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Someone sent me this earlier today ... thought I'd share I wouldn't even want to imagine any other outcome: accent, driving on the other side of the street, a royal family, high tea, bad teeth, and did I mention the accent ...

If you go onto Google Flights and enter a city pair you are considering, it gives you that based on the type of aircraft, length of the flight, etc. It gives you the numerical amounts of CO2 it drops into the atmosphere. I guess you can even see how a different type of aircraft fares on the same trip if it's a popular route with different carriers using different aircraft.

Man.... you gotta stop smoking the Musk Vaporware....

I wonder how this will work out for them... Musk is one reason I wouldn't buy a Tesla. Some super stock racing.... He makes some valid points on the cost of consumables. Kind of been into drag racing and old MOPARs lately.

I wonder how much CO2 is pumped into the atmosphere from these massive planes?

Last year when Tesla did not have the tax rebate and Hyundai/Kia did, Tesla still outsold them and everyone else. Also the Model Y outsells the Rav4 in the USA, and the Rav4 is way cheaper, has the Toyota brand name, strong resale, low ownership cost, etc. The Rav4 was the crossover gold standard that Ford, GM, Hyundai, Kia were never even close to outselling, Tesla came in and blew it way with ease. And the Tesla "Model 2" is going to sell 4-5 million units annually. That 1 model alone could outsell the whole Ford Motor Company. GM and Ford are trying, but I think they are going too slow. At least they are doing something though, most of the Japanese brands and Stellantis are asleep at the switch, Toyota hoping they can tap the cash reserve and play catch up, but time is running out on that. And the problem for legacy OEM isn't just scale, it is profitability, Tesla margins are nearly double Mercedes-Benz margins (best in class for legacy OEM). So how does Hyundai or Ford or GM, make a $40,000 EV with better margins than an Escalade or Navigator? They can't is the answer.

I don't see problems, I see sales going to the moon! After 2 quarters this year they are where they were after 3 quarters last year. And Q2 last year the Shanghai plant was in a covid shut down, if you toss that out, it is 14 consecutive quarters of growth. The demand for EV's is growing faster than I think many OEM's predicted. Tesla will pass by VW and Toyota in 2028-2029, those sales come at the expense of someone. So the question is who all Tesla's volume comes at the expense of. I don't own their stock, nor do I really intend to buy a Tesla. But the facts are the facts, the growth is unstoppable, the margins are 4 times better than what most car companies are at. And the legacy OEM's don't make money on EVS and none of them have scale on EV's outside of BYD. Which presents another problem for Ford, VW and GM who are getting clobbered in China because BYD and Tesla are on the rise.