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"Rachael Nealer is a Kendall Science Fellow in the UCS Clean Vehicles Program"
Surprise!
A Fellow from a Clean Vehicles Program has nice things to say about clean vehicles!
I am shocked, shocked that gambling is happening here.
Water is still wet.
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Largest discussion sub-reddit forum (or whatever it's called). The link worked for me.
Reddit is divided into sub-forums. Tesla's now has more subscribers than any other automaker's. Link still works for me as well.
@myusername what to you do for a living? Other than time for sleeping in the Mountain Time Zone you post 24/7 hardly taking a breath.
The fellow is from the 'Clean Vehicles Program' man, not 'Electric Vehicles Program'... You're subconsciously connecting 'Electric' with 'Clean', which btw happens to be correct
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Someone had suggested that the German's objections to the term 'Autopilot' justed needed some time. Its capabilities are rapidly growing into autonomous.
Yakety Sax was a tune played and jointly composed by saxophonist Boots Randolph. It was a hit record in 1963, and later adopted by Benny Hill as his show's theme song.
Meanwhile, I've determined that the car's route begins in Los Altos, winds through Los Altos Hills and ends at Tesla headquarters in Palo Alto.
Article in The Economist: Polluting the outlook
Though Mr Trump can unwind many domestic environmental regulations, analysts say he may find his hands tied by market forces, by the limits to federal power and by the fact that energy investments can take decades to pay, making it unwise for owners of power plants, oil-and-gas fields, and pipelines in America to dismiss the clean-energy revolution. First, his desire to open up what he says may be $50 trillion-worth of oil and gas reserves under federal lands will depend on oil prices. Even with lower regulatory costs, oil prices still need to rise well above $50 a barrel to make most drilling in America economic. Now, there is too much oil, not too little.
Low oil prices may also make the Keystone pipeline a non-starter for commercial reasons, because crude from Canada’s tar sands is fiendishly expensive to extract. Moreover, were Mr Trump to succeed in stimulating shale-gas production, his task of rescuing the coal industry would become harder. Utilities may find it cheaper to burn gas rather than coal.
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Third, Mr Trump is unlikely to seek to repeal tax credits for wind and solar energy, which were extended last year by Congress until 2020 and 2021, respectively. As it is, costs of renewable energy are plummeting, making them increasingly able to compete against gas and coal without subsidies in a few states. As a businessman, Mr Trump would surely see it as foolish to squander a part of America’s energy bounty, however clean, that may soon be able to cover its costs. As a politician, he might also note that renewable energy now employs more people than oil and gas.
Though Mr Trump can unwind many domestic environmental regulations, analysts say he may find his hands tied by market forces, by the limits to federal power and by the fact that energy investments can take decades to pay, making it unwise for owners of power plants, oil-and-gas fields, and pipelines in America to dismiss the clean-energy revolution. First, his desire to open up what he says may be $50 trillion-worth of oil and gas reserves under federal lands will depend on oil prices. Even with lower regulatory costs, oil prices still need to rise well above $50 a barrel to make most drilling in America economic. Now, there is too much oil, not too little.
Low oil prices may also make the Keystone pipeline a non-starter for commercial reasons, because crude from Canada’s tar sands is fiendishly expensive to extract. Moreover, were Mr Trump to succeed in stimulating shale-gas production, his task of rescuing the coal industry would become harder. Utilities may find it cheaper to burn gas rather than coal.
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Third, Mr Trump is unlikely to seek to repeal tax credits for wind and solar energy, which were extended last year by Congress until 2020 and 2021, respectively. As it is, costs of renewable energy are plummeting, making them increasingly able to compete against gas and coal without subsidies in a few states. As a businessman, Mr Trump would surely see it as foolish to squander a part of America’s energy bounty, however clean, that may soon be able to cover its costs. As a politician, he might also note that renewable energy now employs more people than oil and gas.
Vgrinshpun,
I was just pondering your post about the massive jump in TSLA short interest last week:
Trying to gain some perspective, that's the equivalent of over 2 million additional shares of TSLA sold this past week in the most damaging way possible (most likely). No wonder the week was no walk in the park! Maybe the TSLA shorts are up to 31 million or 32 million shares before the SCTY shorts are added (we'll find out Nov 15 numbers on Friday after market close). TSLA is going to be really heavy on the shorts after the SCTY conversions, and that has to be a very uncomfortable situation because many of the SCTY shorts don't really want to be shorting TSLA I mean 5 million SCTY shares were shorted last week by people placing a bet that the merger wouldn't go through. If the SCTY shorts run for the exits, it could freak out some of the TSLA shorts. Will be interesting to see.
I was just pondering your post about the massive jump in TSLA short interest last week:
Trying to gain some perspective, that's the equivalent of over 2 million additional shares of TSLA sold this past week in the most damaging way possible (most likely). No wonder the week was no walk in the park! Maybe the TSLA shorts are up to 31 million or 32 million shares before the SCTY shorts are added (we'll find out Nov 15 numbers on Friday after market close). TSLA is going to be really heavy on the shorts after the SCTY conversions, and that has to be a very uncomfortable situation because many of the SCTY shorts don't really want to be shorting TSLA I mean 5 million SCTY shares were shorted last week by people placing a bet that the merger wouldn't go through. If the SCTY shorts run for the exits, it could freak out some of the TSLA shorts. Will be interesting to see.
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Exactly my thoughts and the reason for question to Dusaniwsky and my post. Glad that somebody is pondering the same thing as me...
I have no idea how it will turn out, but it will be interesting to watch nevertheless.
A little knowledge of the background can't hurt in deciphering the action tomorrow. Scratch this - today.
Think about it this way - if you replace an ICE vehicle with a BEV, and then take the gasoline that ICE vehicle would have used, burn it in a power plant and use the power to charge the BEV, the BEV will use less gasoline per mile.
The good thing about BEVs is that they can be powered by pretty much anything. Here in Norway, BEVs are powered by ~98% hydro. In Germany it would be 50% renewables and nuclear, 25% coal and 25% NG (roughly). In all places that use under ~80% coal, BEVs will be better for the environment.
And this is something that will improve. Globally, renewables are the fastest growing electricity generation by a huge margin. Solar Is the Fastest-Growing Energy, Says Top Fossil Fuel Major
An important thing to note here is thus that BEVs will become cleaner and cleaner, as the grid electricity becomes cleaner and cleaner. While on the other hand, ICE vehicles will become dirtier and dirtier, as the low-impact sources of oil are used up, and we need to use increasingly dirty unconventional sources of oil. (Tar oil, shale oil/fracking, etc.)
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Hmm.. does this invisible (to me) user live in Montana by any chance?
Soooo VW decided to follow Tesla.
VW CEO: building a battery factory to support electric car production ‘makes sense’ now
Positive or negative effect? I could see it as confirmation from a big industry leader that Tesla is ahead of the curve.
VW CEO: building a battery factory to support electric car production ‘makes sense’ now
Positive or negative effect? I could see it as confirmation from a big industry leader that Tesla is ahead of the curve.
Well, he's certainly skeptical...
428,898 shares available for shorting at Fidelity, with estimated annual interest rate jumping from long standing 1% to 2.5%. Could be an indication of tightening supply...
By Tesla's definition of Autopilot it no longer makes sense to call it Autopilot once it is fully autonomous.
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