The issue is that the amount paid is vastly higher compared to an ICE vehicle. I put all the math in another comment but for an EV to match an ICE with an MPG of 28 it would take literally 28,000 miles per year of driving to actually match the amount of money paid per mile compared to the current $0.20 per gallon gas…

Weird take that reduces down to “whataboutism.”

ROFL you really think consumers’ opinion of a CEO affects their purchasing decisions?

My opinion of a CEO and/or company in general absolutely affects my purchasing decisions. I want my next vehicle to be an EV or at minimum a hybrid, and I will absolutely not buy a Tesla. 1/3 is that I just don’t vibe with the designs, 1/3 is inconsistent quality control, fit & finish, and 1/3 is Musk being a giant…

Elon Musk is one of the main reasons I did not buy a Model 3.

I would like to throw any recent Camry with the full sporty trim treatment to the list. They look racy and fast but all that cladding can’t hide the fact that it still has the performance, feel, and fit-and-finish of a large economy car with a V6 that has seen minimal development for over a decade.

The BMW X6.

I’ve been thinking a lot about this incident and the take that resources were potentially wasted on five billionaires. I have thoughts, but no blog or anything so, I’m going to share them here.

They told the Coast Guard right away, which made it possible for folks to find the wreckage and confirm. Announcing “we have received information from a secret source indicating that we are probably looking for a gravesite” is not exactly good crisis comms, especially when there’s a slight chance they were wrong about…

Having to live in the San Joaquin Valley is a total deal breaker for me. The closest I've come to California in the last decade was 10 miles. 

Popularity contests aren’t going to impress anyone here, Stanley.

They aren’t, they don’t pay the tax credits and rebates, residents do. 

The main catch is that you end up owning a Tesla.

I was considering this as I live in the SJV area but I refuse to give Musk any money if I can help it.

I think the Hyundai/Kia praise comes not from the fact that they’re making Aston Martin quality designs, but from how shit most automaker’s design is.

Offices and businesses, and even many industrial facilities, do not operate at night. Even if every single family home in the area was pulling 40 amps all night, thats still far less power than the commercial/industrial sector pull during the day. 

That’s the goal.... Not having that super high spike of energy draw at around 5 PM when people get home when you have to fire up extra generators and etc to meet the demand.

I mean the power required to actually tip the scales would be an insane amount of cars all charging at once. that’s not likely to be an issue for a while still. on top of that then daytime hours become off peak and you just rinse and repeat.

That is actually the goal, ideally we would have perfectly level energy demand through the day....

Any chance this comes with the option of a 60/40 bench seat as the 2nd row and not the highly overrated “captain’s chairs”?