What would it take for a smaller company to make passenger jets?

I’ve seen really good things about the Lyriq, and the Bolt, and the Hyundai family of EV’s,... and VW’s stuff is interesting to me as well...

Trade it in to whatever major manufacturer acquires the Tesla brand at fire sale prices and get yourself a new car.

I also think that there are enough competitors coming to market in the next couple years that, independent of all of Elon’s shenanigans, people who are going to be in the market for an EV are willing to play wait-and-see for their next purchase.

My understanding is that they’ve made pretty continuous improvements to the subassemblies of existing models in order to improve manufacturing efficiency (which could be a nightmare for maintenance if its not done exactly right.) They could probably just do a restyling with minor mechanical upgrades and it would be on…

“Elon needs to focus on Tesla” is predicated on the idea that he has the ability to control or right the ship.

I agree that spending government dollars to support the economy was very likely the right move. Personally, I think that we needed to spend way more of the money on direct aid to people and way less of the money on supporting businesses that were supposed to trickle that money down to people. Everyone talks about the…

#2 is a completely fabricated problem for many car buyers. Lots of people don’t have garages or assigned parking in a place near a plug, and for the time being EV’s aren’t a great fit for them, but the vast majority of people don’t fill up more than once a week because they don’t drive hundreds of miles a day, and for…

I don’t think giving people the minimal amount of money that the US did caused very much inflation. Many other countries gave far more than we did and their situation isn’t appreciably worse with respect to inflation...

I’ll have none of that nuanced discussion here,... You have two sides to choose from:

I think part of it has to be that it has so much room around the stock engine for additional parts like turbochargers and intakes and whatnot. Front engine Corvettes and Porsche 911's are both pretty tight under the hood.

They should do it then...

I’m around that age too. I don’t remember it coming from a tv show or something like that.

Ross Gerber, a longtime backer of Tesla, on Monday tweeted a question directed at Tesla’s board of directors. “Who is running tesla day to day during this critical time for the company,” Mr. Gerber said.

I don’t know exactly what you’d have to do to effectively close it. It’s relatively simple to create an LLC and tax rules around company vehicles get abused constantly because they’re sort of onerous to enforce. You don’t want to overly burden legitimate/business uses, but you probably need to put a recurring cost…

I think there needs to be some kind of exception for work trucks/commercial vehicles. There are jobs that need to get done that require some of the characteristics that only heavy duty trucks have... Selling a truck or an SUV that is super obviously a replacement for a family/luxury vehicle as if it is a work truck in…

You’re almost there... Carry on.

What in the ever loving fuck do his (horrible) stances on everything that isn’t cis-het have to do with the fact that extra attention on his daughter (who is, in fact, not him) is very very unlikely to make her mental state better?

You ALWAYS have a choice. You don’t have to be in favor of this reporting because it makes Cruz look bad.

A negative response has a higher chance of being a message to the editorial staff than ghoulish “fuck her because it might hurt Ted Cruz...”