Top Gear gave the Electric Sports Car, Tesla, every possible chance, but the car was a disaster. Instead of trying to fix it, the government subsidised Tesla threaten suit against the honest and funny Top Gear show on this dreadful and costly vehicle. ♘
Chalk this up to "Lesson Not Learned."
The Tesla electric sports car is dead -- a victim of its own defective economics. This was not unpredictable.
The company created an electric version of the gas-powered Lotus sports car -- and tried to sell it for twice the price of the gas-powered version.
Just 1,650 of these electric lemons found people rich enough -- and dumb enough -- to spend $109,000 for a $51,845 Lotus Elise stripped of its perfectly good gasoline engine and converted to run on electricity.
Apparently, some forms of green still matter more than others.
Read on at the The American Spectator link.
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