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LIVE BLOG: Tesla Q1 2024 earnings call

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Tesla will aim to optimize its buying process for it would be possible to “buying a car in under a minute.” Musk also mentioned that Tesla may buy back shares down the line. He also noted noted that Tesla had a long period of prosperity from 2019. Musk noted that he thinks Tesla’s Q2 will be better.

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Report: Wholesale Used Car Prices Decline Slightly

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Periods of more intense buying by dealers can drive wholesale price appreciation. If they go up, vehicle affordability could worsen and cut into consumer demand, he said. On that call, Smoke said he is particularly focused on what impact interest rates could have in the fourth quarter and beyond.

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Top Vehicles for Ungrateful Whelps

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Several schools of thought exist about buying a set of wheels for a teenager or new driver. Now, more than ever, finding an appropriate vehicle that’s actually affordable can be challenging – to put it mildly – given a hyperactive used car market and skyrocketing price tags of even the most horrid machines.

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Survey Shows Auto Dealers Still Annoyed With Biden EV Strategy

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.& While the Biden administration has a stated goal of seeing half of all new vehicle sales by electric by 2030, it’s technically prohibited from issuing formal mandates requiring what people can use their money to buy. The industry has likewise had trouble fielding electric vehicles with broad appeal. still used production quotas.

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What Kind of Cars Do Women Actually Want?

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However, saying that this is the vehicle women most desire — let alone are willing to spend money buying — is probably a stretch. It will be the vehicle we look back on down the road and say ‘that is when EVs became truly affordable, user-friendly and desirable for all consumers’.

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What Kind of Cars Do Women Actually Want?

The Truth About Cars

However, saying that this is the vehicle women most desire — let alone are willing to spend money buying — is probably a stretch. It will be the vehicle we look back on down the road and say ‘that is when EVs became truly affordable, user-friendly and desirable for all consumers’.

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Mitsubishi Mirage to Be Discontinued by 2025

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While the Mirage of the 1990s was fairly reliable, affordable, and even made a great little tuner car if you happened to be a Mitsubishi or Diamond-Star Motors fan with a penchant for forced induction, the current generation basically exists so Mitsubishi could adhere to emissions rules that would allow the vehicle to be manufactured in Thailand.