Elon Musk compensation package:

And:

So, Tesla has to generate $8.5 Trillion in revenue over the next ten years for Musk to get $1 Trillion in stock... If the company doesn't meet those targets, he doesn't get the stock.

Quote>I agree that people SHOULD want smaller trucks, or—get this—CARS, but the big car companies love their margins. Ford's eliminated every passenger car in their lineup except for the Mustang (even the Mustang Mach-e is classified as an SUV for some reason).

People want smaller pickups, just look at the market for older small pickups... The issue is there is little profit in passenger cars, there is big profit in big pickups and SUVs. If you can make a quality, attractive economical passenger car, you'll sell a ton of them (Honda Accord?) but that's hard - on the other hand, you can make much, much more selling big expensive pickup trucks/SUVs.

The ICE F150 is a huge seller, we're talking about the $100K EV F150.

Ford makes obscene profits on ICE F150s, it suffers obscene losses on EV F150s.

See the difference.

What?

They lose money on every EV F-150 they sell.

To continue making them is non-sensical. What can Ford sell that generates enough PROFIT to at least offset the LOSSES of every F-150 EV?

They have a huge unsold inventory of $100K pickup trucks, why keep making more F-150 EVs just to park them in an airport parking lot somewhere?

Well, i suspect the union was brought in to raise worker pay and benefits, which could make a facility no longer cost-effective...

Just saying, i doubt the unions were trying to figure out ways to reduce labor costs...

"Most countries" don't matter, it matters in the country these workers live and work in...

Adding a $50 item to a car adds much more than $50 to the cost of the car - manufacturers don't sell cars 'at cost' no matter what dealer ads say...

I was under the impression that solar electricity was cheaper than the alternatives, why would anyone 'need' subsidies to buy solar?

Oh, yeah, because solar is only cheaper when your government pays for a big part of the installation cost!

Out of curiosity, were ANY of them in the country illegally? Overstaying tourist visas? Working off the US books?

Pretty sure every korean worker, in the plant that was subsidized to create jobs for AMERICAN workers, that was deported was deported for immigration/employment regulation violations.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/artic...

They were deported for cause, why don't you mention that when you talk about them?

If it requires hundreds of millions of federal taxpayer dollars, then yes, that ship has sailed.

Im not aware of anyone trying to STOP EV battery plants in the US, but i do know that the federal government borrowing money to give it to battery plant owners to reduce the cost of EV batteries in EVs that were subsidized at purchase is a bad policy.

No, they wont, and as a reminder, the VAST majority of roads in america are single-lane, each direction.

The issue with riding a bus in the US isnt that buses move too slowly, its that they dont start/stop where and when we want them to.

What, are you seven years old?

How much money do you think billionaires have?

How many poor people are there?

And, finally, if no one works, who makes I phones? Delivers your DoorDash order, drives your uber?

Reminds me of the reporter that said Michael Bloomberg should have taken the money he spent on his failed Presidential run and instead he could have made everyone in America a millionaire!

They say it won't be an issue:

You may want to run some numbers to see if satellite uplinks and downlinks are quicker than "congested cellular networks".

Satellites will never displace land-based cell towers - the key to making weak cellphones operate thru a satellite is that very, very, very few people attempt it at one time.

Just a reminder, this is being billed as as lower cost solution, if it takes billions of dollars to figure out a basic solution to heat dissipation, this may not be the money-saving invention they think it is...

What happened to the whole dropping data center containers in the ocean to lower cooling costs idea? Are we still dunking data centers in the ocean?