No. I maintain that Tesla is a company that doesn’t give a shit if it sells a product to you, because enough lemmings will follow it over the cliff that it doesn’t give a shit about you.

Well if they knew it was gonna harden if it cooled and if they knew they only had 3 days of power, why the hell didn’t they either:

This sounds like it’s unrelated to the chip shortage and more likely related to dealers complaining about being forced to take Bolts and then having to give them huge discounts to sell them.

Really? Doesn’t read that way to me.

It’s possible to not be upset about this, but also find Musk insufferable.

Would you argue that it was Progressives?
Remember, the only reason we have Rhode Island is because the Pilgrims, seeking freedom from persecution for religious beliefs, kicked out a bunch of people that had different religious beliefs...

4th Gear:

For “retail investors”, the best way to invest is a low-cost index fund, and to invest over time, preferably 5 years or more. Anything else is akin to gambling. Sure, the media likes to profile the winner like they do with the lottery, but most people lose at the individual stock game. Fun to do and speculate, like…

Shitting on the highway to own the conservatives racists. Nice.

I seriously don’t think there is enough money in this world to rebuild our infrastructure properly

1st: Because the right doesn’t actually want to do anything about it. It’d be one thing if they had a good faith argument on this topic, and one in fact exists, could easily be taken up, and worked on to hammer out a compromise. But the forces tugging on them, from private industry inertia to “starve the beast”…

It’s a different kind of racing. Trying to run high-speed ovals in the rain would result in very ugly and violent deaths.

Tesla had plenty of grizzled vets to choose from, given the NUMMI plant and the numerous displaced vets from Toyota Calty, et al., not to mention drawing from any from the Big 3 in Detroit.

This is where the tech bro “move fast and break things” development cycle runs aground. With software you can often get away with doing the interesting flashy bits and skipping the testing and QA, because people expect software to fail. Not so with cars. You have to do all the boring stuff right, too.

OMG, can you imagine how alone you could get with a solar panel and a spare battery? I’d never have to see people again...

Umm, every government does this

That’s probably the goal.  GM has been trying to pare down the number of dealerships they have for a while.  They can’t do it explicitly because they will get sued and have to pay contract termination costs.  But they can gently nudge them into bankruptcy over a long enough timeline.

Ford is marketing the F-150 EV directly to fleet managers, and it will make Ford billions.

Y’know. The word “Compromise” is a word that seems to escape the American vocabulary. I don’t disagree, it’s a complete shit-show out there, but I’ll say what I’ve been saying all along: Protests (violent or not) are not the problem, they are a Symptom of the problem.

Any engineer that doesn't understand why we're moving to EVs and who doesn't see the massive development opportunities should not be holding a job.