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> Only if you in turn release all your patents to Tesla.

Could you provide a source?

I disabled every control on this page months ago.

Unfortunately, the Google Maps app won't remember searches unless you're logged in and share your entire location history. There's just no way to keep a local history of places in Maps.

I'll get rid of Google Maps as soon as Maps.me let me stream OSM maps instead of downloading packages one-by-one.

The transaction is in shares only. Musk can't gain much financially since he owns ~22% of each company.

How small a fraction? Tesla is expected to produce between 80,000 and 90,000 Model S and X this year. With 80 Kwh battery pack on average (my guess), Tesla currently consumes 6.4 Gwh of Lithium-ion battery.

Back in 2013, the global production was estimated to be 35 Gwh (cf. Gigafactory announcement presentation).

How much has it grown in the past 3 years?

I went last month for a road trip in Cuba, where most of the bikes seem to be AVA1000. This electric scooter is everywhere: http://cubanclassics.blogspot.fr/2015/02/2014-unison-interna....

It was quite an shock for me to go back to Paris and realize how much my neighborhood is polluted by toxic fumes and deafening engine back-fire.

Black on Firefox for Android (Nexus 5).

More and more pages don't load correctly on Firefox(e.g Google Finance stock pages)

Why doesn't the title of the announcement indicate "for Chrome? Is there a reason not to mention the release of such an application for other Web browsers, like Firefox?

A few thoughts/ideas:

Grid saturation: smart charging to flatten the demand curve (overnight), daylight charging with more chargers in parking spaces at the office, west-facing solar panels and grid storage to smooth the duck curve.

Lack of chargers on the highway: increase in charging speed (15 minutes breaks are recommended after 2h of driving), increased battery range, platooning with autopilot can save 15% of energy [0], very low cost of expanding supercharger networks, auto-pilot to tolerate longer drive, auto-park to accept longer pauses, battery swapping

Energy sources far from charging stations: don't underestimate the predominance of home charging; south-facing solar panels and wind turbines along highways; grid storage; battery swapping

Car sharing: battery swapping again; autonomous fleets to dispatch charged car and auto-park cars (with snake-like charger to auto-plug)

Infrastructure investment: large public program for distributed generation with solar panels and grid storage

Range anxiety: 250 miles might be the average range for EV in 2020, supercharging and battery swapping to the rescue

Trailers: battery swapping again, and battery integrated in the trailer (might turn into a backup battery once at home)

Lack of servcie: EVs require far less maintenance than ICE, Musk intend to make a 1-million miles powertrain and reuse battery for grid storage; also industry-wide standardization

Tax break: they will somehow be extended to balance the externalities of fossil fuels (health, environment); EV will reach cost-parity very soon too.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platoon_%28automobile%29

As more and more people will adopt EVs, you can expect:

- gas stations and car dealers to go bankrupt

- price for maintenance and spare parts to jump

- investment in oil extraction to drop (as demand for oil decreases)

- gas prices to increase at the pump, due to diseconomies of scale within the oil industry and carbon tax

This could quickly translate into a vicious circle, and make ICE as luxurious as horse riding.

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Musk on the gigafactory: "This is going to be a very green factory. There going to be a lot of solar power. It’s going to have essentially zero emissions and there are no toxic elements that are going to come out of this factory and we will build in recycling capability right into the factory"

http://insideevs.com/tesla-ceo-leaks-out-more-details-on-lit...

Renault's stock price (RNO) drops by 16%. Peugeot (UG) also drops by 6.5%. Fiat (FCAU) loses 7.7% in premarket.

AFAIK, Peugeot hasn't been raided (yet). Here's some context about the companies' exposure to the diesel scandal: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-25/peugeot-re...

"The Stone Age didn't end for lack of stone, and the oil age will end long before the world runs out of oil." - Sheikh Zaki Yamani

> I have 0 faith in governments both for understanding and acting properly in the information age.

Can we go without a government that properly understand the information age? If so, how? Who would you trust instead, to organize public affairs?

If not, why does this kind of government doesn't (want to) understand it?

The submission points to a comment since it articulates pretty well the relation between fossil fuel prices, renewable energy and energy storage.

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> They have the ability to sell through dealers, just like the established automakers. And it would cost them a lot less money and hassle to do so.

Not in a world dominated by fossil fuels. This is worth a read: http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/tesla-approach-distributing-....

You could invest all the revenue from fossil fuel taxes in renewable energy so that everybody benefits from it.

Are fossil fuels taxed in California accordingly to their effects on human health and global warming already?

The transition would be very quick if fossil fuels were taxed according to their damage on health and climate change.

EVs would become comparatively cheap in a just few years, and their price would also come down very fast as the production of battery packs increased massively. The technology is already here, we just have to manufacture these cars and set up the charging network (already much cheaper than the fuel station infrastructure).

"It's not even a climate change problem, it's a health problem": NOx being extremely dangerous for humans doesn't make it less of a problem for global warming.

Nitrous Oxide (N2O) has a Global Warming Potential 265-298 times that of CO2 for a 100-year timescale. N2O emitted today remains in the atmosphere for more than 100 years, on average. [0]

[0] http://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/gases/n2o.htm...

Would vote for a tax on fossil fuel to make electric/hybrid a better choice?

They did both: they optimized for the benchmark AND they deactivated any emissions control when not in test mode.

Now that VW is investigated, we should focus on the emission standard themselves - not the tactics to avoid or optimize for the tests.

In Europe, the standards are a joke (no one drives like we test the cars).

What's more important?

a) some cars have are equipped with defeat devices.

b) some cars shouldn't have passed the emissions tests.

c) all the cars emit much more NOx and fine particles than the European Environment Agency and the manufacturers claim.