Elon Musk’s Two Great Virtues
Elon Musk can conjure up wonderful images of the future. In the here and now, can he even produce cars (batteries? solar panels? anything?) on schedule? What is going to happen to Tesla?
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Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Fourteen: The New Yorker Lays Out the Template for Pro-Uber Propaganda
Dissecting the New Yorker’s fawning profile of new Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi.
Read more...Tesla Encounters the Material World
The likely failure of Tesla’s hyper-automated manufacturing process, and the externalities of battery fires in electric vehicles.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Tesla Slammed by Tesla (and Moody’s)
Tesla’s bubble is starting to deflate.
Read more...Trump’s Tariff Threat to Kick Off Trade War?
Trump is threatening to kick off a trade slugfest via tariffs on steel and aluminum. Will he follow through?
Read more...Tories, Trapped by Their Red Lines, Again Blame EU as Clock Runs Down
Assume the brace position. A hard Brexit is looking more likely.
Read more...Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirteen: Even After 4Q Cost Cuts, Uber Lost $4.5 Billion in 2017
How the business press got the story on Uber’s latest financial report wrong.
Read more...Dear Elon: Tesla’s Base Is Not the Model S Coalition
How Elon Musk is doing a great job of alienation a critically important part of Tesla’s Model S coalition.
Read more...Wired: Self Driving Car Hype Crashes Into Harsh Realities
Why self driving cars are not coming any time soon.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Carmegeddon for Tesla
The monthly moment of truth for automakers and for Tesla, the results ain’t pretty. This is where hype goes to die.
Read more...Yet Another Brexit Train Wreck – UK to Fall Outside EU Auto Approvals Regime – and It Doesn’t Even Register With Officials
Parliamentary testimony on the auto industry lifts another Brexit rock, revealing new creepy crawlies.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Pickup Sales Boom, Cars Get Crushed, Tesla Deliveries Plunge
Car sales hit an air pocket in October.
Read more...Sloppy Journalism about “Fully Autonomous” (Except Not) Robot Cars on (Some of) Manhattan’s Streets
Cuomo announces that self-driving cars will be tested on the streets of Manhattan: a critique of the press coverage
Read more...Hubert Horan: Naked Capitalism – Your Guide to Money and Power
Unlike the media and just about any other site, Naked Capitalism focuses relentlessly on how economic, political, and power dynamics intersect
Read more...A Louisville Union Built Its Strength as Blacks, Whites Took on International Harvester
History of the 1947 International Harvester factory strike by Farm Equipment Workers.
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