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Sounds like a problem for the next CEO. I got quarterly metrics to meet. When shit hits the fan cause all the talent left I’ll just eject with my golden parachute.
Sounds like a problem for the next CEO. I got quarterly metrics to meet. When shit hits the fan cause all the talent left I’ll just eject with my golden parachute.
And they’ll spend more money fighting the inevitable pivot to EVs than they would if they just pivoted now.
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Morals unfortunately.
Also I think you are required to submit yearly financial reports.
I mean, literal orders of magnitude difference.
A lot of people camp in them too.
How is bloons td6? I loved 4 and 5. Would be fine tossing some dollars at ninja kiwi if 6 is up to par. I’ve also seen it in Netflix and confused about how I feel about that.
I’m under no illusion that it’s actually a permanent situation. It’s just contractually permanent… unless they alter the deal.
How long do you intend to own and drive your Tesla, and what do you anticipate future maintenance and repair bills to look like?
Gods willing, I’ll “Ship of Theseus” this thing in perpetuity. Future costs (excluding the battery for now) will be similar to ICE where applicable. I’ll never have an alternator or transmission failure, but shocks, tires, heat, AC, and other similar items will have pretty similar costs. Touchscreen failures are pretty rare but I’m OK with that should it fail. Software updates are not a recurring cost. I imagine that would go the same route other proprietary software used to run hardware would go. Should they come out with a completely new version, there would be ample time to prep for an “end of life” scenario.
The battery degredation is a major difference. The good news is that outside abnormal failures, as it ages, the battery simply loses capacity. Most of those abnormal failures would have likely presented by now. The ICE comparison would be if your gas tank got smaller. We are a two car family for now so we could potentially push that for a long time. We could manage if the true range was less than 50 miles.
So what if decide we do want to replace the battery? $4k is much lower than estimates I’ve heard so far but I haven’t dug into it recently either. $10k-$20k is more inline with figures I’ve seen. My hope is that battery tech keeps evolving and we could potentially get more range with a replacement than the original battery. That is very much a cost I’m comfortable planning for.
If you plan to “drive it into the ground,”
To extrapolate further, I don’t want to drive it into the ground. I want to keep this vehicle as long as possible and prop it up like some mangled Frankenstein if necessary. The big reason is that I have free supercharging for life. That means, excluding any legal shenanigans to remove that, I essentially have “free gas” for life. I understand this puts me in a vastly different position than most people, especially those looking to buy an EV.
All that said, I’m mainly asking things like “where’d you hear this bad news” somewhat in an effort to keep my ear to the ground. Life happens and there’s tons of ways I’ll be in the market again for an EV. Just want to stay abreast of the situation, but also to combat any false or misleading info. In their current form, EVs aren’t appropriate for everybody. But I’ve run into a lot of people that think that based on false/misleading info. You seem to have a firm enough grasp of the situation though.
Just print the damn thing!
Just curious. Where did you find info indicating they were expensive to repair? I have an older Model S and that hasn’t been my experience. I had items that could have been expensive but were repaired under warranty. I know their warranty has been pared down since then. Wondering if it’s just less items covered under warranty or more repairs being necessary or some combination.
Release the kraken!
Release the crappen!
Generally it is proffered with a severance package that invalidates the unemployment. The package is likely better than what you’d get with unemployment and saves the company money by not increasing their unemployment insurance.
Thank you. Apparently my half joke has rustled some jimmies.
What I like is that a bunch of idiots seemed to take offense to my comment which was meant more as a joke. I do admit I wasn’t aware there were EVs with gears. Though this is mainly because I won’t be in the market for my next EV for hopefully years. When I was looking into it, it was largely seen as unnecessary.
Not sure if you’re aware that EVs don’t “shift” or if that’s an indictment to the level of idiocy that would likely be employed by Apple.
This.
This with rice? 5/7
You mean like work? Can’t I just have some AI do all that stuff? What could go wrong?
There’s also N-1 streamers.