I think this is a size down from compact SUV. More like subcompact SUV, like the Kona, Buick Encore, Toyota CH-R, Honda HR-V, etc.

My local airport put these dots up on one of the incoming roadways where the speed limit goes from 55 -> 35.

Translation: the same battery pack is used in the Model Y, which has more margin (and demand!). Most likely they’re allocating more packs to Model Y. The Model 3 SR uses a different battery pack that isn’t offered in the Model Y, and the Model 3 Performance has higher margins, so that’s likely why both of those are…

Nuclear plants usually take like 20-30 years to go from conception to pumping out gigawatts.

Hollywood probably buys a whole bunch for period movies and TV shows.

From what I’ve seen at airports, it’s about an 80/20 mix of Escalades/Suburbans and 300's. Sometimes there’s a Navigator or the rare Ford-Flex based “Town Car.”

The first Sienna hybrids will be 5 years old in about three years. I’m sure they’re on Taxi company’s radars.

The Chrysler 300 is the preferred vehicle for livery drivers if they’re not driving a big SUV.

If you’ve got a binding sales contract for that EV (check with your dealer to see what that actually means in practice), you will still be eligible for the current tax credit even if the vehicle is not delivered until next year.

The Toyota Sienna, with it’s hybrid-only powertrain, will probably make a strong comeback in the taxi space.

Prius V is discontinued. The Rav4 hybrid is it’s de-facto replacement, but the Toyota Sienna hybrid is the most logical replacement for it.

@neutral: The Toyota Sienna is probably the best taxi alternative today. Lots of room, Toyota reliability, and it’s now hybrid-only, so 30+ mpg is possible.

Apparently, that’s not true. It’s the state of Bavaria’s official colors, but reversed (because it is illegal to display the official colors in the same pattern or something like that.)

But...muh flying cars!

Fun fact: BMW did, in fact, make airplane engines. However, contrary to popular perception, the logo is not, in fact, a spinning propeller.

My mistake, I thought the pilot was referencing when the engine failure occurred.

That’s almost certainly the cause of the fire. It looks like after the wheels touched down, the truck clipped the wing almost immediately after, shearing the wing off, which resulted in fuel dumping out of the plane and igniting.

“Tower, are there supposed to be cars on this runway?”

I think that was the Toyota truck that was mentioned. It looks like the truck and the wing collide which caused that abrupt upward motion on the plane.

Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing.