Electric Avenue

Batteries included: Elon Musk is again expanding Tesla’s electric car line with the Model S 60 sedan, which will sell for $66,000, less than the $100,000 Model S, but more than the $35,000 Model 3. The new model will have a range of about 200 miles and a top speed of 130 mph.

We’d suggest selling your home to buy one, but then where would you plug it in?

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Mobile homes: Even as stock prices have dropped, Americans’ personal net worth increased 1 percent in the first quarter of this year because home values have jumped by $498 billion.

Well, in that case, put me down for two Model S’s. I’ll sleep in one and drive the other.

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No honor among thieves: Twenty-one states plan to sue Delaware, because that state, where more than 1 million businesses are incorporated, is seizing uncashed money orders as abandoned property and diverting the money to its general fund. The states claim the funds should be going to the state where the money orders originated.

Guess that explains why Delaware’s state motor pool recently ordered 500 Teslas.

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