2018 is when the $7500 tax credit ran out for Tesla. For 2019 it was $3750. For 2020-2022 is was $0. Yet look what happened to their sales figures when the only incentive was the free market (hint: they didn’t go down)

It just doesn’t have the same imposing nature the S-Class has. A black S-class is still a Mob boss. She’s got a softer face, but you still don’t dare mess with her

Put the phone down!! You’re operating a multi-ton machine mere feet away from dozens of other people. This one bothers me so much. Especially when I’m in traffic and I can plainly see the person behind me on their phone. I often change lanes just to get away from them. I don’t want to get hit!

I’ll never understand this “Elon Musk can do...” type of argument. Because Elon Musk probably cannot do whatever feat of ingenuity or technical prowess ends that statement.

Elon is one of the worst people in history, and his cars are poorly made trash. Yet people keep defending them against basic logic. Being a tesla or Elon supporter is basically the same as being a QAnon nut at this point.

The Average American is not buying a new car. There are 130 million households in the USA and only 13 million new cars were sold last year. So each holdhold only buys a new car once every 10 years, and with 2.5 adults per household, that works out to a new car per person every ~25 years.

They can’t just have charisma. They also have to expertly navigate the back door/side rooms of congress to get legislation done. That requires relationships and that (likely) requires experience. Or you can do what Mango Mussolini did and put them on blast on the platform formerly known as Twitter so your minions can…

It’s disappointing that the railroad workers were mentioned without also mentioning that they continued to negotiate and that around 60% of them now have sick leave. Biden received a ton of negative press for not allowing a strike and then NO press about continued negotiations where the workers received what they were…

“Likely not enough to get all of them back to full charge before they go home.”

People are currently out there getting 15% interest rates on CPO BMWs. Absolutely nobody cares about total cost of ownership. 

Is not so much the weight changes of the individual models, as the distribution of vehicle types. The nineties garage was full of hatchbacks and sedans, with some station wagons and the occasional pickup. Now, it’s filled predominantly with pickups, SUVs and crossovers, and the smaller lighter cars are much thinner on…

Yup! I had to keep people from doing this *all the damn time* when I had a Model 3. 

This is the same mentality that leads to instructions telling people not to iron clothes while they’re wearing them.

I once rode in a friend’s Tesla for the first time and used the manual handle to get out. He was amazed and had never noticed them before. As I recall they are smaller and set into the armrest flush sort of like an inside lock might be. For safety they definitely should be red/orange like door locks. 

For those who have never seen the handle inside the Model 3...

As much as I dislike both rental car companies and some of Tesla’s products and features, this seems like a situation that the driver could easily have avoided. The Tesla navigation system is very good at telling you where to charge and even for how long. The last time I rented a Tesla from Hertz, you could “plug and…

No one is trapped in the Tesla. There are mechanical releases for the front doors within reach. Corvettes have had electric doors with separate mechanical releases for years. I do agree that as a rental that Hertz is to blame. There is driver education needed here. The L2 J1772 adapter is pointless, they should have…

In 2004 more cathode ray tube televisions were sold than LCD televisions. When was the last time you used a CRT tv? 

“Gonna poison myself and my family to own the libs”

sometimes we push back even against our own best interests too. funny how it works.