If it was a Biden flag everyone would be like, “A Biden flag!?!?!”

There were multiple problems with the shuttle. As talked about it didn’t have the greatest safety rating. A bigger problem was payload. Every ounce of weight you send into orbit costs a ton. Parachutes are lightweight compared to wings, landing gear, control surfaces and all the additional tiles you need to protect…

Did you see that there was more than one boat? 

Trump is an idiot, but seriously what does flying a flag have to do with socialism.

Because the shuttle was a really good idea, after all - expensive, extremely hard to maintain, marginal safety rating, no way of really aborting a failed launch, complex... Yeah, that’s the idea. Gliders have problems.

I can see pretty clearly a dent in the lower bumper right in front of the wheel. My professional opinion (I’m an insurance adjuster/arbitrator) is that the guy hit a curb or some other fixed object hard enough to damage the suspension. It looks like the lower control arm broke off from the steering knuckle during a…

Obviously a matter of taste. I love the rims on the CMax featured here. It’s the only redeeming factor on an otherwise ugly car IMO. Those focus rims, on the other hand, do nothing for me.

When did they say they’re cancelling the i3?

How is the Zoe different from the Leaf or the Bolt?  Seems like roughly the same price, range, and body style... ???

It’s approximately the same starting price, yes, but not quite double the range (351 vs 218). But is the e-Tron competing directly against the Model X, or is it against the Model Y, or somewhere in between? The Model Y starts at $49,990 and has 316 miles of range

I don’t think any of the entrenched automakers quite realize exactly how far behind they are on the software front. Too many years of outsourcing pretty much all their software has left them in a position where they don’t even know the extent of what they don’t know.

The BMW i3 and i8 were clean sheet designs.

Except the e-tron is based on the Q5, not the Q7.

Shhhhhh, Jalopnik people want to complain about something. Don’t get in the way with that logic.

Do you guys know anything about photography? Or do you only pretend to be ignorant when it doesn’t confirm your world view?

The photographer in question intentionally stacked the images to capture the satellites. He could just as easily have stacked them to get rid of the satellites. It’s the same way urban photographers use multiple long exposures to capture cities and erase pedestrians and cars to make it look like no one is around.

It’s like the astronomers are complacent being permanent spectators.

The don’t seem to care about profitability other than funneling it back into infrastructure (more car production plants) and avoiding collapse. It’s very similar to Amazons early years. They appear to be using income to aggressively bootstrap themselves so they can increase the rate of production they produce cars…

Lol it was a supply problem from lack of factories building EVs and their batteries. not a demand problem. Covid undeniable proved that. If ice sales fall 20% and EVs remaining the same what does that say about supply? But then again evertime you see Tesla mentioned you have an obsession to post 100 negative things in…

I’m with you - the emissions credits (as well as they early-adopter tax credits for EV buyers) are a valid part of the Tesla business model and are basically a way to finance start up costs on a long-term EV strategy. As much as the Elon Musk celebrity BS rubs me the wrong way on a bunch of different levels, and as…