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Fisker is slashing their prices nearly in half on their top model, over 35% on their lower end to avoid going under.
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If you want a real sale price their stock value is down about 99%.
Perhaps soon to be worthless?
I wouldn’t be surprised if bankruptcy happens and then remaining inventory would be sold to satisfy creditors.
Hopefully some angel investors can salvage the company intact. Time will tell
Perhaps soon to be worthless?
I wouldn’t be surprised if bankruptcy happens and then remaining inventory would be sold to satisfy creditors.
Hopefully some angel investors can salvage the company intact. Time will tell
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A car is worth nothing with no manufacturer. Ask Saab owners how their values held up. Hell my brother pre ordered a Ford Lightning it is the biggest POS on the planet and the Ford dealers won’t even take it on trade towards a diesel F series… It’s worthless…
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Not a very wise investment........
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I imagine it's a bit different with electric cars. But my Ford edge is 4 years old, never been to a dealer. My wife's Dodge Durango is 9 years old, only been to a garage. Got our moneys worth with no support. Now, I also do get that without a company, there may not be parts for garages....
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And I'm not at all suggesting anyone buy one, just amazed at the opportunity if someone wanted to take a risk.
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I went to their web site and it says they are no longer taking orders. 
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My son in law loves his. Reasonable minds will differ. I think using hundreds of moving parts and thousands of small explosions is an outdated way to to move a vehicle. It is still very popular because change is hard. Time will tell where we end up.
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They don't yet make anything I want to buy. Not interested in an SUV.
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Instead of like jumbo jets that use one continuous explosion.
As if there is something sophisticated about running a car on batteries.
Id like a deal on a used lightning...
Worthless sounds like a great price to me!
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Turbines only have one moving part and my guess is they are more efficient and that is why we see them also being used in power generation. I don't yet see the future of aviation being propelled by electricity but small drones seem to work for short distances.
They need to bring back the turbine Chrysler...
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No. Turbines have 100's of moving parts.
Point being expanding a gas by adding thermal energy to it is how most electricity is generated. The turbines capture this, turn it into mechanical energy and then into power.
The heat source could be geothermal, nuclear, coal, natural gas etc.
The electric car is less sophisticated than a gasoline car.
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Exactly as you point out the fundamental technology has been around for over a hundred years. It is the ability to store energy which has made it economically feasible.
Resistance to change takes odd turns. In the early days of Rockefeller when his fortune depended on kerosene which was used for lighting, Rockefeller was opposed to the electric light bulb. Ironically gasoline was a worthless byproduct of kerosene refining. The Internal Combustion Engine changed those economics.
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Economics is why I love EVs. Sophistication is not important to me.
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Point being, the change was going from electric to gas. Not the other around.
The first cars were electric as were many things.
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I'll get into an EV eventually. Its one reason I'm pushing my scaled Solar build. The longer it takes me, the lower used EV prices are.
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Change has to happen organically. Make a product better than what we have, people will want it.
Tell people they have no choice, that never works.
Right now, EV isn't always the better option. Maybe some day in the future it will be more often than not.
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As of yet, EV's just don't save their owners money except in a handful of short-trip only scenarios where you can always charge from home.
This will always be the case.
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That is true but, but the global trend is embracing other alternatives. Even Texas, with unlimited natural gas has more wind generation than any other state. The driver there is economics.
But they're not an economical purchase for many. That complicated engine costs a few thousand bucks. That EV battery alone costs 20 grand.
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Wind turbines harness kinetic energy from the wind which is the result of the heating of a gas. Unfortunately you cannot control when the heating of that gas so it's output is variable.
Windmills were used to harness energy before gasoline cars were invented and are another example of going backwards while claiming to actually be more sophisticated.
I'm not against wind power or electric cars but claiming that gasoline powered cars with piston engines are the stuff of Cavemen is a bit of a reach.
There is a reason this company is going out of business. Electric cars still do not present a good blend of economics and practicality to most users.
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