The Electric Obamaphone
American Spectator,
by
Eric Peters
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
7/21/2019 5:06:05 AM
Elon just admitted something that is getting very little coverage — and no explanation.
He announced that Tesla will no longer be selling the “affordable” $35,000 Model 3 he promised would be Tesla’s first mass-market electric car. Like so many of Elon’s promises, that one’s out the window, too.
The price of the least expensive Tesla just rose to $39,000.
Well, technically $38,990 — to make it go down easier.
That’s still a $4k decrease in “affordability” — and a reality check.
Elon is admitting that electric cars aren’t mass-market cars.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
KatieJo 7/21/2019 6:20:27 AM (No. 129544)
FTA--"But perhaps that has never been the object of this exercise. Perhaps it has been to make all cars specialty cars. In order to reduce the number of cars. In order to limit their possession to special people."
Bingo! Remember the cash for clunkers program? The dealers were required to destroy the used cars that were traded in, I was horrified. Used cars are a great way to get transportation for a small amount of money, but if vehicles become unaffordable, very few people will have them. This is what liberals want, people stuck in cities and relying on mass transit. It will be so much easier to bus or use trains to send them off to the FEMA camps should the "need" arise. The goal of everything they do is sinister. I do not believe that they even have good, but misguided intentions. They want us helpless, no cars, no guns, and at the mercy of big government for medical needs,.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Donna M 7/21/2019 6:39:05 AM (No. 129551)
Warning: Am Spec now paywalled after a few articles a month. That being said, Peters is a vinegary delight to read and his car reviews plus libertarian asides are available at his eponymous website. He has written a lot about Tesla and electric cars being a scam perpetrated on us and a fatal one (for drivers, their passengers, an if you are nearby) at that.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Donna M 7/21/2019 6:46:25 AM (No. 129559)
#1 is quite right. Self driving cars are another manifestation of that control. The car will simply not take you where you want to go. And all that computerization on your new car is tattletale on your average speed, if you exceed speed limits, driving habits, what's on your phone and more. Insurance companies love this stuff and are finding ways to get it so they can adjust your rate and more.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
franq 7/21/2019 6:48:44 AM (No. 129561)
I told my daughter yesterday: hang on to that '04 Camry as long as you can. New cars are nearly impossible to fix. Trying to help a friend with a heater selector on an '07 Nitro. Not looking good. Find articles intimating it needs "reprogrammed". Even if not, it's a difficult repair.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
hershey 7/21/2019 7:07:42 AM (No. 129575)
My grandfather bless his soul, told me years ago, and my father echoed it, 'a man is only as good as his word'....so, given so many lies, Musk isn't worth crap.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Pluperfect 7/21/2019 7:29:02 AM (No. 129595)
#2, if you have access trouble, use this:
https://outline.com/an8n4b
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Snarkarama. You don't need to be a green weenie to buy a Tesla. It's the safest, fastest, smartest and least costly car to maintain. Almost 100,000 were sold last quarter. When those buyers friends and family ride in their new car many of them will also want a Tesla.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 7/21/2019 8:31:45 AM (No. 129645)
FTA: The car industry is in a jam. It has bear-hugged the electric car tar baby with both arms Now who is in the Laughing Place?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jacksin5 7/21/2019 9:04:32 AM (No. 129681)
I've never understood why anyone would want an electric car. If you live in a city, there is nowhere to park and you rely on public transportation. If you live in the suburbs, the daily traffic congestion would leave you high and dry. If you live in a rural setting, the distance to "civilization" would rule out electric.
I now live in a development in Florida. If they put in a Golf Cart Lane, my car would sit idle except for trips to Lowe's, or on vacation.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Nevadadad46 7/21/2019 9:14:50 AM (No. 129694)
I once did a study for a group of tree-huggers (survivalists?)- The study was about the future of public automotive independent transportation. Everyone owns a car. The government has to build roads for all those cars. The car building industry thrives on selling lots and lots of new cars. The average replacement time for a any new car on the road is only four years. The life average useful life expectancy of any new car is only 9 years. All cars are replaced every twenty-three years (In the US 270 million cars are owner registered) 5.3 million new cars are sold every year in the US (that number grows every year). Streets to drive those cars are increased every year. This is estimated to be about 16,000 square miles of paved road and parking surface- and that number grows dramatically every year. That not only has to be maintained, but replaced about every 18 years on average. And it expands by about 2.3 percent every year. The bottom line is- Individually owned cars are simply not sustainable in the long run. Some form of shared ride or shared ownership or a greatly increased and improved public transportation system must be developed to replace private transport motor car transportation. It is inevitable. I firmly believe that if I know this, the government and elites know this. Therefore, I suspect the government is in cahoots with the elites to fundamentally change private vehicle ownership for the masses making it all but impossible. You will of course, be permitted to own land yachts if you can afford them. But, ultimately, most people will use some form of public transportation. The car as we know it is not part of the near future of this nation.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/21/2019 9:53:47 AM (No. 129746)
Most people want a car that can take them across their state's lines and into the next state. That idea might work in Rhode Island but until an entire recharging or battery-swapping infrastructure is built, the electric car just won't make it in America. Only with a government mandate will electric motors replace gasoline engines. Every city has a few electric cars owned by those who have the urge to be different but I would bet that privately they rue their decision. Big Brother hates independence.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
red1066 7/21/2019 10:21:01 AM (No. 129779)
The Tesla model 3 is an ugly car. So it's demise isn't all that bad.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
StormCnter 7/21/2019 11:02:48 AM (No. 129828)
No one can drive 800 miles across Texas in a Tesla, no matter how pretty the car is.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
walcb 7/21/2019 11:07:19 AM (No. 129835)
Not to worry, the car manufacturers will just jack up the prices of conventional vehicles to subsidize their loss on electric cars to stay in compliance. Illinois, the tax capital of the world suddenly realized that electric cars weren't paying any gas tax and raised the license sticker cost to ~$1000 per year for electric cars.
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A pinch of Agenda 21 with a whole lot of shaft the middle class for the sake of the agenda.
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