Brown tesla

Tesla Model S brown body with gold wheels

Tesla Model S (stock brown)

Elon Musk has forsaken us. During today's third quarter earnings call Musk dropped a bombshell. Tesla is nixing two colors from the Model S: green and BROWN. Oh, and the top-spec Model S is now only available with The D, so it's all-wheel drive and obscene speed or nothing.

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When we examine the electric vehicle market and forecast electric vehicle growth, we often think of automaker plans, battery investments, how many models they're rolling out, etc. What we don't often consider is how strong city and country policies are going to get to push people to go electric. Several countries have announced plans for gas car bans, and some cities have done the same. Such policies can accelerate EV sales growth perhaps more than anything else.