I have a minivan and love it. It is the perfect vehicle for everything from hauling family, to outdoors trips, to handling ply and drywall and 2x4s for me to finish my basement. It only doesn’t tow my travel trailer.

I actually don’t think that much harm was done.   Do you know where the harm was done?   All the other companies that couldn’t figure out how to build a reliable charger/charging network that couldn’t compete with Tesla.  

Not really, it’s not a bad standard if you are going to settle on one.  And it is becoming a standard even it not going the usual way.    You get a lot of credibility for building a charging network that actually works. 

pity

Think about how the US federal government requires automakers to guaranty EV batteries for 8 years for this purpose.

You’re looking at it in the photo— the F-150, 250 (ok, so not the Jeep). And oddly enough a used Prius. I know more than one retiree that has fullsize truck or body on frame SUV plus a Prius. It’s funny.

Only the rich retirees, which seem to be fewer and fewer have the Corvette. Shame... I love the Vette... I think…

funny that it seems to be the Tesla charger than everyone is going to. Whatever happens to Tesla, I don’t know, but they certainly know how to build out charging infrastructure.

You laugh, but Rivian has huge injections of cash, seems to lose money on every vehicle, but will probably survive as a car company, or at least live long enough to become a division of another car company.

The sad part about Canoo is that their actual idea isn’t half bad, unlike some of these other jokers out…

If Canoo’s actual revenue for 2023 was that low then they had a huge problem to begin with.   You can’t run a car company with that kind of money.   I wonder what their cash burn was vs capital...   I mean if they have huge injections of cash, then while the jet use is a bad look, I’m not sure it’s the worst thing in…

Disagree. The point of the credits is to retool the industry as well as sell cars. You need both. Hyundai, Honda, and other EV makers are scrambling to build plants in the US for battery production. Mines in the US are being opened. Even domestics like Ford and GM are having to reconsider and move their EV and battery…

That RX-7 was beautiful when it came out and remains so today. I knew it was timeless when it first came out...and it has held true. Problem is, everyone else realized that as well.

“They won’t sign anything because they can fire anyone who strikes or openly advocates for a strike on the spot and replace him with another person who needs the job even more in a day.”

They’ve had to considerably raise their wages in order to do this, and add tuition and better healthcare benefits to compete with…

a) This is what the Flipper Zero is for... though it’s not a real good use of the thing.

Tesla will lose. Like in the US, labor union participation in Europe is rising, not falling. Here’s just one example:

so that thing about manuals? Turns out they may be safer in the era of smart phones... research suggests that after 2007, pedestrian deaths rose in the US but not most other parts of the world. Smartphone usage seems to be the culprit. Why the US alone? Because most of the rest of the world is more reliant on…

Oh, I dunno, it would seem that the unions in Sweden are causing effects outside of Sweden: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-raises-wages-by-4-german-workers-amid-union-pressure-2023-11-05/

It’s true.   But it’s both low and high stakes.  On one hand, yeah, your job is not at stake.  On the other, publishing is the coin of the realm and I’ve seen brutal fights over stuff like that... that is more high stakes.   But handled by people who should be more mature...because they won’t get fired over it, unless…

Honestly, used properly, it is powerful. Think of the war on wokeness. It is a needed thing. But the problem I am describing was tenured coupled with a department chair who was also in a union member—super bad combination. It puts the union in a situation where it is in conflict with the rank and file members.
I…

I hope mostly harmless.  

This is only the tip of the iceberg. When I complained to the union, I submitted an eighteen page single space report. The three most senior faculty members in the department backed me up.
My attorney thought the whole thing was beyond absurd. The cornerstone of the chairperson’s argument against me was a chart that…