2023 version:
A vacationing penguin is driving his through Arizona in his Ford F-150 when he notices that the his transmission isn't shifting right. He drives to the nearest town and stops at the first gas station.
After dropping the car off, the penguin goes for a walk around town. He sees an ice-cream shop and, being a penguin in Arizona, decides that something cold would really hit the spot. He gets a big dish of ice cream and sits down to eat. Having no hands he makes a real mess trying to eat with his flippers. After finishing his ice cream, he goes back to the gas station and asks the mechanic if he's found the problem. The mechanic looks up and says "It looks like you blew a tranny."
"No no," the penguin replies, "it's just ice cream."
Tesla has the some of the highest margins of any high volume manufacturer. The increasing production capacity is likely the cause of the model Y price drop. Model X and S is likely due to demand. The model Y is on pace to becoming the best selling car in the world this year (1.2m cars). The prices went up due to too much demand. These prices are near but not yet as low as the original list prices.
Tesla reprices their cars on a regular basis based on supply and demand, with the goal of holding zero inventory for sale.
I agree. If you don't want an EV, don't buy one., No need to lie about them.
Most modern cars are unibody construction, with advanced sensors and safety equipment and are totaled in anything more than a minor accident. An accident that would damage the battery of an electric car would most certainly total a similar ICE car.
~Lithium batteries suck, they explode, they are mined by children, let me just grab my lithium power tools, computer, phone, watch, etc.
Once you start a business, and try to close a deal with any medium to large corporation they will ask you if your business is woman, minority, or veteran owned. The corporation gets a tax break on any money they spend with those types of businesses. So it is in the companies best interest and its fiduciary responsibility to search out a competitor who can answer yes to those questions.
It was shitty IT. They have had problems before. The biggest problem these companies have is not hiring on merit. I'm not saying their HR is woke but it probably is, as that is the norm. HR is completely broken in corporate America. Not hiring on merit is a corporate death sentence.
That sucks for that guy. I've charged at -20F with near zero range in a blizzard at supercharger, no issues in a much older Tesla. But that guys situation is no different than all the thousands of people's who's cars didn't start because of the cold.
It wasn't his. He bought it at market prices in his community and flipped for up to double market value to a company owned by the Chinese billionaire. Most likely hiding the fact that it was being sold to a foreign entity while making bank.