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Home Posts tagged "Government Subsidies"

Tag: Government Subsidies

Sen. Schumer proposes US completely switch to ZEV’s by 2040

October 25, 2019 October 25, 2019

Today NY Senator Schumer proposed a bold plan to switch completely to clean vehicles, zero emission vehicles, like electric cars. As Schumer notes, “Scientists tell us that to avoid the most devastating effects of climate change, the world needs to be carbon neutral — to have net-zero carbon dioxide emissions…

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Elon Musk calls reporter a douchebag for not getting Tesla’s long range plan

September 10, 2015 September 10, 2015

This interview from 2009 shows Elon Musk calling a reporter a “Huge Douchebag” and “complete idiot” because that reporter didn’t grok Tesla’s long-range plan to produce an affordable mass market electric car.  Tesla’s plan all along was to plow profits into building the company towards production of what’s now called…

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Are electric car perks green privilege for the wealthy? Or, for the common welfare?

June 24, 2015 June 24, 2015

Let’s face it, the $7,500 federal tax credit for the Tesla Model S is hard to defend.  Only the wealthy can afford a $100,000 car, and the wealthy hardly need the tax credit.  This factoid opens the door to criticism against the whole project of electric vehicle adoption.   I…

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Tesla Motors doesn’t look like company gobbling at the public tax dollars trough

June 6, 2015 June 6, 2015
Tesla Model S First Delivery, June 2012

Does Tesla Motors owe its existence to government subsidies? More than once the company was on the edge of bankruptcy, and kept afloat by infusions of capital, and of course their products (Model S) are sold in part because of government subsidies for electric cars. Recently a big news outlet…

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