Biggest take away - 90 million acres in the US go to corn/ethanol production. 31 acres of corn for ethanol to match the energy production of just 1 acre of solar panels. Revenue could be 3-4x that of corn production. Get ready for rise of the photon farmers.

We are living thru the 'doctors prescribing cigarettes' era of lucrative fear-mongering.

Youtube has this model with Preimum. If Chrome rolled out Chrome Premium, (and copied the Brave BAT model of paying sites you give attention to), I'd be happy to pay.

You'd love Brave browser then.

electrek.co recent Tesla headline summary with sentiment:

  (negative) Tesla to stop selling Full Self-Driving package, moves to subscription-only

  (negative) Elon Musk says Tesla 'almost done' with AI5 design, 6 months after saying it was 'finished'

  (negative) Tesla's full 2025 data from Europe is in, and it is a total bloodbath

  (neutral)  Tesla updates 2026 Model Y with new features, launches tiny third row in the US

  (positive) Tesla launches US-made solar panel, a rare sign of life for its solar business

  (negative) Elon Musk moves goalpost again: admits Tesla needs 10 billion miles for 'safe unsupervised' FSD

  (negative) Are Tesla Gigafactory Berlin's days numbered?

  (negative) Elon Musk shows total ignorance of Tesla's current falling sales trajectory

  (negative) Tesla rolls out 0% financing to boost declining sales

  (negative) Tesla (TSLA) releases Q4 delivery results: confirms decline in sales is accelerating

  (negative) Tesla Cybercabs spotted testing, unsurprisingly with steering wheels

  (negative) Elon Musk's top 5 Tesla predictions for 2025 that didn't happen

  (negative) Tesla (TSLA) does something unusual ahead of Q4 delivery results

  (negative) Elon Musk drops 'sustainable' from Tesla's mission

  (negative) Tesla's Robotaxi project in Austin is much smaller than Musk claims

  (neutral)  Tesla Robotaxi spotted without a safety driver in Austin; Musk confirms testing begins

  (negative) Tesla US sales drop to under 40,000 units following tax credit expiration

  (neutral)  Tesla CEO Elon Musk claims driverless Robotaxis coming to Austin in 3 weeks

  (positive) Tesla announces 2025 holiday update with a few cool features

  (negative) Tesla (TSLA) sales keep crashing in Europe with a single market temporarily saving it

But is that electrec's or Tesla's fault?

So Seth Weintraub sold $TSLA at $35 a share in Jan 2020. Today $467. Then Seth missed out on gains of 1,200%. And Fred selling in Sep, 2024 missed out on 100% gains.

Scan their other posts - you might notice some bait.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=autoblog.com

Consumer reports put VW 18th out of 22 in reliability, yet some how this article states: "Volkswagen emerged as a dominant force in the reliability rankings, with the Golf Sportsvan, T Roc, and Touareg earning top marks in the four-year and older bracket."

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-reliability-owner-s...

While I'm not sure that is true, it's fun to watch the bets that were made, unfold. And who's going to take spot #3?

Tesla would be lucky if it's the "Pepsi" of self-driving.

Cola market share: Coke: 69% Pepsi: 27% 3rd: ???

If it comes to pass that traffic jams are in large part due to poor human choices, that will bode poorly for the general populace to continue to be allowed to drive.

Flying used to be like this - my grandpa had 3 airplanes, used one to fly a calf back to his farm. But flying got regulated till it's quite rare to meet a casual pilot with his own plane.