Well I like bashing on Tesla and Musk just as much as the next guy. But there are also a lot of anti EV sentiments in the article which aren’t warranted in my opinion.
Pretty much, seemingly a mix of apparently genuine factual concerns, snide (but accurate) remarks about PepsiCo, and stupid anti-EV sentiments.
I wish Tesla’d invested more energy into this project. But economically, it probably doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to produce semis when they could produce cars instead which have much better scale and margin. Car buyers are much happier to pay for useless frills (like the 20" rims that only serve to increase fuel consumption) than ROI-focused truck buyers.
Using electric trucks for trips of 400+ miles doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Better invest in a better rail system, too bad Elon spoiled that with his loopy bullshit.
Right but that would be a systemic solution. Or in other words: Something that a government would have to commit to, whereas private companies are much happier to just add another hack to a suboptimal system. Roads exist already, and (today!) they can be used in much more flexible way than rail.
Pretty much, seemingly a mix of apparently genuine factual concerns, snide (but accurate) remarks about PepsiCo, and stupid anti-EV sentiments.
I wish Tesla’d invested more energy into this project. But economically, it probably doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to produce semis when they could produce cars instead which have much better scale and margin. Car buyers are much happier to pay for useless frills (like the 20" rims that only serve to increase fuel consumption) than ROI-focused truck buyers.
Right but that would be a systemic solution. Or in other words: Something that a government would have to commit to, whereas private companies are much happier to just add another hack to a suboptimal system. Roads exist already, and (today!) they can be used in much more flexible way than rail.