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Observations on Business, Government Policy, and Strategy

Browsing Posts published on October 22, 2008

I have written previously about how Tesla got a sweetheart deal from starry-eyed, naive San Jose CA politicians, and how a Chinese car company is coming to the USA with a cheap hybrid. I wrote about how their business model had some major flaws. And now I have been vindicated. Tesla is doing a bunch [...]

California…the land that cars built. And now it wants to build a high speed train system, that runs at 220 MPH. There is a proposition on the Nov 2008 ballot to make the taxpayers pay for this white elephant on wheels. (Update: Here is a writeup in LA Times Editorial by a pro and a [...]