Curious to see how renting a car from Turo for a few months would compare to a short lease, which likely has a high down payment. Sort of like how people rent an Airbnb long-term.

May The Fonz be with you.

They, like many of the manufacturers will back off of their plans to EV-ify everything. Like many have stated - the infrastructure is lacking, people are now starting to default on their $1K+ car payments, and only so many folks have extra money to buy these extremely expensive cars - the country is not ready for EV’s…

I am in the suburbs and can’t charge at home, either. Lots of apartment/condo dwellers out here. I can think of 2 non-Tesla (a parking garage and a pharmacy) and one Tesla charging locations in my town.

1. I live in an apartment with nowhere to charge.

I am 39 years old

1st: The west bowed to China, which basically required western manufacturers set up shop with China’s border in order to sell in its market. China then used / stole the IP to develop its own industrial giants, and now those same western manufacturers are fucked. It was all so predictable.

Counterpoint: They shouldn’t be following you so fucking close anyways for rear end crashes.

Good point. GMC commands a premium price in the market in general, and by virtue of them not selling any *cheap* vehicles they must be a luxury brand. Looks like they tend to sell a respectable 500k-ish vehicles a year in the US and pushing 600k with Canada. Can’t find January’s numbers for this year though.

Tesla does not make luxury cars.

It does look like tailored wool; I have that in my C40. I rarely have to turn the seat heating on in the winter because they warm up nicely just from sitting in them.

the i3 had a wool seat option like this and it was so... so nice.

I had a 2018 F31 3-series and now a PS 2 (non-performance pack, with all season tires). The Polestar is a much more fun car to drive than the old 3-series.

Sadly, the US is very far behind with EV adoption and infrastructure when compared to the EU or even China. Running electrical lines and installing chargers isn’t difficult, but the government needs to provide incentives for people and companies to do it. At this rate, it will have to be done on a state by state…

I’m honestly fine with this for the most part but as is always pointed out - where are the mandatory infrastructure bills to go along with? All the major urban centers will need to install plugs alongside parking meters plus huge offsets for homes and apartments.

*cachet is a feeling of exclusivity

And this is what you get in a society that fetishizes guns.

This is the society you get when you treat firearm ownership as an inalienable right, rather than a privilege with responsibilities.