Actually, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a reworked Model 2 given the size of the vehicle and Elon’s tendency to suddenly shift company priorities. It just doesn’t feel like a vehicle designed to replace a taxi/uber.

1st Gear: This is all an attempt by Musk to have Tesla valued as a tech company rather than a car company. Unfortunately for him, investors are getting a bit tired of waiting on autonomy. This was his big chance to show his plans on how to do that, and instead we got more vague plans and two new vehicles! (Oddly…

The problem is not if they provide value, which they do. The problem is whether or not they provide more value than any other alternative. And in this case, at their wages and their efficiency, they are providing much less value than the automation that they are fighting against.

I mean if we got rid of all the textile workers for looms, who’s going to buy the clothes. Or if we replace all the switchboard operators, who’s going to buy the telephones. Or if we replace the cashiers, who’s going to buy the groceries?

Sure, they get paid a good chunk of money, but their jobs are crucial and they make a lot of people a lot more money than they’ll ever see.

Safety doesn’t seem to be in the discussion. Remotely operating a crane from a bird’s eye view or not having someone standing UNDER a 10 ton container seems like something people would want. It’s not as if there won’t still be a need for people and the changing job of maintenance.

Fight automation increases inefficiency. Poorly worded. Sorry

Don’t forget they’re also fighting automation which makes our ports less efficient and our economy inefficient. It also potentially sets us up for more supply side constraints at ports like we had over the past couple years. From what I understand, our ports are already quite inefficient compared to other major…

It estimated between 1,680 and 25,841 fewer vehicles would be sold annually because of the rule.

Henry Covington’s El Tiburon literally blew my mind when I found out about it a couple years ago. Namely because I am a life long car guy who loves obscure cars. But THIS obscure car was designed and built in my hometown of St. Petersburg, FL, and somehow I was never aware of it over the entirety of the time that I…

Cars have notoriously low profit margins, and the lower priced models historically have had almost no profit margin and rely heavily on super high volumes which don’t always materialize.

Any car that has been turned into a political statement through copious amounts of stickers, signage, and flags.

Feels almost like the FIA shouldn’t factor in the weight of the tires when weighing the car if there is a +/- 2kg variable that is influenced by the environment / strategy. From what I understand, they already make them drain the fluids and require a minimum amount of fuel left when draining said fluids.

Garbage trucks, Mail trucks, pretty much any big utility vehicle that doesn’t require long distances

As cool as this car may be, it’s a huge strategic mistake for Tesla to be wasting their engineering resources on such a low volume, low total-revenue vehicle.

1st Gear:

1 million chargers.

You know what is a better car for America? One that appeals to consumers and sells. Otherwise if you’re making unappealing EVs, consumers will gravitate to the form factors that appeal to them regardless of their propulsion, and only a fraction of the potential customer base will be seeing those efficiencies you are…

Tariffs are generally terrible for everyone, and everything you said is correct.

I hate to break it to you but capitalism is what ultimately drives down prices through competition. The government here is making a decidedly less competitive market by protecting its industries. Capitalism, at it’s heart, thrives because uncompetitive business do not survive, and only the surviving ones are able to…