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Stocks and Real Estate. Tesla fanboy. I buy nice cars cheaply and drive them for free. $VIX $SVIX $TQQQ

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Mike Stanis
11 months
Want to learn how to drive a car for free? Want to learn how to make money by reselling cars? I wrote a Guide. Where to find deals. What to look for. How to sell. Amazon link:
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@unusual_whales One comment i saw captured it well: Women buy this stuff to feel and look good. They’ve been seeing the woke models in VS and ask themselves, is that how I look when I wear this? Not a good look.
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@TeslaBoomerPapa Did they mention Tesla winning the autopilot lawsuit today? My guess is no
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1 year
@alex_avoigt So did everyone rush out to buy Blackberry phones before they were discontinued? Or manual typewriters? I still cannot fathom that Zipse is in charge of one of the premier automakers in the world. He is not the right person to set a future course
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@WholeMarsBlog It almost feels like the Japanese automakers resemble Britain in the 70s. Slow to adapt to new tech. Dying. China is how the Japanese were in the 70s. Fast and hungry. The power structure is shifting
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@alex_avoigt Without Tesla and the supercharger network, there really would be a push nownfrom legacy auto to kill EVs. Imagine no Teslas and having to drive a VW ID or a Chevy Bolt. They feel like penalty boxes. And the non Tesla charger networks are terrible
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1 year
@EmmetPeppers @elonmusk I've been following a lot of the Tesla community on here for years but never really joined the conversations. It is fun to add something although, like you said, responses are minimal when you have few followers.
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1 year
@SawyerMerritt @WalterIsaacson This needs to be more public. Elon never took his hands off the wheel at Tesla
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1 year
@DavidZipper I’ve walked in busier cities many times and walking near cars is so loud. Imagine cities where you don’t hear cars anymore and don’t have to smell them either.
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1 year
@alex_avoigt There were so many incredible facepalm moments at Munich that it’s incredible. VW talking about how they build quality cars and the Chinese don’t The German prime minister pushing hydrogen All the German automakers continuing to pursue combustion engines
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1 year
@GuyDealership Those kinds of car payments keep you working forever. When you pay off that BMW, you’ve spent $134k and the car is worth $20k. If you invest that $1600/mo in an index fund instead, 84 months later you have $182k saved!
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@GuyDealership In 2021 the Model S was priced at $69,420 before the refresh. Then prices started climbing in 2022 as they did for all cars. Now they’re coming back down. Most shocking to me is the S Plaid - $89,990 for world beating performance. This is the super car bargain of the year
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@dennieredwards Those low profile tires are unbelievably useless on a lifted truck
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@BrentToderian @FastCompany Had a 1 hr commute each way, sometimes 1.5 hrs home in bad weather. Got home tired and didn’t feel like doing anything more. Did not enjoy that Biking to work was fun. Got there energized without even drinking coffee. Best is remote working - get up and make coffee while the
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@LordshipH @alex_avoigt Yes that’s the most shocking part to me. VW and Toyota see that EVs will be necessary by 2035, and have watched Tesla grow into a juggernaut. And they did nothing
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@alex_avoigt I have seen an earlier analysis that the Tesla EV semi running these daily miles will save $200k in fuel each year. It will pay for itself in under 12 months based on a $150-180k purchase price
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1 year
This is a big deal. The Tesla EV truck fuel savings approach $200k per year. Your full return on the truck purchase in less than a year from fuel savings!
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@alex_avoigt VW seriously needs a separate group for their EV software. This is ridiculous
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@unusual_whales Many businesses closed because of the current crime situation in downtown SF. That seems like the doom loop. As more close, fewer want to come there. Need to fix the crime issue. But sure, blame telework.
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1 year
@CNBC @cnbc let me give you some advice. Hire folks with a tech/software background to explain true Full Self Driving to you. Drive some Teslas. Let the smart people talk until you understand the profundity of neural nets and how they will impact FSD. No more of these “journalist”
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@engineers_feed Streaming subscriptions like Netflix
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@SawyerMerritt Her $29M salary is pay for performance. What kind of low bar did she need to pass in order to get paid that much?
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@WallStCynic Mercedes is a lane keeping system at slow speeds and only in a few locations. It does not work everywhere. This is the Blackberry of tech! Tesla had a better system 8 years ago with Auto Pilot. They have Full Self Driving now. Works everywhere
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@SawyerMerritt Delaying EVs is easy to do for them when they need to cut costs. Unfortunately this is exactly the wrong thing to do long term
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The biggest shock to me in automotive is Toyota’s fall. They invented the hybrid more than 20 years ago. They seemed so far ahead of their time back then. And then they wasted resources on hydrogen and never developed EVs or even a competitive vehicle software package.
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@SawyerMerritt Is this really a surprise to Ford, that people don’t want to pay more? It’s simple really. At $45-50k, the Lightning would sell really well. And be cheaper to operate than its gasoline counterparts. That’s a compelling case.
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@alex_avoigt This owner went above and beyond here, even driving 70 miles each way for a refill every time. Think about that - he used up nearly half a tank just going to get the refill! The repair expense is insanely high, but this is only a 7 year old car with 50k miles on it! There
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@CPAutoScribe @Ferrari @Chrysler The Ferrari was a goner either way. It just ended sooner that WD thought it would.
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@alex_avoigt Hopefully this will be a wake up call to Kallenius and other management to get some focus at Mercedes. No more hydrogen and gasoline engine spending. Focus on making your EVs the best in the world. That’s what Benz stood for.
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@DeItaone Of course there wasn’t. The systems are safe. Tesla has millions of miles of data to prove this.
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@SawyerMerritt @Tesla Bill Gates had his time in the spotlight in the 80s and 90s. Time for him to stop talking about things he doesn’t know about. Reminds me of an interview Bob Lutz did on CNBC where he said EVs will never work. Seemed so old and out of touch. Did he ever come back and say he
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@StockMKTNewz Fascinating. I didn’t realize how close the two economies were in the 80s. India actually surpassed China’s GDP for a moment then
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@GuyDealership Mine went up over the past two years. I have two teenage drivers at home as well. With $1000 car payments and $1000/mo insurance and climbing, we’ll all be bicyclists soon!
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@SawyerMerritt Outside of the price, the real question is whether you should risk buying a Lucid today, knowing they could close up by 2025. Based on cash burn they won’t make it. Where do you get your Sapphire serviced then?
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@alex_avoigt Legacy auto built EVs inefficiently and have negative margins. So they are forced to sell them at high prices. In the US, dealers marked them up even higher. People would gladly buy an EV but not at a much higher price than its ICE counterpart.
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@GuyDealership It sounded like Ford had 100+ days supply of pickups before the UAW strike started. Ford lots near me were full of trucks. So they should still have months of truck inventory.
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1 year
@alex_avoigt Yea another German CEO saying EVs are too hard to do. If there was no Tesla semi then her words would have clout. Today she looks like she didn’t do her research. Poor look for a CEO
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Mike Stanis
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@ICannot_Enough Here in the Midwest it’s nearly 100%. Most people think our Model Y cost $90k. A friend of mine who works at GM thought Teslas were hybrids!
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@alex_avoigt Even if these automakers embrace giga castings, they are behind Tesla’s current methodology. We have seen the modular build approach they are targeting for the Mexican plant. This will be another level of efficiency beyond giga castings.
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@alex_avoigt Yes many announcements about Toyota solid state batteries, Mercedes charging networks, etc. Bunch of things that don’t exist
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@SawyerMerritt Not only that, but auto writers are used to their perks as well. - Free cars at all times to “test” so always driving new cars - Multiple vacations per year to exotic locales disguised at car launches. They are living the life of a high roller on auto companies’ money. Write a
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EVs with no frunk seem like poor design and lazy engineering. What the heck is all that cobbled mess under there? Looks like a home build. Come on guys, Teslas had frunks for more than a decade now. Get it together
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@GuyDealership GM made the decision to ditch both CarPlay and Android and will develop an in house software. Software is not their strength. I can’t see this going well for them. Older buyers may still buy @gm cars but younger ones will definitely not. Would be interesting to see this data
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@SawyerMerritt That last bullet is going to make the EV transition much harder for Ford. They will have a difficult time closing ICE plants now.
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@alex_avoigt This has to just be a PR statement. If Kallenius really believes his own hype then Mercedes is in real trouble.
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@alex_avoigt Cost cutting does not create the kinds of manufacturing efficiencies you need to build great profitable cars. I worked at Chrysler during their big cost cutting times. The cars started to look and feel really cheap. Remember this very cheap dashboard from the 08 Jeep Grand
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@Boenau Well there were no cyclists or Teslas around so they had to blame someone!
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@alojoh The Blazer is priced too high. Biggest issue it has. If there are dealer markups it will be a $70k EV.
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@stekkerauto Remember the 90s E class and S class? My favorite years of Mercedes. The interiors were rock solid. Nothing inside felt flimsy. These new models have definitely been cheapened up.
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@Teslaconomics I think legacy auto is just shaking their heads and is smugly convinced that nobody will buy a Cybertruck. These guys didn’t take Tesla seriously when the 3 and Y were ramping. I bet it’s the same story now.
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@alex_avoigt I don’t think Kallenius or Zipse truly understand technology or the huge advantage in software that Tesla currently has or the ecosystem they are building. Once you own a tesla and have the home charger, the app, FSD, why would you switch to a Benz with mediocre user interface
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@WholeMarsBlog In Cali I can see it is obvious. Come to the Midwest. Not many EVs here, and the sentiment is generally negative against them. Many people I talk to think the “whole EV thing” will blow over after the 2024 elections.
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@alex_avoigt That’s a tremendous amount of under steer. That Mercedes barely reacted to steering inputs. They’re out on the roads with us. Terrifying!
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@Teslaconomics @teslaownersSV Seriously awesome! Not only is it bulletproof but Tesla is driving it around like that. No need for advertising when everybody will see this on social media tonight!
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@KTVU @WholeMarsBlog Wait. You can do this? Book an Airbnb for one night and then just stay for as long as you like for free? My vacations are about to get a lot cheaper!!!!
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@GuyDealership My experience is that January is a great time to find deals. 1. Everyone is broke from Christmas 2. Tax returns haven't shown up yet There's little foot traffic so prices are low.
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@SawyerMerritt I knew it wasn’t an EV because if it was, “EVs Burn Down Buildings” would have been on every site.
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@alex_avoigt The biggest hurdle with VW is the legacy management old school thinking. Diess couldn’t get past the old guard Hopefully Lal has better luck.
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@alex_avoigt Blume’s argument is ridiculous. China, EU, US all have chargers and are building more. These are the largest markets. BYD is selling all over the world now, including Australia and Latin America. The world is adapting to EVs Except for a few old school CEOs at legacy auto
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@SawyerMerritt @WalterIsaacson I like the robotaxi concept but the real money maker for Tesla in my opinion will be Optimus. Once they get a real world AI robot under $20k, applications are unlimited.
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@alex_avoigt The biggest irony to me is that many folks are staunchly supporting ICE engined cars. Do they not realize that they are supporting the oil industry with this stance?
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@unusual_whales This doesn’t sound right to me at all. Most Gen Zs I know grew up interfacing with multiple things at the same time, like YT and homework. They can multitask like no generation I’ve ever seen. They just work in a different way compared to older generations.
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@XRP_Tiffany @GuyDealership My buddy owns a shop. Worked on many BMWs Tells me that he doesn’t even want to own a German bicycle
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@alex_avoigt Here in the US we have a strong dealership lobby. It’s nearly impossible for automakers to cut them out. Witness the F150 Lightning - huge dealer markups meant poor sales and Ford can’t do much about it. Different setup in Germany?
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@munster_gene There have been efforts to unionize Tesla in the past. I remember the workers generally not wanting this, since they were paid well and had stock options, something they would lose under the UAW
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@alex_avoigt I remember going to parts of Europe, particularly Paris, in the early 2000s and the city felt grimy. It was diesel soot and particulates everywhere. So I disagree with the Luhmann Group position. Should be zero emissions to start. If you want to add other factors, go
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@alex_avoigt This is shameful. To me it shows the downfall of Mercedes’ technical superiority. They did not have the expertise to design a diesel system that passed and were forced to cheat.
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@unusual_whales Lucid will run out of cash in 2024. I don’t see a path to profitability for them. The Saudis won’t keep pumping money into Lucid forever.
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@GerberKawasaki His RAV4 comparison seemed like he was convinced everyone knew about Teslas and current prices. Probably true in CA. Here in MI people don’t follow Tesla or their prices at all. Majority here would just buy the Toyota since they’ve known Toyotas to be reliable for decades
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@GuyDealership Other flood car signs: - Dirt in the headlights/taillights - Pull the carpet under the dash. If there is sediment it was a flood car - Look under the seats. Should be no rust on the seat brackets or wire harness mounts.
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@CashMoneyLemon @bradsferguson @TSLAFanMtl Same. Very little awareness of Tesla, EVs in the Midwest. Everyone here thinks our Model Y costs $90k
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There is a crash in German EVs because the German automakers did not pivot to EVs. They expended minimal resources and minimal time to deliver half-developed vehicles. They are glitchy and break a lot. The experience is not good and detracts future buyers. Now they blame
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Fabian Brandt ( @OliverWyman ) “This discussion of ‘what is the best technology’ is not helpful. From an efficiency standpoint, there is no doubt that battery electric vehicles are the preferred technology. The industry needs to be decisive and go all in.” ✍️ @helentbiz
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@MikeyCycling By the tone of the comments, you’d think they took away vehicle parking entirely
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@DaveRamsey I believe in letting kids have fun cars. Sets them up for a life of believing you can find sporty fun cars without buying new. Know many kids that suffered through a beater car in school and then treated themselves to a new car when they got their first big job. Point is you
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@alex_avoigt What a fascinating story we are watching unfold with ICE. Legacy auto is backing down on EVs just as the world is starting to pivot. I don’t understand their strategy except hoping that EV mandates go away. Regardless, China and Tesla now build cost competitive EVs anyway
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@garyblack00 I think there will be a halo effect from cybertruck. We know that the truck is sold out for a few years now, so the interest will spill over to the other Tesla products.
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@mycaredge If you are buying a BMW or Audi for their reliability, you are going to be in for a shock twice: 1. The amount of time your car spends broken at the dealer while under warranty 2. The huge $$$ required to keep it running out of warranty.
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@itskyleconner NIO is basically copying the Tesla UI here. Looks better than nearly every other EV interface out there except Tesla. Most others look like a dated Android interface
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@alex_avoigt The Can’t Do attitude is very disappointing from Daimler. I shouldn’t be surprised - all legacy automakers have been talking this same line - EVs are hard.
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@SawyerMerritt This is my rebuttal to the “lithium mining bad” crowd. Once you replace the entire world fleet of 2 billion vehicles with EVs, you are done mining since the batteries are 100% recyclable.
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@alex_avoigt You cannot just adjust fixed costs. Renault should know this. You have to start ground-up and rework your parts and processes to be more efficient and less costly. Otherwise you end up like Chrysler did in 2008 before their bankruptcy - expensive cars with severely cheapened
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@alex_avoigt Every time a company in a time of change makes the decision to reduce investments in the future, they become irrelevant shortly after. Why not cut hydrogen and combustion engine development entirely?
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@CommunityTesla Last time I saw a truck as awesome looking as this Tesla semi was Goliath on the old Knight Rider series with the Hoff.
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@AlexRoy144 @jeremyjudkins_ On my daily driver, I would trade some performance for efficiency. Like the Tesla small hatch. It could have a smaller battery and one motor. It would be lighter so it could achieve 250 miles with a much smaller battery.
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@alex_avoigt VW has spent far too much time stalling the development of EVs that are affordable to build. Why are they not copying Tesla at this point? VW leadership arrogance thinking they can do it better.
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@alex_avoigt My 2013 Ford has an aftermarket radio with Garmin GPS and it looks similar to this. It’s slow too. I just use the maps on my iPhone instead. In comparison our Tesla screen looks just like the map on an iPad and it’s fast.
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@alex_avoigt Great writeup. Sucks for all the people working at VW, truly. They are victims of Blume and the inept leadership at the helm of VW now. Worst part is there doesn’t seem to be a plan to steer the company back on track. More bad news to come
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@Investingcom iPhone screen mostly.
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@DavidZipper I did an analysis of the amount of cycling you’d have to do in order to charge your EV. Summary is that it may be easier to just take the bicycle.
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1 year
I bicycle, sometimes on a Zwift trainer, and wonder if I could recharge an EV with a bike? Let’s see the math: - In training I make 250w steady on a bike = 1kW every 4 hours. - If I bike for 12 hours on a trainer = 3kW - Our Tesla Model Y uses 2.8kW / 10 miles. - Conclusion: my
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@alex_avoigt I appreciate Tesla being prudent. But they really should have tried to paint a brighter direction for when the economy improves and interest rates fall.
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Mike Stanis
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Talking cars & showing you ways to drive nice cars for free whether you’re a fan of BMWs, Porsches, or Teslas. Ways you can avoid car payments and save the $ instead. $800/month saved in an index fund for 8 years = $100,000!
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@alex_avoigt It was strange the way Wall Street was tripping all over themselves for Nikola and even denied Hindenburg’s allegations of fraud against Trevor Milton. But here you have Tesla accelerating manufacturing + AI and Wall Street doubts them.
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@GuyDealership Or at least had its timing chains replaced a few times. Talking to you, 3.6L V6 Seriously though, so many engines from this era converted to timing chains from belts and it did not go well for them.
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You won’t convince many ICE diehards to go EV. They will continue to tell you about how bad lithium mining is and how there is no charging infrastructure. Kids all know about Teslas and are excited to see them. Heck the local kids got excited when they saw our wall charger
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@MegaWattXinfo German prime minister making similar comments regarding hydrogen and efuels. We all keep electing folks with no technical prowess at all and these are our results.
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@SawyerMerritt @Tesla Incredible price for a new Model Y! $TSLA Q4 is going to be awesome!
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@alex_avoigt I don't watch any of them any longer. Enough good folks and communities here on X that I get my daily updates here in real time and without the "curation" I would normally get from the big networks.
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@alex_avoigt Same here. Interest rates will turn around just as Cybertruck is ramping, v12 FSD is out (hopefully), giga Mexico is nearly built, and we have Optimus early builds. Will be explosive for $tsla
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@ray4tesla Interiors with all those buttons look old school now. I drove a VW Tiguan and it had climate controls in the screen AND a set of physical buttons below. How is this good for margins? Look at that pic. It looks like a ten year old car but this is a 2023!
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@unusual_whales Interesting that this is the takeaway from the graph. The larger concern is that downward trend showing everyone feeling less connected. I think the recent events since 2020 re-positioned work’s priority in many peoples’ lives
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@Tweetermeyer How many posts did you just make telling us not to post here? Lol
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