Yeah, but picking Tesla is an odd choice (unless you take into account the suit originated in Detroit). The stock is up more than 3x over the last 12 months and has crushed the S&P 500 as a whole.

Maybe he’s cracking under the pressure of having delivered, well, nothing.

That time saddled shell is still one of the best looking sedans out there.

I couldn’t agree more with that. Enough with refreshes and redesigns that mostly messes up with grills, head and tail lights, fake vents and fake diffusers.

Humbug! The day an electric car is rated at 400 miles per charge is the day a rocket first stage lands on a barge in the middle of the ocean!

Where the fuck are you driving in Texas that you can’t find a supercharger? https://www.tesla.com/findus?bounds=38.12242570088208%2C-80.98535275%2C23.984207572589348%2C-114.73535275&zoom=6&filters=store%2Cservice%2Csupercharger%2Cdestination%20charger

Surprise to who? Musk literally told us it would happen like 2 months ago.

Is this the result of EPA’s review or retest of Elon’s claim previously that there was a discrepancy during EPA’s testing of this model? Or is it some other change?

I kind of hope they help break the cycle of needing a new version and body style every year personally.  Design it right the first time and iterative improvements as you go seems fine to me.

Looks like there’s still some residual Ferrari DNA in the FCA gene pool.

Actually Tesla has a couple different computers in the car, just like ICE cars do. For example the infotainment system has a completely separate system. If your infotainment system dies suddenly, the car can continue to be driven regardless of that. This kind of separation is required for the safety of the vehicle.

The Tesla software has been occasionally hit or miss, but their ability to do OTA updates seems to be as reliable as electricity.

Ugh, jesus christ. NOBODY was saying we needed to “stay in our homes forever.” The pushback was against just throwing the doors wide open again like that bullshit “Reopen” bot-fueled astroturfing campaign advocated.

I’m constantly surprised by how rubbish car companies are at software. It’s difficult to do good software, but even with multi-billion development budgets the major car companies struggle to make even average software.

They tried. But when they went to shut it off, they got the “do not turn off your car while update is running.” Two weeks later, the car is dead, the update never finished, some Russian says you must pay 1000 bitcoins for them to unlock your doors, and Microsoft says user support for that version of the software ended…

Well VW says it is their most important new vehicle. Of course, that could be more Euro PC greenwashing while they sell millions of petrol cars. One thing is clear, over-the-air updates and feedback metrics are the future of automobiles and this was VWs first stumbling step. As a communications and software engineer,…

I think this comment forgets that the European market is much more important to VW than the US. While a RAV4 killer would sell in Europe (and sell like hotcakes here in the US), this is the car that VW needs to make for their home market.

ID.3 will do just fine in Europe, it’s only not gonna do well in the US. But yeah, if VW wants to move these in the US, they need to plop a Tiguan body on this thing pronto. 

Who said these trucks would be moving across the country? How many Semi’s commute relatively short distances such as deliveries from distribution centers? I honestly not sure of the numbers, but I’m sure there is a niche to fill in the short term as they work towards long distance solutions over the next decade or two.

One would think vehicles of 2040-2050 will not be using 2020 tech.