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Exercise through everyday walking likely plays a key role. Rural Americans drive everywhere and their most significant walking typically will take place only within stores while sh…

China is predicted to lead the world in expanding semiconductor production, with a total of 18 new fabs expected to begin production in 2024.

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What gets me is how Apple markets the improvements in the M series processor. They iterate on these on a yearly basis, yet do not upgrade base model RAM for near a decade.RAM is qu…

I assume this will be lower cost through plastic casing, M1, and low RAM/storage. Currently the M1 is sufficient for 90%+ of the population (IMO), it is the RAM/storage that will o…

Google Docs tracker for all ships carrying Tesla vehicles worldwide. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10Uh_GSkShwPPlrE5mOJc...

These types of articles come out each month depending on where car shipments are and are not going. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10Uh_GSkShwPPlrE5mOJc...

Tesla ships cars to different regions in waves. The previous months were primarily going to US customers (partly due to an ongoing pandemic). Notice how deliveries to Europe will s…

Agree on this one. Why Nations Fail is a fabulous book. I recommend reading Guns, Germs, and Steel first if you are going to read both. Highly recommend both.

Interesting comment and one that conflicts with what most automakers are saying in regards to where the industry is going. This thinking is what may cause many automakers to fail. …

This is a critical part of the overall full self driving equation. Any vendor working on this problem will be spending inordinate amounts of resources on this as parking lots are o…

This is a step in their progression toward self driving. No one should expect this to be flawless from the start, similar to Waymo's self driving work. Tesla getting this out now s…

There appears to be an active group working to create these stories in order to create a 'whistleblower hell'. Elon occasionally does not help this, but authorities should look int…

Hybrid was only a stop gap until batteries reached the point they are today. In markets (California and Norway in particular) where there is significant EV growth you are seeing Hy…

This would likely need to coincide with a flat federal sales or value added tax (VAT) to properly tax consumption activities. Example: 12% tax on a Bentley or Toyota, Yacht or toy …

lol...he had a spell with some poor choices no doubt, but calling him a liability is a little much. One hopes he learned from his episodes. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/19/neil-deg…

Tesla has made mistakes...especially Elon's timelines. Those have gotten better of late. That aside, one has to also consider the limited number of stores that Tesla has at this po…

The market for EVs is expanding. As Tesla starts shipping worldwide they will find the sweet spot for the US. Big takeaway here is they are very profitable producing at current rat…

The production and delivery numbers they came out with were very good and higher than most had expected. These numbers will allow them another profitable Q4 likely higher than thei…

SpaceX providing launch services significantly cheaper than their competitors has probably benefited you personally far more than those initial subsidies to SpaceX. In fact, the re…