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>>1596998
Which new ideas exactly?

Electric cars - already tried and failed a dozen times over the last century. Only thing Musk added was marketing and a personality cult.
Hyperloop - stolen from a hundred year old scifi novel
SpaceX - accomplishing less in more time than 1960's-era NASA despite having an extra half century of technology and scientific knowledge to build on

Only actually good idea he had was Paypal.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jan 2021 03:44:03 No.1597006 Report

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>>1597002
And that wasn't even his idea, paypal came with a merger and he decided to fund it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jan 2021 03:46:12 No.1597007 Report

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>>1597002
Yeah but at least he made electric cars viable. Spacex is gonna best the shit out of nasa and will only really compete with blue origin

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jan 2021 03:47:13 No.1597008 Report

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>>1597007
Also hyperloop and car tunnels as opposed to freeways are a step in the right direction, thinking vertically not horizontally

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jan 2021 04:29:11 No.1597017 Report

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>>1597007
>Spacex is gonna best the shit out of nasa
Only because current year NASA only exists to get its budget cut and to diversity-signal. In the same amount of time that SpaceX has existed, cold war NASA sent orbital probes to every planet plus the sun, landed probes on Mars, repeatedly put men on the moon, and built Skylab. And that was when computers barely existed.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jan 2021 07:42:14 No.1597049 Report

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>>1597007
>electric cars viable
Electric cars aren't going to solve the problem, it just turns oil emissions to coal emissions and nuclear waste. Also lithium mining and processing.
The problem is that people live 20 miles away from their workplace, and the existence of suburbs without efficient transit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jan 2021 14:49:09 No.1597186 Report

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>>1597007
>viable
Anon, his company barely produces any cars at all, and at a high price. They're practically a luxury.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jan 2021 15:40:37 No.1597205 Report

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>>1597002
Uhhh I don't think electric cars are failing

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jan 2021 16:06:45 No.1597214 Report

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>>1597205
>decade of non-stop shilling from media and advertisers and ecofascists
>governments have to subsidize them because no one wants them
>governments have to ban competitors because no one wants them even if you pay them
>product still objectively worse in every practical way than gas cars, while costing more
>market share of new electric cars below 2%, more than half of which are Musk fanboys buying Teslas
>market share of all cars on the road well under 1%
>pace of infrastructure development nowhere near what it needs to be to support a complete transition any time this century
So this is what success looks like.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 15 Jan 2021 05:09:10 No.1597455 Report

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>>1597002
Wow I had no idea /n/ was so based

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Anonymous Fri 15 Jan 2021 16:08:38 No.1597588 Report

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>>1597017
yeah. and where did that get us? nowhere. we'll never leave this shithole solar system. we should defund NASA, ban cars, and create Eden here on earth

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 15 Jan 2021 16:21:04 No.1597594 Report

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>>1597214
>decade of non-stop shilling
more like at least two decades, since the S-10 and Ranger EVs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 15 Jan 2021 16:22:41 No.1597596 Report

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>>1597186
Exactly, they’re luxury, associated with wealth and being cool now, whereas they used to be for faggots and pussies

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 15 Jan 2021 16:32:29 No.1597599 Report

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>>1597186
Model 3 is the same price as a loaded Accord. As long as you don't get full self driving.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 15 Jan 2021 16:50:56 No.1597606 Report

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>>1597599
>As long as you don't get full self driving.
Do you even have a license?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 15 Jan 2021 20:21:14 No.1597685 Report

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>>1597007
wait I thought SpaceX was only commercially viable because NASA and the government give it important contracts and money...

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 15 Jan 2021 23:38:53 No.1597738 Report

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>>1597599
>full self driving
yet another Tesla scam. It's mindboggling how they get away with any and all shenanigans. And how the cult lap it up.
A cut and dry case of fraud with Solar City but Musk seems to be untouchable. It will all come out in the wash. Can't keep printing money forever.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 16 Jan 2021 00:21:14 No.1597756 Report

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>>1597738
Tesla is going to rake in cash under democrats. Elon will make so much. He won't even care about higher taxes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 16 Jan 2021 09:13:54 No.1597853 Report

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>>1597049
The actual problem is globalism. Doesn't it blow your mind that you can buy a banana in Germany that has come ALL THE WAY FROM PERU and it only costs 15 cents? The real cost of the banana is a lot more, and the Earth is footing the bill.
Buy local, stop flying, and kill every neo-liberal scum you find. That's the only way to save the planet.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 17 Jan 2021 01:25:44 No.1598082 Report

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>>1597853
>The real cost of the banana is a lot more, and the Earth is footing the bill.
Based Earth. Is there a way to get Earth to pay my rent?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 17 Jan 2021 01:53:58 No.1598089 Report

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>>1596253
women should be thin, feeble and near starvation

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 17 Jan 2021 08:25:10 No.1598196 Report

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>>1597008
imagine thinking the solution to car traffic is more cars and car infrastructure

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jan 2021 12:59:28 No.1598231 Report

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>>1596249
TΞΣΛΑ ΣΕΧΥ

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 17 Jan 2021 14:33:40 No.1598259 Report

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>>1596253
>anorexic
this is your brain on mcdonalds

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 17 Jan 2021 14:48:17 No.1598265 Report

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He is annoying, flashy, and pompous, but he's at least got plans for what to do with his money. And as long as society is headed in the direction of enabling billionaire neolibs, then it's better to have a guy like Elon than people like the Waltons.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jan 2021 15:57:33 No.1598629 Report

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>>1596248
>shorting Tesla
Remember what Buffet said, anon, "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jan 2021 16:00:01 No.1598630 Report

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>>1596248
You're the kinda kid that gets angry when you see other kids having fun. That makes you the shitty kid.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Jan 2021 13:00:45 No.1599934 Report

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>>1597594
There was an EV first-gen RAV4 model, back in the 90s when the RAV4 was subcompact and not ugly. I'd find a pic if I wasn't mobile.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Jan 2021 20:00:02 No.1600118 Report

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>>1597186
And it came years after this tribe jewed GM and their electric car division, which was becoming too much of a bad goy with metal-air batteries and series hybrids.

https://www.gm-volt.com/threads/gm-admits-to-working-on-lithium-air-batteries.336295/

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Jan 2021 20:51:11 No.1600149 Report

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>>1597007
>viable
Tesla market share world wide is 15% of EVs, what made them viable was the batteries (made by Panasonic) becoming cheaper and smaller.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 23 Jan 2021 01:39:10 No.1600241 Report

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>>1600149
And money printer go brrrr, because the company was full of debt since its early days.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 25 Jan 2021 12:16:05 No.1601082 Report

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>>1597008
Hyperloop is a retarded idea that requires magic to work https://youtu.be/4dn6ZVpJLxs

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 25 Jan 2021 16:49:56 No.1601173 Report

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>>1601082
And every other non-retarded alternative is being ignored by the hivemind, as expected.

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