[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', '
')

[theluckycountry]

Any positive news on the EV front adam, or just more of your pathetic personal attacks? It's all your have left isn't it, no positive news for you ev fanboi, nothing left but the specter of ever lower resale values ever shorter ranges and ever fewer functional chargers

What a debacle. But don't worry, go out and buy Bitcoin now, your messiah has assured you it is going to the moon! Not doge, he doesn't talk about doge anymore.

Tesla moves $765 million in Bitcoin to unknown wallets, putting Musk’s crypto plans in the spotlight

Tesla holds over 11,500 BTC, worth just over $775 million. When it moved the entirety of its holdings recently, investors got worried Tesla might be getting ready to make a sale. Up until then, it hadn't touched the funds for two years.

Tesla Billionaire Elon Musk Declares ‘Financial Emergency’ As $35.7 Trillion ‘Debt Bomb’ Primes A Bitcoin Price Boom To Rival Gold

Pump & Dump

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'A')ny positive news on the EV front adam, or just more of your pathetic personal attacks?

[theluckycountry]

Amidst broken stations, EV drivers ask, 'Why is it so hard to maintain an electrical plug?'

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'O')n paper, Canada officially boasts more than 32,000 public charging ports for electric vehicles, but on the web, EV drivers say the true number is far smaller because so many stations are out of service. “This has to be the worst station around. It’s constantly broken,” the driver of a 2023 Chevrolet Bolt EUV who goes by “Adam” said on Oct. 24 on a website called Plug Share about the Trenton, Ont., ONroute charging station just off Highway 401.

[theluckycountry]

Rivian Stock Falls. Production Is a Problem.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'U')pdated Oct 04, 2024,
Rivian on Friday reported third-quarter production of 13,157 units, down 19% year over year. Customer deliveries were 10,018 vehicles, down 36% year over year...
Falling production is a surprise and a disappointment, considering the company’s prior guidance for full-year production was at 57,232 vehicles. (It made about 50,000 vehicles in 2023).

Parts shortages are to blame.

[theluckycountry]

Well not all stocks were happy to see a trump win, Rivian fell off a cliff yesterday to single digits. I'd say it's time for a reverse stock split, and for you that don't know what that implies it's a manipulation of the stock price where they take back two or four or more shares and issue one new one at the same value as the number taken. All very simple in the digital age and it resets the stock price back above the single digits.

Lots of companies going out the back door employ this strategy to keep themselves listed on the NASDUCK for a bit longer so we might see Rivian (let's call it rivian with a small r now it's single digits) we might see it back up at $20 or higher depending on the split.

Oh and the price fall? Even harder to get parts perhaps No it's simply that the "Blob" has turned against EV and the subsidies are going to be withdrawn just as they have been all over the rest, of the West. So why is Elon Muck a total trump supporter? Because he doesn't care about Tesla anymore of course. He's pulled a ton of his money O.U.T. and moved on the greener scams. Musk is a Brand, just a Brand. Once you see that all the rest becomes obvious.




Everyone thinks Muck invented everything, but he invented Shit!

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')n 2000 Elon Musk was fired as CEO of X.com after it merged with software company Confinity, which featured PayPal as a service. In 2001, the company was rebranded to PayPal... Musk, they said, had once been the CEO of PayPal and got fired: While this claim is mostly true, it's also oversimplified. In 1999, Musk was the founder of a financial services firm called X.com. The firm was trying out a number of new technological concepts, including using email addresses to carry out financial transactions. X.com's big competitor was a startup co-founded by Peter Thiel and Max Levchin called Confinity, which was developing a similar concept known as PayPal.

In March 2000, the two companies merged, but kept the X.com name. According to the book "Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future" by Ashlee Vance, the two merged teams could never see eye to eye: "Musk kept championing X.com, while most everyone else favored PayPal," Vance wrote.

[theluckycountry]

Tesla sales in Australia are poised to fall by more than 20 per cent by the end of 2024, following its eighth month of sales decline this year. https://www.drive.com.au/news/tesla-aus ... -oct-2024/

Ok... They are still lapping them up like mad in the US though, subsidies being a big part of it. But!

Tesla's reputation in Australia is tanking, with sales down and some buyers turned off by Elon Musk
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '.')..He likes Teslas, Australia's most popular EV brand, but he's adamant he'll never buy one. The reason is simple: Elon Musk. The very rich, extremely online CEO of Tesla has alienated Mr Bell with, among other things, his "inane" public comments and endorsement of Donald Trump's run for the US presidency.

And, according to new data, many other Australians feel the same. YouGov, a market research company, has observed a sharp fall in the public's assessment of the Tesla brand since Mr Musk bought Twitter (now X) in November 2022.

[theluckycountry]

Well all the EV fanboi have gone quiet of late, can't blame them of course, head in the sand, not wanting to admit to reality. Of course by now sales should be booming planet wide as we continue to make the great transition lol.

I'll keep us up to date, but remember, this is an oil tanker at sea with the engines recently cutoff, it will take years to slow to a full stop.

Low-Energy Fridays: Why is it so hard for the government to build EV charging stations?

Oct 25, 2024
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')s Mike Tyson famously said, everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face. He wasn’t talking about electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, of course, but the quote might as well apply to challenges the Biden administration has faced in expanding the nation’s network of EV charging infrastructure.

The administration started with big plans. In 2021, the federal government created the $5 billion National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program (NEVI) to help build fast charging stations for EVs at regular intervals along the nation’s highway system. The initiative aimed to address a major reason why some people are hesitant to buy EVs. A fully charged EV can travel between 110 and 300 miles before its battery is depleted. That’s fine for travel within a metro area, especially if the driver has a charger at home that can top off their battery at night. But for longer trips where a driver needs to stop and recharge, the lack of charging stations can be problematic.

Despite ample funding, little progress has been made in actually building the charging stations. After three years, only 19 charging stations have been built under NEVI nationwide. The slow pace of construction has drawn bipartisan criticism.

To make matters worse, many public charging stations often don’t work. In 2022, researchers took a comprehensive look at fast charging stations in the San Francisco Bay area and found that nearly a quarter of them were non-functional due to broken charges, computer problems, or other issues. This finding is backed up by a survey of EV drivers conducted by J.D. Power, which found that one out of five charging station visitors failed to charge their vehicle.

[theluckycountry]

"down the memory hole"

: the condition or state of being suppressed, erased, or forgotten (as for political or personal convenience) -imagined as a physical place-. Example: "The answer lies in bipartisan consensus of Republicans and Democrats to let the savings and loan debacle vanish down the memory hole."

The EV's retarded cousin, Rebuildable Energy, is another failed transition that is already well down the Memory Hole. Like the EV, all the early promises/propaganda/marketing is being discarded for reality. In the case of the EV it was lies about their performance, about not needing fossil fuels to run, about battery longevity, future access to cheap charging. Not only did these prove false but the early adopters found themselves slugged with higher insurance costs, massive depreciation, and exorbitant service costs after warranty. It all came down to trust and the people who bought these cars trusted the tech heads selling them and trusted the government to have their back.

Propaganda Flip: Renewables Cult Claim They Never Said Wind & Solar Would Be Cheap

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he wind and solar industries are struggling to win the hearts and minds of householders and businesses being belted by skyrocketing power prices. Built on lies and run on subsidies, it comes as no surprise that the truth about heavily subsidised and chaotically intermittent wind and solar would eventually work its way to the surface.

In Orwell’s 1984, whenever Winston Smith and his brethren at the Ministry of Truth happened upon a piece of reportage that included an inconvenient (past) fact for Big Brother and The Party, it was surgically removed from the book or article and sent for incineration down the ‘memory hole’. And, so it is with the wind and sun cult, as they try to rewrite history by claiming that they never, ever said that wind and solar power would be cheap.

Not so very long ago, the media hacks and shills were uniform in their exhortations about how cheap wind and solar were and how (in the not-too-distant future) power consumers would have power at prices magnitudes below what they were being forced to pay for the stuff generated by coal and gas. Taking every glib opportunity to remind us that the ‘wind and sun are free’.

Now that we’re well on our way to an all wind and sun-powered future, it’s become impossible for propagandists to bury the fact that retail power prices didn’t fall, as promised. To the contrary, they’ve risen at double-digit rates every year, for more than a decade.

[yellowcanoe]

Here in Canada environmental groups are still making the claim that renewable energy is cheaper than coal, natural gas or nuclear generated power. It's true -- if you only want to use energy when the wind is blowing or the sun is shining! Not so cheap if you need to retain coal, natural gas or battery backup to handle periods when renewables are awol!

[theluckycountry]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('yellowcanoe', 'H')ere in Canada environmental groups are still making the claim that renewable energy is cheaper than coal, natural gas or nuclear generated power.

[theluckycountry]

Another not so obvious downside to owning an EV.

Seattle EV Drivers Panic For Charging Stations After Bomb Cyclone
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')This once-in-a-decade storm caused widespread power outages across the Seattle metropolitan area, leaving electric vehicle owners in a panic.

At the peak of widespread outages, more than 600,000 customers across Washington State lost power due to the powerful storm; most outages were in King County and Snohomish County. "We've seen some chargers that are almost never used that are fully being used," FlexCharging CEO Brian Grunkemeyer told the tech media outlet. The startup provides charging software services for EV charging operators, including Electrify America.

Grunkemeyer provided a screenshot showing that Electrify America stations on Wednesday were all full, and long lines continued into Thursday.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', '
')"The Martian" was a great movie, but pure science fiction.

[theluckycountry]

Ahhh, speaking of dimwitted. Did you waste money on a big mobile phone battery Adam? Oh that's right, you lot don't use money, you use debt, piling it up for your retirement years when they come and take your house off you

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')n 1932 alone, 273,000 Americans lost their homes. In 1933, a thousand mortgages a day were being foreclosed, forcing families to find other shelter, and about half of the nation's home mortgages were in default.

[theluckycountry]

My Post-EV-Owner Recovery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpHWjVLBypI

Sort of says it all

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'A')hhh, speaking of dimwitted.

[theluckycountry]

You're getting a Nissan Leaf woman, and you're gonna be happy

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'Y')ou're getting a Nissan Leaf woman, and you're gonna be happy

[theluckycountry]

The Poster Child Of Europe's Electric Car Future Just Filed For Bankruptcy After Burning Through Billions

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')t was supposed to be the poster child of Europe's electric car future. Instead, it filed for bankruptcy this week, a poetic end to a company which has become synonymous with Europe's "green" debacle. For Swedish startup Northvolt AB, the route to collapse started in June when BMW AG canceled a multi-billion order. Back then, few saw the significance of the move, which effectively started a countdown that would culminate in a Chapter 11 filing less than six months later.

As Bloomberg details, Northvolt scrambled to keep the financing flowing, but as Germany’s car industry fell deeper into a historic crisis, precipitated by a flood of cheap Chinese EV imports in the past three years... The company needs as much as $1.2 billion to finance its new business plan, Carlsson said, telling reporters that “we’ll regret it in 20 years if we’re not driving transition” to clean technologies. Translation: I already spent all the money, but if European taxpayers don't pony up to maintain my spending habits, they will regret it.

[theluckycountry]

Landfill fire still burns after 7 months
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-2KWBQHroM

And all over the world these fires are becoming more and more frequent, I have said it before, the cleanup of the EV debacle will take years, decades even.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he Truth About Electric Car Batteries: As reported by Tesla, their electric vehicles require around 7,000 lithium-ion batteries with a life-span of 300,000 to 500,000 miles. At the end of their usage, each Tesla vehicle produces over 5,000 pounds of lithium battery waste. Where does all of that waste go? ...The improper disposal of lithium-ion batteries is frighteningly common, as 98.3% of them end up in landfills. The environmental impact of this widespread waste mismanagement can be seen immediately and is a cause of concern.