Tesla mania vs. economic reality
Tesla mania vs. economic reality
Tesla mania vs. economic reality
If one didn’t, you know, know better, one might get the impression that Tesla stock is overhyped and overvalued.Tesla mania vs. economic reality
Tesla mania vs. economic reality
I think the CEO (won't mention the name of someone I abhor and distrust) is a scam artist of the highest order. Before production really took off, the stock was a roller coaster. Any time he would get smacked down and the stock price would drop (such as a report about yet another missed production deadline), miraculously he would pull some new product out of his hat and the stock price would surge again.If one didn’t, you know, know better, one might get the impression that Tesla stock is overhyped and overvalued.
Four things:Coal burning electric vehicles
Let the icing begin…
I got to borrow my cousin's Leaf last time I was in Victoria. First time driving an EV, and I liked it for tooling around town. I'd be happy to have something like that. (especially driving by gas stations and giving them the wave)Four things:
1. Power plants (even horrible, horrible, horrible coal-fired power-plants) providing electricity for electric vehicles are more efficient / less polluting overall than hordes of gasoline and diesel vehicles on the roads.
2. Coal (and hopefully oil / natural gas eventually) power plants are being phased out in favor of renewables. Personally, I'd like to see more Gen 3+ nuclear but that's difficult given the long-tail for profitability, lack of public support for nuclear (because Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Fukushima Daiichi, etc.), and waste storage, but just getting rid of fossil fuel electrical generation would be a huge boon.
3. ICE-ing is a total asshole move and those people should be ashamed of themselves.
4. All that being said, Tesla is overvalued and Elon is an asshat (and I refuse to buy his vehicles)
However, my wife and I have leased / owned multiple generations of Nissan LEAF and have invested in an 8.8kW PV array so we can fuel it from solar power. That, and we're waiting for someone to come out with a legitimate mid-sized electric station wagon (not SUV) with a > 300 mile range so we can get rid of our Sportwagen TDI.
I got to borrow my cousin's Leaf last time I was in Victoria. First time driving an EV, and I liked it for tooling around town. I'd be happy to have something like that. (especially driving by gas stations and giving them the wave)
Guess I am going to be an old gray headed geezer driving a dinasor then.Like it or not, I believe that in ten years or so it will be socially unacceptable to drive a fossil-fuel burning vehicle.
Kinda like smoking cigarettes.
Four things:
1. Power plants (even horrible, horrible, horrible coal-fired power-plants) providing electricity for electric vehicles are more efficient / less polluting overall than hordes of gasoline and diesel vehicles on the roads.
2. Coal (and hopefully oil / natural gas eventually) power plants are being phased out in favor of renewables. Personally, I'd like to see more Gen 3+ nuclear but that's difficult given the long-tail for profitability, lack of public support for nuclear (because Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Fukushima Daiichi, etc.), and waste storage, but just getting rid of fossil fuel electrical generation would be a huge boon.
3. ICE-ing is a total asshole move and those people should be ashamed of themselves.
4. All that being said, Tesla is overvalued and Elon is an asshat (and I refuse to buy his vehicles)
I got to borrow my cousin's Leaf last time I was in Victoria. First time driving an EV, and I liked it for tooling around town. I'd be happy to have something like that. (especially driving by gas stations and giving them the wave)
The Leaf would fit in the trunk of that thing.Uh, that’s not a Leaf. And did anyone ever tell you that you look like Prince Philip?