COMTNDRVR types faster than he thinks and has for years on this site. Another example of why I’ve lost interest in the jalopnik commenting community.

10 kW = 13 HP. One digit typo of 245 instead of 235 kW perhaps? Sorry not the most exciting answer...

“It’s almost like humans are complex”

Finally, a reply that actually gets it! I’ve dismissed all the others because they’re just snarky, belittling attacks that come from a place of insecurity and fear and I don’t respect those comments.

There’s so many things in the video where Musk basically just admits gross incompetence from his team and most everyone here is saying “oh he’s so great!” Are we watching the same video??

You are the sane one in this thread; most other people’s views on engineering in this conversation is brain-meltingly bad...

Within one brand, I’ve had real leather in my first VW GTI, cloth in my second VW GTI, and now leatherette (vinyl...) in my Alltrack.

I have my own engineering degrees, licensure, experience with manufacturing, design, and materials sciences, and an IQ that slots me into the low genius range. I’m not impressed by what I saw here, but I have to acknowledge I’m used to seeing such unimpressive people get applauded by people who don’t know any better,…

I watched the first 20 minutes of the video and felt compelled to stop watching because I was so unimpressed with Musk. I think he sounds like he’s on the back foot, runs a company that mostly reacts to problems instead of foresees them, and has just picked up a rather rudimentary understanding of what has gone wrong…

They really don’t in person though, they look so trim and compact...photos have never, and will never, convey their smallness, packaging, and fine detailing, nor the overall cohesiveness of their design.

I’m right there with the author as I was a young teen when NFS:PU dominated my life, and the 996 was the modern day dream. The narrow-body 996s still don’t look like anything special in photos, but they’re sooo pretty in person, and I’ve always thought they were a wonderful modern rethink on the original narrow-bodied…

My assumption is they are referring to “net metering”, which allows power customers to be credited for any power they put back into the grid (i.e. the periods when their meter spins backward). A lot of jurisdictions have made it so you get nothing for putting power into the grid, but have to pay to take it out, which…

Actually by my math it’s usually about a 6x difference in efficiency between BEVs and ICEs. So yeah, divide by 6, and that could improve yet more with next-gen technologies.

Waiting for the Stellantis-Nissan merger. “Stellantissan”

The best reinvention of the PRND stick is (puts on flamesuit) the little Prius nub. It’s utterly tiny so the packaging is great and you can flick between transmission settings super-quick without being confused about what the car will do.

Design hubris is a symptom of a consumer culture that constantly needs to make new things to sell to people who already own the last new thing.

The reference to “Luddite” makes me want to clarify who the Luddites actually were: they were not anti-technology; they were against technology that did not make human lives better (they called it “advancing human flourishing”), and they were against the owners of technology reaping all of the profits from the…

I like the Viper idea, but for $80k you can pick up a final-gen GTS. That’s the ticket.

I think the fast fashion of vehicles filling up the landfills are the millions and millions of crossovers and trucks people buy that they don’t even need; that’s where the short attention spans REALLY are. A Cooper Coupe or Roadster buyer strikes me as a smarter, more well-defined human being than your average car…

I always loved the form factor and shape and idea of the Cooper Coupe and Roadster; they’re like an American version of a Kei car that you can actually drive here without dying.