I would imagine the most common form of long distance travel would be train. Trains can be big and heavy and fit horses without much issue.

One minor issue, Torch:

Look at the paint job.

the only company really making electric cars that anyone truly desires is Tesla.

Yeah, early Model 3s had a lot of inefficient spots in the manufacturing process that could have been addressed to help also.

Yeah the ultracapacitor tech seems to have gotten most of the press because it could increase performace even further and Elon studied ultracapacitors in college, but I think the real meat from a business perspective is the dry electrode technology which is a pretty hefty improvement in terms of cost reduction in the…

The biggest thing is the economies of scale for their battery production. The more batteries they produce, the less each cell costs. Combine that with their recent acquisition bid of a partner company (Maxwell Technologies) signal that the Maxwell dry electrode technology might be going into production, as it allows…

The holes all seem to serve legitimate aerodynamic and/or thermal management purposes, so I’m fine with it.

Fair point!

Jetta is it’s own brand now?

Never lost a case! Never have, never will!

Also like, those apartments look like shit...how you affording an F40 but you living in what looks like, one social step above a crack den?

And honestly that’s why it’s plausible. The feature part is relatively simple, it’s the continued development and refinement that is going to be a long, long road for any self-driving technology company.

“I think we will be ‘feature-complete’ on full self-driving this year, meaning the car will be able to find you in a parking lot, pick you up, take you all the way to your destination without an intervention this year. I am certain of that. That is not a question mark.”

The Civic of supercars is actually livable as a car you’re going to be in for a long time. Like for, say, a million miles...

NSX Type-R

The first time I opened the car with the key while the fob refused to work (I repeatedly pressed the button as I approached trying to get it to work, ended up standing there looking at the LED blinking while nothing happened on the car), the alarm stayed silent.

given just how long VW got away with it, I doubt Piech had much of a warning

Just looked it up, he did submit his resignation before smoghazi started in earnest. Though allegedly, Piech was tipped off that the company was about to be hit hard by the US regulatory agencies a month or two before he resigned.

‘93 to 2015 when he was kicked off the board because of some emissions thing you probably haven’t heard of hey did you see that Bugatti?