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EV's have trunks.  But if you find a charge station that is already occupied a Trunk Monkey could be an option.

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EV's have trunks.  But if you find a charge station that is already occupied a Trunk Monkey could be an option.

How long would it take a 2000W generator with a 15 amp AC output to put 50 miles worth of juice into the batt pack of your Tesla?  But yea, a portable generator is a wise prep.  I don't think the rental EVs come with one though, which is part of the reason Hertz is selling off its fleet of EVs.  They also are a customer who decided to go back to ICE.  Actually, 20,000 customers.

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This is a nice new product that actually produces enough juice while you're parked to give you a decent number of miles of driving if there is no nearby grid power to tap into.

No new technology, it's just packaged nicely to fit on your car roof then unfurl while you're camped out and charge your vehicle.  If you go for a week long camping trip, park at the campsite and enjoy nature all week and BBQ some ribeyes, at the end of the week you have 210 miles of free happy motoring to the next campsite.

On the downside, this is not a device you could leave bolted to the roof of your car in any city and leave the car unattended and expect it to still be there when you return.  Maybe if you park it in front of a police station, or perhaps in a fenced and gated storage center with 24/7 armed security guards on duty it would be OK.  Otherwise, $3000 worth of solar panels on your roof all the time wouldn't last a week under normal driving circumstances in any city.

However, if homeless with a van, you could drive for free outside the city say 50 miles, spend 4 days at a legal campground with a typical $30/night fee, then unbolt it and put it inside the van, drive into town to work 3 12 hour shifts as a CNA in a Cripples Warehouse, sleep the 2 nights in town in the parking lot of your choice (different each night), then back to the campground after work on day 3.

Your weekly cost is $120/wk campground fee (which might even include free wifi), virtually nothing for fuel commutation cost while you earn $20/hr for 36 hours work = $720.  Your tax bracket is really low, so most income tax would be ~$100, another $50 for SS withholding, you have at least $450 wk left over.

If with your van you also tow a 15' trailer (cargo or camper style),  you have enough roof space for a second unit, doubling your daily solar mileage to 60 miles.  Driving one day, day off for charging the next you could drive cross country for free in a little over 1 month, staying for free at truckstops along the route as well as free unimproved campgrounds.  With some kind of work you can do remotely or a skill that can earn money daily you wouldn't even need the min wage job.  Ray Jason's gig as a Street Juggler that he made his money at while sailing around the wrold a couple of times in his yacht Aventura is one such job. Music of course if you play guitar, Jewel did that thing before she hit it big in the music biz.  A tradesman could pickup work at construction sites doing carpentry or plumbing or roofing.  A retiree like me could live like a king on Social Security and Pension money.  In fact, if I had a partner to do it with, I could fit out the trailer so it was accessible for my EV mobility devices and I would do that tomorrow.  Keep the scooter and chair charged as well, and it would run my recliner for sleeping. Not by myself though, too risky with the one leg.  Volkswagen makes a really cute EV camper van.

I prefer my own interior designs to this one, so I'd probably go for a cargo version without the commercial camper modifications and do the interior custom.  That cuts the price down as well.  Of course, you could do it much cheaper with a used full size ICE powered van, but then you lose the free driving miles and being fully Green, other than the embedded energy in the van and batt pack.  Not sure what it's towing capacity is, but I think it should handle a lightweight camper trailer.  One person can sleep in the van, the other the trailer for nice privacy.  It would work for 4 people also as 2 couples, or a couple with 2 kids.



Probably won't find a partner to do it with, but it's a nice fantasy. 

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Staggering sales drops, swastika-daubed EVs, companies culling fleet models, and fan-forum owners selling their cars—Elon Musk's alt-right antics are seriously impacting his electric car business.

No problem.  His new career as Trump's Enforcer keeps him bizzy.

Elon Musk's Toxicity Could Spell Disaster for Tesla

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musks-toxicity-could-spell-disaster-for-tesla/

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Staggering sales drops, swastika-daubed EVs, companies culling fleet models, and fan-forum owners selling their cars—Elon Musk's alt-right antics are seriously impacting his electric car business.

No problem.  His new career as Trump's Enforcer keeps him bizzy.

I can personally provide EYES ON EVIDENCE of this one in effect. I realize the cloistered nature of some limits them to internet stories of potentially dubious credibility or slanted perspective, but I've got a Tesla-phile in the family, almost got her a model Y a year ago, we were scoping out the cost...and then....ELON happened.

No way, no how is she getting a Tesla now. If you handed her a paint can and there was a Tesla dealership nearby, and there are some, she might use it. Constant swear words when his name comes on in the news, wild gesticulations.

Yup....some people are irritated.

[K-Dog]

The Tesla is a drop in replacement for ICE cars.  The original idea behind electric carz was to build a car that was less impactful on the environment.  Musk gave no two shits about that, and I have always hated Teslas for not forging the right path.  Teslas are the product of a techno-narcissist capitalist racist fascist, who never had the thought of a 'people's car' in his head.  Actual thought does not come easy for the man.

Fuck Musk.

The idea in my dreams was for society to adjust to a machine with a limited range.  But anybody who appreciated that aspect kept it to themselves, and after enough blank looks I shut up.  People will not hear of limits until they are too loud to ignore.  The idea of accepting less to get more goes over the heads of most people like jets over a vast ocean.  Almost out of sight.


Reduced range on carz would also have generated public transportation that was worth something.

It would be a limited lifestyle, but life would have gone on with just as much happiness for a lot longer.  Better than no carz, which will happen when people can't get gas.

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While it's gratifying to see Elon morphing into the man you love to hate on, at least so far it hasn't rubbed off on Trump.  I'm wondering if this isn't calculated, with Elon serving as the repository for everyone's disgust with what is going on, while the "Teflon Don" remains beloved by his MAGA-otts?

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Keep your fingers crossed for a further drop in the TSLA stock price!    Elon's creative financing could result in his creditors repoing X (Twitter), or him losing control of the company.

Right now Elon's press is so bad I'd say the likelihood of further stock loss for TSLA is well north of 50-50.  Owners are trying to dump the cars as fast as they can, and besides his buddy Trump buyers are running in the other direction everywhere.  Boycotts are ongoing in Europe, and here they're being decorated with Swastikas.

Besides all that, the stock was wildy overpriced to begin with, so it could easily lose another 40% on top of the 40% already lost, especially with a recession on the horizon.

There's some joy in Mudville!



https://www.thestreet.com/technology/tesla-stock-declines-could-cost-elon-musk-something-important

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[K-Dog]

Besides all that, the stock was wildly overpriced to begin with, so it could easily lose another 40% on top of the 40% already lost, especially with a recession on the horizon.

With stagnating vehicle sales, losing market share, getting passed by a Chinese competitor (BYD), as other competitors catch up, Tesla is now in a class by itself far from the positions of Ford, GM, Toyota, and others that trade at P/E ratios between the single digits and 12 at the high end.  Current P/E ratios :
    Ford: 11.1
    GM: 5.5
    Stellantis: 2.7
    Honda: 7.3
    Toyota: 9.6
    Tesla: 103.2

Modern Tulip mania! I think of all the retirees who get pensions based on portfolio performance. ( I am not one of them. )  Some might figure they have nothing to lose.  Musk could soon be a man without a country.

*  Stellantis N.V. is a multinational automotive manufacturing company formed from the merger in 2021 of the Italian–American conglomerate Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) and the French PSA Group. The company headquarters are located in Hoofddorp, Netherlands.

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Speaking of Elon's press, this latest re-tweet is further confirmation of what EVERYBODY KNOWS, which is that he's a full blown NAZI!  At this point, he might as well hang a portrait of Hitler over his desk.  Or maybe grow a Charlie Chaplin mustache.



This should take another 10% off TSLA. 

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-03-13/ty-article/musk-shares-claim-that-stalin-hitler-didnt-murder-millions-public-sector-workers-did/00000195-8ee8-d155-affd-8fec8f8e0000

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Finally, a Collapse we can all celebrate! 



Are Tesla protests working? Elon Musk's company is on the verge of historic collapse

https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/03/are-tesla-protests-working-elon-musks-company-is-on-the-verge-of-historic-collapse.html

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We are inching closer to the inevitable day of reckoning in Bankruptcy court for Tesla.    One more good down leg in the tech sector should do it.  When El Trumpo can't get a deal with the Chinese and threatens them again, that should get the investors running for the exits again.

Far as robo taxis and self driving for Elons over priced and over powered machines goes, anybody who believed his claims about having that stuff working is a few cans short of a 6 pack.

I wonder how leveraged Elon is with SpaceX?  It would really be cool if the whole empire with the social media collapsed behind Tesla in margin calls.  Too much to ask for probably, but it would be spectacular to see him stripped down to just his Cayman Islands numbered accounts. 

https://www.theverge.com/tesla/654253/tesla-robotaxi-elon-musk-earnings-promise-fantasy

Elon Musk's robotaxi fantasy is starting to unravel

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Muskrat circles the toilet.    Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.



You Can Suddenly Sense Elon Musk's Desperation

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[K-Dog]

My You-Tube algorithm is trying to influencing me.  It has decided to push gruesome forms of executions my way.  As disgusting as that toilet flush which I wish I could unsee.

The Persians would have made Trump into an leather backed chair.

In 1849, near a place known as Rawhide Buttes, approximately fifteen miles south of what is now Lusk, Wyoming, a wagon train was traveling west toward California. Among the travelers was a man named Clyde Pickett, who was a sociopathic racist motherfucker.  Clyde openly expressed hostility toward Native American people.  Clyde considered "the only good Injun's is a dead Injun."

Pickett, the sociopathic racist motherfucker was also horny, and Pickett wanted to get his Dawg on in a bad way!  Clyde sought to impress a woman named Kate Farley , by shooting the first Indian he encountered.  The wagon train went by an Indian camp, and Pickett shot a native woman dead.  Sioux men were out hunting.

The Sioux men returned to camp, and went after the wagon train.  They demanded the murderer.

Pickett was turned over. Pickett was tied to a tree or wagon wheel, accounts vary, and the Sioux sharpened their knives.  Picket was flayed alive.  After hours of screaming Pickett's skinless body passed out, and the Sioux men waited another hour until hypothermia and blood loss caused death.  Then they left with Clyde's skin.  They found use for it.

I must be a Manchurian candidate of some kind, and the You Tube algorithm is trying to trigger me.  Good thing I figured it out.  The puppet masters are not kind people.  I won't do their dirty work.

[K-Dog]

EV's have trunks.  But if you find a charge station that is already occupied a Trunk Monkey could be an option.

How long would it take a 2000W generator with a 15 amp AC output to put 50 miles worth of juice into the batt pack of your Tesla?  But yea, a portable generator is a wise prep.  I don't think the rental EVs come with one though, which is part of the reason Hertz is selling off its fleet of EVs.  They also are a customer who decided to go back to ICE.  Actually, 20,000 customers.

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I never answered this, I should have, I have enough knowledge to make an educated guess without a detailed calculation.  Eight hours for a Tesla. 

 

Seven for a BYD.