Yoooo, Turo is hell. I have rented though them without any issues for a long time. Super pleasant until there was the one time where something went wrong. Turo 100% protects the hosts of the vehicles and loves damage claims because they stick 20% on top. Its free money to them and the more the hosts scam the more they…

Please, automotive industry, stop trying to shove yolk steering wheels down our throat. We don’t dig it.

Also, while we’re on the subject, can we talk for a second about how completely unnecessary a 900-mile EV is? Why not use a battery a third of the size to give us something much more affordable with a still-useful 300-mile range? Hauling around a battery you barely even use would just be wasteful.

That’s a lot of words spent on speculating why would the owner would auction the car, including all the usual EV naysayer’s talking points, while the reserve itself seems to indicate that they wanted to make a quick buck rather than getting “rid” of it for all its EV shortcomings (tm).

Can confirm firsthand (worked at Magna Powertrain for 8 years), that any cars built at Magna-Steyr are top-notch in quality control. I had a BMW X3 (1st gen) which was one of the first SUVs to be assembled completely by Magna-Steyr, and compared to the X5 of that vintage (made in South Carolina), the X3 was a million…

Why don’t more EVs do this. Magna knows how to put stuff together and Fisker knows how to design good looking stuff. It looks nicer than a Tesla and built nicer also.

I don’t see them rushing to register vehicles in 7 days after getting our money. They want their money yesterday but when they get it, they take their sweet time to do what they’ve been paid for. I’m sure they’ll survive on all that extra  money coming in from Market adjustments

I don’t have a violin small enough to play for them.

I’m not going to worry about the dealers. I’m sure somehow they will turn this credit to their advantage to fleece customers

I do believe if you just want solid EV for city driving that has personality and not an egg shaped appliance, the Mach E GT is tough to beat.

Ha! The joke’s on them - I don’t have a sex life!!!

Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake coming down from the trees in the first place, and some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no-one should ever have left the oceans.

Username really checks out.

The most interesting thing for me about Threads is a message as you’re setting up an account that future versions will connect to the Fediverse, which seems like A Very Big Deal for both the Fediverse and Mastodon users.

That keyboard look strangely similar to the Commodore 64 one...

One can only hope. If I were on the bottom I probably would have strangled Stockton Rush to give me a little more time.

LiFePO4 batteries don’t burn...at all, basically. They’re extremely difficult to make catch on fire, if it’s even possible at all.

Nothing makes me believe less in the possibility of intelligent extraterrestrial life than Republicans picking up the bit. Hell, I’m only 50/50 on intelligent terrestrial life these days because of those idiots.

If I had to predict, I would say this guy Grusch is similar to the Google researcher who came out last year and said its AI was “sentient”.

I predict this will be as groundbreaking and world-changing as every time in the past that we were super going to know The Truth™ about aliens and the big government cover-up!