It’s hard to tell with anyone outside Tesla making BEVs what the alleged cost/profitability is, since they all leverage ICE profits for BEV projects and once you involve voodoo internal accounting, which is even more voodoo that Enron-level accounting, it’s impossible to tell what costs money.

All I’ve seen from…

Which to me just says volumes about how hostile dealerships are to EVs. 

Oil, brakes, fluids, etc. All that disappears. Regularly scheduled maintenance chargebacks under warranty: gone.

The NFLPA is a bad union, even by those standards, and when their sport is almost inarguably the most violent of the major sports, that makes its inaction even worse.

Show me the jalopnik headlines for:

It’s still real estate and spots they have some theoretical control over.

And yeah, they could make money off of people being there with a cafe or something, not the least of which is to sell more cars. Or upsell other maintenance oh yeah that’s right there will be almost no maintenance.

Lakers engineer trade with Vlade
Sacramento fires Vlade
Vlade gets hired in lucrative consulting role for Lakers.

How does 95% of Steph Curry not get you an automatic max contract?

Almost like some governing body, with oversight powers, should produce a standard, and force everyone to conform to it. Maybe, say, let’s think out of the box, that governing body could be ... the government.

That’s a gamble as much as not making the plunge now. It’s not like the electronics and motor design and cooling won’t be applicable, waiting puts you even further behind.

The only way a do-nothing gamble pays off is if the vertical integration tesla has done with battery manufacture (and VW plans to do) is somehow…

Yup, that. Short-term focus, all the execs look at the investment timeline and figure out when their options cash and they can retire, and pick the low risk, do-nothing approach.

In addition, the dealer network is openly hostile to EVs because they offer far less servicing revenue, which is the only reason a car…

The only advantage would be if Ford used negotiating muscle to get really low rates across all the disparate networks.

You know that won’t happen, and it will be a clusterfuck to even figure out how much you’ll get charged.

You know what is a glaring omission and deafening in its silence?

Chargers at the Ford dealership network.

A clear indicator of how much dealerships hate EVs.

There are 3,000 Ford dealerships in America, with probably the precise, exact distribution to kickstart an excellent charging coverage network on par or perhaps…

The bias is that a currently available yes you can buy it and drive it within a week or two is being compared with one that isn’t really available until the middle of next year.

When right about then (granted Tesla blows its deadlines) the Plaid that just owned the Porsche on the N-Ring will be out.

So it’s a bit of a…

And Porsche’s never have any mechanical problems! God the denial on this site.

Yeah, I get Tesla has build quality issues. They do really need to fix that.

But if you think a Taycan’s battery is going to be better and more reliable than the 20 years Tesla has put into theirs... well, good luck with that.

Coming “soon” as in 6-9 months.

But yeah, Tesla needs to invest in more than a cool powertrain. They need some legit interior options. 

Naw, lots of business-friendly opinions on this site, and cowtowing to the big car makers. You think all those glowing Toyota/Caddy/BMW reviews are “pure journalism”?

I get every car journo site does them. It’s the new world. Jalop isn’t going anywhere.

Yeah, the price points aren’t the same, but the Model S is definitely mid-luxury. 

Sigh, it’s “Plaid” not “Stupid Fast”. Watch the movie already.

Oh, you can buy and sit in a Taycan within a week? Where?

And one of the cars in the comparison... you can buy. The other one is coming “next year”.

And right about that time “next year”, the Plaid is coming.