I got my Tesla Model 3 a few days ago. The car looks even better in person than in photos. I’ve put over 250 miles on it now and clicked around on most of the nooks and crannies of the software in the car. After all a Tesla isn’t a car, right? It’s just a…
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I’ve covered deteriorating sales of compact luxury sedans from BMW and Mercedes in the United States before. Coincidentally or not, the sales growth started deteriorating around the time the Model 3 announcement was announced (not a typo). I hadn’t updated my charts for a few months and as I looked at EV market share last…
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I’ve done previous EV and Plugin Market share analysis on Seeking Alpha but now will continue that here on my blog instead. My goal is to update quarterly. All numbers are US only and all data is from InsideEVs unless specified otherwise. The last time I updated was in October and since then it seems…
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After my son started building his new game, several people approached us and asked how we did it. It all started with the original card game project using Asian parenting 101 : Psychological torture (you’ll grow up to be a dummy and all the kids from India and China will take all the jobs) Blackmail (do XYZ…
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Since my last post on coding with my son, his game Blob Attack has come a long way. New graphics, more levels, a real leaderboard, somewhat proper signup and registration and now phone playability. This caused us to Google often and I got a lot of – “YOU don’t know how to do this?!” Thankfully…
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Every time I read an article about teaching kids about investing or creating generational portfolios, Altria (MO), Exxon (XOM), Coke (KO) and McDonalds (MCD) seem to show up more often than not. Maybe this is because die-hard dividend investors are the ones trying to get their kids to invest or maybe it is because some…
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In Part 3 of my series on Peak Oil in the US, I looked at the impact of electric vehicles on Oil consumption. The EV Sales chart in that post looked like this: In this scenario, I had EV sales of about 170,000 in 2018 growing to over 1 million in 2024. However, I currently…
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Our second system was grid connected in February and we are now officially a net zero house. Our power bill is now negative with the last one cumulatively reaching over negative $1,000. We produced a lot more power than we consumed, however Dominion buys all that solar power. We buy back 100% of our usage in solar (Green…
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Before you read my ramblings, here is Ahan’s blog post about the game. After our last attempt implementing the card game 7-8, this time around we set about making a game totally invented by Ahan called Blob Attack. It’s not yet complete, but playable now (visit his blog post for a link – seriously, no…
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Seeking Alpha just published my article “Can Tesla’s Semi Truck Be Profitable?“. I look at the surprisingly low price of Tesla’s truck and break down what it would take to make the truck profitable. Also look at how Tesla can provide “MegaCharging” for only 7c/kWh guaranteed. I’m expecting the usual litany of comments calling me…
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