Tesla to lay off 9% of its workforce.

[dishdude]

Originally Posted By: billt460
Google Chevy Bolt, and this is what comes up. A tiny compact, all electric car with a maximum range of 238 miles. With a recharge time of 9.3 hours out of a 220 volt outlet. (How many garages in this country have 220 volt outlets?) And you get all of this for a minimum of $40K to $45K out the door. Somehow I doubt there will be a waiting list to buy these things.


I believe that is about what a Model S does, and Bolt does it for half the price.

With the news that came out this week, anyone that still owns Tesla stock is one brave investor!

 

[billt460]

Originally Posted By: dishdude
With the news that came out this week, anyone that still owns Tesla stock is one brave investor!


https://www.marketwatch.com/story/teslas...-hit-2017-07-06

This clown is nothing but a big B.S. artist. All he needs is a plaid suit and a cigar. And stick him on a used car lot with naked light bulbs and streamers.

 

[billt460]

Listening to Musk hype all of his Tesla B.S. reminds me of that show on the History Channel, "Finding Bigfoot". No matter how often or how long you watch it, they never find him.

 

[OVERKILL]

Well, the sky is falling for the EV evangelists in Ontario, as our newly elected has cancelled all of these taxpayer-funded programs the previous team was "offering", which included such wonderful incentives as giving millionaires $14,000 rebates on their Model S

They are of course claiming that the environment in Ontario is going to quickly decay into a coal-fired wasteland that resembles Mordor because we are no longer paying people to put in new windows, buy smart thermostats or in general, just look after their houses. Something they are apparently incapable of doing without somebody else funding it

 

[honeeagle]

Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
Well, the sky is falling for the EV evangelists in Ontario, as our newly elected has cancelled all of these taxpayer-funded programs the previous team was "offering", which included such wonderful incentives as giving millionaires $14,000 rebates on their Model S

They are of course claiming that the environment in Ontario is going to quickly decay into a coal-fired wasteland that resembles Mordor because we are no longer funding people to put in new windows, buy smart thermostats or in general, just look after their houses. Something they are apparently incapable of doing without somebody else paying for it

Love it .
even though I was considering a electric smart,I felt guilty about my parents still buying me stuff.

 

[nap]

This thing “solar” doesn’t seem to sell well either.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla...SKBN1JI013?il=0

 

[dishdude]

Originally Posted By: billt460
Originally Posted By: dishdude
With the news that came out this week, anyone that still owns Tesla stock is one brave investor!


https://www.marketwatch.com/story/teslas...-hit-2017-07-06

This clown is nothing but a big B.S. artist. All he needs is a plaid suit and a cigar. And stick him on a used car lot with naked light bulbs and streamers.


Remember his April Fool's tweet where he said the company was going into bankruptcy? It's one warning sign after another with this guy.

 

[PimTac]

Musk has had troubles recently. None of his companies are in the headlines which usually invoked Pavlovian responses from investors. As one company’s stock price rises, Musk sells shares in order to purchase shares of his other companies when they are lower. He has been playing this shell game but the pea has disappeared.

Without government contracts and subsidies, he is toast. His latest pie in the sky company, Boring, is getting some press but how many cities (taxpayers) can afford that system?


He does have a visionary mind, no doubt about that, but his business sense is more like Charles Ponzi.

 

[emg]

Originally Posted By: PimTac
He does have a visionary mind, no doubt about that, but his business sense is more like Charles Ponzi.


Think about it for a moment. Rockets. Solar power. Electric vehicles. Big tunnel boring. Fast surface transport in vacuum.

Everything Musk does is aimed at colonizing Mars. He doesn't care whether the business makes money here on Earth, so long as the technology can be used to get to Mars and live there. He just needs people to keep throwing money at those businesses until he can leave the planet.

 

[billt460]

Originally Posted By: emg
..... He just needs people to keep throwing money at those businesses until he can leave the planet.


Speaking from a practical business sense, he already has.

 

[Y_K]

Jules Verne + H. G. Wells repackager that ignorami call 'visionary'

 

[billt460]

Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
Well, the sky is falling for the EV evangelists in Ontario, as our newly elected has cancelled all of these taxpayer-funded programs the previous team was "offering", which included such wonderful incentives as giving millionaires $14,000 rebates on their Model S

They are of course claiming that the environment in Ontario is going to quickly decay into a coal-fired wasteland that resembles Mordor because we are no longer paying people to put in new windows, buy smart thermostats or in general, just look after their houses. Something they are apparently incapable of doing without somebody else funding it


Funny how socialism trains people to think like that.

 

[riklyn]

hope Bob has registered "bobistheelectricguy.com"

 

[A_Harman]

Originally Posted By: riklyn
hope Bob has registered "bobistheelectricguy.com"

There's no hurry.

 

[nap]

Looks like they make them in tents now:

"Tesla built a new line in just two weeks in a huge tent outside the main factory, an unprecedented move in an industry that takes years to plan out its assembly lines, and said the tented production area accounted for 20 percent of the Model 3s produced last week. "

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla...t-idUSKBN1JT0CQ