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Tesla’s Elon Musk talks EV charging infrastructure and billionaire taxes

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Musk also shared some of his more direct thoughts about the US government’s upcoming EV incentives, which heavily favor union-built electric cars such as the Chevy Bolt EV, as well as the idea of billionaires and how they are taxed. . When we started Tesla, there were no EV subsidies at all, and gasoline was super cheap.

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Tesla bulls conflict as Musk Twitter ‘circus’ continues on

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“Stocks are dirt cheap on an absolute basis,” he said. Wedbush’s Dan Ives recently removed Tesla from the firm’s “Best Ideas” list following a downturn in the stock’s short-term outlook. Just because Tesla is down significantly this year, it is not an anomaly.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce. Before cofounding AC Propulsion, Alan Cocconi worked on Sunraycer, a solar-powered car for GM. After earning a Ph.D.

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Analysis: What’s the Best Way to Market EVs?

Clean Fleet Report

This marketing choice by Ford is either a very bad idea (brand dilution) or a genius plan to move the pony car into the modern era. GM is bringing back the Hummer brand as an EV within the GMC brand. GM, shifting focus to pure EVs, built the last Volt on February 19, 2019. Not easy or cheap, but it has worked so far.

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EV ute overload: The electric pickups coming soon

EV Central

Toyota Hilux hybrid Toyota Pickup EV is concept that shows Toyota’s idea of a battery electric ute Toyota has long been hinting at an EV version of the top-selling Hilux for years – with promises of at least 15 battery electric Toyotas due by 2030 – but it appears a hybrid version is more likely, at least initially.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

Cars That Think

Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. GM supposedly lost $561 million on Cruise in just the first three months of this year. And it’s really cheap.

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Proposed Changes to Federal EV Tax Credit – Part 3: MSRP Must Be Less Than $80,000

EV Adoption

As documented in an article in The Drive — “ Tesla’s Cheap 94-Mile Model 3 Has Cost Canadian Taxpayers $115 Million ” — Tesla produced an even lower-priced version of its popular Model 3 to come in under Canada’s iZEV program threshold. We saw an example of how this scenario can play out with the Tesla Model 3 in Canada.