Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Kentucky Ford battery factory to shutter at cost of 1,600 jobs. Anyone paying attention could tell you the EV market was soft at best and that government subsidiaries were going away. Still something needs to be done here to help these workers.
- From the archives: When the Catholic Church did not want to suffer a cat to live.
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- 20,000 years ago our ancestors had the speed of Olympic sprinters but were barefoot running in sand.
- Ford sees $3 billion pretax loss on EV business this year. Only Tesla seems to be able to make a profit on EV sales.
- Coinbase asked the SEC what rules they may be in violation of but got threats back instead. The people who brought you the latest banking crisis don't want anyone escaping their grasp via crypto.
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Ronald Speirs - Badass paratrooper or war criminal? The scene of Speirs taking over from Lt Dike from Band of Brothers gives me chills every time. (HT The Feral Irishman)
- Not a good way to convince people to buy your cars Ford
- Marc Andreessen is an interesting cat. Never read that before thought I had often heard people refer to it. I was more familiar with this Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
Ford will open up orders for the next wave of F-150 Lightning reservation holders this Thursday [August 11th], but those buying the electric pickup as of this weekend will need to dig deeper in their pockets. The automaker is bumping up the prices by between $4,200 and $8,900...
The Senate passed a $7,500 tax credit for electric vehicles and Ford announces that they will be raising their prices by an average of $7,500 - coincidence? They're "fighting" inflation for the big corporations - not for the average American family. Your tax dollars at work.
Some news from the world of EV's (Electric Vehicles):
Based on filings it looks like Tesla's insurance offering is expected to soon be offered in Florida and Maryland as well as being already available in Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, and Virginia. Tesla insurance could be available in Maryland as soon as today. Tesla's goal is to eventually have 80% of all Tesla cars in the US getting their insurance from Tesla. Don't sleep on how big and profitable this could be for the company.
Ford is instructing dealers to temporarily stop selling electric Mustang Mach-E crossovers due to a potential safety defect that could cause the vehicles to become immobile (not a good thing). The Ford Mustang Mach-E is manufactured in Mexico - not in the US. Not EV news but Ford is also recalling 3.3 million vehicles due to rollaway concerns.
Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.
Think one of the major reasons the interest in the Grammys was so low (TV ratings half of what they were last year) is because nobody has seen any live music for over 12-months now. It is the concerts and seeing performances in person that drives interest in albums and artists. That was completely missing this year... Night Soil would be a hilarious name for a cover band that was intentionally bad. Very few would get the joke... No doubt in my mind whatsoever that the virus originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology... Correct me if I'm wrong but we still don't know the name of the Disney Executive who fired Gina Carano yet do we? Cowardice... UAW says Ford will move new production line out of Ohio and to Mexico instead. This will be interesting to watch. If Ford reverses course then it will be claimed as a victory for the Biden Administration. If the move to Mexico happens - the media will somehow try to blame Trump...
