Thursday, August 09, 2018
Is the whole thing a total fraud?
In between bursts of work on courseware (good old hurry up and wait) I'm enjoying the weird spectacle of the Elon Cult. Elon gets crazier and crazier, doing everything possible to ruin his company plus MANY things that nobody ever considered possible. Innovative Disruptive Ruination. All of his ruinous actions raise share "value".
Loony beyond loony beyond loony.
Under all of this hyperbonkersness, there's one basic question that the rational commentators aren't asking. Is Tesla actually PRODUCING ANYTHING AT ALL?
Supposedly Tesla has produced a total of 360K cars in 5 years, most of them within the last year or two.
360K cars should be visible. That's about one for each thousand Americans, so in a city the size of Spokane you'd expect about 300 of them. All are nearly new, so you'd expect them to be driven regularly.
I've never seen one of the recent models. About 8 years ago I saw one of the original roadsters in a 'collector car cruise' situation. Since then nothing. This year I've seen a '41 Studebaker and a '53 Canadian Cheviac but no Teslas. Both of those brands ceased manufacture 52 years ago, and the Cheviacs were never sold on this side of the border. Yet they're more common in my experience than Teslas.
Do Teslas exist? If so, they're certainly not on the road. Maybe the cultish buyers were deluded into thinking that a plug-in electric would be a usable car, and then got hit by plain old reality? Maybe all the Teslas are sitting in garages waiting for the Gaian Rapture? Meanwhile, the '41 Studie and the '53 Cheviac are daily drivers.
Labels: Asked and unanswered, Carbon Cult
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