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You silver tongued devilI think you're both right, depending on how you look at the question.
You silver tongued devilI think you're both right, depending on how you look at the question.
Ok dude. Hope you sleep better nowYou quote the exception to try and prove the rule.
Armed forces weaponry (aside from personal weapons) development will ALWAYS be funded by taxpayers. The only market for an AMRAAM is the government. Why would private industry EVER spend its own funds to develop an air to air missile?
I was involved in the development of what later became the current advanced Sidewinder. We were using "technology" (e.g., alloys, materials, control systems) that had been in use for private industry for decades. The manufacturing processes used were old.
No sound reason exists for taxpayers to fund wind turbines or solar panels. This was the point someone accurately made much earlier in this thread, which you disputed.
Let the market drive the use of renewables. If the renewable generation technology cannot stand on its own two feet without taxpayer subsidies, it should not be deployed.
I would posit their media events qualify as advertising Giving the press rides in the new Roadster, and launching one to orbit Mars? Scaring the crap out of journalists by coding the autopilot to do full throttle collision avoidance demonstrations? Towing airplanes with Quantas? Yeah, they weren't the ones doing the writing but they definitely got a lot of advertising out of it all.Teslarati fanbois can be idiots...Tesla has an advertising/marketing budget of $0.
This is public knowledge, and quite noteworthy.
They don’t do any advertising or marketing.
I would posit their media events qualify as advertising Giving the press rides in the new Roadster, and launching one to orbit Mars? Scaring the crap out of journalists by coding the autopilot to do full throttle collision avoidance demonstrations? Towing airplanes with Quantas? Yeah, they weren't the ones doing the writing but they definitely got a lot of advertising out of it all.
Technically that’s all under PR but good point
I dunno, people buy the poop out of FiatsOh look! Another ugly ass little car nobody will want!
Wow. What an enlightening response.Ok dude. Hope you sleep better now
TWO large RF emissions sources bombarding you brain like 100,000 cell phones...what could go wrong?
lol true! TheDan will be along shortly to kick your ass. And maybe mineI dunno, people buy the poop out of Fiats
Tesla owners are becoming sort of a cult, proselytizing all the time.
I dunno, people buy the poop out of Fiats
Some of you may still think Tesla is a fringe upstart company with a boutique niche market???
Hardly.
Factoid:
Tesla sold 95,200 cars 2019 2nd quarter.
Since Ford started making their F-Series trucks they have averaged 158,000 trucks quarterly.
Tesla sales Q2 2019 were about half F-150 truck sales same quarter.
Not a boutique manufacturer.
And forecasters expect Elon's Model Y crossover to be a home run.
Who knew that this would be so prescient in this thread?
I see them all over the place. Maybe my area just high a high concentration of themThey may want the poop, but they ain’t buyin’ the cars...they only sold 15k cars last year and dealerships are closing fast.
Fiat will be gone soon.
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I was interested in the honda when I saw it a few months back. New electric version of the first civic was what I thought about it. the price would have to be right. But since it's not coming to the states guess it doesn't matter.https://www.engadget.com/2019/06/14/honda-e-battery-weight-distribution/
Seems more like they will take aim a the inner city tiny-car commuters first.
Competing with the Smart Car?
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