I don't know of another auto industry bigwig who generates anywhere near as much controversy as Elon Musk, and I think we're now beyond any doubt that it's hurting Tesla's sales.
But IMO we're also beyond the point where any Tesla EV weakness that results can do much harm to EVs as a category. Ten years ago we needed Tesla to push other EV manufacturers to compete. Today, not so much, partly because Chinese EV makers have taken over that role. And not only are BYD and Geely and friends competing on EV tech, they're competing on price. I'm seeing new European-built EVs in the 20k euro range. So that's good. These days Elon Musk seems to be downplaying EVs as a business, saying that Tesla is now more of an AI and robotics company. No idea how that will turn out for them, but as with their sales declines, I don't think it'll much hurt other EVs, or the EV business in general. David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to constants. Instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable PI can be given that value with a DATA statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change. -- FORTRAN manual for Xerox Computers = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
