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Post by on Jan 8, 2023 17:44:51 GMT
The real test for Tesla is going to be getting their cars into the hands of normal people. At the moment they are a premium product which sort of defeats the whole object of being green.
I may be wrong but I suspect people who have these vehicles are not low consumers. They may want to portray themselves as low consumers but in reality they are high consumers.
Perhaps a bit of a assumption there on my part but £40k for a car? What ??
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Post by Aloysius on Jan 8, 2023 17:49:21 GMT
I quite like electric bikes but I get 100 miles out of a gallon of petrol on the Honda Express, the road tax is free, it's MOT exempt, it costs me one penny a year to insure (yes, really) so every year it appreciates far more in value than it costs me to run. I've had it four years now, paid about £500 for it and could sell it now for well over a grand. getting the motorbike I’ve got on the road would be a good thing but we’ll see. It's not OTR? Sum ting wong.
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Post by on Jan 8, 2023 18:07:09 GMT
Maybe it is OTB due to SWL issues.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jan 8, 2023 18:27:30 GMT
The real test for Tesla is going to be getting their cars into the hands of normal people. At the moment they are a premium product which sort of defeats the whole object of being green. I may be wrong but I suspect people who have these vehicles are not low consumers. They may want to portray themselves as low consumers but in reality they are high consumers. Perhaps a bit of a assumption there on my part but £40k for a car? What ?? The free market economy, a.k.a Capitalism is wholly predicated on consumption, planned obsolescence and the advertising industry equating a person's worth with the material items they possess. As I've said before, a more environmentally friendly option would be to cease all car production immediately and keep the existing stock in use indefinitely, ensuring service parts are available indefinitely. Just this week I read of a perfectly serviceable Rover 75 that went to the scrapyard because it needed a new (and readily available) clutch slave cylinder. This is insane.
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Post by on Jan 8, 2023 18:35:57 GMT
Yes but try not to forget that people who buy electric cars are saving the planet for your grandchildren. This is what they are actually doing. It is a very important job. Nobody else is going to do it which makes it even more important.
If it means signing sone ridiculous credit agreement and ending up with a pile of shit car it is still OK because the future is in safe hands.
We should really be worshipping these people. I don't but in theory they are incredible.
The fact that the bloke in charge of the electric car company was at one point the "richest man in the world" on a computer screen surely goes to show that it is a very arduous job which needs rewarding.
It's a big planet. Leaving the job of saving it to a few well off and right on liberal types while Rome burns is definitely the right approach here.
I think Tom Lehrer got it right all those yars ago.
"A rousing uplifting song which is guaranteed to cheer you up"
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