2nd Gear: Fingers crossed we come to some sort of middle ground where there is a place you can go to sit in/test drive, and get service on your vehicle, but still handling the buying process online. Theoretically, pulling the finances all the way out of the model would get all the slimeballs out of that profession.…

“I am not sure a website emotionally engages people like humans do.”

One would’ve assumed the owners already had full self-driving capability, or did they have to sign that away upon purchasing a Tesla?

As a rider I am very interested in this. I stayed AFTER clocking out at work to finish the article.

By all indications it was seen as just something that occasionally happens. I am already signed up for the Chief ride in Sedona at the end of the month and I have a Challenger loaner in my driveway right now. My invite hasn’t been rescinded and my loan hasn’t been taken away.

We have a good working relationship and as…

I promise I didn’t shit myself. I will stand before a court of my peers, hand on bible, and swear to that under penalty of perjury.

Insurance fraud exists. In the universe of things this could have been, it ranks pretty fucking low. As in, of all the possible things you could irresponsibly speculate about it being, that makes no sense.

Is a truck an appropriate purchase for the majority of people that buy them?

If capitalism wanted us to have a good charging infrastructure we would have a good infrastructure, you know just like the 1930s and the rural electrification program and the TVA. Oh, that is right, that was socialism.

Yeah but Kevin Harvick has a wife and son, Aric Almirola has a wife and two kids, and Chase Briscoe has a wife, yet they are all still racing for Haas in a motorsport with some of the biggest crashes and he seems fine with that.

Five staff answers and they are all reasonable?!? WTF??!!??

Former engine designer here:

Jalopnik: “Manufacturers should build more wagons!”
Porsche “Here you go.”

So you want to pay a middle man so you can feel like you got a better deal than you did?

Okay, so I’ve done both.... let me give you an example of the most common stop type. Get to the fast charger, plug in, walk <5 min to 5 Guys or something similar, order food, eat it and walk back to the car. Leave with more charge than you needed for next stop.

As an aside I think it’s pretty frustrating that talk is of cars with 200 miles or 250 miles and so on is based on a use-case that isn’t reflective of the way a maximum range would actually be used.

Any combination of dangerous conditions and OTHER PEOPLE. I drove a FWD compact car (late 90's Chevy Cavalier) hundreds of miles on a highway you couldn’t see and through snow deep enough to literally push over the hood of the car.

The notion that having a cost cap might help Ferrari, the team that consistently underachieves while having the biggest budget, is hilarious.

Neutral:

Bjørn is one of my favorite Youtubers to watch and probably the world’s foremost authority on owning and driving electric cars of all sorts in every weather condition imaginable.