Tesla has faster cars, but we were promised Jetpacks

The problem for Tesla, and anyone who bid up its stock Tuesday afternoon, is that it has already pushed investors’ horizons out so far, in the interest of raising more capital, that even going beyond “ludicrous speed” on its flagship car doesn’t get pulses racing. If your CEO has spent months and months talking about a new mass-market vehicle, home batteries, buying SolarCity, electric trucks and robo-taxis, then cutting that zero-to-60 lag by 3 tenths of a second seems rather humdrum.

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Tesla: Please Help Fund Our Ludicrous Project!

Summary

  • Tesla possibly transitioning to 503(c)(3) organization by asking for $135K “donations” to fund its next project.
  • Being a charity might be a good fit as it continually needs cash and is already “tax exempt” in that it may never pay taxes.
  • The champion of sustainability has accelerated Ludicrous mode for those who can pay the price.
  • In a ludicrous twist, begging for orders probably confirms that the company will be going from 2.5 (billion) to zero (cash) more quickly than anyone anticipated.
  • Meanwhile…in the real world, Bosch, Mobileye, and Delphi are doing much more interesting things.

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DNC Energy Platform Long on Commands, Short on Hope

The most important sentence on energy in the Democratic National Committee (DNC) platform document is the one it took out: this version of the platform no longer supports an “all-of-the-above” energy strategy.

Coal is out. Nuclear energy and hydropower aren’t even mentioned once in the platform. This version seeks to pick winners and losers in the energy space and remake the energy mix the way the DNC platform committee sees fit, regardless of what the market wants.

You know why that’s a bad idea? Because just about every time the government tries to pick winners and losers in the energy space, the government gets it wrong—like really, really wrong.

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Elon Musk’s Tesla plans are all futuristic promise with no product

Author: Edward Niedermeyer Source: AFR Elon Musk’s second “master plan” for Tesla Motors arrived much like one of the electric automaker’s cars: brilliant and inspiring, but late and rough around the edges. And like Tesla’s desirable yet quality-challenged cars, Musk’s vision is sure to be embraced and evangelised by anyone who was already convinced that […]

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