Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag

Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by toomuchtodo on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @08:51PM (#19743966)

> economy vehicles produced by Ford/Chevy/Honda/Toyota since they have established production lines and can out-produce and out-price Tesla.

Who do not pay for the lifetime externalities of each of their vehicles burning petroleum for hundreds of thousands of miles.

If you accept climate change is man made, and that combustion vehicles contribute to it, it is insane we don’t make internal combustion vehicles pay for their externalities as part of their cost to level the playing field, and force electric vehicle manufacturers to compete against them without such a handicap in place.

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Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by bumby on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @09:15PM (#19744100)

I'm not necessarily against that approach, but the penalties should be for externalities beyond just the tailpipe. Anything else is just short sighted. This means counting counting environmental impacts for manufacturing, including batteries

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Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by ajmurmann on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @10:03PM (#19744387)

Let's not forget building the massive amount of roads we built for any type of car.

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Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by logicx24 on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @09:11PM (#19744087)

In one sense, electric vehicle manufacturers are getting a bonus via the tax credit.

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Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by toomuchtodo on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @09:12PM (#19744093)

A woefully inadequate subsidy, which phases out entirely too soon.

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Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by maxerickson on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @10:32PM (#19744529)

Are vehicles subsidies the best way to drive progress on battery density and cost?

They need to be if you are going to use them to reward wealthy Tesla investors and vehicle buyers.

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Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by toomuchtodo on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @11:06PM (#19744644)

Yes. Increase them, and tax SUVs and pickup trucks to fund the subsidy. Regressive taxes are bad, but you aren’t entitled to drive a gas guzzler, merely access to wheels (hybrids, subcompacts, sedans, etc). Internalize the externalities.

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