as long as we ignore the CO2 dumped by Camry/Prius and its cohorts across the industry causing existential crisis hey they will beat others on cost/mile.
I have an eithical dilemma for you. As of now on an average 33000 ppl are killed in road accidents in USA. Lets say Tesla's or other ICE makers' autopilot reduces this to 20000 deaths. But of those 20000 deaths, say 2000 were purely because of autopilot alogrithm which wouldn't have happened if there was no autopilot. As a regulator what will you do. Approve autopilot because it saved 13000 people or ban it because 2000 were killed just because of it? I know how this will play in media. Unfortunately autopilot will be demonized and most likely will get banned.
>>the reality is that they are gone continue to increase as Tesla delivers more vehicles they actually get more credits,
People completely miss this point (some deliberately so). At least in Europe, as each year progresses, the number of grams/km allowed will keep going down. It is 95g/km for this year. Thos who miss will have to pay a fine. FCA is pooling with Tesla to avoid this. Ford will miss due to fire hazard debacle. So on. Now even if the ICE makers are able to meet 95 gms/kms now, next year it will become harder. ICE innovation is not fast enough to keep up with regulation. Only way to avoid fines is to accelerate the EV+ICE mix. Some will do this not all. And this will hit their profitability. They have huge sunk cost on ICE side. They can't willy nilly junk that investment and move over to EVs. This mostly implies the legacy car makers will have to keep paying fines to EU or to pool with Tesla and subisidies the competitors growth. Win win for Tesla.
Thanks for this. I don't know why people make easily disprovable statements. Do they think their ability to mislead is greater than peoples ability to read financial statements? Furtermore, CNBC brought on the "biggest" bear Gordon Johnson. He used the same technique to mislead. He used Tesla's update that they are now at 840K installed capacity, to claim that they have always been at that capacity and since guidance is to hit 500K, there is a drop in demand. This was a galling attempt to mislead and to prop up his own analysis.
I am stuck too in my work. I can't quit because of my commitments (also i am too scared to quit and be on my own). Any way. One thing I know is that I do well when I am learning new stuff. So my goal for next 5 years: learn Quantum Computing inside out. This means Physics/Math/Programming in new paradigm. So I have my hands full. So find what makes you feel better and do it. In the meantime, I have found mindless activity like cleaning home boosts mood too.