Tesla to cut thousands of jobs as Elon Musk warns the ‘road ahead is very difficult’

[petros]

The car storage becomes part of the grid. They act to expand and extend storage capacity.

Only Nissan so far and only in Japan. You are going the electric jet route again. If you are discharging to the grid you'll never have a full charge.
BTW...

Since Texas and California consume more electricity than any other states, they provide a good snapshot of what a future filled with electric vehicles might look like. In both cases, an increase in EVs would drive consumption higher, with the potential to strain local infrastructure.

If virtually all passenger cars in Texas were electrified today, the state would need approximately 110 more terawatt-hours of electricity per year—the average annual electricity consumption of 11 million homes. The added electricity demand would result in a 30 percent increase over current consumption in Texas.

If there are watering bans to run air conditioners in BC, what sort of crisis will cars and air conditioners combined look like?

 

[Hoid]

One of he beauties of the EV is that it will actually charge at night and then run your house during the day.

During what would be brown or blackouts in the summer when all the little city dwellers need their AC cranked up in order to survive the EV sector will provide power back into the grid to prevent over load

 

[Danbones]

Elon Musk's net worth plunges $768m in one day after Cybertruck launch fiasco

Tesla boss Elon Musk saw more than three-quarters of a billion dollars wiped off his fortune after a botched launch of his latest electric vehicle.

Shares in the firm slid following the bungled unveiling of the pickup truck, which had its supposedly unbreakable window glass shatter twice during a demonstration.

In response Tesla stocks fell by more than 6%, cutting Mr Musk's net worth by $768m (£598m) in a single day, to $23.6bn (£18.4bn), according to Forbes magazine.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/new...ybertruck-launch-fiasco/ar-BBXdXay?li=AAggbRN

Oooopsi

Merry chris smash

 

[petros]

One of he beauties of the EV is that it will actually charge at night and then run your house during the day.
During what would be brown or blackouts in the summer when all the little city dwellers need their AC cranked up in order to survive the EV sector will provide power back into the grid to prevent over load

Again only Nissan and only in Japan.

You contradicted yourself again too. Why would there be brownouts on a the grid you claim is capable?

You really really need to lay off that eco-disaster indoor pot.

 

[petros]

Oil industry schills believe that it will all go away if they had mouth people like Musk. It's sort of pathetic, really.

Today, less than 2 percent of the vehicles Americans buy are electric. But within the next three decades, some automotive industry experts expect electric vehicles could make up the majority of U.S. and global car sales.
30 years to reach 51% of sales eh?

 

[pgs]

Today, less than 2 percent of the vehicles Americans buy are electric. But within the next three decades, some automotive industry experts expect electric vehicles could make up the majority of U.S. and global car sales.
30 years to reach 51% of sales eh?

Yes and what with technological advancement and all that , a new unheard of propulsion system may be driving our economy .

 

[Hoid]

the trouble for manufacturers is that they don't know exactly how long they can keep selling ice engines.

 

[petros]

Yes and what with technological advancement and all that , a new unheard of propulsion system may be driving our economy .

Electric jets run off heavily taxed graphene(carbon) batteries and capacitors made from fossil fuels(coal).

Efficient and large scale synthesis of graphene from coal and its film electrical properties studies.

Wu Y, et al. J Nanosci Nanotechnol. 2013.

Abstract

Coal, which is abundant and has an incompact structure, is a good candidate to replace graphite as the raw material for the production of graphene. Here, a new solution phase technique for the preparation of graphene from coal has been developed. The precursor: graphene oxide got from coal was examined by atomic force microscopy, dynamic light scattering and X-ray diffraction, the results showed the GO was a small and single layer sheet. The graphene was examined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and Raman spectroscopy. Furthermore, graphene films have been prepared using direct solution process and the electrical conductivity and Hall effect have been studied. The results showed the conductivity of the films could reach as high as 2.5 x 10(5) Sm(-1) and exhibited an n-type behavior.

PMID 23646544 []

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/23646544/

Atoadaso!

 

[AnnaEmber]

They would be fighting with the pot farmers for grid access.

lol I predict brownouts in areas.

 

[petros]

lol I predict brownouts in areas.

Like 2015?

 

[petros]

Ontario since the provincial government cancelled a rebate last year.

According to data from Electric Mobility Canada, sales plummeted during the first half of 2019 by more than 55 per cent compared to the same time period in 2018.

Doug Ford’s Conservatives cancelled a financial incentive program implemented by the previous Liberal government that offered up to $14,000 back for buyers of electric vehicles.

Shortly after the program disappeared, sales dropped significantly. Ontario’s numbers had been on par with other provinces up until that point.

National sales of electric vehicles are still at only 3.5 per cent which is a long way from Ottawa’s target of 10 per cent by 2025.

 

[Hoid]

https://torontosun.com/news/local-n...-closure-oshawa-has-plenty-of-gas-in-its-tank

GM ceasing operations in Oshawa.

Ford government is performing as expected

 

[petros]

Nobody wants a GM

 

[Hoid]

I agree

 

[DaSleeper]

Ford!

 

[Danbones]

Electric vehicle sales crash after Ford cuts off government subsidies | Sheila Gunn Reid


According to CBC, the EV program gave Ontario drivers between $5,000 to $14,000 to buy new environmentally-friendly vehicles from a range of auto manufacturers, from Ford to GM to Tesla, although the government has capped the vehicle purchase price at $75,000 after realizing the program meant taxpayers were subsidizing the purchase of some electric supercars like a $1.1 million Porsche....

... a Moody’s analysis found that “automakers are currently losing about $7,000 to $10,000 per vehicle and they will keep losing some amount on them for the next few years.”

The cars are just expensive virtue signaling for the automakers too, who are willing to lose money for their shareholders just to look greener than the next company.

And now the sales figures for electric cars in Ontario, one year after the handouts were canceled:

“In the first six months of this year sales in Ontario were down more than 55% from the same period in 2018, according to data from Electric Mobility Canada. In the second quarter of this year, 2933 electric vehicles were sold in the province, down from 7110 in the same period last year.”

I guess things really are the same all over. No one really likes EV cars.

It's funny what tax dollars get wasted on and with whom as well...

 

[Cliffy]

Early electric car...

 

[Twin_Moose]

Nobody wants a GM

I wonder if Suma tried to offer a wage reduction before the announced cancellation?

Early electric car...

And what happened to them? Why weren't they competitive then? And now?

 

[Twin_Moose]

https://torontosun.com/news/local-n...-closure-oshawa-has-plenty-of-gas-in-its-tank
GM ceasing operations in Oshawa.
Ford government is performing as expected

Cost of production is too high in Ont.

 

[Hoid]

Since when?