{"id":39,"date":"2006-08-08T08:20:29","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T15:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=39"},"modified":"2006-08-08T08:22:23","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T15:22:23","slug":"im-on-to-you-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2006\/08\/08\/im-on-to-you-musk\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m on to you Musk!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk posts his &#8220;secret strategy&#8221; on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/http3A2F2Fwww.teslamotors.com2Fblog12F\">Tesla Motors&#8217; blog<\/a>, which I <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=32\">predicted<\/a>, thankyouverymuch. Of course, it was obvious:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The strategy of Tesla is to enter at the high end of the market, where customers are prepared to pay a premium, and then drive down market as fast as possible to higher unit volume and lower prices with each successive model.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With luck, my next car will be a relatively inexpensive electric sedan. They plan to release a model in 2008 at $40k, but since we just bought the VUE, I&#8217;m not planing on getting a new\/additional car until 2010 or so.<\/p>\n<p>2010? Christ on a bus, it better be electric by then. 2010 is so the <em>future<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>  edit:<\/strong> read Elon&#8217;s entire post for some good arguments for electric cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk posts his &#8220;secret strategy&#8221; on the Tesla Motors&#8217; blog, which I predicted, thankyouverymuch. Of course, it was obvious: The strategy of Tesla is to enter at the high end of the market, where customers are prepared to pay a premium, and then drive down market as fast as possible to higher unit volume [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}