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Enron 2.0 – Update

1. Northstar says:

   July 13, 2020 - 2:17 pm at 2:17 pm

   Nice work 🙂

2. Homer says:

   July 13, 2020 - 2:44 pm at 2:44 pm

   Ha! This company may not survive. We shall see.

3. Karl says:

   July 13, 2020 - 4:05 pm at 4:05 pm

   This comment, question, or set of questions may not be appropriate for this thread — or for this site. It is engineering (+finance) not TA. But it has to do with electric vehicles. I suppose it’s relevant for this site in that it has to do with metals used for vehicles and for wires.

   I don’t see why it isn’t a bubble that even the legitimate (I’m assuming or pretending their legitimate) vehicle companies are also coming up with electric vehicles on a large scale, or why the Chinese gov’t is promoting it so heavily. The energy aspects of it combined with the social aspects seem a bit overdone and not just by Tesla.

   These vehicles don’t make sense unless there is going to be some dramatic advance in reduction of loss of energy of transmission of energy after it’s produced to where the batteries are charged. Not my specialty, but I have the strong impression that there is massive loss of electric energy in power lines. So maybe if the chargers are close to the power plants (that will take clever power plant design and urban design!) you don’t get lots of loss. Otherwise you have to have wildly innovative efficiency in transmission or else localized electricity production and storage (I don’t think under most circumstances solar power and batteries come close, but I may be wrong). You also have the problems of disposal of the batteries or how to recycle it, also of at least changing habits or technology for long trips…

   For somewhat densely packed regions with superb public transportation and great electric vehicle rental service, I could see it. I suppose that works for parts of China, Japan, Europe, but surely not all parts of them.

   So for short trips in densely packed cities, w/o knowing much about it (I admit it) I think these cars seem potentially practical. Otherwise, might the push for them in general be a bubble — not just Tesla? Or do they just intend to keep us bound up (or locked down) in our little apartments in densely packed cities or what?

   These points are mainly for the pure electrical vehicles not the hybrids, although even for hybrids I wonder sometimes about disposal-of-battery and wear-and-tear-of-road questions albeit from ignorance. I write out of ignorance. Please enlighten me.