got 90 U and 100 roblox…same buy and hold
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10x
QuantumScape will not 10x
Tech is not ahead of the game.
Will already be similar tech in production before them.
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Any recommendations? I will do the necessary DD 
so won’t blame you if turned out wrong.
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Batteries are still bull shit. Good for hand tools and cars nobody wants. BTW if the government tries to take away people’s ICE cars the attack on Congress will look like child’s play.
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no one is going to take them away. EVs have less maintenance and costs will come down. No one is going to driving their own car in 20 year anyway, it will be mostly autonomous driving. So there won’t be as much of a “car” culture, and those who want to keep and maintain ICE cars will, but mostly as a hobby
You are living in fantasy land. Bureaucracy, lawyers and general inertia will make AV impossible. EV has many issues unsolved. The main one being Americans want pickups and SUVs not EV econoboxes.
The biggest hurdle to EV’s is charging time. No one wants a car that takes 11-19 hours to fuel up. A Tesla supercharger still takes 30-60 minutes and there are none outside urban areas or the major arteries that connect them. Europe has been pushing green much harder than the US and EVs still make up less than 1% of their auto fleet.
The whole concept of a plug-in car is just flawed. NIO is the only company out there with a practical solution. We’ll see how far it goes.
EV sucks. Being pushed by non scientific info by people that want to feel good about the environment. Primarily liberal arts majors that believe that cars, capitalism and America is evil. A pretty pathetic way to lead.
The Prius is one of the most reliable and trouble-free cars you can buy if you can deal with the sub-optimal power. An easier compromise that going from 5 minutes to 11+ hours to fuel up.
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Loved my Prius. Could go 100 mph and still get 38 mpg. Also amazingly roomy. Could fit my skis inside. So reliable, often used as taxis. Pretty useless in the snow though. Drove it to Mexico. 600 mile range. Even handled huge Mexican potholes.
Toyota makes the best hybrids. They haven’t swallowed the EV koolaid like the others. They can see all the drawbacks of pure EV cars.
What year was your Prius? I dumped my 2010 because it couldn’t even handle sudden changes in grade let alone huge potholes. Other than that - cheap and utterly reliable. Even the brake pads last almost 200,000 miles. If I didn’t live rural that’s what I’d drive.
I had a 2013. Then moved to Tahoe. Great for going back and forth. Traded it for a Highlander in 2018. They only gave me $8500 in trade with 50k miles. Had no place to keep it. Basically dumped it. Still worth $8500 today.
This is a classic essay, much like Andreessen’s on software eating the world:
EV’s are still being laughed at like a toy. Good for the Tesla bulls.
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Cars aren’t cellphones. It is hilarious that cellphone companies think they can build cars. Cars are regulated by bureaucracy. Once the bureaucracy gets involved all creativity and innovation goes to hell. Look at what they have done to the construction business. We can barely even build a bridge today compared to how much we accomplished in the 1930s. Watch and wait to see how bureaucracy will strangle the AV industry in its crib.
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Software can crash occasionally and it’s still OK. Not so for cars.
This is why it’s easy to be bullish on EVs when you know the details of owning one and the technical study of developments in batteries for what is going to change in the next 10 years.
1). If you own a house (or parking spot with and outlet), you can basically charge up every night or whenever you want. From experience, there is LESS worry daily about “running out of fuel” than with an ICE that you have to fill up at odd times.
Seriously that part is actually less stressful than with a gas car.
- Long distance drives are the real only issue. As you know, charge times are going down and down. If you buy a new Tesla, charge times are going to be like 20 minutes. Remember this is only used on long road trips, not really day trips. So when you stop after 3-4 hours to recharge, you basically have to be the type who isn’t going to grab some food and pee in that time for it to matter (or have kids).
So for many, it already isn’t an issue. But for those that it is, we already know new tech being produced very soon will be able to recharge even faster. I think down to 10-15 minutes will happen in 4 years, definitely by 2030. At that point, it really will be fine for most people.
- The density of superchargers is already pretty good. I’d be interested to see the routes you could map that wouldn’t get you coverage. But more importantly, Tesla (specifically) is of course ramping up even more superchargers and you can bet in 5 years there will be more and more smaller superchargers even in more rural areas. In 5 years you’ll have even better access to superchargers in remote places than gas stations.
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EVs are strictly a second car. You need a garage and another car for long trips. Toys for the rich and Woke. About 2 % of the population. That is why EV demand is softening
EVs are being forced on us by high gas taxes. Californians pay $4/g. Texans pay $2. Brits pay 7.This is about politics not science. In Venezuela gas is .01. The price is all about taxes.
https://www.ezinvoicefactoring.com/cheapest-fuel-prices-by-country
Just wait. There will be far more taxes associated with “climate justice” which is the new term.