Price drop on every Tesla model - $49990

Oh please, spare me the conspiracy theories. This sounds like something straight out of a bad action movie. Are we supposed to believe that wars are being fought all over the world just so some countries can get their hands on some minerals? Give me a break. And if you're gonna throw around accusations of ethnic cleansing, you better have some actual evidence to back it up instead of just spouting off some vague generalizations.

It's just common sense. This guy is massively delusional thinking green tech resources are somehow more resistant to greed and war. I can't take him seriously anymore. He has to be in high school. This mentality is quite standard in many well-off American suburbs among people there, especially kids.

It's just common sense. This guy is massively delusional thinking green tech resources are somehow more resistant to greed and war. I can't take him seriously anymore. He has to be in high school. This mentality is quite standard in many well-off American suburbs among people there, especially kids.

I don't have the sources, but here's my reasons EVs will not succeed:

1. Long charging times and unreliable chargers will mean lots of land will need to be acquired to accommodate these chargers along with the infrastructure to power them. Off highway exits, truckers can't even find enough parking spots to rest. Now you have to add electric chargers to the mix? Given how resistant many gas stations, stores and the government have been to adding chargers, I'm not seeing the scale-up many imagine.
2. Expensive batteries that can cost as much as the car and make them expensive to insure.
3. Heavy batteries that sap range.
4. People in urban areas and apartments will not be able to charge cars easily.
5. Electric chargers have copper in them that thieves love to strip. Good luck finding any in NYC, Chicago and London on the street that will be untouched.
6. Towing? Range drops massively. Recharging with a trailer? LOL. Good luck somewhere like Michigan where thousands of people travel North on I-75 and other state highways. Acres of land will have to be used for that, destroying the landscape.
7. Range decreases in extreme weather, like cold weather.
8. Range can be wildly unpredictable, just like a cellphone battery.
9. Buying an EV now will heavily restrict where you can travel. Yes, this may change in the future, but if you need to travel somewhere off the beaten path with an EV, be prepared to be stranded.
10. I've heard they're difficult to tow but I've seen other EVs being towed, so I'm sure that really isn't an issue.
11. Battery disposal, I don't care what people say, will eventually become a huge problem.

Oh please, spare me the conspiracy theories. This sounds like something straight out of a bad action movie. Are we supposed to believe that wars are being fought all over the world just so some countries can get their hands on some minerals? Give me a break. And if you're gonna throw around accusations of ethnic cleansing, you better have some actual evidence to back it up instead of just spouting off some vague generalizations.

1) Ample reliable highway chargers along I 5 (as one major throughway example) in cheap rural land, Truckers not remotely impacted. Harris Ranch for example has 98 Tesla superchargers. I'm sorry the rollout in Kansas is slow. Let me guess, like US jobs you also hate the long overdue infrastructure bill that will invest heavily in EV charging network.

2. stopped reading... 😴

I don't have the sources, but here's my reasons EVs will not succeed:

1. Long charging times and unreliable chargers will mean lots of land will need to be acquired to accommodate these chargers along with the infrastructure to power them. Off highway exits, truckers can't even find enough parking spots to rest. Now you have to add electric chargers to the mix? Given how resistant many gas stations, stores and the government have been to adding chargers, I'm not seeing the scale-up many imagine.
2. Expensive batteries that can cost as much as the car and make them expensive to insure.
3. Heavy batteries that sap range.
4. People in urban areas and apartments will not be able to charge cars easily.
5. Electric chargers have copper in them that thieves love to strip. Good luck finding any in NYC, Chicago and London on the street that will be untouched.
6. Towing? Range drops massively. Recharging with a trailer? LOL. Good luck somewhere like Michigan where thousands of people travel North on I-75 and other state highways. Acres of land will have to be used for that, destroying the landscape.
7. Range decreases in extreme weather, like cold weather.
8. Range can be wildly unpredictable, just like a cellphone battery.
9. Buying an EV now will heavily restrict where you can travel. Yes, this may change in the future, but if you need to travel somewhere off the beaten path with an EV, be prepared to be stranded.
10. I've heard they're difficult to tow but I've seen other EVs being towed, so I'm sure that really isn't an issue.
11. Battery disposal, I don't care what people say, will eventually become a huge problem.

You stopped reading because you lost the argument. Also, um, California is not representative of the rest of the US, never has been. Everyone used to drive a Porsche there in the nineties. Then it was Priuses in the 2000s. They're rich, different and don't live in the same world as most of the planet.

LR 3 occasionally shows up in inventory when they have spare cells to make a few... but they're full credit (they use the same batteries as are used in the performance 3 and most of the Ys currently built- 2170 cells from Nevada)

FWIW when both the LR 3 and LR Y were both available for order the price difference was typically in the 6-8k range, not 2-3...

Huge middle finger to anyone who bought before early December 22. Tesla sure knows how to treat their customers

They don't do price adjustments

Bolt only costs $1000/year to insure and Tesla costs $5000/year to insure.

No, have you seen?

They don't do price adjustments