Just a regular car fan here. No particular interest or disinterest in tesla, other than to say its a innovative American company, and the whole FSD and Elon and whatever is a bit much and quite silly. But the coverage of anything on this site about Tesla reads as very childish... Like can an article about Tesla be…

Pretty epic tweet, to be honest.

The $72k Tesla comes with AWD and you can get it now.

A Morning Shift finally hit 5/5 wrong takes, congrats all around!

I always think it’s weird when people use socialist as an insult...

Their cars are amazing, but everything is still on shaky ground.

...and with local service/support...

And yet with those deep pockets it couldn’t get the launch right.

VAG eats their lunch with the ID series worldwide

So? Money’s money, and if anything, that’s good news from a long term perspective. The rest of the industry is way behind and chasing a strategy where they try to make their most profitable products EV and/or buy a startup and use their tech. Tesla’s going to be able to sell those credits for a long, long time.

You seem to think covid is permanent which is funny. Q3 will be a record quarter in terms of sales and Q4 will be even larger. As Tesla grows, of course they will need more factories.

Cue all the usual suspects chanting: “Fake numbers!” & “Accounting fraud!”.

C’mon Jalopnik, I know that ads are how you stay in business, but it’s getting to the point that the site is becoming completely unreadable without an ad blocker.

Well Delorean produced what, 9000 cars? Tesla produced what, over 1 million cars? I think when you produced 100X more cars than Delorean, you are way past the stage of being compared to that.

Minor correction: the school hostage crisis took place in Beslan, which is in North-Ossetia, not in Chechnya.

The problem so-called city-EVs is that people who live in the city often live in apartment buildings and for that reason have difficulties charging at home, thus rendering the car pointless

Damn Mike, why do you detest one of the most interesting people leading the automotive industry? That drives me up the wall — I thought you guys were enthusiasts? It’s a big turn off for me.

I’m not getting your point. In your description it says “without constant manual control”. Which in turn means some manual control is still required.

Was he talking about “autopilot” or “full-self driving package”? 2 different things. Autopilot is driver assist, full-self driving package is what will in the “future” get you from work to home.

An autopilot is a system used to control the trajectory of an aircraft, marine craft or spacecraft without constant manual control by a human operator being required. Autopilots do not replace human operators, but instead they assist them in controlling the vehicle. This allows them to focus on broader aspects of…