I heard four (maybe five) of them were delivered WITHOUT vanity plates. Unbelievable.

Agreed and they have done great harm to their air quality and their cost of living/competitiveness as a result.

Add in the extra you pay for fuel and diesel makes less sense

He added that diesel had a market share of only 1-3 percent in these countries, compared with 53 percent in Europe.

Can we stop with making everything a “tesla fighter”? I’m pretty sure Mercedes doesn’t want to “fight” tesla, they simply want to compete for market share - that is not the same as “fighting”. It’s the same with an “iPhone fighter” or “iPhone killer”. Such lazy semantics

The Faraday Future backers have much, much deeper pockets than Fisker’s. That makes a huge difference.

Why would they buy a v8 Camry when they could totes do an LS swap bruh..

Oh man, I had this happen yesterday. Been driving new MS for the past two weeks, hopped into my old ICE to go get it washed and took my foot off the gas and was like “shit, need to actually stop”. It’s amazing how quickly you get used to the heavy regen stopping power and start building your driving habits around…

Kinda reminds me of something I saw about a stand-up comic from South Africa back in the early ‘80s. An excerpt from his bit back then:

I was basing my estimate on the amount of aluminum that had melted away. Which is well, almost all of it. Only the steel seat frames and B-pillars remain. That took a lot of heat and a good mount of time.

How many people were making meth in their cars at the time?

It is gasoline cars you should be worried about. They catch fire 17 times every hour in the US alone and kill over 400 people a year and injure thousands more.

Meanwhile, every hour in the United States, about 17 gasoline powered cars catch fire, which sums up to about 150,000 cars per year, causing over 200 deaths. And that’s just in the US.

I consider myself a car guy, but over the years I’ve owned a few “not-car-guy” vehicles (none of which were Camrys). For quite a few years I just drove whatever car we had that my parents didn’t need at that moment and my dad never bought anything resembling an enthusiast car. Although I do remember going to…

I’m no Tesla fanboy, but the fact that you can count on your fingers the number of Tesla fires is pretty good proof that’s it’s not a big deal at all. Gas powered vehicles catch on fire so regularly that there’s a term for it, carbecue.

All current cars with electronic locking systems have manual overrides. There have been a few situations where people died in their cars because they did not familiarize themselves with where these overrides are.

I’ve never been to a track day though I someday hope to make it to one. I won’t be taking my Camry but I enjoy it because it’s beige to the outside world. It is pretty damn quick when it needs to be, it handles well for what it is and what I use it for but I am basically invisible in traffic. That lets me cruise at an…

Because it’s so much worse than when an ICE car’s gas tank explodes. I swear, it’s a running theme every time there’s a Tesla post: someone makes a vague, underhanded your-uncle-on-Facebook kind of comment that somehow batteries make these cars more “dangerous” in some way. Come on: “cut loose?” You make lithium-ion…

I had a connecting flight from STL to NY once that changed the way I think about life forever. Yes, life. At the time it was what I considered a really bumpy ride; like those big dips like you take on a roller coaster and my ass was lifting up out of the seat. I was scared, so were others. Then it hit me. What’s the…