Maybe he should think of using electricity at 2am when there's 15GW of wind and 10GW of demand as 'picking up trash' only in this case it's energy that can't be used.
No big surprises with the people whose previous car was similar in price (Bimmers, Audi), or some kind of earlier electric or hybrid.
I upgraded to a Model S from a 2003 Jetta TDI in 2013. I sold the TDI for $3k.
Basically its an op-ed piece on how Tesla's stock price is way higher than what its future success is so positively thought to happen. I'm not sure of some of the "facts" including diesel market - trucks only nowadays.
Accords, Civics, and Camrys so far outnumber other cars that having them on the list probably is a result of pure statistical chance and lower percentage per owner. Interesting that Corollas are not on the list.
The absence of Corollas probably tells you something about the demographic. The fact that so many folks are willing to pay nearly double what they previously had on a car is telling. Like folks lining up to pay double for an iPhone. The product must be better.
There's a reason it's been over a year since I drove my Benz...
My $160 LG phone has outlasted my wife's last THREE iPhones, and it will be running neck and neck with her FOURTH very soon. Sometimes more expensive means just that. More expensive. Not necessarily any better.
My $160 LG phone has outlasted my wife's last THREE iPhones, and it will be running neck and neck with her FOURTH very soon. Sometimes more expensive means just that. More expensive. Not necessarily any better.
I fully suspect the nearly 1/4 million mile 16 year old 1.8t Passat I drove to work today will outlast any new 1.8t Passat you could buy today. And mine is a wagon and has AWD to boot!
Something about lies, damn lies, and statistics.
I suppose I should post today's update from the land of $TSLA.
Yep.... only ~10-15 years away from 'peak ICE'.https://www.ratchetandwrench.com/ar...tm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=8406
Well there is hope, anyway.
Gravity check SAT. I thought $500 was bonkers. $960 was absurd. I'd been selling off all the way up (though maybe not as much as I should have). That's the frustrating part of investing... no matter what you do you're gonna have regrets.I suppose I should post today's update from the land of $TSLA.
Easy come, easy go...of roughly $40Billion worth of market cap.
Usually just better to 'enjoy' the ride....
Yeah.... I always kick myself a little on the drops but I just hold most of my TSLA. Hurts at $700 on the way up when you sold some at $500 about as much as $720 down from $960.
Sure. But just make sure you're acknowledging the distinction. IMO ~80% should be index funds or long-term investments and <20% for 'gambling' and trading stocks. I sold off some TSLA as it rose and I was aware that this was more a 'gamble' than an 'investment'. The bulk of my TSLA is going to just sit.
I bought at ~$30 and sold half at ~$90. Figured I'd made a profit and was playing with the houses money at that point (stupid
). I bought it back on a dip to ~$180 or so a few years later.I did. I went from a stripped GMC canyon (5 spd, 4 cyl) to my fully loaded Ram 1500 Ecodiesel. More along the lines of trippling the sticker price on my initial truck.
I try to remember the Warren Buffett adage that the goal with investing is to make money AND not lose money.
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I have a son who now owns an i-Pace. He took delivery in March 2019. His i-Pace looks almost identical to the one in the video, except for being a left-side drive of course.
I most frequently drive my wife's A3 e-tron, and after that, I have to remember that I need to use the brake pedal when I get back in my Mk7 TDI.
Even I saw the above as being somewhat "yeah - but who's going to be doing that repeatedly?"
