Well, and we road trip fairly often. Sometimes the trip can be a bit crazy - as in ~2300 miles over 12 days (very non-uniform distribution of driving - some days with just a few miles, some with 600+ mile runs) with good amounts through areas without good charging infrastructure. But that sort of trip is once or twice…

He fired most of the team responsible for the supercharger network. Tesla took US subsidies in exchange for opening up the network, and clearly hasn’t done so at any real scale.

Nationalize this shit. Take the network away from the petulant child.

I remember after my first night in my new house, bemoaning the fact that I had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars per day for lodging. 

I keep making this comment and Jalopnik keeps ignoring it. The correct headline should be “Ford loses $44k per EV sold.” It sounds like a subtle difference, but it does not falsely imply a marginal loss of $44k on each additional EV. 

Saying they are losing $44k on every EV sale is highly misleading. /They are taking their total costs and write-downs of assets and applying it to every car sold. That is very different than the actual cost per vehicle for material labor and overhead.

EVification of three-row crossovers and pickups is just the most monumentally stupid use for battery tech. Take an already giant heavy vehicle and make it doubly so by adding enough batteries to get it 300 miles. It’s just bonkers and I’m frankly happy to see them cutting back on this. Six figure SUVs are similarly…

It’s about total cost of ownership. Those cars will get sold eventually. Constant price cuts on new cars undercuts the value of the ones purchased earlier at higher prices.

Seriously, my kingdom for any player in the media to call out Ford’s shitty propaganda here. They did a whole self-congratulating media tour about how they were putting all the money in the world into this program. Now we are supposed to care that when you roll that investment into the unit cost, they are losing money…

Stop doing this “Company loses $X on every unit it sells” nonsense. It’s misleading and sensationalized. Ford, and most companies (Even Nissan, allegedly!) spend money developing new products. They spend that money in anticipation of future sales. Dividing total development cost (already paid up front) by the first…

doesn’t believe in the “cult of personality”.

No worries lol it reminds me of how law enforcement pushes fentanyl as like this bioweapon or something. According to cops, as soon as you enter a room with fentanyl, you’re 1min away from fatal overdose, or that it can be absorbed through the skin. 

That was proven to be a hoax

The best way to deal with a good guy trying to fix the electric grid is... a guy with a gun?

If you can think of a better way to fix a problem than shooting at it, I’d like to hear it!

can we please stop saying “stranded” they aren’t stranded at all, they could return anytime, they are simply studying why the thrusters in the service module (that get’s discarded), they could leave at any time.

He just got 303 million shares from Tesla, not “a $56 billion paycheck”. So yeah, you would assume that he cares if the stock price goes down.

That sucks and all, but Toxic Rocket Drop sounds like a really sick skate trick.

I see this as an absolute win.

I don’t see a walking back or an apology or an admission that he was wrong. I see him obfuscating and trying to pretend he didn’t say the thing everyone saw and heard him say. In addition to telling advertisers to go fuck themselves, repeatedly, he also stated that advertisers NOT advertising on his platform were…

Okay, but schools are government funded, so...