EV Charging in the UK

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they said it couldn't be done

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bitrex

There's nothing wrong with golf carts.

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John Larkin

Musk's talent is raising large amounts of money and squandering larger amounts. He has to keep playing boy genius inventor to keep churning up investors. Things like that don't last.

Solar City, Boring, PowerWalls, batteries, the solar tile thing, the hyperloop, Tesla, all losers. SpaceX might survive, but seems to follow the Musk pattern so far: hype, borrowing, repeat.

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John Larkin

Good try, but no cigar.

But just a /little/ impractical when it has to reach from the top-floor flat (zoomed in) to the red car (zoomed out then behind right foot): https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4660229,-2.6098948,3a,15y,46.44h,100.67t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sBvUrLYxFNTfvp42f4NJkiA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

That would be normal near where I live, and triple the distance is often the case!

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Tom Gardner

Sounds pretty much like a Ponzi scheme AFAICT. Could be the next Enron.

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Cursitor Doom

No, it takes an "Evil Genius" level of fool. Having a bunch of politicians in your pocket and a few hundred million taxpayers forced to pay you to fail, helps too.

Keep doubling down, of course. The Fanbois, like Rick, will so their part to help too.

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krw

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Tesla paid back all their government loans.

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keith

They're on the streets all around here. Kids are allowed to drive them at 14 and few have the brains to do it safely. One cut my wife off today. The bimbette didn't even look when she zoomed around the corner just in front of us. *NEVER* saw us, even after.

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krw

Good grief. Do you really believe what you say? Do really believe that's all the taxpayer has forked over to Musk? Idiot.

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krw

You're allowed to put a power cord across the public right-of-way (sidewalk, boulevard, etc.)?

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krw

Seems like a business opportunity here. Block access and move for a "small" fee. Much better than a lemonade stand (cities are cracking down on those).

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krw

wow, look at all those Audis, Rovers, BMWs and shit all lined up with their rims still on lol. Tiny street, that street could be stripped for parts in like 10 min.

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bitrex

Do you know anything about why they lost money in Q1 after turning large profits in Q3 and Q4 last year?

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Rick C

You mean like these outlets?

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They had to fill the channel with Model 3 for sales in Europe and China and they had a $900M bond payment come due.

It didn't help that the Model S and X are due a refresh that had been leaked probably holding up their sales.

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e profits in Q3 and Q4 last year?

nd they had a $900M bond payment come due.

ked probably holding up their sales.

The bond payment doesn't affect profit, that impacted cash on hand though.

The profit was down for two reasons. You got the first one. They can't se ll cars that are on boats and in the ship yards. The other loss of profit was because they were converting the model S and X lines to build both cars on one line and shut down the other line so it could be rebuilt for model Y production. The old model S line was relatively ancient compared to what they are using now and the model Y line will be mostly new equipment. The result was fewer S and X deliveries which have a high profit margin.

This is what I've heard anyway.

The low S and X deliveries could have been a matter of low orders so they w ent ahead and shuffled the lines, or this was planned all along. We'll lik ely not know unless someone asks Musk in the next call and he doesn't get p issed and answers.

My bet is the S and X orders weren't down or the drop in sales likely would have happened last year. It was too large a drop for the model 3 to have finally impacted S and X sales after two quarters of 3 delivery with no imp act.

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Product idea: an outlet sort of like a GFD, but it cuts off if too many KWH are used in some time period. For garages and motels and things that don't want electric car owners stealing their power.

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This group can be so entertaining at times. lol

Larkin is so jealous he is about to wet his pants!

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