How about the fittings and hoses?

I wonder if this is going to use Toyota's fancy solid stare miracle cells that they swore were needed before they could build a compelling BEV?

That RAV4 was built in collaboration with Tesla. I guess we can debate if it counts or not.

Those estimates are too conservative. The speed at which governments are going to have to act to stave off increasingly dire outcomes from climate change will drive a transition much faster. Even before fossil fuel bans increasingly take hold, intelligent consumers will come to the conclusion that buying anything else but an electric vehicle is a bad investment.

And yet there are still folks out there who think they'll get rich shorting Tesla...

It might mean something if we knew how many vehicles were in the 'Edition 1' run. Was it 50,000 or just one? Considering that the vehicle doesn't even have a functional prototype yet and mass production is years away, may as well file this away for a couple years.

Nikola just needs to keep their stock above zero for a few more months till the execs and other major shareholders can legally cash out their shares as a result of the lockup rules stemming from the reverse merger technique they used to go public. They will do whatever it takes to ensure that there is as much value as possible to suck from the marrow of this corpse, then after December 3, the company will simply collapse as everyone and their dog pulls out. Anybody foolish enough to still be listening the financial media and other trapped investors will lose their shirts. This is a company that has no IP of it's own, no affordable hydrogen, no manufacturing and according to their own business 'plan' is going to simply be a reseller.

It does sound a bit unfair to hear Facebook tell it. Still FB has known about, and profited mightily from a lot of shady practices, privacy high up on that list. The fact that it hasn't seriously tried to tackle these issues has left FB wide open to being forced out of large regions. If FB does leave, there will be new alternatives popping up almost overnight. Alternatives that will be a little more friendly to their cash cows, er, users.

The problem that Uber and Lyft are facing is that they fundamentally haven't offered anything new, what they've essentially done is strip out some of the money that would otherwise go to the drivers by using the smokescreen of an app. This is more akin to what cabs use to be in the very early days and it was the problems with this system that the cab system evolved to fix. Now that the courts are starting to prevent Uber and Lyft from continuing to screw their employees out of money and benefits, the house of cards is starting to fall.

When your supposedly new business model boils down to not paying labour at the going rate, that's just a house of cards waiting to collapse.

Intel is getting spanked so hard right now that they're throwing everything at the wall.

The theory that most people will eventually be exposed and develop antibodies thus negating the virus has several fatal flaws. First, we don't know how long the antibodies last. Some research is suggesting as little as 3 months. I don't think anyone wants to have to be reinfected every three months just to maintain herd immunity. Even double that is not nearly long enough. Next, even if antibodies become widespread there's always the possibility the virus mutates negating any herd immunity that has been built up anyway. At least with a vaccine you can add in antigens from multiple strains to gain broad protection from one shot.

We need to do what we can now to limit the spread and hope that science eventually helps out. Frankly the economy depends on it. Just look back in history to the Polio crisis in the 50's. People simply stopped going out in public. Even in areas that have thus far denied the seriousness of the situation, that will change as people see more and more of their circle meet serious outcomes at the hands of the virus. Especially when they discover that those serious outcomes can happen on a 2nd or 3rd infection even if previous infections have been mild.

Firefox is my main browser and I do what I can to keep it locked down. I try to use Edge as my secondary for those instances that what I've done has broken 'fox and I really want to access something. I can no longer support Google.

The whole range issue is largely a red herring. The main reason that ICE cars have the range they have is so that people don't have to refuel EVERY DAY because that would get annoying quickly. Provided you've got a place to charge, either at home or at work, BEVs don't really have that problem because you start out every morning with a full tank. In fact, half the time I'd wager a BEV is starting the day with more actual range than an ICE vehicle, at least until you make that trip to the gas station. But people don't think about this because they can't overcome the cognitive bias that they need at least as much or more of something if they're going to be able to use something new.