There are a few reasons. An unrestrained person is a 150lbs of flying debris in a car; other people can get injured.

So is Buick becoming the American version of Skoda aka “the thinking mans luxury brand”? You’re getting good tech, affordable pricing, and a modestly good looking vehicle. 

Same. I’ve had a newfound appreciation for them since the piece on here awhile ago that they are cheaper than most Chevy’s. The entire lineup starts below the average new car transaction price from KBB.

I know people seem to like piling on Buick. But I think this looks pretty good. Granted its not exactly my style but I think these will do well. 

Sure, maybe one of the batteries that make up the cell is a dud, but generally speaking, even with the current battery tech in EVs, that’s not a true statement.

Why in God’s name do your cell phones degrade so fast? Mine is five years old now and has 80% life. At that rate it’s four percentage-points per year.

You’re not wrong on the politics. But I think the era of cheap labor is ending if it isn’t already over, and I’m not sure the Chinese government has a plan for that beyond “subcontracting to the Vietnamese.”

We are just getting started on rebuilding our industrial capabilities.  China and Korea are about to have a worker-shortage like we’ve never seen.  We are going to have to be able to make things locally instead of using Chinese slave-labor to pay for the things that we’re cheap about.  To push this development, the…

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…

Sooooo..... you got yours and fuck everyone else? Very boomer of you. 

The goal of this legislation was to bring battery production to the US, not necessarily to make cars cheaper. If making cars cheaper was the sole goal we would have reduced the barriers to entry, not made them harder. This was more about protecting jobs and fighting a geo-political struggle with China than making…

I charge mostly at home, so this is not a huge issue for me. But I am looking forward to GM offering an “official” NACS adapter for my Bolt, even if I have to pay for it. I prefer they do what Ford did and provide a free adapter. But if the price is not too high, I am OK with paying it just to throw the adapter in the…

Pricing of EVs is finally elastic...thank god.

Thanks to his purchase of Twitter and his rants, most people are very aware of Musk and he gets tons of press because of it. Tesla sales were top front page news on CNN today, and you’ll never see them report so highly about another automaker’s sales. Why? Because people know Musk and how polarizing he is, and that…

>I know couldn’t tell you 3 vehicles made by the OEM I work for and it is in the top 3 producers in the world.

average consumers don’t know anything about the people running any company, even Elon Musk nor their political views

There are some people who want cars built by a white supremacist POS con-man. But they don’t want EVs.

Yup. Tesla buyers absolutely know about Musk and his views... and many have come to abhor him.

They should advertise more on Truth Social. 

I guess people just don’t want to buy badly made cars that don’t work as advertised from a white supremacist piece of shit con-man.