If your power grid is down, your gas station won’t be able to pump gas either, without a generator. But if you have rooftop solar and a battery bank, you could run your house and charge your car. And if you have a Ford EV pickup, you could run your house for days off your EV, even without solar.

Not to mention that…

Also all the gas will have been panic-bought already.

On the flip side, it’s fun to blow past unsuspecting drivers at stoplights in complete silence.

I agree. If I wasn’t already driving an EV, I’d definitely look into getting an Ioniq 5.

If the power is down, you also can’t pump gas at most gas stations, soooo....

On my drive this morning, the cars in front of me in the turning lane were Hyundai Ionic 5, Polestar 2, and Tesla Model 3.  I think the Ionic was the best looking out of the three.  

Don’t mind me, I’m just rolling around in all this sweet, sweet money I get for negging on NFTs, paid by... paid by... um... you know... the anti-NFT lobby!

Joke’s on you, that still leaves a border with Alaska, and they’re crazier than most of the rest of the continental US.

Where did they come up with that price?

If I had the money laying around for this - i would rather buy 4 million people any size soft drink at McDonalds

I would go so far as to call them the most attractive pickup truck available. Delightfully free of GRRRRR.

I’ve seen more Rivians than Mavericks.

I’m starting to see them regularly too. It’s tough to ramp up production on something like this but it’ll get there.

Saw one recently.  A lot less weird looking in person than they are in the photos.  I think it’s because they always seem to take pictures from a low angle so they look like they are 15 feet tall instead of only 7 ish.  Honestly a F-150 Raptor looks weirder than the Rivian I saw.

I am starting to see Rivians on the street though. There is one parked at a nearby doctor’s office and another at an engineering firm.

I mean, it’s fictional, so whatever. But the Jerry Cans could be full of water, to electrolyse water and hydrogen from, to burn in a V8 ICE.

If they’re following the canon from the games and books, the Warthog uses a hydrogen-fueled ICE, with on-board electrolysis of water to produce the hydrogen fuel.

I want to like this, I really do-but the buy in for a 27 year old car that is as complex as this admittedly handsome beast is too high.  It might be that it’s a gatekeeper kind of price, only someone who has the means to keep it fed and watered and sheltered is going to buy it for $15k and that person is definitely…

I am hoping that this foray into Twitter will be the thing that (finally) invites the scrutiny and enforcement of market laws that Musk has been exempt from.

Watching Twitter’s implosion will be glorious!