Tesla is doing everything in their power to keep people from trying to buy them. They can't sell them profitably at $35k, but they're desperate for cash which is why you can now "lease" one, except it's more like renting one because you have no option to buy at the end of the term. Tesla just wants those sweet customer deposits because they have a ton of inventory sitting around not making them any money.
You don't have to compare the high end models to Tesla, you can also look towards Hyundai's new ones coming out. Either way, all cars made my people who know how to make cars, and not built in a tent.
How many fanboys on here are willing to put their money where their mouth is? I'll be buying puts shortly before the Q2 delivery numbers are released.
Q2 Tesla deliveries are going to be even worse, with Jaguar and Mercedes offering luxury electric vehicles that actually go through some form of QC before they're sold to the public.
There's no point in crippling the United States' economy when India and Asia are going to make CC happen anyway (seriously, go read BP's energy outlook 2018 for different scenarios of various levels of CO2 reduction). If going from 50% renewable to 100% renewable costs an extra $10 trillion (made that number up), maybe that money is better spent getting other parts of the world off of coal.
I don't want to hate on the GND but this is really poorly thought out, and reads like it was written by people that have no serious understanding of the actual issues.
Demand isn't there, you can find people really into hating on Tesla who take pics of lots full of cars sitting there, batteries probably being permanently damaged from the cold during the polar vortex.
I think the early adopters (or rabid fan boys) already have their model 3s, but objective car buyers would probably do some research and see they're actually pretty shitty cars with incredibly poor service if you need parts / get in accident. I'm not pro or anti Tesla, I drove a friend's model S and it's fun to do burnouts in parking lots, but it reminds me of a ponzi scheme that will collapse if orders don't really pick up.
The Vogtle plants got their Construction and Operating License in under 4 years. They've had construction delays due to building a new design with incomplete engineering, and even then they'll have gone from pre-construction to built in 11 to 12 years.
lol, once you see someone say fracking is destroying communities and groundwater you can pretty much ignore everything else they have to say, thank you for including the right buzzwords early on to let us know that
China just built a Westinghouse AP1000 in 9 years, and the two AP1000s at the Vogtle plant will take around 9 years to build, so no, it's not 30 years. That was a new design too, with engineering delays, so building new ones would be even faster. This is a much better design than older plants, with passive cooling that works without any operator intervention or power if things go wrong.
The biggest problem is the cost of building them, not the time.
lol now try storing enough power for the entire US at night in batteries. You're better off doing things like pumped storage hyrdo, but then you'll have lawsuits from environmentalists and NIMBYs.
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I'm reading this on my phone as I'm driving right now, pretty easy to multi-task actually
Except the $35k M3 is never going to happen, which is why Tesla is doing everything in their power to keep people from trying to buy them. They can't sell them profitably at $35k, but they're desperate for cash which is why you can now "lease" one, except it's more like renting one because you have no option to buy at the end of the term. Tesla just wants those sweet customer deposits because they have a ton of inventory sitting around not making them any money.
You don't have to compare the high end models to Tesla, you can also look towards Hyundai's new ones coming out. Either way, all cars made my people who know how to make cars, and not built in a tent.
How many fanboys on here are willing to put their money where their mouth is? I'll be buying puts shortly before the Q2 delivery numbers are released.
Q2 Tesla deliveries are going to be even worse, with Jaguar and Mercedes offering luxury electric vehicles that actually go through some form of QC before they're sold to the public.
as above
FYI Tom Randall is not considered a reliable source for these things
LOL no they don't, February sales numbers just came in and it's not looking good. Demand has dropped considerably
Now Reagan is going to try and pass gun control laws in Africa
Going carbon neutral in 10 years would absolutely cripple the economy. And you get them off coal by shipping them subsidized LNG.
There's no point in crippling the United States' economy when India and Asia are going to make CC happen anyway (seriously, go read BP's energy outlook 2018 for different scenarios of various levels of CO2 reduction). If going from 50% renewable to 100% renewable costs an extra $10 trillion (made that number up), maybe that money is better spent getting other parts of the world off of coal.
I don't want to hate on the GND but this is really poorly thought out, and reads like it was written by people that have no serious understanding of the actual issues.
You mean industry standards like quality control, doors that open in the cold, and trunks that keep water off of your belongings?
Demand isn't there, you can find people really into hating on Tesla who take pics of lots full of cars sitting there, batteries probably being permanently damaged from the cold during the polar vortex.
I think the early adopters (or rabid fan boys) already have their model 3s, but objective car buyers would probably do some research and see they're actually pretty shitty cars with incredibly poor service if you need parts / get in accident. I'm not pro or anti Tesla, I drove a friend's model S and it's fun to do burnouts in parking lots, but it reminds me of a ponzi scheme that will collapse if orders don't really pick up.
I see you haven't looked into Solar City at all
It's not often that someone stands out as impressively retarded on /., but you pulled it off!
You do realize nuclear power plants don't blow up like a nuclear bomb when things go wrong, right? Killing millions is not going to happen
lmao at Occasional Cortex
Except none of those countries are going to reach their Paris agreement targets, so it doesn't really matter
The Vogtle plants got their Construction and Operating License in under 4 years. They've had construction delays due to building a new design with incomplete engineering, and even then they'll have gone from pre-construction to built in 11 to 12 years.
https://www.southerncompany.com/content/dam/southern-company/pdf/public/Vogtle-Nuclear-Brochure.pdf
Go look at the Vogtle and SCANA/SCE&G projects
lol, once you see someone say fracking is destroying communities and groundwater you can pretty much ignore everything else they have to say, thank you for including the right buzzwords early on to let us know that
Is everyone just pulling numbers out of their ass today on /.? It does not take 30 years to get approval, not even close.
China just built a Westinghouse AP1000 in 9 years, and the two AP1000s at the Vogtle plant will take around 9 years to build, so no, it's not 30 years. That was a new design too, with engineering delays, so building new ones would be even faster. This is a much better design than older plants, with passive cooling that works without any operator intervention or power if things go wrong.
The biggest problem is the cost of building them, not the time.
Easy to replace fossil fuel energy today is wrong it's not even worth getting into, you're just an idiot
lol now try storing enough power for the entire US at night in batteries. You're better off doing things like pumped storage hyrdo, but then you'll have lawsuits from environmentalists and NIMBYs.
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CA gets around 4% of its power from coal
https://www.energy.ca.gov/almanac/electricity_data/total_system_power.html