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Six months break even and then it’s more carbon friendly than an ICE for the rest of its working lifetime

• groundzeros2015 9mo ago
  Tesla has used more than 40 billion of capital
  • vel0city 9mo ago
    They've made almost 9 million cars overall, with a lot of those made in the last several years. Spreading it over the cars they've made so far, 40,000 / 9 = 4,444.44. Doesn't seem that crazy. I'm not seeing your point.
    • groundzeros2015 9mo ago
      That 40 billion is investment money, not the cost of goods sold. I’m saying its not obvious at all that environmental cost is recouped.
      • vel0city 9mo ago
        That's 9 million (and probably many more unless Tesla disappears tomorrow) far cleaner cars on the road, offsetting what would have probably been ICE sales. I'm no Tesla-stan but spending $40B over a decade to inject massive amounts of change in an entrenched industry to move forward in efficiency and emissions sounds like a pretty good investment to me.