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You'd have to create an entirely different CULTURE before this becomes as issue. Cars using electricity every night to charge up is a generators dream, because usually night time draw is very low.  In fact, electric cars are the perfect gift to electricity companies.
"I've got a Chevy Bolt, and can confirm that handling is much better when the weight is down low in the center. I've never driven a car like it, and it doesn't even have the ""best"" handling type of suspension.  As far as moving parts go:  Report from a teardown, comparing the Bolt to a conventional VW Golf. http://www.advantagelithium.com/_resources/pdf/UBS-Article.pdf  Powertrain findings (Bolt vs. Golf):  * Moving parts - 24 vs. 149 * Moving parts in engine - 3 vs 113 * in gearbox - 12 vs 27 * other moving parts - 9 vs 9 * Wearing parts - 11 vs 24 * Moving and wearing parts - 0 vs 6  * Total - 35 vs 167  They found the Bolt requires no maintenance or replacement of these parts over the life of the car."
&gt; And, will not be 3x the ICE cars in 2 years compared to today.  Huh? Not sure what that means.  I'm assuming everyplace has a few chargers, you may have to wait for others before you to finish.
Bad concept. American sprawl is still part of the landscape and until we start seeing mass migration back to dense urban living scapes bigger cars will prevail.  It's not so bad when you can buy a Honda Accord sedan that gets 40+ mpg....I so badly want revolution but the fact is transition will take longer than anyone really imagines.
The i3 looks like shit. I was hopeful about the i8 but it's so expensive and only seats 2.  I hope there is an electric 3 series, that would be a wonderful thing. But BMW can't see two feet in front of its own corporate greed I don't think it will ever happen.
I get it - we're a car culture.  I'm actually a big car guy.  That being said, the writing is on the wall as far as I'm concerned.   As I stated, I believe that it will be a carrot-and-stick approach.  The carrot is the financial and practical advantage of automation; the stick being the regulatory framework.
"Cars depreciate the most their first year after introduction. So you could buy a ""new"" car in year 2 for the optimal price, and at year 4 (when you finish paying yours off) you could buy the next car in year 2 (this is surprisingly similar to rolling options in a buy-write strategy, an arguably more constructive use of your money)"
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No, you and some of us wouldn't.  Most would though. Delivery(food) drivers, couriers, most, if not all, people on deadlines.  Until recharge time is as brief as refuel time it will be a deal-breaker for most drivers.  EDIT: Downvote is disagree button.......got it!
The car has software that will automatically plot a route using chargers, manage charging times and notify you via a phone app when the car has charged enough to continue your route.  Also, most superchargers are located next to a restaurant or thing to do while the car charges. Most of the US is already covered by the by network this year, but next year the network will triple in charging stations.   It's really much better than it seems, unless you are constantly driving very long distances. In my five years of Tesla ownership I have never had a problem driving between California and Texas.
No shit. That's not the point OP was making. He was saying they dont exist, so who would buy an electric car when the necessary infrastructure isn't in place yet? The same situation existed for gas when those cars first hit the road. Guess what? People built gas stations. It goes for any new tech that requires infrastructure. Thry build out together. Its not something thats insurmountable.
I just briefly looked into the gravity battery and it looks like a pain in the neck engineering wise. Making that economically viable with the requirement to replace the installed base seems unfeasible. Also it doesn't seem to take care of one of the main issues - transportation. Running electricity through wires is extremely inefficient because the wires have a certain amount of resistance. So energy company try to minimize the amount of wires used by localizing power plants. For solar and wind, which are efficiency is dependent on region, transportation is the real issue for widespread adoption
I was in Detroit recently and Lyft drivers are getting cars from them to use and if they work a certain amount per week they don't have to return them after the shift. Gonna get pretty rapid growth giving out cars on a lease to own with no money down.
They won't have the infrastructure or capital to invest to bring it up to speed fast enough to derail oil demand as quickly as he claims. 5. This theory implies a central government that is in complete control to implement rules in support of autonomous cars. I believe most of this will be done at the state and municipality level at first, with some cities hopping on board and others banning the practice. 6. This theory also implies that the technology will be flawless. The first completely computer aided pedestrian disaster or multi car pile up will undoubtedly cause massive backlash (regardless of the statistics showing general reduction in accidents) and might clog this entire concept up in bureaucracy for decades as the government forces stricter and stricter safety and quality requirements on the software. I'm not saying his view isn't the long run eventually for mobility in the US and the world in general, but applying personal electronic technology cycle rules to large scale durable goods that work in real space instead of cyber space, represents a whole different set of challenges and could easily take 25-50 years to really pull off. Over that time, oil markets will right size themselves, and the automotive manufacturers will consolidate and cater their product lineups to meet demand/service the fleet. TL:DR - this will take much longer to accomplish than he surmises. Infrastructure takes time to build, cars are a different technology than consumer electronics, people are stubborn."
Phone 3 years old, very unlikely to upgrade -- few reasons to.  Will likely go Android next time around because I hate lightning jack with a passion.  I don't think Apple is in trouble yet... but there will come a time when most people will see their existing phones as good enough and that will undercut the upgrade cycle many of these companies rely on.
These things will be more fuel efficient, eco friendly than current diesel transportation. Although I feel for the people caught in the transition, like old buggy whip manufacturers, they'll have to adapt. Nothing says that the health of the bottom line of the few must be given favor when weighed against the global benefit.
Are you assuming that net metering will continue forever? Eventually that will have to stop and you'll only receive the market generation rate (the price before all the markups in the submission's graph) for power exported to the grid which is unlikely to net you much profit.
"Really?  Because at Tier 5 for electricity I'm paying 35 cents a killowatt hour.  And at $1 per watt for a panel,  and 5 hours of sunlight per day in California, that's 142 days for pay back (grid tie).  It seems like Solar panels are cheaper for the ""peak load"" issues.  i.e. when the sun is hottest and people are running their AC's the highest, then the solar panels are kicking in (Grid tie).    But using a battery to operate off grid doesn't seem feasible currently.  And using solar panels to generate non-peak electricity doesn't seem efficient either."
They were completely transparent about it and sold it as a feature, basically you get a Tesla for cheaper than normal, and in a year or two when you get that big bonus check, you get to upgrade to the 75 without replacing your car. I know some people who went for it and thought it was a great deal.
"If any intelligent person can answer the title of your article with one word (in this case, ""no""), then you are writing a puff opinion piece. In this case, one obviously sponsored by one of Tesla's many, many detractors in the fossil fuel industry trying to find reasons why we shouldn't save the world by banning over-priced fossil fuels."
"&gt; Sure, it's more than 5 minutes to charge up a car. But that's offset by spending NO time waiting for the other 90% of your daily driving. Just plug in when you get home, and you've got a full ""tank"" of electricity every morning.  We aren't talking about it being an issue when you are home. Not sure how you got that idea.  The issue I had with it is long distances."
&gt; Home solar doesn't need to completely replace grid power - a 70% reduction in demand would be sufficient to reduce generation requirements to only existing hydro / wind / nuclear plants.  That is exactly where the problem is. When your home solar and battery is out of power, then your grid (without traditional backup) is out of power as well. So in the end you need your grid to supply power in the 30% of time when your renewable plus some storage has none. At the same time all household, equipped like yours are out of power as well. So either the grid/power company has conventional backup or huge storage. Of course, the cost of these must be levied over the 30% of time they are used, not economically attractive.  So you expect as a household to be able to just get energy from the grid/power company when it is necessary for you as a backup. Are you ready to pay the triple rate during that time ?
So what, its still plagued with problems. The model X according to consumer reports is terrible too.  I want a car that works with minimal problems, not something thats fucked up and they have to keep fixing.  I don't want a BETA version of a car
How could the tiny amount of cobalt used in the development of a potential new type of solar cell, that isn't commercially available, be responsible for deaths attributed to existing solar installations?  Why do you think solar panels need lithium batteries to hold the charge?
That's fine, I realized 50% in the first couple months of the year, sold.. bought back in when it dipped, and that's gained another 50%. I believe in the overall product, clean energy isn't going away, and Tesla is paving the way in many industries. It will compete with the likes of Amazon in the next 10 years, Elon is showing results in every market he enters.
You have to consider a case where you just cannot sell it. Think of it as a bad piece of real estate in Detroit. If there are absolutely no buyers, you cannot sell it (until a buyer shows up)
And if it costed 50% more they wouldn't either. I bet you a majority of these people just want to save money on gas. I even thought about it, but its too ugly (the back) and the model S is too big for me.
I think we have to divide it up into the elements that are 'real' and those that are 'abstractions'. Certainly, it will take a long time for a turbine to 'recoup' the embodied energy of its manufacture, transport, installation, maintenance. After that, tho, it's paying its way. 'Free' energy. Property values are made up, and - while important - I don't think it's fair to include them.   As far as $-per-watt hour goes, renewables can't/don't/won't compete with fossil fuels. Digging up millions of years of compressed sunshine has served us well. Looking at the bigger picture, however, renewables start to make sense, and are the only way forward. Any models that require maintenance of 20th century levels of consumption are unrealistic.  The future will be slower, more expensive, and less convenient.
To save the most money - don't trade it in, sell it to a private party. Dealers will always give you less, because eventually they'll be selling to the same private parties, so why do you need the middle man? Craigslist is your friend.
Това е основен тип тест, обаче, и не може да се разчита, за да даде подробности - освен цялостна индикация за състоянието на комплекта батерии. Външните батерии обикновено се уравновесяват, но отделните блокове батерии могат да се повредят по-рано от другите и да не могат да поддържат разумно ниво на зареждане, което може да доведе до пълна загуба на батерията при условия на натоварване и енергийни банкови услуги.
&gt; Energy storage is a tough problem to crack though.  No it's not. There are any myriad of ways to store kinetic energy. Pump water to an uphill reservoir. Use a flywheel. There was that story recently to push to with railroad cars laden with concrete. It would roll back down hill, and use regenerative breaking to supply power.  Follow the patents  http://www.elp.com/Electric-Light-Power-Newsletter/articles/2017/08/follow-the-patents-new-technologies-address-balancing-peak-and-off-peak-power-demand.html
Don't both of your first two points also apply to PV panels? In fact, to generate the same load, I'd imagine the material requirements are much higher.  And storage doesn't seem like that big of a problem. Don't we already have the holes they were dug up from to put them back in?
"Depending on the details of your solar panel setup, the monthly savings may change depending on changes in the law or utility company policy.  This could change how long it will take for the solar panels to ""pay for themselves"".  So your bullet point about the ""payback period""/""break even point"" is not fixed at the moment you buy the solar panels; it depends on costs you will incur over many years, and those costs could turn out to be different from what you originally thought. At least in the US, home solar installations typically work by selling excess power back to the power company.  The power company can change the amount that it pays you for that power.  There is also typically a minimum charge for being connected to the grid, and the power company can raise that charge.  (This article mentions one such possible change.)  The power companies want to keep making money, and as more people start adding solar panels, the power companies may change their rate structure to make that less financially feasible. You can avoid many of these issues if your solar panels are not connected to the public electricity grid, and you, for instance, store power with your own battery.  However (at least in the US) this is very uncommon because it is more complex and expensive."
Pub 527 my friend.  It gets depreciated. Table 1-1 on page 5.
You don't need autopilot. You don't need a paint upgrade. That's why it's called base model. It's meant to be an electric car and that's it. 200+ range? I don't see Ford, Chevy, Honda, Toyota, Acura, Audi, Hyundai, Mazda, Lexus, Porsche, etc doing this.  As far as parking, shit happens. Get over it. The guy is building high speed tunnels I'm sure he'll make hover pads for cars to park above each other. Just chill.
Have you ever used a proper e-reader (not an iPad)?. The screens are generally e-ink, which pretty much just looks like paper behind a matte screen. There's no backlight, no eyestrain, and you quickly forget you're not reading a real book. It honestly just looks and feels like reading a real book.   The Kindle lets you 'lend' ebooks to a friends account. I'm not sure about other ereaders, but in either case it's absolutely trivial to strip the DRM and loan a friend a book anyway. Reselling is obviously still an issue that many feel strongly about, and I'm not sure this will change.  Because of the passive screen, I can get through several novels (over a couple of weeks) before needing to plug my kindle into the charger for a whopping 30 minutes to fill it back up. Unlike a smartphone there's no battery anxiety, because it lasts so long.   That said, I completely understand wanting the tactile book reading experience and having a bookshelf of books. It's not for everybody, but if you're an avid reader and you haven't used an ereader before I'd recommend at least trying one out in a store.
I saw lots of them out in NM a handful of years back.  They looked great on paper, but I'm not sure they'd really hold up.  Especially in some areas with more extreme weather.  Plus, I'm a pig and like my electricity.
"If so then what? If thew overall accident rate is almost 50% higher than comparable vehicles *including* the purported marvels of ""autopilot"" (i.e. more or less what my new Toyota comes with) then when not using autopilot it is, what, 100% higher?"
Google to determine who in your field is advertising.  now follow every link and STUDY what they are doing on their websites (design for example, copy for another example).  if they have prices, make note and of what offers they serve up  after you know all that, you could come back here
Actually that's a much better proposition to price an app. There is the fear of cannibalising your own premium offering by providing a cheaper solution that also hampers (or limits) the app experience.  You think anchoring won't happen in reverse with the lowest price point being the reference point?   Also, I as a customer will feel confused if there is a free version, a lite version, a freemium version, an ad supported version, a full version and a premium version. Keep it simple.
Also the margin/popularity of the product.  Luxury car dealerships will spend more on a shot at a single sale than a local hairdresser will risk on getting *maybe* ten new customers.  Then again, if you hit the right guy on the right day it needn't even make sense.  I used to run a tiny annual event with footfall of around 200 and had way more trouble offloading a 1/4 page for £20 to the local cab firm, than a 'co sponsor' slot to a local manufacturing business for £250.  Expected return for the cab firm was arguably much higher but the amount was just a fart in a tornado to the bigger business.
Many services charge prices that do not scale linearly with usage.  This is because the service provider has fixed costs that they must recoup by charging a rate with a fixed component.  A 5-mile taxi ride is unlikely to cost half what a 10-mile taxi ride costs.  Even a half sandwich at a sandwich place usually costs more than half of what a full sandwich costs.  In this respect, insurance is no different from many other items you may purchase.
You don't necessarily change your calculated profit margins and posted prices, but you advertise and offer price matching.  Two out of three consumers may still pay the posted Best Buy price, while the knowledgeable third consumer that did their research will receive the matched price.  Their profit on that third customer will be lower than it was for the other two, but currently they don't get anything from that third customer at all since they just order online.  Meanwhile, now that they're in the store, they may buy a few movies or a power strip.
"It seems this will be very much driven by price discrimination.  If there are some customers who will pay up to $100, sell at that; and if there are others who'll pay $1 sell at that price. For instance you see computer games, which have zero marginal cost of production, sold at ""normal new release"" prices, at premium prices with a special box or doo-dad, and at discount prices once the game is a bit old."
Suppose that the fixed overhead costs of delivering a service, not related to the actual volume of sales, are $50 million per year. Suppose the variable costs on top are $100 per customer per year. Suppose further that 1% of the population buys the service. In the US, 3.2 million people buy the service, and it costs $116 per person to deliver it ($100 plus $50 million divided by 3.2 million). In Australia, 230,000 people buy it, and it costs $317 per person per year to deliver it ($100 plus $50 million divided by 230,000). The larger your market, the cheaper everything is, and Australia is a very small market compared with the USA, the EU, China or India.
"That happens all the time. The best situation for this to happen is when you have several products, each a bit better and a bit more expensive than the other, and you add a new product which is the cheapest. That gets people into the store to look at the cheapest product, and then you show the the next more expensive which is so much better for only a little more money, and the next more expensive which is again so much better... You might not sell any of the cheapest product but it helps you sell the others.  Also happens the other way round: You add a really expensive item, unaffordable for most customers, that is really, really nice. Then customers look at it and you show them that for half the price they can have something that is almost as nice. The expensive product increases the amount that customers think is ""the right price"" for that kind of product. A customer might think that $2,000 for a diamond ring is an awful lot of money, but if you show them another ring for $5,000 then suddenly the $2,000 doesn't look that expensive anymore. And if it is almost as nice as the $5,000 ring, you sell a lot of rings for $2,000 because you had the more expensive ring in the store."
You will have a tough time matching Staples, etc. on general use items (copy paper, file folders, etc.). The big box stores use copy paper as a loss leader to pull in clients. You will need to specialize with your products and services to carve out a niche.
In a very large number of cases you are dead wrong. People will gladly pay a premium for products from someone that at least pretends to give a fuck. You can find similar products and services with a very large price difference but those charging more still get plenty of business and often more business.
Thank you for that tip. I've not heard of that but will look into it. I am reading the Pumpkin Patch right now, and working in the Babson College program via Goldman Sach's 10,000 Small Business and it has me spinning on all the things to consider. Great learning experience thus far.
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