The transition takes time, however, so for the moment shikata ga nai. Personally, I don’t care about the environmental impacts nearly as much as energy independence. Never again will I be subject to the whims of an energy supplier who spuriously gouges their customers for profit. They can buy my energy. That’s a fair tradeoff to me.

The sarcasm displayed in this article is breathtaking. Andries’ comments in particular just nail it.

Do the Europeans do a form of cost plus contracting? Is that just business as usual for every government?

I just wish it had a regular engine.

The only car company who marketed their car the correct way,
They sold its strengths(Speed) and did not lie about its range.

All the others started out marketing their cars as environment savers and gas savers. They over sold their ranges and outright lied about their eventual total costs.

The whole of the electric car industry outright lied about the total environmental impact of their technology.

Hmmm, let’s ask Tesla about that competition it has been warned about for years! Sure, it’s coming, but not from the EU, and not even from the US, at least anytime real soon. It’s from China.

Amazing the parallels between the SpaceX and Tesla competitive positions! It’s like something they have in common was guiding both of them to dominance.

Ps. I have two kinds of relatives: those who own Teslas, and those who don’t. I caution all of them that when they read some bloviation about the EV market in the MSM, add to the end of the article or op-ed, “* … except Tesla.”