DETROIT - With its sales slowing and its stock price tumbling, Tesla Inc. slashed prices dramatically Friday on several versions of its electric vehicles, making some of its models eligible for a new federal tax credit that could help spur buyer interest.
worked with a guy who bought one of those Toyota hybrid highlanders. he used to brag about how little he spent on gas for close to 2 years. then he had to replace 2 of the batteries.
ReplyDeleteset him back close to 4 grand. he sold the think before he had to replace the other ones.
really when you look hard at them, there no way that they can do the same job as a gas or diesel engine can.
Electric vehicles are an expensive science project, not serious transportation.
ReplyDeleteCan wait till they try to get a gallon can of electricity to they can get to the charging station and set for a day to charge. Bunch of morons. All of them.
ReplyDeleteThe Tesla owners up here in the Great White North of Canada came face to face with reality when the sub-zero temperatures hit just a couple of days before Christmas. Many folks were travelling and found out that the batteries don't charge below a certain temperature because the battery uses the electricity to keep itself from freezing. People sat for hours in sub-zero temperatures just to watch their gauge not move--you might be able to find some TikTok or YouTubes of these people complaining their Tesla wasn't charging. After taking a few minutes to fill up my 15 year old Ford Escape and getting comfortable in my cozy warm car (had to take off my parka), I waved and wished them a Merry Christmas as I drove by them. Did I mention there was a line-up of people and cars waiting to charge up?
DeleteI question this report. The electric vehicle tax credit (at least as of last year) phased out based upon number sold. Lowering the price doesn't change anything. Tesla sold enough that I didn't think any of their models still qualified. But I haven't totally kept up with the IRS Code, so maybe something changed.
ReplyDeleteThe government purposefully excluded Teslas starting around, oh, January 21st, 2021. Gee, I wonder why?
DeleteCongress increased that number in one of the last bills they passed. Although they made the financial number unworkable since the cars are not sold for a low enough price.
DeleteDon't forget that all those green-loving, climate-saving lefties who wanted to buy coal-powered electric-cars now have to hate Elon Musk's Teslas because he DARED to stand up to Die Sozialistische Partei. Something like "we get to say whatever we please but the rest of the world just SHUT UP " -version of free speech.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't take one if they were giving them away and paid my car insurance until the batteries died on it.
ReplyDeleteCan't abandon a ship I've never been near to. I find Musk to be an enormously entertaining nutjob to follow. Tesla I'm not impressed with. His Twitter circus is a hoot to watch, and he's pissing of all the right people. But the other night I watched SpaceX land Falcon 9 boosters for the 163 and 164th time. It's become so ho-hum common that it's hard to find coverage of the events.
ReplyDeleteMy 9 year old son and I watched the Falcon Heavy launch last weekend, then a Falcon 9 launch this morning before he went to school. There’s another Falcon 9 launch tomorrow and a third scheduled for Monday. SpaceX will have made 4 separate launches in about 10 days. Amazing stuff.
DeleteGood for bombing around town, going for groceries etc. But if you got any work to do or anywhere to go you need an internal combustion engine.
ReplyDeleteAlmost everything Musk does is to make his dream of going to Mars happen. Space X, got to get off this rock somehow. Tesla, need electric vehicles on Mars. The boring company? Gotta like underground on Mars, no protection from radiation like Earth. The whole Titter thing I believe happened because those fuckers pissed him the fuck off. He likes freedom.
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I don't think Elon cares much at this point. I never much liked him and thought he was just a great con man. I like him more lately though.
ReplyDeleteI think he's at a point where he knows Tesla can't compete and he has enough money to do whatever the hell he whats. Time to play...