I think the first should read:

Some changes to the buiding codes. New construction should include wiring for 220V home chargers; and maybe a minimum number of chargers for multi-family buildings. I’d also amend the commercial zoning code to reduce the number parking spaces per floor area.

It’s a bit of a hedge on Musk’s part. The walls are closing in on Tesla’s FSD/Autopilot, from the DoJ, SEC, and NHTSA. The existing hardware on Teslas will never achieve SAE level5, and everybody knows it.[1] A second Trump term, implementing Project 2025, would stop these investigations.

The bumpers may be missing; but that’s a functional hood scoop.  You can see the air intake in the engine compartment shot.

I agree that the castings have changed the body-in-white; but moving to the gigacasting hasn’t changed the exterior styling. Tesla’s design language, excepting the CT, is stale. That was also my point of brining up the long leads between unveiling and production for the CT. Normal OEMs get criticized for this, and so…

The Tesla line-up is very old.

It’s all about range per charge. Every electron you use in the 12V is an electron you can’t use to power the drive motors. Every extra Ah you specify in the 12V battery is weight that cuts into range.  Optimally charging the low voltage battery in an electric vehicle is a hard problem.

The Ford Flex. They sold 300k of these full-size family haulers; and if you ever had one and used it for it’s intended purpose, you knew how great they were. The problem was actually getting families into them. If you didn’t drive one, you’d never know.

Tesla’s biggest technologies are the supercharger network, their vehicle’s fast charging, and their long headstart on the NACS.

CR’s reliability data comes from surveys:

1st: Other OEMs learned this lesson the hard way. Selling large blocks of vehicles to the rental car companies, or owning a rental car company outright, is a neat way to move excess inventory; but it kills the residual value for your retail customers. This makes retail leasing more expensive, but it also impacts what…

“Is there any such redundancy in steer by wire?”

And there’s a further reason they abandoned four wheel steering about 20 years ago. It’s expensive and it offers very little advantage over the traditional setup. Maybe 4ws is a plus off-road; but is that much better than torque vectoring and differential braking?

The rental car business model has them selling their vehicles at certain miles/age to keep their fleets ‘fresh’; and their business model depends on knowing the residual value of the vehicle when they take it out of the fleet. You’re not going to rent from a company that has a fleet of 5-6 year old, 100k+ mile…

I hedged that because I don’t know, and I don’t think there’s objective data to support or disprove the statement. But that’s not the point of my comment, or the NHTSA investigation.

I’m not sure comparing vehicles with active driver assistance against vehicles without any driver assisstance is the right metric; when the goal is to determine if a particular ADAS implementation is better or worse than industry standard.

That’s not the headlamps indicator; that’s the park/position lamps indicator.

GM moving to the Renaissance Center is a very good use of resources.

“The actual sign was installed along I-94 in Southwest Detroit, fairly close to where trucks cross the Ambassador bridge into and out of Canada.”

“If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.”