It's strange how California's environmental protection law was put in place by the beloved icon of Republican party... the same party who now say it's the reason for companies to stay away from California.
"California's landmark environmental statute, widely known by its acronym CEQA, was signed into law by former Gov. Ronald Reagan. It requires state and local government agencies to review development projects to identify potential threats to the environment and recommend ways to reduce or eliminate any potential damage." http://www.latimes.com/busines...
In the next few decades there'll be plenty of elderly that need to get around: They're a huge part of active society, yet for simple physical reasons (eye-sight or limb coordination issues) many of them can no longer drive, and a lot of them are homeowners that live in the suburbs, far away from public transportation. I'd say that's a much bigger market, especially in the next 30 or 40 years.
It's in California because California has huge historical ties to aerospace/defense-- and there's still a good amount of engineering talent that has never left the state.
that the best programmers/software engineers are astoundingly more productive; something like 10 to 25 times faster then average ones. He obviously wanted to do what it took to retain them, since he was knew that his new product developments relied on impossibly fast deadlines.
Microsoft indeed tried to get their Tablet to sell over 10 years ago, but their mistake was in adapting Window UI directly into a tablet without adapting the user interface. A pure hands-only tablet has no stylus, no resizeable windows and must support multiple finger touches + gestures.. which is totally different then WIMP. The genius of Steve Jobs is he figured that out early on and directed his engineers to tackle it appropriately- (hence a totally separate UI interface stack for OS X; hence iPhone OS = OS X core + different UI)
Steve Jobs also had the vision to know that people will accept something they've never seen before... as long as the usability is good beyond a reasonable doubt.
Try having cancer with the old system, you'll see how much your insurance company "cares". Even with coverage, entire families would still go bankrupt. And the thing about cancer is it seems to strike regardless of how healthy your lifestyle is.
Unfortunately, it doesn't help the people in GOP states that refuse to expand Medicaid to cover those who cannot afford Obamacare... they're just left to die. http://www.thewire.com/politic...
Um.. most of US population is already covered though their employers/family plan. They're talking about the 40 million or so Americans who cannot get affordable coverage due to preexisting conditions, income restraints, and the like.
I'm not too sure how a no-fly list works since many people can have the same name. If that's the case, what's stopping someone from legally changing their name to something more american/western-european and re-issuing their passport?
If you're going to think of it in those terms, even a petrol powered school bus is a "hand-out"... Since a brand new diesel-powered school bus can cost around $100K, and the school district will spend that amount (over its lifetime) for maintenance.
The scientific consensus for AGW/climate change was pretty darn clear even before Al Gore's movie: He just made it more popular. The only people making it controversial are the old school energy companies and everyone associated with it.
Because Texas law states that auto dealerships must be independently owned and operated from the auto manufacturer-- (a dealer franchise just has an agreement to sell a particular car... but they still have no ties to the manufacturer.)
Ms Pacman used a 8K cartridge, while the original Pac Mac was a 4K cart. I would still say it's a challenge to program a full pacman port within 4096 bytes of ROM.. with only 128 bytes of RAM at your disposal.
When considered against the cars the Model S is competing with-- Porsche Panamera; BMW M5, Audi A7 (all of which are $70K+ cars)... it's absolutely affordable.
Tesla is planning a higher volume, lower priced car code named "BlueStar", which is to be similar in size as a BMW 3-series and should start around $35K, but it's going to take a few years for them to tool up the production scale.
Tesla and Nissan uses lithum-ion batteries... the same used in a laptops and smartphones. No nickel is used for it's production.. and it's fully recyclable.
I think the perfect storm for electric cars to take over is 5 years from now, when gas approaches $6 to $8 a gallon while electric hovers around $1/gal equivalent. If auto manufacturers ramp up production on a compact electric sedan and sell them for around $25K, people won't be buying them because it's a novelty, they'll be buying it because a gas vehicles will be far too expensive for typical day-to-day use.
First off: They have 2 car models: the first was the Tesla Roadster (which was based on a Lotus Elise) which was a testbed for their engineering. The Model S is designed from the ground up as an electric car.
Currently they're only using about 20% of their manufacturing plant to build the Model S and plan to expand it for faster production of a lower priced car. That will also take huge capital costs, but the success of the Model S should reassure outside investors who passed on Tesla the first time around.
I'm not sure how it's outclassed. It accelerates 0-60 in around 4 seconds which is faster then most high-end sport sedans you can get for around $100K, and it's made for urban and suburban folks that typically drive less then 250 miles a day (which is a vast majority of people) while seating 5 adults+2 kids.
Musk put up $70M of his own money, as had to bust his ass to gather up financing from many others friends and investors, since traditional investors stayed away from his companies since they were brand new and had no track record.
Meanwhile, the US bailed out a LOT of very established banks/mortgage/insurance/autos manufacturers, and each of them got WAY more money then a paltry $465M, and much of it was not a loan.
They've already paid one year of the loan--- and now they're doing well enough to pay it back in an accelerated rate within 4 more years (rather then 9 more years). I still don't get how that's hard to comprehend.
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It's strange how California's environmental protection law was put in place by the beloved icon of Republican party... the same party who now say it's the reason for companies to stay away from California.
"California's landmark environmental statute, widely known by its acronym CEQA, was signed into law by former Gov. Ronald Reagan. It requires state and local government agencies to review development projects to identify potential threats to the environment and recommend ways to reduce or eliminate any potential damage."
http://www.latimes.com/busines...
...as long as their corporate/special interests "freedoms" take priority from the public's interests, everything will be peachy.
Also see: Tesla vs. State auto dealership associations.
Here's a suggestion: Don't ever listen to research announcements. Just buy the best of whatever exists right now.
Meanwhile the true nerds (like myself) will be excited about it because they give us a glimpse of what may become....
Especially laws that would place the interests of the individual ahead of the interests of an established industry cartel? That's a laugh.
In the next few decades there'll be plenty of elderly that need to get around: They're a huge part of active society, yet for simple physical reasons (eye-sight or limb coordination issues) many of them can no longer drive, and a lot of them are homeowners that live in the suburbs, far away from public transportation. I'd say that's a much bigger market, especially in the next 30 or 40 years.
It's in California because California has huge historical ties to aerospace/defense-- and there's still a good amount of engineering talent that has never left the state.
that the best programmers/software engineers are astoundingly more productive; something like 10 to 25 times faster then average ones. He obviously wanted to do what it took to retain them, since he was knew that his new product developments relied on impossibly fast deadlines.
Microsoft indeed tried to get their Tablet to sell over 10 years ago, but their mistake was in adapting Window UI directly into a tablet without adapting the user interface. A pure hands-only tablet has no stylus, no resizeable windows and must support multiple finger touches + gestures.. which is totally different then WIMP. The genius of Steve Jobs is he figured that out early on and directed his engineers to tackle it appropriately- (hence a totally separate UI interface stack for OS X; hence iPhone OS = OS X core + different UI)
Steve Jobs also had the vision to know that people will accept something they've never seen before... as long as the usability is good beyond a reasonable doubt.
Try having cancer with the old system, you'll see how much your insurance company "cares". Even with coverage, entire families would still go bankrupt.
And the thing about cancer is it seems to strike regardless of how healthy your lifestyle is.
Unfortunately, it doesn't help the people in GOP states that refuse to expand Medicaid to cover those who cannot afford Obamacare... they're just left to die.
http://www.thewire.com/politic...
Um.. most of US population is already covered though their employers/family plan. They're talking about the 40 million or so Americans who cannot get affordable coverage due to preexisting conditions, income restraints, and the like.
I'm not too sure how a no-fly list works since many people can have the same name.
If that's the case, what's stopping someone from legally changing their name to something more american/western-european and re-issuing their passport?
If you're going to think of it in those terms, even a petrol powered school bus is a "hand-out"... Since a brand new diesel-powered school bus can cost around $100K, and the school district will spend that amount (over its lifetime) for maintenance.
The scientific consensus for AGW/climate change was pretty darn clear even before Al Gore's movie: He just made it more popular. The only people making it controversial are the old school energy companies and everyone associated with it.
different then their implementation?
Now many home improvements can be a DYI project, but wiring a 240V-50A line is NOT one of those things.
Because Texas law states that auto dealerships must be independently owned and operated from the auto manufacturer-- (a dealer franchise just has an agreement to sell a particular car... but they still have no ties to the manufacturer.)
Ms Pacman used a 8K cartridge, while the original Pac Mac was a 4K cart. I would still say it's a challenge to program a full pacman port within 4096 bytes of ROM.. with only 128 bytes of RAM at your disposal.
When considered against the cars the Model S is competing with-- Porsche Panamera; BMW M5, Audi A7 (all of which are $70K+ cars)... it's absolutely affordable.
Tesla is planning a higher volume, lower priced car code named "BlueStar", which is to be similar in size as a BMW 3-series and should start around $35K, but it's going to take a few years for them to tool up the production scale.
Tesla and Nissan uses lithum-ion batteries... the same used in a laptops and smartphones. No nickel is used for it's production.. and it's fully recyclable.
I think the perfect storm for electric cars to take over is 5 years from now, when gas approaches $6 to $8 a gallon while electric hovers around $1/gal equivalent. If auto manufacturers ramp up production on a compact electric sedan and sell them for around $25K, people won't be buying them because it's a novelty, they'll be buying it because a gas vehicles will be far too expensive for typical day-to-day use.
First off: They have 2 car models: the first was the Tesla Roadster (which was based on a Lotus Elise) which was a testbed for their engineering. The Model S is designed from the ground up as an electric car.
Currently they're only using about 20% of their manufacturing plant to build the Model S and plan to expand it for faster production of a lower priced car. That will also take huge capital costs, but the success of the Model S should reassure outside investors who passed on Tesla the first time around.
I'm not sure how it's outclassed. It accelerates 0-60 in around 4 seconds which is faster then most high-end sport sedans you can get for around $100K, and it's made for urban and suburban folks that typically drive less then 250 miles a day (which is a vast majority of people) while seating 5 adults+2 kids.
Musk put up $70M of his own money, as had to bust his ass to gather up financing from many others friends and investors, since traditional investors stayed away from his companies since they were brand new and had no track record.
Meanwhile, the US bailed out a LOT of very established banks/mortgage/insurance/autos manufacturers, and each of them got WAY more money then a paltry $465M, and much of it was not a loan.
They've already paid one year of the loan--- and now they're doing well enough to pay it back in an accelerated rate within 4 more years (rather then 9 more years). I still don't get how that's hard to comprehend.