For what it was spec’d at originally, I think more people would have been willing to consider it than would like to admit, assuming the other trucks were still priced as is.

It’s more expensive to ship across the oceans and requires a whole set of other infrastructure.

It’s exceedingly more easy to ship across land borders and to try and say my point isn’t valid like this is laughable.

Europe would rather get the material from continental Europe if they can, just like we’d rather ship within NA if we can.

Just because we can, doesn’t mean we have to do so at greater expense and time. It’s very normal for companies to stay within their continental area before deciding to expand to shipping overseas.

We aren’t trading with others because we had a stable trading partner beside us

It’s more than that, it’s exceedingly more easy to trade with a neighbor than across the Atlantic or Pacific oceans.

Hope this becomes a permanent thing in every impacted country until this ends.

He must think it’s like the old dealership laws. Once you enter into an agreement, you can’t exit.

Advertise once, advertise forever!

That’s from 2022. They made no such guidance for 2025 as I stated. I stand by statement that I believe people are misinterpreting what was written and it was not about 2025, simply where the new vehicles will get them at some undefined point in the future.

Just on mobile now so can’t read it all, but it did get the gist across, thanks! I hadnt seen that yet.

I still think they’d have to win a lawsuit against California saying California can’t have the program?

Edit: as in I don’t think they can just scrap it like he’s scrapping other things via executive order.

When you know you’re going to get a billion dollars in credits for something, you plan your business around having those billion credits.

You sell cars cheaper, you expand faster, you try new ideas you might not have tried etc.

Tesla hasn’t needed those credits for a very long time now, but if they are there, of course they’re going to take as full advantage of the situation as they can.

If the credits had stopped around when Tesla didn’t need them anymore, I’m sure they would look very different than today, but they’d still be around and profitable.

Source on the killing of credits?

Those are California ZEV credits, and other similar non USA programs.

They’re going to kill a lot of other things, but haven’t heard about that yet.

aims to grow automotive sales by more than 60% in 2025.

I think this is being reported incorrectly in a lot of places.

They said the new vehicles they’re launching in H1 2025 will allow them to grow 60% to the 3 million capacity they have.

They did not say in 2025, but it looked like it could be interpreted as 2025 without saying it.

Couldn’t we just carve a mustache on Trump?

I thought the US FAB was also going to be a generation behind?

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Would it take a lot of work? Couldn’t the computer just do it?

Of course it’d be highly disruptive to the crew.

After a weary day of traveling, the group finds a nice tiny cave to sleep in for the night. While asleep, a wolf attacked and shocked John. John rolled a 1 on his constitution check and then rolled a further 1 on his emotional check. John now has a permanent fear of caves preventing any further cave exploration.

And then the players look in the big dark cave, and John turns around and says, I’m getting really bad vibes here, let’s skip this one, and the party agrees and continues to the pub looking for another adventure.

I can’t tell if you wanted me to buy Quaker Pudding or Cheddar Oats?

It’d probably has to be aggregate, so you don’t just do 10 $1 million loans as well. A million seemed too low as that’d hit a lot of people and small businesses. Somewhere between 1 and 10.

Keep in mind there is interest on these loans that has to be paid eventually, which probably involves taxes, unless they’re so wealthy they can just keep chaining it forever until they die which is what the billionaires do.

Edit: at least with something like this, we aren’t taxing unrealized gains without them trying to access the gains.

I’ve always thought a tax on taking a loan out using your stock as collateral is a good idea.

Borrow 1mil, tax it like half of capital gains. Repay the loan, get it back. Sell the assets to pay the loan off, pay the other half of the capital gains.

Or something like that.

Only do it for the wealthy on these bigger transactions. Maybe even starting at 10m, I dunno. They can afford the accountants to do it right at that point.

Edit: and only if the money is taken out of the investment account or used outside an investment account. So you can trade on margin, but not withdraw the loan to buy a house.

What would you call regular TV packages?

You pay for it, and you get ads