I, unfortunately, recently paid a visit to my city’s police impound lot [someone complained about my currently registered B5 Avant parked on the street, and got it towed…I don’t want to talk about it], and 3 out of the 5 people in line were there to take a look at their stolen car. There is a separate area for…
People arent leasing right now because the manufacturers have completely stopped subventing lease rates and residuals.
An alternative to these rosy numbers exists. Tesla uses possibly fraudulent accounting practices to make themselves look completely differentiated in the marketplace. Elon has established a culture of fabrications and exaggerations to raise funds and boost his stock price to line his own pockets. The recent spate of…
“I live in alabama and most of our electricity is from coal, natural gas, and gasoline/diesel fuel”
My hybrid Ford has been one of the most reliable vehicles I’ve ever owned. Much of the stuff that normally goes bad on ICE cars isn’t there (starter, alternator, belts, etc.) It doesn’t have all the weight of an EV because it only hauls around a little battery, but it gets double the gas mileage of cars of similar…
I don’t have an EV, but there’s a cost associated with maintaining the automobile gas infrastructure and transporting physically heavy non-reusable gas. Electric motors are 85+% efficient, consumer gasoline engines are at best 40%. So for you to use your 16 gallons of gas, more energy is burned refining it, moving it…
I love how people say things like “there are still the dirty parts about EV’s no one wants to talk about” when literally every article and comment thread about EVs is chock full of misinformation about how batteries can’t be recycled (they can), or how lithium and rare earth mining is uniquely harmful (it isn’t), or…
Because for a vast majority of the population, THEY ARE GOOD ENOUGH. Toyota is banking on people realizing this and since they already know how to make hybrids really well, they are just biding their time rather than spending ungodly amounts of money on the latest hot thing to grab simple minded shareholder’s and…
And many will never listen in that class and then get spicy later and scream “Why wasn’t I taught that in school?”
Gotta be honest with you - A GX470 being a first car and the least memorable is pretty bougie and sounds more like an operator problem than a car problem. It’s a rear bias AWD V8 wagon with a good stereo that can hold all your friends or all your crap.
“At the moment, Wyoming has all of 330 EVs registered in the entire state.”
It won’t fall out of favour. You just have to look at the reasons people are buying SUV’s to understand why.
In the not too distant future Tesla is going to be a case study on wasting a head start.
Tesla. You will never convince me that those cars are luxury. Panel gaps I can see through, horrible interiors, “leather” that is just nasty, seats that suck, etc etc etc.
I once sat on a friends’ porch in Vermont on a pretty warm summer night. We were enjoying the night and refreshments when, over on a ridge, on the other side of the valley, were some lights wobbling through the woods. We could hear the snarl of some tortured engine being wrung like a rag and I wondered who could be…
1st Gear:
people at this point are probably fed up with overinflated car prices. The souring economy isn’t helping either.
2nd Gear:
At this point I’d say its going to only get worse for Tesla. Musk has a lot to do with the blame. In stretching himself thin the lineup and its technology is getting stale. The Model S has…
When I called a Kia dealer for the last time ever, they told me the $2,500 markup they had listed online for the EV6 was actually $15,000. I politely told the salesperson that was dishonest and absurd, and he told me “deal with it, maybe it will go down next year” and hung up on me. I was like, I’ll be damned. All the…
You mean Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Men?
What insane person is spending over $1,000/mo on a car payment??? I just can’t even.
