How Much Does a Tesla Actually Cost?

$35,000 for a brand new Tesla model 3.
Is what the internets say.

But, that is with the govern-cement paying about ⅓ of it.

Along with these subsidies on price, there are also subsidies on taxes and buildings and everything involved in manufacturing of an electric vehicle.

Further, we have The US dollar. And because of that, we get goods for about half the price if we were not the world reserve currency. We basically get free labor, and all we send them is debt.

Then think about shipping all those minerals all around the world, three times (how much diesel fuel does that take?).

Add on top of that all the pollution caused by the mining and refining of these toxic chemicals.

And, you get a Tesla for maybe a $1,000,000 each.

The US dollar hegemony is ending.

And so, Americans will start to find out the real price of things.

1. There is no currency even close to being large enough to take over as the world reserve currency, however, there seems many forces, both internal and external, that want the dollar dead. Even The US Fed is in on this action. So, the dollar is going to die because 30 people stab a knife it it... and then tons of TNT.

2. Many nations are beginning to attempt bilateral trade. Trade in their currencies. Which will either make a really big currency exchange market, or some basket of currencies will become the global reserve.

3. America may be left out of trade, because Americans won't have anything that anyone else wants. "Do you have something other than dollars?" That is, until gold exchange starts to get infrastructure running.

4. Gold is what many countries are trying to do. Gold backed currencies is the talk everywhere. (not sure if this talk is a psyop, or real. There are people, like those mother WEFers who will gain a lot from gold being the money again.)

5. Of course, bitcoin may supplant it all. And make all the currency exchanges look pale in comparison.

And what happens when the world balances out labor rates?
1 north american engineer = 1 asian engineer

The whole reason we moved manufacturing to China is that difference in labor costs. What happens when that goes away?

So, back to the cost of a Tesla.

An interesting metric is "how many gallons of diesel?"

It is an accurate measurement of actual cost, and actual energy used in manufacturing and shipping of something.
Diesel is what is used to mine materials. All those big trucks and excavators, all run on diesel. All the shipping? Diesel. And everything in between is either straight diesel, or an electric equivalent.

When we look at these costs broken down this way, we find something close to an actual cost.

And further, we find that a Tesla doesn't save the environment.
That, indeed, a Tesla produces more pollution before it gets to the show room, than a standard ICE does for its entire life.

This only happens because we have warped the actual costs so much.
We have externalized so much costs to third world nations.