Eye of the beholder and all that. I like them, pretty much all of them too except the panamera i just cant as much as ive tried.Sandstorm wrote:Hmmmm....I don't see anyone handing out design awards for Porsche exterior design either. The Taycan is the nicest looking Porker in decades, but it's still a pug.Lorthern Nights wrote: I also just dont find the S or X remotely asthetically pleasing and i do like Porsche, the cars just work and dont give you any headaches unlike say JLR's which often do as nice a ride as they are.
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The prius is significantly more efficient than general ICE cars but it's still ultimately based upon IC with a small electric buffer. It's not really a paradigm shift, just addressing the worst of petrol's faults.Sandstorm wrote:Yes, but they also weigh more which negates a lot of the fuel saved driving on battery power. There's no magic bullet with batteries. The answer that sits with hydrogen fuel cells which will make the latest BEVs look like milk floats in less than 10 years.inactionman wrote:With plug-in hybrids, the range is really just your average in-town commute or tesco and home, which is generally the most common use of a car for most people. They do use fuel more efficiently though (they operate the engine at a higher loading to charge battery, which gets more energy from a given unit of fuel, for petrols at least), which is the raison d'être for the Prius-type of car.Sandstorm wrote:Except you have to drive like Nan on a Sunday to avoid the petrol engine kicking in for those (highly unlikely range of) 30 miles. A hybrid is a tax dodge, not a way to save fuel.backrow wrote:Are hybrids not a better option in the uk at present ? 30 miles range would be fine for work and back, yet if I want to go to Devon for the weekend I can use petrol as normal.
Several kuga RAV4 class things avail now that are spacious for 5 and are hybrids.![]()
50L of hydrogen at £1 a litre and you'll get 1000 miles range. Fill up in just 5 mins once every 3 weeks. Game changer.
The qualities of hydrogen make it very attractive indeed - it can be created and used in a number of ways - but I was under impression storage and handling issues were proving tricky to overcome. I appreciate nothing is truly insurmountable, but I was under impression we're still some way away from making hydrogen-based vehicles practical.
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https://www.google.com/search?biw=1920& ... arbr6PFiaQinactionman wrote: but I was under impression storage and handling issues were proving tricky to overcome.

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??Insane_Homer wrote:https://www.google.com/search?biw=1920& ... arbr6PFiaQinactionman wrote: but I was under impression storage and handling issues were proving tricky to overcome.
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Petrol is still just as dangerous.inactionman wrote:??Insane_Homer wrote:https://www.google.com/search?biw=1920& ... arbr6PFiaQinactionman wrote: but I was under impression storage and handling issues were proving tricky to overcome.
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Flammable stuff isn't always safe? No shit sherlock.Insane_Homer wrote:Petrol is still just as dangerous.inactionman wrote:??Insane_Homer wrote:https://www.google.com/search?biw=1920& ... arbr6PFiaQinactionman wrote: but I was under impression storage and handling issues were proving tricky to overcome.
I was actually refering to problems of storing something with an energy density orders of scale lower than current fossil fuels and of a molecular size small enough to cause issues with seals, all that sort of stuff, but cap'n genius has kindly reminded me that flammable stuff burns.
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I don't believe that hydrogen has issues above that is holding it back. The price per tank is the same as petrol at present, so storage isn't a problem or it would cost much more.inactionman wrote: I was actually refering to problems of storing something with an energy density orders of scale lower than current fossil fuels and of a molecular size small enough to cause issues with seals, all that sort of stuff, but cap'n genius has kindly reminded me that flammable stuff burns.
The issue is that you get 350 miles out of a 2020 fuel cell vehicle which is on a par with petrols and the best BEVs, but still 25% short of diesel's range.
Once they crack the range issue, hydrogen will rule the forecourt! We'll just produce it locally and with low transport costs it'll kill off the fossil fuel guys for good.
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Strange that with these 'problems' we already have a growing network of Hydrogen fuel stations in the UK, highlights include one on the M25 and one on the M40.inactionman wrote:Flammable stuff isn't always safe? No shit sherlock.Insane_Homer wrote:Petrol is still just as dangerous.inactionman wrote:??Insane_Homer wrote:https://www.google.com/search?biw=1920& ... arbr6PFiaQinactionman wrote: but I was under impression storage and handling issues were proving tricky to overcome.
I was actually refering to problems of storing something with an energy density orders of scale lower than current fossil fuels and of a molecular size small enough to cause issues with seals, all that sort of stuff, but cap'n genius has kindly reminded me that flammable stuff burns.
I'd wager they've already managed to solve them.
So no more dangerous that Petrol is now and probably a fudge load more than when petrol first became ubiquitous.
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I think if you're looking at price you should be looking at duties payable. It's the bulk of fossil fuel cost (if memory serves, about 2/3 of the cost in UK for petrol), and so at-the-pump price isn't comparable.Sandstorm wrote:I don't believe that hydrogen has issues above that is holding it back. The price per tank is the same as petrol at present, so storage isn't a problem or it would cost much more.inactionman wrote: I was actually refering to problems of storing something with an energy density orders of scale lower than current fossil fuels and of a molecular size small enough to cause issues with seals, all that sort of stuff, but cap'n genius has kindly reminded me that flammable stuff burns.
The issue is that you get 350 miles out of a 2020 fuel cell vehicle which is on a par with petrols and the best BEVs, but still 25% short of diesel's range.
Once they crack the range issue, hydrogen will rule the forecourt! We'll just produce it locally and with low transport costs it'll kill off the fossil fuel guys for good.
And hydrogen does cause issues with storage, it's usually pressurised (not good from 'things go bang' perspective) or is cryogenically frozen to liquid form, or otherwise combined with other elements. It's also prone to leakage, which is unfortunate as there are continual rumblings about replacing natural gas networks with hydrogen - which we could create in any which way we wanted, including renewable - but the seals across the network aren't always up to task.
I agree hydrogen is one of a number of potential alternatives for cars, and I'd hope that ongoing developments would overcome some of the standing issues, which is frankly a time and resource issue. I've said in previous posts, it's quite complex to process fossil fuels but we've invested enough through the years to make it 'affordable' (in a literal pounds and pence sense) - take that funding and development effort and apply to alternatives and these will become increasingly attractive.
Of course, the fundamental issues that we struck energy 'gold' with fossil fuels - substances that millions of years and geological pressures had turned to amazingly high-energy-density fuels - and we've cut our cloth transport-wise with this in mind. I'd wonder if the ever-increasing vehicle weights would have occurred if we'd had to use something less energy-dense instead. I'm a complete hypocrite in this sense, my car is well over 2 tonnes and it has no need to be - and I believe we should looking at this end of things as well. That would certainly help get hydrogen fuel cells further off the ground.
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I was in with one of Irelands largest car rental companies (Part of one of the worlds biggest), they own around 8000 cars. I asked them how many of them were Electric, the answer surprised me Zero. They seems to be no market for renting them here.Duff Paddy wrote:Better option for whom? The vast majority of people only drive short distances in a day.
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inactionman wrote: Of course, the fundamental issues that we struck energy 'gold' with fossil fuels - substances that millions of years and geological pressures had turned to amazingly high-energy-density fuels - and we've cut our cloth transport-wise with this in mind. I'd wonder if the ever-increasing vehicle weights would have occurred if we'd had to use something less energy-dense instead. I'm a complete hypocrite in this sense, my car is well over 2 tonnes and it has no need to be - and I believe we should looking at this end of things as well. That would certainly help get hydrogen fuel cells further off the ground.


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Insane_Homer wrote:
Strange that with these 'problems' we already have a growing network of Hydrogen fuel stations in the UK, highlights include one on the M25 and one on the M40.
I'd wager they've already managed to solve them.
So no more dangerous that Petrol is now and probably a fudge load more than when petrol first became ubiquitous.
You can stick petrol in a tank, you need to do more with hydrogen - its energy density at atmospheric temp and pressure is infeasibly small, but under pressure or reduced temp we get benefits. Getting increased pressure or reduced temp is where the challenges lie, and is where a lot of research and development effort. As I have explained, repeatedly, but you're prattling on about 'dangerous'.
Read this:
https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/hydrogen-storage
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They'll take years to catch on with hire companies. Too many issues with customers usually not being from the area where they hire the car, so unfamiliar with distances between places. They'll run out of juice.Luckycharmer wrote:I was in with one of Irelands largest car rental companies (Part of one of the worlds biggest), they own around 8000 cars. I asked them how many of them were Electric, the answer surprised me Zero. They seems to be no market for renting them here.Duff Paddy wrote:Better option for whom? The vast majority of people only drive short distances in a day.
This leads to increased call out costs from AA for recovery, lost charging cables, issues paying for the electricity from charging stations in foreign countries, etc. Sounds like a real minefield for that industry.
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I'd wonder if that's because electric requires a little bit of foreknowledge and planning around recharging points etc, whereas it goes without saying you'd be able to find a petrol station.Luckycharmer wrote:I was in with one of Irelands largest car rental companies (Part of one of the worlds biggest), they own around 8000 cars. I asked them how many of them were Electric, the answer surprised me Zero. They seems to be no market for renting them here.Duff Paddy wrote:Better option for whom? The vast majority of people only drive short distances in a day.
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Last time I checked, petrol cars don't need the fuel stored at 10,000 psi.Insane_Homer wrote:https://www.google.com/search?biw=1920& ... arbr6PFiaQinactionman wrote: but I was under impression storage and handling issues were proving tricky to overcome.
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Is it really 10k psi?
Pressurised fuel works with lpg, but that's 320psi.

Pressurised fuel works with lpg, but that's 320psi.
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Also because they're more expensive to buy so depreciation is possibly higher when they sell the cars after about a year.inactionman wrote:I'd wonder if that's because electric requires a little bit of foreknowledge and planning around recharging points etc, whereas it goes without saying you'd be able to find a petrol station.Luckycharmer wrote:I was in with one of Irelands largest car rental companies (Part of one of the worlds biggest), they own around 8000 cars. I asked them how many of them were Electric, the answer surprised me Zero. They seems to be no market for renting them here.Duff Paddy wrote:Better option for whom? The vast majority of people only drive short distances in a day.
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How does one drive like Sodium azide?backrow wrote:Most of the time in sW London you can’t drive fast anyways so NaN-like driving is very likely to happen, as well as sitting in traffic.Sandstorm wrote:Except you have to drive like Nan on a Sunday to avoid the petrol engine kicking in for those (highly unlikely range of) 30 miles. A hybrid is a tax dodge, not a way to save fuel.backrow wrote:Are hybrids not a better option in the uk at present ? 30 miles range would be fine for work and back, yet if I want to go to Devon for the weekend I can use petrol as normal.
Several kuga RAV4 class things avail now that are spacious for 5 and are hybrids.
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To throw my two penneths worth in...my office got a Kona as a pool car a couple of months ago. I've driven it extensively since, and I have to say I'm thoroughly impressed. For what is, as noted, a mid-range price electric vehicle, it still has a ridiculous amount of torque (to the degree that having never driven an electric car before, and needing to overtake lots of logging trucks here in Northland, the first time I attempted the manoeuvre in the Kona I put my foot to the floor and I almost sent myself off the other side of the road such was the acceleration).The tax rules are definitely going to push EV sales over the next couple of years. The problem for Tesla is that the large OEMs are now arriving with EV product that people might want (Taycan, E-Tron, I-Pace, Mustang Mach E) as well as lower cost options (VW ID, Hyundai Kona).
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How in God's name did you get a Kona? There's about three of them in the UK, such is Hyundai's inability to match battery supply with demand, as if this came as a surprise, the stupid sods.
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Loads of Konas in Ireland. For some reason Hyundai are more popular here than Kia, which is crazy because the Niro is a far nicer car despite the two of them being based in the same electric motor, battery pack and chassis.
The Hyundai marketing team did a great job promoting the brand here over other alternatives.
The Hyundai marketing team did a great job promoting the brand here over other alternatives.
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I'm in New Zealand. Although, tbf, I'm slightly amazed that a market as small as NZ has more access to a brand new electric car than the UK (I've also seen a few of them about town as well, and I live in something of a backwater town). Good car. Also has that fancy/annoying system of dragging you back into the middle of the lane should you veer too close to the lines.The Man Without Fear wrote:How in God's name did you get a Kona? There's about three of them in the UK, such is Hyundai's inability to match battery supply with demand, as if this came as a surprise, the stupid sods.
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The Hyundai franchise is owned by one guy in Ireland as far as I know - a goldmine akin to the one Bill Cullen had with Renault back in the day. Not many of them left, most are centrally owned these days.Leinsterman wrote:Loads of Konas in Ireland. For some reason Hyundai are more popular here than Kia, which is crazy because the Niro is a far nicer car despite the two of them being based in the same electric motor, battery pack and chassis.
The Hyundai marketing team did a great job promoting the brand here over other alternatives.
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Opel are another. DG Gowan own the franchise as well as the Peugeot one.Duff Paddy wrote:The Hyundai franchise is owned by one guy in Ireland as far as I know - a goldmine akin to the one Bill Cullen had with Renault back in the day. Not many of them left, most are centrally owned these days.Leinsterman wrote:Loads of Konas in Ireland. For some reason Hyundai are more popular here than Kia, which is crazy because the Niro is a far nicer car despite the two of them being based in the same electric motor, battery pack and chassis.
The Hyundai marketing team did a great job promoting the brand here over other alternatives.
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I remember meeting the lads who had Kia just as they were losing it. It was the Harris truck crew on the Naas Road. Said the South Koreans were too difficult to deal with. I wondered would they regret it as I thought they might take off
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Maybe 8k psi.Zakar wrote:Is it really 10k psi?![]()
Pressurised fuel works with lpg, but that's 320psi.
Interesting article here, though, on hydrogen as a zero emissions combustion fuel - stored as hydrides - a liquid solution (~200 psi). It's very long so I've snipped the fcuk out of it to get the gist:
- This company may have solved one of the hardest problems in clean energy
- The “hydrogen economy” may be a thing after all.
By David Roberts Feb 16, 2018
A HyTech electrolyzer (in this case, attached to a stationary diesel generator). HyTech Power
It’s not much to look at, just a tube filled with distilled water. Suspended roughly in the center is a small titanium plate coated with a bespoke mix of electrocatalysts optimized to pull hydrogen and oxygen apart. The gases rise off the plate in a continuous stream of bubbles. It’s all sealed in metal and there are no moving parts, so it is extremely durable and requires little maintenance.
... Johnson boasts that his electrolyzer can produce hydrogen at about three or four times the rate of electrolyzers with similar footprints, using about a third the electrical current ...
HyTech also wants to clean up existing carsskip this - interesting sidebar but off topic: show
... it will take any engine that runs on diesel, gasoline, propane, or CNG and switch it over to run on 100 percent hydrogen. (The company is currently in the process of getting its retrofit product certified by the California Air Resources Board as zero-emissions.) This would allow any driver to get a zero-emissions vehicle for substantially less than the cost of buying a new electric or hydrogen fuel cell vehicle.
Johnson acknowledges that, if he were designing a vehicle from scratch, he would design it around a hydrogen fuel cell with no combustion, but “we have no interest in becoming a car company,” he says. Instead, HyTech wants to clean up existing vehicles.
For a pure-hydrogen (as opposed to mixed HHO) application like this, the electrolyzer is slightly different. The hydrogen is passed through a membrane that strips it of any remaining oxygen or nitrogen, leaving pure hydrogen for the vehicle to burn. (That makes the electrolyzer a proton exchange membrane, or PEM, electrolyzer, a variant familiar to hydrogen fans.)
... The power demands of a vehicle engine are variable and can ramp up and down quickly, so the system needs to keep a bit of hydrogen stored as a buffer, in case it draws more than the electrolyzer can produce.
Conventional hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (like the Toyota Mirai) store their hydrogen as a highly compressed gas, at about 8,000 psi. But compressed gas introduces all kinds of issues. It takes a lot of energy to compress the gas, it requires its own dedicated infrastructure, compressed-gas fueling stations are wildly expensive to build, and compressed hydrogen is, well, explosive, so every tank full of it is a potential bomb.
Johnson wants nothing to do with that. So he’s taken another route. His system stores hydrogen, weakly bonded to metals as “hydrides,” in an inert, non-pressurized (~200 psi) liquid solution.
yada yada yada: show
A Ford Raptor, running on pure hydrogen. HyTech Power
There are two ways to “fill up” the vehicle. The slow way is to plug it in overnight, providing power for the electrolyzer to fill the tank. The fast way is to fill it up with hydride solution, which could be generated on site, either at home or a filling station, with nothing but an electrolyzer, some distilled water, and a tank.
Read more: VOXyada yada yada: show - The “hydrogen economy” may be a thing after all.
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There are currently 142 Kona's listed for sale on www.trademe.co.nzThe Man Without Fear wrote:How in God's name did you get a Kona? There's about three of them in the UK, such is Hyundai's inability to match battery supply with demand, as if this came as a surprise, the stupid sods.
Hyundai NZ sold 323 new ones in NZ in 2019
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Apparently.... From what I have heard.... OK a dude on the radio World EV sales are actually dropping.
When it come to Tesla the company is a bit of a joke imho
It has been based on potential since day one and is creeping closer and closer to no credibility.
It will end up a big bursting of a balloon
When it come to Tesla the company is a bit of a joke imho
It has been based on potential since day one and is creeping closer and closer to no credibility.
It will end up a big bursting of a balloon
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World electric vehicle sales were up >40% last year.Dark wrote:Apparently.... From what I have heard.... OK a dude on the radio World EV sales are actually dropping.
When it come to Tesla the company is a bit of a joke imho
It has been based on potential since day one and is creeping closer and closer to no credibility.
It will end up a big bursting of a balloon
Maybe don't get your research from some bloke on the radio.
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The world would be a lesser place if we didn't get our info' from some bloke on the radio.
Second only to the dude down the pub whose sister works with the bloke who is definitely in the know.
Second only to the dude down the pub whose sister works with the bloke who is definitely in the know.
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Didn't Tesla just overtake Volkswagen in value this week? Not bad for a company going bust.
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You know stock market value and company solvency are not one and the same thing, right?bok_viking wrote:Didn't Tesla just overtake Volkswagen in value this week? Not bad for a company going bust.
Tesla has been loss making every year of its 17 year existence. It's history of negative free cash flow is impressively long and large. It has been a value destroying machine for almost two decades. However there remain plenty of investors out there willing to keep refinancing Elon every time he dips back into the capital markets because they believe one day, sometime in the future, he's going to solve how to make his cars for an economically viable price and command a huge % of global auto market share. They are gambling that he does this before the established, profitable auto makers can catch up to Tesla's EV technology. Personally I think it more likely that Tesla eventually gets bought out by someone at a share price far below $572 but I've been wrong about that for years now and the market can stay irrational longer than anyone can stay solvent. The share price move on this since October has been utterly insane.
Checking the Tesla valuations again. Its now on 17x book value (compare that to Volkswagon is on 0.85x and highly profitable!). So for every $1 of Tesla stock you buy, you receive ownership of 6 cents of the company's net tangible assets. You might say 6% of your bet is effectively based on the present company and 94% is based on some sort of intangible asset (the expectation that Tesla will be a globally dominant, profitable brand in the future). It's the growthiest of growth stocks and an absolute poster child for the bull market of the past 10+ years. If we get a return towards normalised interest rates, then I suspect that will crush Tesla because all those analyst cashflow models that are presently discounting the company's distant profits years into the future at a minuscule discount rate will alter and the net present value will come down very fast. But it almost seems like we are never going to see central banks turn off the money taps until something forces them to do it.
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Yup, if you don't want the fuel to take up too much space. Most of the small number of Hydrogen cars on sale use Type IV (10,000PSI) fuel tanks. This Merc actually offers 2 different tanks - most just use the Type IV.Zakar wrote:Is it really 10k psi?![]()
Pressurised fuel works with lpg, but that's 320psi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes- ... en_storage
Hydrogen has good energy density per kilo - better than petrol - but worse density per cubic metre so you have to compress it like a bastard so it doesn't take up too much space.
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Charging at home is okay for people with driveways. Where I live in Bristol for most people an electric car would be ideal, Bristol is also a city where there are a lot of Victorian streets and houses with no driveways. If you have to park on the street then firstly there is no guarantee you can park outside your house and secondly putting a cable across the pavement is asking for damage, issues resulting from people tripping over, unplugging or whatever else passing teenagers/drunks might do.Duff Paddy wrote:All depends on your mileage. Most people are still stuck in the mindset of petrol stations and topping up the fuel as you need it. That’s not how electric cars work - you charge them at home overnight. The public charging network is only for the odd longer drive that you might do a handful of times anyway, or when you get stuck having to do a longer journey than normal. Most people don’t do that much mileage.terryfinch wrote:I reckon we are still 3-4 years from an electric car being a realistic option for me. Too much faff and not enough certainty on charging points. I do a lot of towing and electric cars don't really do that.
In Ireland a big thing was that the ESB charging network was free until recently. This was actually a bad thing as it meant people hogged the free chargers and left their cars blocking them for entire days. A small charge has changed all of that. There are also some private operators like Ionity who are installing fast chargers at petrol stations
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I think you’ll find the improvements in handling (due to the battery weight improving the COG) and instant torque will compensate.The Sun God wrote:I really am trying to get this whole EV trend and indeed I own one but as someone who loves the XJ and has owned many and still owns one, this makes me sad.The Man Without Fear wrote:Ah yes, blackouts. Which the National Grid have already said isn't going to happen.
Next zombie myth.
As to taking up non Tesla alternatives, the reason none of the Tesla killers have actually killed any Teslas is largely because they can't match up on range, battery density charging network and most importantly, supply. Whilst the Ipace accounted for 10% of all of Jaguar's output last year, which is to be celebrated in its own right, it was still just shy of a tenth of the vehicles Tesla delivered in Q4 2019 alone.
And that's a shame.
Jag are also bringing out an electric XJ.
I am sure it will be a magnificent creature but to me the XJ is all about how the V8 becomes the driving experience ....even the V6 versions were a joy to drive.
Just plug in your iphone with the “broom broom” noises and you’ll be sweet!
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well, the stock price is going through the roof....was kicking myself I hadn't jumped on board a few months ago, bought about 3 weeks ago and its up 55%,,,,is it the 20's bitcoin ? signed, Globby
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wow, that's ridiculous.village wrote:You know stock market value and company solvency are not one and the same thing, right?bok_viking wrote:Didn't Tesla just overtake Volkswagen in value this week? Not bad for a company going bust.
Tesla has been loss making every year of its 17 year existence. It's history of negative free cash flow is impressively long and large. It has been a value destroying machine for almost two decades. However there remain plenty of investors out there willing to keep refinancing Elon every time he dips back into the capital markets because they believe one day, sometime in the future, he's going to solve how to make his cars for an economically viable price and command a huge % of global auto market share. They are gambling that he does this before the established, profitable auto makers can catch up to Tesla's EV technology. Personally I think it more likely that Tesla eventually gets bought out by someone at a share price far below $572 but I've been wrong about that for years now and the market can stay irrational longer than anyone can stay solvent. The share price move on this since October has been utterly insane.
Checking the Tesla valuations again. Its now on 17x book value (compare that to Volkswagon is on 0.85x and highly profitable!). So for every $1 of Tesla stock you buy, you receive ownership of 6 cents of the company's net tangible assets. You might say 6% of your bet is effectively based on the present company and 94% is based on some sort of intangible asset (the expectation that Tesla will be a globally dominant, profitable brand in the future). It's the growthiest of growth stocks and an absolute poster child for the bull market of the past 10+ years. If we get a return towards normalised interest rates, then I suspect that will crush Tesla because all those analyst cashflow models that are presently discounting the company's distant profits years into the future at a minuscule discount rate will alter and the net present value will come down very fast. But it almost seems like we are never going to see central banks turn off the money taps until something forces them to do it.
good post.
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basically valued like a unicorn tech company with none of this multiple of EBITDA silliness