Get Your Mind, Body And Soul Ready For 2020 With These 7 Spiritual Gifts – Essence

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The stress of the holidays, combined with the colder months, tends to leave us all feeling like we need a reset. And with the year its been, we certainly wouldnt judge you for feeling a little off your game as 2019 comes to a close.

What better way to end the year and begin the new decade than cleansing the energy in your space, centering yourself with meditation and setting some healthy intentions? Get your self together mind, body and spirit with these 7 spiritual gifts that will have you feeling like a brand new you.

Monika Strigel Aziza Meditation Pillow

Whether you center yourself through prayer or a few moments of quiet meditation each day, this floor pillow is the perfect way to comfortably reset.

White Sage Smudging Wand

Burning sage also known as smudging is an ancient spiritual ritual used for purification, calming and clearing any negative energy. Black-owned wellness brand Blue Sage Eco Boutique can help you safeguard your space with these white sage smudging wands.

"Let Your Fears Make You Fierce" By Koya Webb

Everyone experiences fear in life--fear of failure, fear of ridicule, fear of the unknown. In this book, celebrity holistic health coach and yoga instructor Koya Webb shows how you can shift from fear-based living using breathing techniques, yoga, meditation, journaling, mantras, prayer, and more.

"My God vs My Enemies" Sweatshirt

When life's got you down, throw on this hoodie and remember who s in control!

Prayer Bracelet

In our busy and sometimes hectic lives, we need reminders to center ourselves through prayer.

Palo Santo Smudging Sticks

Palo Santo literally means "Holy Wood," which is why this smudging stick is perfect for lifting your spirits high. When burned, it produces an enriching aroma which increases your personal vibration when preparing for meditative therapy.

Intention Candles

These handmade candles, each with a gemstone hidden inside and its own message of intention, are musts for anyone looking to be more mindful and present in their everyday lives

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Renovating your spiritual home – The Irish Catholic

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Under Construction: Working with the Architectby Neil OBoyle (SPCK, 8.99)

The literary conceit behind this book is an original one. Author OBoyle takes the idea of revamping your home, from the garden and front hall up to the bedroom, and gives it a spiritual twist.

Most of us will have worked with either a builder or an architect on such a domestic scheme. We may even be still waiting to get into one beforeChristmas. Well, you know what architects are like. But OBoyle suggests that working with the, so to speak, divine architect of all things is both the same and quite different, and presents problems we may not want to face.

Written from an evangelical point of view some of OBoyle remarks may make one wonder. He writes: In the west we do not face torture or imprisonment for our beliefs. The likelihood is that you will never face any external problems as a result of being a Christian.

Where has he been living? Many people and not just religious people find that if they hold any views which seem contrary to those most widely held in the West find themselves abused, and indeed imprisoned.

But no-one reads a book of this kind to agree with everything the author says. But reading what we dont agree with should not hone our dislike of someones ideas, but make us think about what we believe, not just about the state of house, or what we should believe, but perhaps why we should disbelieve other things. For many of us the state of our disbelief seems as much in need of examination as the state of our beliefs.

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On the Spiritual and Physical Boobytraps of a Creative Life – Talkhouse

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Sitting in a dark room alone in a quiet pre-Civil War house, surrounded by a few acres of land and with an aversion to being exposed to the mid-November Hudson Valley winds whistling at the un-caulked corners of my window, I find comfort in the familiarity of this kind of isolation.

Its been four years since I wrote the screenplay for The Wolf Hour, my movie starring Naomi Watts which is coming out in theaters on December 6, and Im feeling an explosion of gratitude and relief at seeing it realized and finally being unleashed to the world. The road to finishing any film is long and hard (and fun) and now feels as good a time as any to look back at some of the events that led me to this moment and how an extremely cut-off period of my life led to a spiritual crisis and ultimately a creative breakthrough.

Set near the start of the notorious Summer of Sam in mid-1977, The Wolf Hour is about self-imposed isolation. Naomi Watts plays June Leigh, a once-relevant writer of the late 60s whos fallen from grace and has physically and spiritually barricaded herself in a dilapidated South Bronx apartment. When an unseen antagonist begins incessantly ringing her door buzzer, she starts to unravel and further isolate herself from the world.

The Wolf Hour is not an autobiography, but it was specifically inspired by a period of time when I was living in an absurdly tiny fifth-floor tenement apartment in New Yorks Chinatown and, for just shy of a year, almost always kept my phone turned off, disconnecting from friends and family. Id taken too much time off between projects and my struggle to find self-relevance again led me to a period of self-destruction when I perhaps drifted a little too far from shore.

Id begun my professional creative life when I moved to New York City in the summer of 2001, just four months before 9/11. That day, I watched on TV as the studio I worked in just two blocks from the World Trade Center was partially destroyed as the towers collapsed onto it. I would normally have been in the office that morning, but an emergency trip had me on a flight to Europe instead. The impact of this all was devastating. All the optimism and excitement of moving to the city and starting out my life as an artist was clouded over by the specter of violent death, toxic air, uncertainty and fear. Being creative was now the last thing on my mind. I had thoughts of joining the military, learning jujutsu, finding any outlet for my anger, but that passed, slowly but surely, and I started to channel my emotional response into creative outlets. I went on to write my first feature, Two Gates of Sleep, a film that focused on a fragmented memory from my childhood in Louisiana and Mississippi.

In the leadup to directing Two Gates, another major catastrophe struck. Hurricane Katrina hit just days after Id left New Orleans, and wiped out virtually all the locations I had written the film for. I was left wondering if perhaps all this destruction was somehow following me, challenging me. It took another three years before the film got made, but it had come at such a high cost strained and ruined relationships, a second-guessing of every decision, of not having lived up to potential. Essentially, everything an experienced director warns about in the postpartum of a first film.

When Two Gates of Sleep premiered at Cannes (six years after I had started working on the film), something changed: I experienced a moment of real happiness and achievement. But the exuberance and validation was too much, too soon. My head exploded, my ego ran rampant and I drifted away from my creative life for a time. Touring the festival circuit with a film is a trip; meeting professional peers and getting wasted with them in foreign countries, staying in luxury hotels, and crowds of people clamoring to get the first glimpse of what youve made. It was all intoxicating, but when it was over, I felt hollowed out. I was broke from not working for over a year and perpetually hungover. The prospect of pulling the car back onto the interstate with an empty tank of gas felt almost Sisyphean.

Through some shady Craigslist hustling, I found the only accommodations I could afford at the time, that tiny Chinatown apartment. I struggled to even fit my small mattress within the confines of its walls and due to the lack of space, I decided to get rid of most of my things. This purge was actually a relief. It felt good being back in NYC, but something was off. I found I didnt want to speak to anyone. When I did step out to buy groceries, I found solace in the relative anonymity of the alien bustle of Chinatown. At night, screaming voices in Mandarin would come through the walls and the strange smells of boiling fish-head soup and dim sum wafted up to my top-floor perch, where I would sit all night out on the fire escape watching drunken people fighting and crashing into garbage cans way down below. Years had passed since I had written anything meaningful. Again, I found myself uncertain if I should continue forward with my work.

I dont know when it happened, but an idea suddenly appeared, jotted down in my notebook next to an empty bottle of bourbon. It read: A woman is tormented by unworldly noises through her intercom but cant leave to check them out. I stared at the practically illegible words, unsure when I had written them. I started to write. It wouldnt stop coming, page after page, day after day. It just flowed out of me in a way I had never experienced before. Sometimes its that simple. A spark. No context, no plan, no narrative. Just a sketch of a thought. I had no intercom or buzzer in this apartment, but this is what was written down in my book. All I could do was lean in and let it take me over.

I began to do some research on shut-ins. I found a story about the Collyer brothers, who over the 1930s had crammed their East Harlem apartment with so much junk that it took police 10 hours to dig them out after neighbors complained of rotting stink. Officers finally found both brothers: Homer Collyer was buried under junk, dead of starvation and heart disease; his brother Langley Collyer was inside a two-foot-wide tunnel made of drawers, bed springs, newspaper and rotting books a boobytrap meant for intruders had fallen in on him, crushing him to death. I could only think about Homer starving to death, his apartment so thick with junk that if he had been screaming for help Im certain they would have gone unheard; trapped on a deserted island in the middle of one of the most populous cities in the world.

I looked over at my floor; on it were the several books and small desk I had found on the street over the past months and brought up to my tiny room. I shuddered. This was a known pattern, a pathology and I was now in its early stages. When would I start making my own boobytraps? It seemed like just a matter of time. I was nearly finished with a draft of the script, but I quickly started making moves to get out of my apartment. I scraped together what I could and reconnected with friends and family, extremely grateful to find they hadnt yet given up on me. I found love, got married, moved into a much better apartment, and my movie The Wolf Hour got made.

So here I sit alone again at the tail end of another festival run, writing a new script. This time in the woods, surrounded by deer and turkey instead of bustling Gotham. But this time its different; I dont struggle to write anymore, I dont go for more than a day without reaching out to people. I dont seek solitude out of fear or alienation, but out of a practical need to work without interruptions, though I do still grab the occasional piece of junk off the street. Ideas come faster now than I can commit them to paper and I cant help but think that after everything that has come to pass to get to this point, it might just be time to accept that it may get easier from here.

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The Alter Rebbe will now conclude that meditating on the concepts appearing in the blessings of theShemaleads a Jew to the proper realization of theShema attaining an ardent love for Gd.

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When the thinking person will reflect on these matters in the depths of his heart and brain, then assurely aswater mirrors the image of a face,

When the love likened to water mirroring the image of a face takes effect in a person, so that Gds manifest love for His people arouses in him a corresponding love towards Him, then:

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his soul will spontaneously be kindledwith love for Gd,and it will clothe itself in a spirit of benevolence, willingly to lay down and resolutely to abandon all he possesses,for it will no longer be of major importance to him,in order only to cleave unto Him, and to be absorbed into His light with an attachment and longing, and so forth, in a manner of kissing, and with an attachment of spirit to Spirit, as has been explained earlier.

Just as kissing involves not only the cleaving of mouths but also a communion of breaths, so too does spiritual unity involve the union of mans spirit with Gds: mans spirit becomes one with Gds.

But how does the attachment of spirit to Spirit take place?I.e., what measures are to be taken if one seeks to desire to only cleave to Him?

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To this end it is stated,soon after the phrase, with all your heart, and so on:14And these words shall be... upon your heart.... And you shall speak of them....As will soon be explained, this refers to immersing oneself in the study of Torah and speaking words of Torah.

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As is explained inEtz Chayim,the union of kissingwhich incorporates the union of the attachment of spirit to Spiritis essentially the union ofChaBaDwithChaBaD the union of mansChochmah, BinahandDaatwith Gds;that is, concentration in the Torah,which unites mansChaBaDwith the intellect of above, i.e., Torah,

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while the mouth, as the outlet of the breath and its emergence into a revealed state, represents the category of speech engaged in words of the Torah,

By speaking words of Torah as it is written, And you shall speak of them the spirit emerges into a revealed state. Thus, the union of spirit with Spirit is mainly brought about by ones immersion in Torah study. The reason for this follows:

for,15By every word that proceeds from Gds mouth does man live.

The mouth is thus the outlet of the breath. However, since what is crucial isunderstandingTorah, for through this the union of spirit with Spirit is effected, why must oneutterthe words in order to arrive at this love?

The Alter Rebbe now addresses himself to this question and says, that while it is true that for man himself i.e., the divine soul cleaving to Gd is attained chiefly through understanding Torah, yet this only suffices for the divine soul. In order for the divine plan to be realized, i.e., that Gdliness be drawn down upon the animal soul as well and into the world as a whole, one mustspeakwords of Torah. This is because physical words are uttered by the animal soul, which in turn is affected by them.

Since a person has the strength to speak because he receives physical nourishment, it follows that when he utters words of Torah, Gds ultimate intent of drawing down holiness into this physical world is realized, and the whole world is filled with His glory.

(Understandably, this selfsame reason applies not only to speaking words of Torah, but also explains whymitzvotare to be performed with the physical body and utilizing objects of the material world, for it is through them that Gdliness is manifest in the animal soul and in the material world as a whole. Here, however, the matter under discussion is Torah knowledge. In this instance, although nothing can unite the divine soul with its Source more completely than the contemplation of Torah, it is nevertheless necessary for one to utter the words of Torah as well, in order to draw down Gdliness into ones animal soul and, indeed, into the whole material world.)

However, one does not fulfill ones obligation by meditation and deliberation alone,

I.e., onesobligationis not fulfilled thereby, even though such deliberation leads to the lofty union of his soul with Gd in a manner of the cleaving of spirit with Spirit.

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unless one expresses the words with his lips, in order to draw the [infinite] light of the blessedEin Sofdownwards even unto the vivifying soul which dwells in the blood of man, whichin turnis produced bythe intake of food fromthe mineral, vegetable and animal [worlds].

That is to say: Eating and drinking produce the blood in which the vivifying soul is clothed, and Gdliness is drawn down into all the above-mentioned worlds when one speaks words of Torah.

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One thereby elevates them all the vivifying soul, and the mineral, vegetable and animal worlds to Gd, together with the entire universe, and causes them to be absorbed in His blessed Unity and light, which will illumine the world and its inhabitants in a revealed manner,in the spirit of the verse that says:16And the glory of Gd shall be revealed so much so, indeed, thatallfleshshall see it....

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15.Devarim8:3.

16.Yeshayahu40:5.

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A Survey on the Integration of Spiritual Care in Medical Schools from | AMEP – Dove Medical Press

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Mara Taverna,1 Pascal O Berberat,2 Heribert Sattel,1 Eckhard Frick1

1Department of Psychosomatic Medicine & Psychotherapy, TUM School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany; 2Medical Education Center, TUM School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Correspondence: Eckhard FrickDepartment of Psychosomatic Medicine & Psychotherapy, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, GermanyEmail eckhard.frick@tum.de

Objective: Teaching about spirituality and health is recommended by the American Association of Medical Colleges and partially implemented in some US medical schools as well as in some faculties of other countries. We systematically surveyed Medical School Associate Deans for Student Affairs (ADSAs) in three German-speaking countries, assessing both projects on and attitudes towards Spiritual Care (SC) and the extent to which it is addressed in undergraduate (UME), graduate (GME), and continuing (CME) medical education (in this article, UME is understood as the complete basic medical education equivalent to college and Medical School. GME refers to the time of residency).Methods: We executed a cross-sectional qualitative complete online-survey, addressing ADSAs of all accredited 46 medical schools in these countries. Anonymized responses could be analyzed from 25 (54.3%).Results: No faculty provides a mandatory course exclusively dedicated to SC. Fourteen medical schools have UME courses or contents on SC, and 9 incorporate SC in mandatory classes addressing other topics. While most of the respondents indicate that spirituality is important for (a) the patients for coping and (b) for health care in general and thus, support the teaching of SC in UME, only half of them indicate a need for an SC curriculum in UME. Even if funding and training support were available, only a few of the respondents would agree to provide more of the sparse curricular time.Conclusion: A majority of the participating medical schools have curricular content on SC, predominantly in UME. However, most of the content is based on voluntary courses. Despite acknowledging its importance to patients, ADSAs and medical teachers are still reflecting on the divergences in patients and doctors spiritual orientations and its consequences for implementing spirituality into the medical education.

Keywords: medical education, spiritual care, hidden curriculum, existential, religious

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[LETTER] The truth about spiritual warfare – Newcastle Advertiser

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Madam The truth about spiritual warfare and why its important to pray.

Spiritual warfare is real. But dont worry, God is with you! Everything that occurs in the visible, physical world is directly connected to the wrestling match being waged in the invisible.

The effects of the war going on in the unseen world reveal themselves in our strained and damaged relationships, emotional instability, mental fatigue, physical exhaustion and many other areas of life.

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Many of us feel pinned down by anger, pride, comparisons, insecurity, discord, fear and the list goes on. But the overarching, primary nemesis behind all these outcomes is the devil himself. We also have a need for spiritual vision for an understanding of who are in Christ, and all that entails.

God has provided us with everything we need to win the spiritual battles we face, emphasising that we need to know that, believe it, and act upon it. The enemys attacks are always wrapped in the packaging of deception, always designed to manipulate the truth about God, and about your value in Him.

Consider your areas of greatest strength and greatest weakness. Keep a close eye on both of these areas and safeguard yourself through prayer.

Marina Smal

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Spiritually Speaking: Surrender to peace in this war on Christmas – Wicked Local Walpole

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War (noun) 1. a state of open and declared armed hostile conflict between states or nations

2. a state of hostility, conflict, or antagonism Merriam-Webster Dictionary

I give up. I surrender. Better yet, can we just declare a truce in the so-called War on Christmas?

Yes, its back, like that ugly Christmas sweater Uncle Jack always wears to the party. Like the 24-hour Christmas movie marathon thats been running on the Hallmark TV channel since July 5th. Like the Christmas decorations that show up on the shelves at the local CVS the day after Halloween. I hope and pray every December that this yearly chapter in the culture wars might just fade away, but no such luck.

This war stubbornly and annoyingly returns every December.

Politicians from the President on down declare that the war is on, that we fight because some want to threaten treasured holiday traditions. We cant say Merry Christmas anymore! We cant sing Christmas carols in school anymore! We cant go to Macys or JC Penney for a Christmas sale anymore because they now have the gall call it a holiday sale! We go to Starbucks and their annual holiday cup says Merry Coffee! We have to call the Christmas parade the Holiday parade!?

Forgive me for not getting all huffed and puffed up about this attack on Christmas. I mean, I kind of know Christmas, and really well. I have been in the business of Christmas, of preaching Christmas and teaching Christmas and declaring Christmas for more than 30 years as a local church pastor. Id like to think that if there was an actual war on the sacred traditions of my faith or on the birth story we so love or the hymns we so enjoy singing in December: Id know it.

In three-plus decades, not once have my religious freedoms around Christmas been threatened or taken away, not for me, not for my church, not for one person of my faith that I know. Not once have folks complained to me that they cant put a candle in the window or sing Silent Night or set up a home nativity set or light Advent candles or serve the poor on behalf of a poor little boy born some 2,000 years ago.

Yet still the war rages on in places like Charleston, West Va. The mayor of that city recently decided to rename the Christmas Parade down there the Holiday Parade, in her words, to make it more inclusive and reflective of the religious diversity in that place. Not everyone celebrates Christmas as a holy day or even a holiday, right? Is it really such a bad thing to recognize this truth?

Apparently, yes, at least according to the aggrieved and angry and rage-filled folks who overwhelmed the mayors office with nasty phone calls and filled up her Facebook page with diatribes and threats of recall, who so overwhelmed her with fierce opposition that she relented and went back to the old name for the parade.

As one group of red-hot righteous state senators wrote in a press release protesting the mayors decision, Radical liberals in Charleston want to eliminate Christ from our Capitol Citys annual Christmas Parade [they] renamed the longtime Christmas Parade to Winter Parade and banned the Freedom of Religion for parade participants in an outright assault on our Constitution. We are calling on Mayor Goodwin and her liberal allies to end this madness and allow our citizens to freely and fully exercise their Freedom of Religion with a CHRISTMAS PARADE.

Wow. Its hard to know how to respond to such a harsh screed. I can see why the Mayor finally gave up and surrendered.

Heres the irony of this whole war. Its being waged on behalf of one who is called the prince of peace by those who embrace that religious tradition. One whose birth was heralded by a choir of angels, who sung for all to hear, of Peace on earth and goodwill to all people. The war is being fought in the name of one, whom some believe, came not for the kings or the politicians or the power brokers but instead to love the least of these: the poor and the lonely and the war torn and the orphans and the widows and the lost.

If you think about it, a war on Christmas is actually against everything Christmas is supposed to mean. So, my advice: ignore the war. Its more heat than flame, more smoke than fire, and more bluster than truth.

A war? No. But peace? Yes.

I surrender.

The Rev. John F. Hudson is senior pastor of the Pilgrim Church, United Church of Christ, in Sherborn (pilgrimsherborn.org). If you have a word or idea youd like defined in a future column or have comments, please send them to pastorjohn@pilgrimsherborn.org or in care of the Dover-Sherborn Press (Dover-Sherborn@wickedlocal.com).

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Mystery novel blends spiritual with the procedural – Daily Journal

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Theres a strong tradition of religious sleuths in mystery writing Brother Cadfael, Father Dowling and Rabbi Small for example. In each case, the detective relies on his religious training to get to the bottom of a criminal puzzle, usually a murder.

Father Fortis, a Greek Orthodox contemplative, is clearly in this mold. In this latest mystery by David Carlson of Franklin College, the priest again teams up with his longtime friend, Detroit homicide detective Christopher Worthy, to solve a complex case.

The pair are called back to Albuquerque, New Mexico, site of a previous novel, to help unravel a case involving the husband of the local police officer who assisted them in that previous mystery.

Sera Laceys husband, Freddie, is suffering from PTSD following his latest Army tour in Afghanistan. He is accused of murdering a fellow soldier who served with him. But he is in a near catatonic state and cannot defend himself. Meanwhile, Laceys son is in jail due to actions reflecting his own frustration over Freddies condition.

While Worthy pursues the criminal case in dogged, police work fashion, Father Fortis is able to break through to Freddie, which triggers a series of events that ultimately lead to a dramatic confrontation.

The stories of the husband and son are intertwined, and the investigations move forward in tandem. About midway through the novel, Sera is assigned a missing person case involving a teenage runaway. This case, too, becomes part of the mysterys web and figures into the ultimate resolution.

Given the authors background in philosophy and religion, rather than criminology, its not surprising that the sections involving Father Fortis are the strongest. Carlson effectively describes how the priest relies on and utilizes his faith to unravel the mystery. He also writes with great compassion about Freddies condition and treatment.

Carlson describes the New Mexico scenery effectively, with enough detail to give the novel a real sense of place.

In all, the novel is a relatively quick and enjoyable read. But it is the religious aspect that sets this work apart from scores of other police procedural mysteries.

About the book

Title: "In the Clutches of the Wicked"

Author: David Carlson

Pages: 213

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Coffeetown Press

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Tesla cars built in China have been recommended for government subsidies, report says – CNBC

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Elon Musk attends the groundbreaking ceremony of the Tesla Gigafactory in Shanghai, east China, on January 7, 2019.

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China's industry ministry has put Tesla Model 3 cars that are built inside the country on a list of vehicles recommended for government subsidies, according to a Reuters report on Friday.

Reuters, citing a document published by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said the level of subsidy that Tesla would receive was not yet clear. Two types of the Model 3 were on the recommendation list for new energy vehicle subsidies, it said.

Tesla shares rose 1.5% in extended hours trade on the back of the news.

The Chinese city of Shanghai is home to Tesla's Gigafactory 3, where groundbreaking on the facility took place in January 2019. In its third-quarter update toward the end of October, Tesla said trial production of the Model 3 in Shanghai had started ahead of schedule.

Elon Musk's firm noted that the Chinese facility was, in terms of capital expenditure per unit of capacity, approximately 65% less expensive to construct than its U.S.-based Model 3 production system.

Worldwide electric car sales hit 1.98 million in 2018, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), with global stock reaching 5.12 million.

China's electric car market is the biggest on the planet a little over 1 million electric cars were sold there last year the IEA says, with Europe and the U.S. following behind.

Tesla is one of several automotive firms attempting to make inroads into the Chinese market.

Just last week, the BMW Group, together with China's Great Wall Motor, announced it would construct a plant to produce fully-electric models of the Mini car brand.

The facility's construction phase is slated to take place between 2020 and 2022, and it will be located in the city of Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu Province, the BMW Group said last week.

The two firms have set up a joint venture called Spotlight Automotive Limited and the combined investment in the plant will amount to approximately 650 million euros ($721 million).

Once up and running, the factory line will have the capacity to produce as many as 160,000 vehicles annually.

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What Drives the Tesla Superfans? – PCMag

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Like Apple fans before them, Tesla aficionados have gained a reputation for intense obsession. But how does an electric car company produce so many enthusiasts who, in turn, produce their own contentlike podcasts and YouTube videosabout the company?

In 2015, Ryan McCaffrey, Executive Editor at IGN, started Ride The Lightning, which he labeled as an unofficial Tesla podcast. As he discusses in the first episode, McCaffrey started the podcast becausedespite talking his friends' and family's ears off about the car makerhe still had more to say. He looked for Tesla podcasts, but there weren't many options at the time.

That's no longer the case. Castbox.fm estimates that across all podcast platforms, nearly half of the available Tesla podcasts launched in the last year, and that Tesla podcasts have seen millions of downloads. On YouTube, Tesla content is everywhere, with topics like AutoPilot, software updates, maintenance, and track racing a constant source of intrigue.

"The Tesla community is growing, and so more and more people are developing that enthusiasm," McCaffrey says. "And I think there's still a feeling that we're at the very beginning of all of thisthat Tesla is a little secret club that it's super fun to welcome new people into. The community's shared enthusiasm is one of my favorite parts of Tesla ownership."

McCaffrey now has more than 200 episodes of Ride The Lightning under his belt, and counts Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen among his guests. But while fast cars and Tesla technology are the genesis for most of the intrigue and interest in the company, they aren't the only areas of interest.

"I'm a technology and business enthusiast first," says Rob Maurer of the Tesla Daily podcast. "These interests, unsurprisingly, led to a fascination with Tesla that really began in early 2013. The stock caught my attention during its huge rise that year."

(Tesla Cybertruck)

Maurer's podcast is heavy on the investment and business aspects of Teslaand there's certainly a lot to talk about there. Glowing headlines and enthusiasm about new products like the Cybertruck go hand in hand with controversies, from Musk's battles with the SEC to production delays.

Fans appear undeterred. Tesla Daily has more than 600 Patreon supporters who contribute more than $5,000 a month. "I'm most proud of the credibility I've built over the last couple of years by thoroughly researching and relentlessly fact-checking," says Maurer. "There's a lot of misinformation out there these days."

For Michael Bodner, Tesla isn't his job, just how he spends a lot of his free time. During the day he's a director of operations for a residential property management company, but in his spare time he's taken to creating YouTube videos about his Tesla Model 3, including upgrades and maintenance.

Bodner didn't have much interest in watching YouTube, let alone making his own videos, but videos posted to his Teslatunity channel are closing in on a million views in just about a year.

"I filmed how amazing Autopilot was and needed a place to put it, so I could share it on the forum, so I just threw it on YouTube," Bodner says. "The next video was about how I wash my carthere were a lot of questions about the 2-bucket method so I thought I would share. That video got such a good response that I realized something was there and just kept putting out more content."

His answer to why he loves Tesla cars? "Ahhh that question seems so easy and yet so hard at the same time, I don't think it's just one thing, but all things."

Ryan McCaffrey says his enthusiasm started when he got to drive the original Roadster in 2009 and fell in love with the car and the technology.

"There are a lot of great cars out there, but none of them are a genuine paradigm shift compared to everything you've ever driven in your entire life the way a Tesla is," McCaffrey says. "The fact that Tesla as a company leans into the 'fun' aspects of the car, toothe fart sounds, the Spaceballs references, the Easter eggs, video gamesmakes it feel like Tesla itself is having as much fun making these cars as we are driving them."

Tesla Daily's Rob Maurer agrees. "The way I describe what I do to friends is to say, 'If I'd have been doing this 10-15 years ago, I'd have been talking about Apple," he said. "That's the sort of intense consumer interest Tesla has been able to generate and the only other company that has captured my interest at a level similar to Tesla. People love cars (especially fast cars). People love technology. I'd be hard pressed to come up with an overlap that could generate more interest. Then you throw Elon Musk in the mix."

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Our Tesla Model 3 Is Entertaining in More Than One Way – Car and Driver

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The biggest compromise one makes when buying an electric vehicle is having to plug it in to charge it up, which even at the fastest chargers takes significantly more time than pumping a tank of gas. There's only so much social media scrolling we can take before we're bored out of our minds, but luckily our new long-term Tesla Model 3 is equipped with several entertainment features to help while away time at the local Supercharger.

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All of the car's entertainment features are part of the major version 10 software update that Tesla rolled out in September and are locked out when the car is driving. We updated our Model 3 just after delivery and can now choose to catch up on our latest Netflix or Hulu obsessions, check out the latest ASMR video on YouTube, or indulge in one of the onboard arcade games, which are controlled by the car's steering wheel and other controls. There's even a crackling fireplace video if you decide you want to relax or nap while waiting on that full battery. And, at least temporarily, the streaming-video services can be used with the car's built-in data connection. However that may go away as Tesla fulfills its promise to provide free WiFi at every Supercharger location.

"It's the perfect activity to keep me busy while Supercharging," said Stephanie Kowall, owner of a 2018 Model 3. Kowall charges her Model 3 at a charging station near Los Angeles about once per week and prefers watching shows over playing games.

"I'm generally not super into video games, so I'm probably not the target audience for that feature," she says. Her partner, Stan Chibashov, says the games just aren't as appealing as the streaming video options, but he admits he has dabbled with the Lunar Lander game.

For those concerned that utilizing the Model 3's entertainment features will extend charging times, there's no noticeable increase as the power draw for these features is minuscule relative to the firehose of energy being pumped into the car.

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Users might end up spending a little extra time at the Supercharger for another reason, though. Kowall admitted to us that she upped her maximum charge cutoff point recently to justify waiting around to finish an episode of Netflix's hit show Queer Eye.

In our experience, Supercharging the Model 3 from a nearly dead battery takes a little more than an hour, which is plenty of time to kick back and disconnect for a little bit. Plus, it's great to know we're not the only ones who find the features so useful and that real-life Tesla owners are embracing the entertainment options as ways to pass the time.

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A top Tesla analyst raised his ‘bull case’ for the stock to $500, or 50% higher from here – CNBC

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Workers walk outside the Tesla Inc. Gigafactory in Shanghai, China, on Friday, Nov. 1, 2019.

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Morgan Stanley increased its "bull case" for Tesla to $500 a share on Thursday, in the firm's calculation of a best case scenario for the company's value if Cybertruck is successful and the new factory in China exceeds expectations.

"In an optimistic scenario," Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas said he sees Tesla selling 100,000 Cybertrucks by the end of 2024, at an average price of $50,000. Additionally, Jonas believes Tesla's Gigafactory in China could perform better than anticipated and reach a production rate of 450,000 units per year by 2024/2025.

Tesla's stock rose 0.7% in after hours trading from its close of $330.37 a share. Morgan Stanley's new bull case represents a 50% increase from Tesla's current stock price. Jonas is widely followed on Wall Street as he was one of the earliest bullish analysts on Tesla, as well as the market for electric vehicles.

But Morgan Stanley's "base case" price target of $250 a share remains unchanged, as well as its equalweight rating on Tesla.

"To be clear, we are not bullish on Tesla longer term, especially as, over time, we believe Tesla could be perceived by the market more and more like a traditional auto OEM [original equipment manufacturer]; we are prepared for a potential surge in sentiment through 1H20 but question the sustainability," Jonas said.

In essence, Morgan Stanley could see Tesla's stock going in any direction. The firm has a $10 "bear case" on Tesla, as Jonas earlier this year cited the difficulty of valuing Elon Musk's company.

"We continue to believe Tesla is fundamentally overvalued, but potentially strategically undervalued," Jonas said in a June note.

In his latest report, Jonas reiterated that his base case represents the view that Tesla is not really a high-flying Silicon Valley tech stock any more.

"We are cautious on Tesla's prospects in China, given geopolitical/CFIUS concerns, we believe that the Model Y will likely cannibalize a significant amount of demand for the Model 3, and see Berlin Giga as a first step for Tesla to ultimately be seen by investors as an auto company rather than a high growth tech firm, with valuation reflecting that at some point," Jonas said.

CNBC's Michael Bloom contributed to this report.

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Police: Driver claims Tesla on auto-pilot when hitting 2 cars on I-95 – Thehour.com

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Photos from a collision on I-95 in Norwalk on Saturday, Dec. 7, in which a driver struck a police cruiser and a disabled vehicle with his Tesla, which he claimed was on auto-pilot, according to state police.

Photos from a collision on I-95 in Norwalk on Saturday, Dec. 7, in which a driver struck a police cruiser and a disabled vehicle with his Tesla, which he claimed was on auto-pilot, according to state police.

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Photos from a collision on I-95 in Norwalk on Saturday, Dec. 7, in which a driver struck a police cruiser and a disabled vehicle with his Tesla, which he claimed was on auto-pilot, according to state police.

Photos from a collision on I-95 in Norwalk on Saturday, Dec. 7, in which a driver struck a police cruiser and a disabled vehicle with his Tesla, which he claimed was on auto-pilot, according to state police.

Police: Driver claims Tesla on auto-pilot when hitting 2 cars on I-95

NORWALK Connecticut State Police were stopped behind a disabled motor vehicle in the center lane of I-95 northbound near Exit 15 in Norwalk early Saturday, waiting for a tow truck to arrive, when an oncoming car struck a cruiser, a release said.

The driver claimed his car, a Tesla, was on auto-pilot when the events occurred, and that he was checking on his dog in the back seat in the moments before the crash, according to state police, who posted about the collision on Facebook.

After striking the cruiser, the driver hit the disabled vehicle and continued at a slow speed until a trooper stopped him several hundred feet ahead, the post said.

Teslas website says cars with autopilot features still need drivers.

Autopilot features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous.

Two state troopers were at the scene of Saturdays collision as it occurred, with their emergency lights on as they monitored the disabled vehicle, according to the release.

Police issued the Tesla operator a misdemeanor summons for reckless driving and reckless endangerment, they said in the release.

Regardless of your vehicles capabilities, when operating a vehicle your full attention is required at all times to ensure safe driving, the post continued, noting that National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has not yet designated any vehicles for sale capable of fully automated driving.

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Tesla is poised to deliver Model Y crossover in first quarter of 2020, says Deutsche Bank – CNBC

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Tesla is poised to start deliveries of its crossover SUV, the Model Y, in the first quarter of 2020, according to research out Tuesday from Deutsche Bank.

If Tesla could begin Model Y deliveries in the first-quarter of 2020, that would be a full season ahead of CEO Elon Musk's promised schedule. Early production and deliveries would be a symbolic win for the company, which has often failed to meet self-imposed delivery deadlines.

On its third-quarter earnings call, Musk told shareholders:

"We're also ahead of schedule on Model Y preparations in Fremont, and we've moved the launch timeline from full 2020 to summer 2020. There may be some room for improvement there, but we're confident about summer 2020." He added, "I've actually recently driven the Model Y release candidate and think it's going to be an amazing product and be very well received. I think it's quite likely to -- just my opinion, but I think it will outsell Model S, Model X and Model 3 combined."

However, he declined to share further details, like how many pre-orders had come in for the Model Y, or whether or not operations at the company's battery plant outside of Reno, Nevada, were also on track enable the earlier launch.

On Tuesday, analysts at Deutsche Bank cited reports from Tesla suppliers in Taiwan who told a newspaper there they experienced "accelerating orders" for parts that would go into the Model Y, as well as Tesla's forthcoming commercial truck, the Semi.

Deutsche Bank's Senior Autos & Auto Technology Analyst, Emmanuel Rosner, wrote:

"Reports from suppliers of Model Y parts in Taiwan are claiming that Tesla is requesting that their orders be delivered much earlier than expected... The Taiwanese suppliers are now indicating that the Tesla is accelerating orders to enter mass production a full six months ahead of the original schedule. This would mean that the Model Y could be available to the public in the first quarter of next year. The suppliers additionally claimed that Tesla Semi part orders are being accelerated as well, with the truck set to be released in limited quantity sometime next year."

Musk has promised or is taking pre-orders and deposits for more products than Tesla is able to produce at scale currently, including the Model Y, Semi, the recently unveiled Cybertruck, Solarglass rooftops, an all-electric ATV, and full-self driving software.

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Here are the biggest analyst calls of the day: Tesla, Tapestry, Anthem, Whirlpool & more – CNBC

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Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Friday:

Morgan Stanley raised its bull case on the stock and said that scenario could play out if the Cybertruck is a success and a more positive scenario in China comes to pass.

"We raise our bull case to $500 to account for the newly unveiled Cybertruck & a more optimistic scenario in China, reflecting higher than expected volumes & our work around TSLA profitability in the region. We are prepared for a potential surge in sentiment in 1H20 but question the sustainability."

Note: This call occurred after the bell on Thursday. Read more about this call here.

Goldman initiated the multinational manufacturer and marketer of home appliances and said it was at an "inflection point" due to increased pricing among other things.

"We believe Whirlpool could be reaching an inflection point as it benefits from increased pricing and promotional discipline, lower input costs, and continued consumer spending. In our view, this should increasingly be reflected in its North American margin profile while it also realizes improvements from its EMEA turnaround. We believe this discipline will help Whirlpool mitigate some of the volatility inherent in its consumer driven end markets. Although cyclicality is inevitable, consolidated results could become more consistent in time."

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Here’s how the million-mile battery could lead to Teslas lasting a lifetime – Business Insider

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Following is a transcript of the video.

Narrator: The average lifespan of a car is 150,000 miles. Your average driver drives 13,500 miles every year, meaning a car lasts about 11 years. Now, imagine you had a car that could last 400,000 miles. 800,000? How about 1 million miles? Your car could last an entire lifetime. But a million-mile battery is the stuff of fiction... isn't it?

In April, Elon Musk announced Teslas would soon be powered by a battery with a lifespan of more than 1 million miles.

Elon Musk: "The current battery pack is about maybe 300,000 to 500,000 miles. The new battery pack that'll probably go into production next year is designed explicitly for a million miles of operation."

Narrator: In September, a team of battery researchers at Dalhousie University, with support from Tesla, published a paper that describes a very special kind of battery - a battery that it says "should be able to power "an electric vehicle for over 1 million miles." Soon after, Tesla filed a patent for a battery with a similar cell composition to the one in the paper. Many of the Dalhousie researchers, including Jeff Dahn, Xiaowei Ma, and Stephen Glazier, are listed as inventors. So, is this the battery Musk needs? The paper presents the results of years of testing on a new battery cell formula, or chemistry. And the team says the results from tests on the battery are "far superior" than other lithium-ion batteries. So, what's so good about it?

Battery science is an exercise in experimentation. The right tweak in the combination and efficiency of the elements commonly used for batteries could yield big results. In addition to a winning combination, the million-mile battery uses one large crystal instead of many small crystals. This single-crystal nanostructure is less likely to develop cracks when the battery is charging. Cracks cause a decrease in the lifetime and performance of the battery. How'd the new design do? Well, the life of a battery is measured in discharge cycles. Using an amount equal to 100% of the battery's charge is one cycle. Where a typical lithium-ion battery could give you only 1,000 to 2,000 discharge cycles, tests showed the million-mile battery had 95% of its life left after 1,000 discharge cycles and about 90% after 4,000.

You're probably thinking: "That's awesome!" "We've got a great battery here." And you're right. This is an awesome battery. But we're not going to see this version of the battery in a Tesla.

There is one major thing Tesla would have to sort out before it can use a battery like this in its cars. This cell chemistry uses a large amount of cobalt. Cobalt, a popular element in battery development, carries inherent challenges. One, cobalt is finite and running out. So it's very expensive. Two, mining cobalt is hazardous and some cobalt mines have exploited children for labor. Tesla is trying to eliminate cobalt from its batteries entirely.

So, if we don't have a viable battery here, what's the significance of the battery in the paper? Well, it shows that we're close to obtaining a battery that lasts a million miles and is compatible for use in Teslas, one that is cheaper and probably contains less cobalt. A major announcement is on the horizon. Specifically, we're waiting on Tesla's battery and drivetrain investor day, which has been pushed back to early 2020.

The paper and patent represent a big advancement in battery tech and are undoubtedly a preface to the actual million-mile battery composition that will land itself in Teslas in the coming years.

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Here are the biggest analyst calls of the day: Tesla, Target, Denny’s & more – CNBC

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Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk stands in front of the shattered windows of the newly unveiled all-electric battery-powered Tesla's Cybertruck at Tesla Design Center in Hawthorne, California on November 21, 2019.

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Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Wednesday:

Citi kept its sell rating on Tesla but raised its target price and said it saw improved free cash flow.

"We're also introducing 2022 estimates and expanding our valuation framework to consider 2022E multiples. Our 2019-20 EPS estimates rise reflecting the Q3 beat and expected Model Y pull-forward. Our 2021E EPS declines somewhat mostly on below-the-line items. We're also introducing 2022E EPS of $13.33. Our price target rises to $222 from $191 on slight improvements to our probably-weighted terminal value approach. Our full bull case / moderate bull case / full bear base probabilities improve to 10/55/35 from prior 5/55/40, in order to reflect Tesla's recently improved FCF generation and the uptick in auto gross margin."

BMO said after the global semiconductor company's earnings report that it didn't find the risk/reward "compelling" anymore.

"With the shares within striking distance of our target price, and with the opportunity in communications well understood and discounted in the current share price, we find MRVL reasonably valued with a balanced risk/reward profile. We are thus lowering our rating to Market Perform from Outperform."

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Amid public and media attention, a woman identified as a person of interest surrendered Wednesday in the case of a father of four struck and killed by a rented Tesla that left the scene and was later abandoned.

Vanessa Gutierrez, 35, walked into the lobby of LAPD's Central Division station Wednesday afternoon and was booked on suspicion of felony hit and run, according to Det. Moses Castillo.

The surrender came 13 days after the collision on Olympic Boulevard west of downtown Los Angeles hospitalized Emilio Perez, 34, with a severe brain injury from which he did not recover. He died on Thanksgiving Day.

Per his wishes, his organs were harvested for transplants.

Investigators located the Tesla, and found video they made public of a woman covering it up, before leaving in another vehicle.

"Gutierrez could not take it anymore," said Det. Castillo, who believes the woman's conscience compelled her to surrender.

At this point in the investigation, it appears to Castillo that Gutierrez was not criminally liable for the impact itself, but faces prosecution for leaving the scene without stopping to help.

Police are still seeking another person of interest in the case.

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Why the Cybertruck is a breakthrough for Tesla and designer Franz von Holzhausen – Business Insider

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Before the reveal of Tesla's outrageous Cybertruck, the company's head designer was known for elegance and restraint.

Franz von Holzhausen's calling card was that at Tesla he hadn't created wild, futuristic vehicles that evoked spaceships or impossible constructions of curves and contorted lines. The Model S in particular was a subdued masterpiece that's held up fantastically well since its introduction in 2012. It was a perfectly normal-looking all-electric sedan that nonetheless made you want to keep looking at it. It should have been boring, but it wasn't. It was captivating.

Few car designers have achieved this: Alec Issigonis with the original Mini, Malcolm Sayer with the Jaguar E-Type, Henrik Fisker with the Aston Martin DB9.

When Tesla rolled out its new Roadster a few years ago, you could see von Holzhausen extending himself but not going crazy.

Likewise with the Model Y crossover, which very clearly represented von Holzhausen sticking to the core visual vocabulary he had made into his own language.

But the Cybertruck wow! No one expected anything even remotely like it from the dignified von Holzhausen. Though the design is controversial, I think it's a wonderful move for Tesla and for von Holzhausen. The brand was running the risk of falling into a rut. In the car business, there's a simple dictum that says it all: "Show them the car."

What that means is that the physical fact and impression of the vehicle is the fundamental. If people don't respond to your design, positively or negatively, then you've failed.

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Tesla Cybertruck is almost $20,000 cheaper than Ford F-150 over 5 years – Electrek

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An analysis of the Tesla Cybertrucks total cost of ownership versus the Ford F-150 shows that it could save owners almost $20,000 over five years.

Before unveiling the Cybertruck, CEO Elon Musksaid that theTesla Cybertruck would cost less than $50,000 and have better specs than the Ford F-150, which is a top competitor Tesla is going after with its new electric pickup truck.

He delivered on that with two versions of the Cybertruck starting lower than $50,000 and the specs being extremely competitive with the F-150.

But where the Cybertruck really shines financially is not only at the sticker price, but with its total cost of ownership.

Ben Sullins from Teslanomics did the math and made a full total cost of ownership over five years comparison between the Tesla Cybertruck and the Ford F-150.

He came to the conclusion that the Cybertruck is about $19,000 cheaper than the F-150 over a five-year period when owned in California and Texas:

Sullins tried to be as fair as possible with all the different variables that affect the cost of ownership, and he admits that its not a perfect comparison, especially when it comes to insurance and projected depreciation or repairs.

He used a Ford F-150 Lariat, which Edmunds ranks as the best-value F-150, and configured it as an AWD and SuperCrew in order to compare it to the 6-seater AWD Cybertruck Dual Motor.

The Ford F-150s MSRP is $51,775 versus $49,900 for the Tesla Cybertruck.

Thats pretty close, but when you add up all the costs over five years, the Cybertruck ends up much cheaper:

Sullins used average gas and electricity prices in California and Texas, but theres also the potential for an even greater difference if owners use variable rates to charge at night, or even better, if they have solar power and charge their vehicle with electricity they produce themselves.

Also, it doesnt account for EV incentives, because its unclear what will be available by the time the Cybertruck hits the market.

In Canada, which is an important market for pickup trucks, Cybertruck might be eligible for some subsidies if Tesla takes a similar price structure approach as it did for the Model 3.

Thats a huge difference in price, and I also happen to think that it is somewhat conservative.

In markets where electricity is cheaper and where customers combine the Cybertruck with a solar installation, it will be much cheaper.

Especially in Quebec, where electricity is about $0.09 per kWh, it will be massively less expensive than a gasoline-powered truck like the F-150.

If it also happens to be eligible for EV incentives, which can add up to $13,000 in Quebec, the Cybertruck would make a killing.

But it depends on the price in Canadian dollars since there are MSRP restrictions to get access to incentives.

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