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The state of Minnesota can't even get license plates and tab renewals done correctly because of their botched computer upgrade that has been in the works for 10 years. Titles are taking months to receive in some cases and they are often incorrect. No thanks. We do not have an annual...

Date of Death: 2/21/19. RIP Volt Chevy Volt Production Has Officially Come To An End What a shame as the Volt really served as a gateway EV and did more than many would acknowledge to advance the mission of EV's. I owned two of them and they were the best cars that I have owned. Luckily...

They have historically not been too keen on disclosing data as other mainstream manufactures, hence the monthly insideeves guessing game. I would be happy if they would start there first. Problem is that it works when the data and metrics are positive, not so much when it is not.

Not sure how many people there are out there that have been out of work all year who are ready to jump in and buy a close to $50,000 car just to "save" $7500 unless they were out of work by choice. I may be wrong though, but good thought.

I know several people who have Bolt's and this is a non-issue for them. I think some dealers have been able to adjust a bolt that was protruding more than it should have been. Unless people are buying the Bolt site unseen (doubtful) they have the opportunity to evaluate the seats for...

There are many existing laws that the U.S. government should enforce.

Just remember there are some "slackers" out there who did not have the luxury of a retail store at their local shopping mall. For thousands who ordered online site unseen on day 1 had no choice as they could not drive hundreds of miles.

Stunning! Speechless at how beautiful that was. Amazing when you think what this means for humanity.....Seeing Starman on his way to Mar's was pretty surreal.

Another factor is low/uneven inventory. There is no inventory here in the Twin Cities as we are waiting for the 2018's to trickle in. The Volt is even harder to find. The dealer I bought my Volt from which used to be one of the cities highest volume dealers have no Volts or Bolts. But I...

Agreed. And it is only getting worse. The bright side is that at least in the Pacific Northwest they are using hydro, some of which if I understand correctly was going largely untapped.

Absolutely disgusting. I traded in my 2013 Passat for the Volt and have sworn off VW for ever because of their deception. This includes Audi, which had always been my dream brand.

Nice try. It was a genuine question. How is it trolling? We are not talking about a toy here...did you see the video? I think it is terrible optics. I am not the only one. You are free to disagree but please do not accuse me of trolling just because you have a different opinion. I didn't...

I am curious about what others think of Elon selling "flame throwers" from the Boring Company. My first thought after the safety factor was that it literally is not very green. Emitting GHG solely for fun? This seems rather tone deaf or short sighted. Thoughts?

"As we continue to focus on quality and efficiency rather than simply pushing for the highest possible volume in the shortest period of time"

If they were truly loosing $10,000 per car sold, then you would see this only being sold in the CARB states and it would be by definition a compliance car. Clearly it is not. They can't keep them in stock here in the Twin Cities and many dealers do not have any in stock. They sell as soon as...

I did use the ERDTT hack for my 2014. I will probably not with the 2018.

I prefer the styling of the Volt over the Bolt and the Bolt's are still pretty hard to come by here in MN.

Just cancelled the last of my 2 day 1 pre-reveal reservations. I estimated that I was probably around 100,000. One was for me and one was for a friend. The friend went with a Bolt a couple of months ago and I just went with a 2018 Volt. My driving with the Gen 1 Volt was 94% electric anyway...

This thread has been quiet lately. I cancelled my day 1 pre-reveal M3 reservation and am picking up a 2018 Volt tomorrow to replace my 2014 Gen 1 Volt. Despite some of the skeptics here and the BEV/PHEV/EV dogma I think the Volt is massively underrated as its AER is in line with some of the...

General Motors Co. on Tuesday posted a net loss of nearly $3 billion in the third quarter compared a net profit of $2.8 billion a year ago, with the bottom line pulled down by hefty costs from the sale of its European business and steep cutbacks in U.S. vehicle production. Operating profit...

If it does survive, I still think it is going to have to be modified so that those manufacturers that have not made any effort to make EV's don't have a situation where Tesla and GM and even Nissan are out of credits, but Dodge has 200,000 still. I think when it sunsets for one manufacturer, it...

Looks like it survived the Senate bill. At some point Congress is going to have to address and reform it if it does survive. Makes no sense that when Tesla and GM sunset that these Johnny-Come-Latelys would benefit by virtue of slow walking their rollout. I think it should sunset at the same...

good Lord, fix the audio already....

Inventories may be increasing, but if I wanted to take delivery of one today, I would have to drive around 250 miles to get it. Inventory and availability for most of the U.S. land mass is still very much an issue.

No one said anything about needing it "tomorrow." The fact of the matter is they need to get a handle on this. My friend who was a day 1 order decided to go with the Bolt. It took 2 months and several phone calls to get the refund. This is not acceptable in any way, no matter how much you...

Oct-Dec 2018 for AWD I ordered on-line about 10 mins before reveal. located in Minnesota, non-owner

The OP was lamenting (IMO) about the lack of coverage by what I perceived to be the "mainstream" auto media, not investing forums/websites. Not sure Motor Trend, Car and Driver, etc care about share price. Two different purposes: the first is to inform and even entertain, the other to hype a...

what details has Tesla released about the M3 for them to write about? Do we know battery sizes and optiopns? EPA and mpge? official range? options? colors available? We don't even have a released picture of the interior or any official pictures aside from what Elon tweeted. I think before we...

just heard back from my friend. His day 1 reservation refund arrived last week by check. In all it took about 70 days to receive it. Had the reservation been transferrable I probably would have just paid him myself and kept it.

Tesla certainly is the most unique and technologically advanced vehicle in production and I think that it is quite a challenge for insurance companies to underwrite as premiums are all over the place even among the large national companies. This is something that can really cause Tesla some...

Here is another DP specific to the MS: IIHS: Tesla Model S Has More Insurance Claims, More Costly To Fix Than Other Large Luxury Cars “When it comes to insurance losses, the Tesla Model S is an outlier. The luxury sedan has higher claim frequencies and is costlier to fix than gasoline-powered...

My friend has been waiting almost 2 months already, This is what he received: Subject: Model 3 Refund Hi XXX, I have double checked your account and everything is underway to have the funds returned to your account. We receive many of these requests a day and are working as quickly as...

If I recall with Model X refunds, once a year had passed from the original deposit charge, they were refunding via check.

Which is exactly why I stated that it was my opinion. There are many factors. Remember when the X was first launched? There were several stories of people driving into their garages with the doors open as well as a report about a FWD getting wrecked in a weirdly angled parking garage. These...

I don't see how this is misleading. AAA raises Tesla insurance rates 30 percent; company disputes analysis "AAA combed through its own data and found Model S and Model X owners had abnormally high claim rates. The claim rates were also much costlier than competing vehicles in the Model S and...

The New York state $2,000 EV credit starts on April 1 so I doubt many Bolt's will be rolling off the lots this month.

From the reporting that I have seen the pipeline is essentially built and could go online in the next couple of weeks. So what impact could this possibly have?

curious, was it returned back to your credit card or as a check?

As you said, made no sense to offer both but the Spark EV was available to more consumers because of the lower price (minus the fact it was only a CARB state car). The era of <200 mile EV's are coming to an end which will help make the whole sector more mainstream.

I am more concerned about the lack of delivery/service centers in the midwest. We have one in Minnesota that services MN as well as parts of ND/SD and IA. I wonder how far people are willing to drive to pick up their cars? We need to see some more built. They have done a great job building...

Because you add the value of SCTY to Tesla as they added more shares outstanding which of course makes it a larger market cap because two companies became one. Just like when they report total revenue for TSLA going forward it will include legacy TSLA as well as SCTY revenue. It is not like...

But Electrek IMO is at least far less political. I have quit reading Cleantechica over their hysteria since the election.

I think my point was missed. This board continues to be an echo chamber only for those who want to see the positive aspect in everything this company does as if they can do no wrong and that all of their misses are the fault of outside forces. I got 7 dislikes (the most for any post that I...

Could not disagree more. As the CEO of a publicly traded company he darn well better care about profits for his shareholders and an increasing SP. Certainly his BOD better. You can make the argument that he has longer term goals than many of the analysts do. Clearly though, the end of...

This has been discussed at length before. I used the example of the Cadillac ELR which ended production almost a year ago, yet each month continues to notch up incremental sales months after production ceased. This would indicate a sale is recorded when the dealer unloads it off their...

I would hope that would not be inventory cars as that would not be a good sign but there have been posts indicating healthy inventory availability. It just does not jibe with the whole "we build to order" model. Would we have seen people walk away from AP 1.0 cars this q only to order again a...

so what does a delivery miss bode for the quarter EPS?

Well they pulled many demand triggers so I hope it was "particularly strong." AP2.0, end of free Super Charging, cost increase in the U.K. etc. They are going to run out of magic demand bullets except for price decreases in the near future IMO.

WTH? $2000 to transport 400 miles?

Agreed. Enjoy the range increase now while waiting for the 3.