This is 100% accurate. I am about to hit 40 so most of my friends have been trading in their sedans and small crossovers for much larger vehicles that get terrible fuel economy and while everyone is always looking for the newest, most advanced vehicle, not once have I ever heard anyone say that they are looking for a…

Guess buying all the big ass pickup trucks and SUVs that don’t even get 20 mpg was the not best idea.  

If demand doesn’t slack and I’m seeing no indication that it will, I’d say this is the new normal: $5/gal gas. And with the Russian oil boycott tightening supplies, plus the Get-away-with-murder-but-DO-NOT-appreciate-being-called-out-as-the-murderers-they-are Saudis not doing cartwheels at helping out Biden by turning…

It’s still possible in other EVs, but you have to do a little planning beforehand. Can’t just jump in the car and put your location into the NAV and get routed through all the SuperChargers. That’s definitely an advantage for Tesla.

All that really shows is if you want a BEV to do long distance road trips with, go with a Tesla because they have the best and most options for fast charging.

Sorry for your experience, but it does sound about right. However, in the year I’ve had to use CCS chargers, Electrify America has become more reliable. They’re even correctly marking chargers out of service on the app now! And using the app to start charging sessions seems to be more reliable, so I can’t comment on…

Still thinking about back in February when Biden got up and was like “it’s time to get back to the offices!” or something along those lines.

The article was complete bunk. It’s as if the author intended to make the trip take forever. They didn’t use abetterrouteplanner or, from what I gather, even the car’s own Nav to plot their course. No one in an EV stops at dealerships to charge up.

First gear. This sounds about right in my experience. My wife and I drove Chevy Bolts from 2017-2021. Most of our charging was done with level 2 chargers at home, but on the occasion that we would go on a road trip, we would almost invariably run into bad chargers. Payment issues, broken chargers, etc. Did not matter…

From another article on this topic:

It’s too late to raise now, should have been higher for the last 8-10 years.

I’m amused you think people are smart enough to avoid loans with terms like that. 

I would argue salespeople actually detract from the experience. They actively make things worse through incompetence.

Salespeople add zero value to the experience. I know more about the cars I’m interested n then they do. They don’t even know the simple things like what they actually have in inventory. Everything they do they look up on the computer, and they are the one thing between me and a good price on a car. If I can actually…

I’m guessing if you did a survey in 1905 of why people weren’t trading in their horses for the new horseless carriages, you would have gotten similar responses.

Not only is making cars hard, it is really, really expensive, and takes a long-ass time.

“Is Elon Musk really that bad?”

Isn’t that how carbon credits are designed to work?  I thought the whole idea was to reward low-polluters and force high polluters to pay more to conduct business?

Another Elon Musk hit piece? Wow, Gizmodo has only published 3 others of those today. Good thing we got this one too.

Most of this is newsworthy to me.