He’s a rich asshole who does rich asshole things, like treat his workers like indentured servants and get REALLY mad and petty when someone calls out his dumb ideas as dumb.
That said, at least he’s a useful rich asshole who has dumped untold amounts of money into genuinely positive technologies to fulfill his…

Really? I find him to be kind of a douche 

Yes, this. Musk is going full-blown Trump with his cult now. Amazingly, the steering wheel and flying car speculation wasn’t even the craziest thing he said in the last few days. He reiterated his belief in robotaxis to justify TSLA’s valuation last week, and said that Tesla cars will have level 5 autonomy by the end…

Funny, considering the 996 was lighter than the 993.

Any cult leader worth his salt tests the congregation to see how loyal they really are. Making all that kool-aid just to have no one drink it would be pretty embarrassing.

I like to drive with the steering column height adjustment unlocked so I can enable another dimension while turning.

I’ve never really minded the fried egg headlights, but my absolute favorite thing about them is the undue amount of rage they induce in Porsche enthusiasts. Anything that makes the crotchety old men at Cars & Coffee mad is good in my book.

its not anti democratic.  the rest of the world voted against it because they wanna be able to live on the current coastline.  it doesnt make business sense to build expensive shit for one backwoods country that loves to live in the past. 

Look, your overall point is very valid and I agree with a lot of it, I really do. And I adore big rumbling V8s as much as the next gearhead. But I also love frequenting National Parks...

counterpoint: the regulations aren’t being drawn up with stuff like a hellcat in mind at all. they’re being drawn up to cover the 99.99% of cars that aren’t hellcats and the modern muscle cars are just going to be collateral damage. look around in a parking lot. there are an awful lot of V8 powered trucks.

also, read…

You can also divide that smaller number by 4, since EVs use about 1/4 of the energy per mile than ICE cars do.

What happened to under-promising and overdelivering?

I manage several Leads for my employer. The Leaf is a nice,trouble free EV. Just don’t fast charge the battery twice in the same trip. Under normal use including interstate travel, the battery is fine. This is in the south. Might be different in the southwest.

Counter-point: That is speculation and may not be true.

Elon has no f*&%$#g clothes. NO. CLOTHES. He’s not wearing anything. STARK RAVING N U D E.

Nissan has sold around 500,000 Leafs. While I question their use of air-cooled batteries, it is hard to argue that the Leaf isn’t a success.

The grid isn’t that big of a deal.

Crazy thing is with our (US) power infrastructure being old and barely operable; decentralized power generation might be an answer. Not the whole, but part.

Nissan Should Be Further Along By Now

This really stands out to me, as the power companies are going to go fight this to the bitter end: