You found the rare exception which proves the rule. :-)

I had a nice Saturn dealer when I bought the Saturn SL2. But that was ~17 years ago. Every car purchase since then was basically fights about how much of a "deal" I would get.

It's not that Chevy wont make a profit on the Bolt. It's just they wont make an insane profit on each one, like Tesla does.

I seem to recall that the margin on a Tesla Model S is over 25%. It's just that Tesla uses that money to build up the supercharger network rather than take it as pure profit at the end of the quarter.

If Chevy decides they don't want to build their own supercharging network they can charge a lot less for the car. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if they don't ask Tesla to piggyback on the Tesla supercharging network.

Tesla realized that electric cars cannot be bought through dealers.

Dealers would never afford to be open if they just sold electric cars unless the markup on them was huge. Otherwise, where would they make the money? Certainly not in service contracts since electric cars don't have expensive parts that go bad after 50K miles.

And you'll see a lot of second sites very near the first.

Almost anywhere you live, you likely live within a hundred miles of an "auto mile", where you have 7 or 8 dealerships strung right next to each other. Almost always they're owned by just a couple families, rather than all single person shops.

Dealers are scum. Never liked buying a car from one, and hope to never again buy a car from one.

Just because someone is known, doesn't mean anything can be done.

What should have been done with these guys before they killed people? Have them watched indefinitely? Imprison them because they may cause a crime? Limit their freedoms in any other way?

The world governments know a lot about a lot of individuals. It's just that most of what they know is circumstantial and not actionable information.

That's because Apple will push a notification to any Apple iDevice that's compatible with the latest version of iOS when it's connected to the internet.

Google can't do that because the hardware manufacturers all run custom versions of Android.

Whether the hardware manufacturers add value to the OS is not for me to say.

But is that what we should recommend to people who are not technologically verse?

People who can expect their computers to get hit with a virus or trojan or phishing scan a couple times a year?

Back when MtGOX went bust, people were saying you'd have to be an idiot to keep your Bitcoins there as they were untrusted.

I'm sure people are saying the same thing now about Bitstamp.

So I ask: Other than keeping it myself either in a personal wallet on my PC or smartphone or burned onto a CD on my shelf, where should I keep my Bitcoins? (Because on my desktop computer or smartphone is just asking for trouble, and on a CD is just asking for a different type of trouble.)

Agree 100%. Most people have some vague idea what a microSD card is.

If they were told they could make their iPhone hold more by buying one, they will get the cheapest one they could find online. If they're unlucky enough, they'll get one of those that say they're 128GB but actually have only 16GB space. And then blame Apple.

Let alone format them and have any idea of how to manage two storage pools when one of them is removable.

Absolutely. Speed limits are kept artificially low in most jurisdictions.

I have a highway near me with a limit of 65. In clear weather it's common to be doing 70 in the slow lane and have almost everyone pass you cursing that you're holding up traffic.

If they want to use cameras, I'm all for it. But they should be clearly marked and also set to only give out tickets when people are in the reckless driving speeds (15 miles over the limit?).

Agree 100%. I scientist who does his best to bring science to the masses.

Wish his Cosmos show was an ongoing series, just because it was that fun to watch.

Not just that, you have to look at TLotR and realize that Jackson is very good at what he does.

The fact that The Hobbit is so much worse point to one thing: Someone told him that it had to make a lot of money.

How much dedicated time does the gas station take to make the gasoline? ;-)

Realistically I would assume the solar array would use a storage battery so you don't need to generate the power at the instant the Tesla drives up.

On the other hand, 26-53 Teslas/day may be a bit of a low number. I've been at Tesla recharging stations where there are two or three Teslas parked and charging at the same time. And this was in NJ, not the west coast where there are more Teslas on the road.

On the third hand, no one drives into a supercharger with a completely depleted battery. I would wager that most people are just topping off from less than 50% charge to 90%.

On the fourth hand, a Tesla charging station doesn't have to be run completely off solar panels. Panels can supplement and take some of the base load off of the hard lines.

Is that a lot? I mean compared to rainfall over that area.

Looks like he's editing his own wikipedia article. Why is this guy noteworthy enough to have a wikipedia article?