Elon Musk’s meltdown makes perfect sense
Elon Musk has lost his cool. And the tale of his transformation from media darling into spurned lover out to make the press pay encapsulates a key part of the Silicon Valley mindset.
Elon Musk has lost his cool. And the tale of his transformation from media darling into spurned lover out to make the press pay encapsulates a key part of the Silicon Valley mindset.
The environmental case for electric vehicles in China has been complicated by research questioning whether the cars could produce more pollution than those with internal combustion engines.
Some of America’s biggest energy companies are lobbying Washington to change — critics say weaken — oversight of a federal tax credit going to facilities capturing carbon emissions.
In his grand goal to bring electric driving to the masses, Elon Musk has been doing his best Henry Ford impression. To date, that has included his own take on Ford’s famed quip: “Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.”
The agricultural sector from the United States to Russia, and Brazil to Europe, is seeing profits harmed by the rise in diesel prices. The global oil benchmark, Brent crude LCOc1, touched $80 a barrel for the first time since late 2014 on Thursday.
A sustained oil price shock where crude oil prices remain at peak levels would be significant.
There is a risk that oil prices could hit $100 per barrel next year for the first time since 2014, according to new research from Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
The Tesla Model 3 has been billed as Tesla’s mass-market, affordable electric sedan, but with a bunch of fancy options, the car can easily get into the high $70,000-range.
Companies extracting oil and gas from the wilderness area in Alaska would face “enormous reputational risk and public backlash”, the investors say in a letter sent to 100 fossil fuel companies and the banks that finance them.
The Fuel Freedom adviser said the U.S. should brace itself against expected higher prices at the pump by using more resources for fuel we have at home. “Why should we have to worry about international oil when we have so much domestic energy in our own country?”