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Re:Tesla loses three vice presidents in a week by imtringued on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @07:50AM (#20343416)
Cars sitting idle 90% of the time is a feature. If my car was utilized 100% of the time then it would wear out within a single year.
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Re:Tesla loses three vice presidents in a week by londons_explore on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @08:50AM (#20343836)
Which would be great.

Putting capital into something that can only be extracted years later is a poor investment.

The sooner you can get the benefits of an investment, the sooner you can invest in the next thing, and the less return the investment has to give to be competitive.

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Re:Tesla loses three vice presidents in a week by toomuchtodo on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @02:50PM (#20347376)
Exactly. Southwest Airlines doesn’t think “these darn planes are in the air too much!”. Every minute you’re not flying is lost revenue on a depreciating asset. Keep the metal moving. Unproductive assets is no different than lighting money on fire.
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