So, how does he know it’s THAT issue and not the particle contamination issue? A manufacturing issue? A supply issue? A dry electrode issue? Or just a desire to use the cells elsewhere? Or realizing they can’t make a Plaid+ that’s enough faster than a Plaid to be worth the price increase and R&D inputs?

Plaid+ was supposed to use Tesla’s new 4680 battery with higher energy density. The problem might be with getting that battery to production.

Come on, it was a joke:

Common control usage doesn’t appear to require the screen, from what I can see in the video.  It’s fine.

How will they find them? Paper maps?

Get ready for the anti-technology crowd to come after you. 

If you watched the video, you might have noticed that they have physical climate control buttons right where you’re saying they should be.

It’s not “straight down.”  Did you watch the video? 

I don’t get this objection. The “pilot panel” is just below the dashboard-mounted display, right where your controls are now. Where do you suggest putting them?

Nobody here is excusing the Saudis. They are just pointing out that drawing the line at this particular car company seems an odd choice given that almost any billion dollar organization is likely to have ties to some unsavory activity.

I can’t go with the whataboutism I’m seeing here.  It looks like a mirror of Faux News.  It’s basically casting a very wide net with no support, and putting up a situation that could justify not opposing slavery unless everything with the abolitionist’s side was perfect.

On the Henry Ford/Musk dirty past, is there a manufacturer that’s completely clean? Citroen maybe, when your vice-president and chairman is an “Enemy of the Reich” you’re doing something right.

I like the design of the Lucid Air.

I have high hopes for Lucid, after all, the founder was the chief engineer for the Model S.

If you think America and Saudi Arabia are comparable in terms of humans rights, you have clearly never left the US borders.  I’ve seen a lot of this world, and while America has room for improvement, our individual rights provide us a quality of life that is the envy of the developing world.  

now use your time machine and go back in time to fix these issues, thanks

If only the country with zero faults can cast stones then humanity is doomed.

Make sure to stop buying any product derive from petroleum then too.

Did you type your virtue signal on your iphone or mac made by slaves in China? 

Goes out to buy lottery tickets....