I believe human species should continue to exist. Whatever it takes to make that happen is ok with me - including removing subsidies for fossil fuels and giving subsidies to sustainable technologies to compensate for the trillions spent on fossil fuels.
Yes, I believe they will be the state to do that but I remember attending an info meeting held by tesla before 2016 election and was surprised to find out a Virginia legislature they considered favorable to them was a republican so I’m not sure if this switch in Virginia helps tesla or not but it does help virginia
Lombardia is in Green Bay, Wisconsin
Yes, almost no cars left over from Q3. Improved delivery logistics probably played a bigger role. Aided by Netherlands fleet buyers - you can deliver 75 cars to a leasing agency much faster and with a lot less hassle than delivering to 75 individual buyers. Look for more of the same this quarter.
Net metering is a significant subsidy. It's an easily implemented "starter kit" policy, but it doesn't scale up.
It's actually 25%, and still in place. Created in 1964 and commonly called the Chicken Tax.
All electricity "markets" have bizarre rules and pricing anomalies. I cringe when I see articles that use wholesale prices to claim solar/wind have raised (or lowered) prices. Wholesale electricity markets are generally artificial, and some are completely broken. What we need to prove the case for solar/wind is a (mostly) self-contained grid with high penetration and low end-user prices. Unfortunately prices tends to be high in places with high penetration, e.g. Australia, California, Hawaii, etc. There is some hope in the US Great Plains and SW deserts outside of CA.
I've talked earlier about the hidden champion in VW's lineup, the new, cheaper and upgraded e-up! [just so] citycar.
With the new incentives, they should be able to sell every one that comes off the lines.
Don't know where the cells are made but suggest China.
Base price incl. VAT is 21.975,00 €, battery capacity 32 kWh and 260 km range [WLTP].
So with an incentive of 6'000 EUR, that's one very juicy proposition for a metropolitan runabout.
What remains to be seen is how many they actually want to build.
Sources:
VW e-Up (2020): Testfahrt, Reichweite, Preis | ADAC
Der neue e-up!
This is the right time to point out Volkswagen AG's [including Porsche, Audi, Skoda, etc.] latest prognosis for its 2019 results: up to +5% over last year's revenue of 235 billion EUR with an operating margin of 7.0 +/- 0.5% [discounting costs from the Diesel deceit], and chiefly benefiting from a rise in SUV sales.
Even better than that VW eUP is Skoda's version - Citigo e iV with 36,8 kWh @ 19.500 EUR.
There is no reason to buy VW over Skoda, same car, different name, bigger battery, lower price.
This makes me feel the previous MIC M3 11/11 launch rumor very probable, but I really don’t know how you could launch a car one can already buy as imports.
Significant? Even ignoring carbon emissions I don't see how it's a big subsidy.
This story hit Yahoo! Finance around the time of the decline. If this is the cause, what a joke - Einhorn does not seem like someone to whom the market should be listening, especially on Tesla.
I was expecting someone to say the whole market dropped, not just TSLA.
