The unstated question is “Am I an idiot for making it harder to see my car, reflectors and tailights” . Mustang dudes answer is Yes.

So how are the residuals on off warranty Model S’s? Cause I can find Forbes and KBB articles listing them as class-leading in terms of residual value after 5 years. (If you do the math yourself, don’t forget to drop $7,500 off the original sales price to reflect the tax credit which was available then).

If you bought the car from Tesla, they aren’t taking anything away.  I rest quite easy at night.

That’s demonstrably untrue. There are plenty of Teslas for sale now that are out-of-warranty.

Had ours a year and gotten at least 2 performance upgrades. Not to mention numerous feature upgrades. Not to say all is perfect in the world of Tesla, but that person having FSD yanked seems to be an edge case in how they bought the car. 

subtle dig at Harrison Ford

In my non-Jeep owning opinion, I would only wave at people with:

The best part is Shelby doesn’t build these, they license their name to them.

Math is hard.  3 hours @ 65 mph = 195 miles.  We’re talking about a car that takes 20 minutes to charge 300 miles, which is every 4.6 hours.

The use case for needing a quick charge at home is effectively nonexistent.  Your house will typically be either the origin or the destination, so you have longer than 20 minutes to charge.  The need for a quick charge will generally happen in the middle of a long trip, probably on an interstate.

I drive an EV everyday that gets about 120+/- miles of range (depending on many factors). Range anxiety on the West Coast from SoCal to the tip of Washington is pretty much BS. If your honestly thinking about a road trip then get on the PlugShare app and every charging station will appear and you can plan a route that…

No. They just come on here to complain every time an electric car manufacturer ups the ante. “Unless it will go 200 miles per charge, electric will never succeed... Unless/until it can go 300 miles per charge, electric cars will be useless... Not until you can get 300 miles per charge in 30 minutes will electric cars…

Accept for the part of potentially decentivizing the purchase of the Tesla. Its a bit presumptuous to tell businesses how to best reach market saturation and even more presumptuous to argue that a company that has done a lot to push the ev market needs to do even more.

Just because you don’t understand how economy ratings work doesn’t give you the right to accuse anyone of “gaming the system”.

So the car with the smallest battery and goes the furthest is the least efficient?

I don’t think the test is about efficiency either. It’s like, how close do you come to the EPA range vs their arbitrary test’s range.

????

Also, let’s consider battery size for the contenders:

The same team determined the HD3500 is more “efficient” than the Prius since it has a 40 gallon tank.

I am happy to shit on Tesla when they deserve it, but I am going to say that this doesnt really show anything. Yeah, so Tesla is the worst in comparison to the ‘calculated’ EPA range, BUT the performance model has a 75KW/h battery pack and the e-Tron is 95KW/h etc.... so yeah, worst on published range, but still the…