Ford invested in Rivian so they can already legitimately claim that even if they build nothing and Rivian (God forbid) goes under.

The only way we save the climate is to convince people to stop driving around in trucks just to commute one person to work or pick up 6 bags of groceries for 90% of the vehicles life.

Nice, in 2035 I might pick one up on the used market.

The number of text communication systems that don't filter that word is absolutely ridiculous and unsurprising all at the same time.

You should ask your church, your school, your daycare, your favorite charity, practically anything where children are accessible.

Such an interesting reply...

Not if the reason they lack capital is due to poor management of existing capital. What have they accomplished with the money they've already been given?

In America, poverty is a crime.

Doesn’t seem that difficult to me.

Sorry, I mean product strategy. Elon’s idea to start with expensive and fast EV’s first was brilliant. As was the idea to build rocket company around the economy of reusable boost stages. No one else was putting money into either at the time. He's made a lot of correct predictions.

How do you define brilliant? In terms of product design Elon is definitely next level. In terms of human relationships? He’s on the short bus there. That's life.

Elon has vision. Few people with his financial means understands the direction of technological progress as well as he does. Sure, the engineers working for him do, but none of them are billionaires.

LIDAR requires light to be emitted and then received, while a camera just receives light. So LIDAR will always pay double the penalty in poor visibility conditions.

A hyperloop from DC to NY is awesome. A Tesla tunnel from DC to Baltimore is garbage. MD better not approve this!

GM will be bankrupt by then if they wait that long to electrify.

This idea isn’t that new to the car world. Think of how many cars have dummy buttons on lower trim levels. Sometimes the button is the only part missing. Tesla’s scale is too small for costeffective part differentiation. They have to do it differently.

Good luck getting any updates or even map data in a modified car. Tesla doesn’t need cyborgs when the car is tied to a server.

He’s just a Russian spy. Installing Trump into power was his job. The only way Trump’s administration punishes him is if his usefulness is dried up and it looks politically advantageous to do so.

What kind of rock crawling are you going to do with 700 HP? The operative word here is crawling. Get a sports car if you want to go fast.

Jalopnik isn’t just the writers. Most of the people commenting hate the idea of electric cars. The world doesn’t have a choice. I can understand not liking Elon. I can understand rooting for another electric car. I can’t understand deliberately trying to delay future our lungs, brains, and climate need. Breathing…