Finding a Grand Slam on your construction site would be wayyyy worse.

Fortunately for Tesla owners, Supercharger network is really good (much better in most places than Ionity), so this wont effect Tesla owners all that much. Other OEMs will have to find reasonable solutions for their customers.

The study those claims are based off is outdated, claims about the need to replace the battery pack after 100K miles is a complete nonsense (unless Mazda has the worst EV tech in the world) - in practice these claims are a mix of outright lies and misleading/obsolete data.

The issue with range is that its non static- here are factors that significantly boost my renge requirement just for my 60 miles roundtrip commute:

Mazda either has the worst EV technology available (since their argument assumes a battery pack replacement after 100K miles), or they are making really bad excuses for their design decisions that cripple the range of their EVs.

Over here (Europe) not mentioning such info would be a fraud.

They are free to consider it a penalty for cheating on emissions (VW wasnt alone, it was just the worst offender).

I am sure they would gladly keep making them, but only if those consumers were willing to pay €10-15K extra for fines that car maker would have to pay for each of those cars...

When Tesla was finishing Model S design, current standard (CCS) didnt exist yet and they (just like almost everyone else) didnt want to use CHademo (only Nissan is now using it). As a result, Tesla made its own DC QC charging “standard”.

Hydrogen is not viable because buying it it is like buying $7/gallon gasoline. EVs at least compensate a little bit for their higher cost by having lower-than-ICE-vehicles cost per mile.

No, this is about more BS US “national security” tariffs.

There is no such thing as “perfectly running” 8 year old car, if its from FCA - in a few months I plan to sell my almost 8 year old Fiat as a beater or for parts, since it is insanely unreliable (despite getting all therecommended maintenance).

@cracktambourine  Well, my 2012 FCA car is already on a borrowed time and will be sold in a few months for parts or as a beater, due to its unreliability and expensive repairs.

Because betraying your allies (besides being moraly wrong) means that when you will need allies you wont have any allies left.

@TerrificHost Model Y is on the same platform as Model 3. The rest of your post is just as inaccurate. 

How about fooling their investors about giving them so much money? I would call that an epic success (investors might disagree).

GOP is backing the idiot-in-chief and as long as the GOP controls the Senate, there is nothing that Democrats can do.

Under Obama and Bush, Chinese tariffs on imported US cars were at 25% - now they are going to be 40-50% (depends on the type of car)

NHTSA makes available a lot more detailed numbers both to carmakers and to the public. Since it is publicly available info posted by the NHTSA, they can hardly complain that the company is using that data. What Tesla is claiming is literally what NHTSA posts on its website and NHTSA would prefer if everyone used just…

I have relatives in the insurance industry and from what I was told that in these cases, the insurance company will very gladly take +-10K in cost. Alternatives usually cost the insurance company orders of magnitude more (I am aware of some accidents here in the EU, where €10M liability insurance wasn’t even close to…