Part of it is that they got repeatedly slapped in the face that mass producing a consumer product is a hard thing to do.

I think he would have been much better off making a coupe with 350 miles of range that can get to 60 in less than 4 seconds for a more reasonable price...

I’m just here for anything that makes these awards seem more ridiculous.

Is it bad that this story makes me want a 4Runner even more? Give me a cool, old, kinda-broken off-roader that I can diagnose.

I have a friend who drove Mercedes for a long time and her partner got a Model 3. She indicated to me that the ride quality was crap, which I could also believe.

They’ve always only looked “okay”,... which other people call boring.

At this moment, I’m assuming he has one child named Edsel... so I think it will be Little Edsel who will come in and save the company,...

It feels like this kind of coercive sexual assault is just way more common than I personally thought it was... I’m a man and I’ve never been in a situation where it happened to me, but I have seen the earlier stages of it happening once and stopped it.

The compression causing temperature to increase isn’t an example of “generating heat” in the same way that resistive heating generates heat. 

The equipment is the same equipment that is used for AC. You just need a reversing valve that turns it from cooling to heating (which probably replaces the expansion valve). Its a compressor, condenser and evaporator.

If I were in a really cold area, I would have a heat pump with auxiliary resistive heaters or maybe a direct vent fireplace insert with a nice blower on it...

That’s not how heat pumps work. If that were the case, they couldn’t have an efficiency of greater that 100%. The cold refrigerant absorbs energy from the outside air and allows it to be moved into the cabin.

There is no ethical consumption under,... something something,...

I can’t get my head around paying scarcity fees at all... I KNOW its the poor in me though, because intellectually I understand that people place a monetary value on having a specific vehicle NOW versus in a year or two, so it makes logical sense for them to pay more than sticker to make that happen. There are…

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.