Of course all of that PFAS fire foam leaches straight into our ground water and no one is responsible. Hurray cancer!

Not a gas station, but an aircraft hanger at the airport near me had it’s fire suppression system go off in the middle of the night and produced a massive amount of foam that was about 10 feet deep in the hanger until they opened the doors. It then flowed out and spread across the flight line outside and across the…

However, the very expensive to repair meat-sacks inside the vehicle will be far more likely to walk away. You can be sure that the insurance companies are taking that into account too.

Driving down manufacturing costs is what enabled the Model 3 to be created, as nothing cheaper than a Model S was profitable before. Similar concept towards future cheaper BEVs.

I was under the impression that Tesla rarely changes the body, but is frequently improving everything else and not waiting to bundle these into model-year or ‘refresh’ versions.

Yeah the various premium brands cost a lot to repair even for a crash that does not affect the chassis (even rear bumper and trunk damage costs like $10k to repair). If you get into a crash severe enough to damage this part (which is deep within the vehicle) the chances the car would have been totalled anyways, is…

Tesla insurance costs similar to their competition, which is BMW, Mercedes and the rest. Insurance cost is largely a factor of purchase cost.

Sure this whole assembly line malarkey will pad the pockets of old Mr. Ford, but how’s that going to benefit consumers?

honestly I don’t think the repairability is going to be an issue, if you even have a minor fender bender in a modern car there are so many sensors to replace that the car gets written off as totaled 9 times out of 10. I guess the big thing is going to be if you have a new car have good insurance.

1) 30% weight savings for that piece

I think if he stepped down the stock would tank, product would stagnate and Tesla would lose its edge in the marketplace. Tesla is not ready for his departure yet.

Yeah, and piss them off because they think Biden is in the UAW’s pocket.

Of the cars in the top 10 most American made cars only 3 come from unionized factories.

Tesla has the number 1 and number 3 most American built cars. If the intent is to get EVs on the road and support American jobs then there is no reason to limit their rebate.

I’m a democrat and pro-union. But this is horsesh*t. I cannot play along with this idea and I think it’s going to give too much leverage to companies that still do stuff the old-school way. This is unfair to an American company like Tesla.

Unions aren’t automatically bad just like corporations aren’t automatically bad. They don’t exist in the physical world. They are concepts and ideas that depend upon the people running them. If the people running them are corrupt, then the institution is corrupt. The UAW was clearly corrupt, and any article defending…

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So we are using our tax dollars to directly support inept, corrupt, uncompetitive UAW-built vehicles? As they say, when you pay for something, you get more of it. And I have no interest. Yet another reason to side with Tesla.

A lot of people like unions but not the UAW. Even other unions don’t like the UAW.

I am a fan of unions in general. However, I am not a fan of the extra credit for a union-built vehicle. It should be $12.5 for any EV with defined capabilities (min range, etc.). There also shouldn’t be any income cap on who qualifies. If the goal is to get EVs on the road to mitigate a climate crisis, do that.