Rich Rebuilds.  he’s da man.

out of curiosity, why install a 100A level 3 charger? From what I read, a 30A level 2 charge it overnight with ease. I don’t have 100A free in my panel, I’d need a new line run from the street

It’s the gossip blog format, likely creeping over from the Gawker/Jezebel side.  “Hey Jessica, don’t you just hate X?” “OMG so much this!”

So the car really has an incentive to make sure you don’t survive.

What if you get run over by a brown manual wagon, send a thank you card ? 

My eyes won’t miss the 53' long, 14' tall box in front of me.

Let’s use press hype as an opportunity to push for mandating side underrail guards on semi trailers. Teslas aren’t the only types of cars that crash into semi trucks. A properly equipped semi trailer could have easily turned this from a fatality into something the driver could’ve walked away from.

Semi illegally fails to yield. Driver not paying attention. US still doesn’t require under ride guards. That’s all there is to it. Autopilot is the least concerning thing with this. 

Our culture of abundance is highly dependent on Chinese made goods. Higher prices on Chinese goods might mean marginally more US made goods, but overall, it means less stuff. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it will be a wake-up call for the average US consumer as we all adjust to having less.

Higher prices on Chinese-goods= less buying of Chinese goods.

My husband owned a 2011 Soul for 5 years and had NOT ONE ISSUE.  He got it when we first met and I was kinda like uhhhh... what?  But honestly I ended up loving that thing.

They are competing against Audi and BMW- cars with no ‘long term reliability’ to speak of.

They argue that with proper following distance, you shouldn’t have to hit the brakes hard at all. Sure, every now and then a deer will run in front of you but that should be every 30,000mi or so, not every hour.

That makes no sense as you can but a new one with no wait right now direct from Tesla.  Who are these people paying more for used ones?

Well, the fact that Tesla was far and away the first company to bring real long range EVs to market implies that literally everyone else was saying this.

But I remember quite vividly when the Roadster was first announced thinking they were full of it. And then when the Model S came out I also thought that it must be…

That is, almost literally, what he said yesterday.

His engineer that gave the presentation was a bit more impressive, though, and to a layman like me the case he was making makes sense. Maybe they are full of shit? Or maybe they are indeed so far ahead of everyone else that they are doing things others think are…

This article is one-sided trash.

I wonder how much of his personal wealth is tied up in his short position?

This! I’d have driven it home, parked it and waited for the dealership to call me when it was “ready”.

At some point the people running this site need to accept that off road capability is just not the norm anymore.