Unlike the modern ode to classical artistic perfection that is the pickup truck?

Pickup trucks are disgustingly ugly, but due to decades of advertising preying on male inferiority, we think they are “awesome”.

The cybertruck isn’t a particularly attractive vehicle.

But the truth all truckheads hide from is that pickup…

“We are the richest country on earth”

WRONG

We are the country with the richest people. “Typical Americans” have been steadily falling behind the rest of the first world for four decades now.

That’s the whole “wealth inequality” thing. Oligarchy. Rigged system. Unregulated campaign finance. 

Don’t forget that even with all the issues with American road infrastructure it’s faced since it began (huge country relative to density, suburban sprawl, nimbyism) is the rise of the SUV.

The SUV decreases the ability of roads to move people since they have so much larger “personal spaces”. And they weigh a lot more,…

“Americans”... specifically the ultra-rich.

I’ve visited detroit a few times now due to family situation. The northern suburbs are the most automobile-focussed I’ve ever seen. Huge grid structure with 45mph (so 50-60mph) “stroads” that hem in these large 5 mile x 5mile developments.

You can’t get out of those developments without a car. You drive to the stroad…

The good news is that Stellantis has a forward-thinking modern EV architecture that beats the competition since they’ve been investing in it ahead of the curve, combined with extensive supply chain and battery production plans?

Oh... you mean they have a boring barely-competitive offering that is mostly in compliance…

The gymnastics this site will go to for Tesla hate. A ford fusion hybrid plugin does the same thing.

It is stupid that the mainline battery doesn’t keep the 12volt battery charged.

I have the idea for semis: a trailer “caboose” with a battery pack or generator. You swap the trailer at stops so you avoid recharge time, as part of a service.

The main battery on the semi tractor gets used when you have to.

If there is any consistent logic beside idiocratic outrage and tesla hate here, I think they were making fun of Toyota’s Hydrogen-instead-of-EV policy which was incredibly dumb.

I’d rip further on hydrogen, but it will likely be usable as a syn-fuel for aviation and long haul shipping where batteries won’t cut it.

Cons…

Gas shortage: double the price. Problem solved. 

It wasn’t mentioned, but dealers make money mostly on used cars. They really only do new car sales to get trade-ins and to not have the stink of the “used car lot”. Really they are perversely incented to sell the minimum required new cars and direct customers to used cars.

So dealers actively conspire against OEMs to…

I think a 100 mile PHEV should definitly qualify in some way. 100 miles will take care of a vast proportion of trips for almost all consumer americans, probably even rural ones.

You still want high-end tech dev. 7500 is great for that, it’s still a big chunk of a 70k vehicle.

I think it should go up to 10-15k depending on income and segment though, to really push mass market demand. Or even better, basically make home charging equipment free and give a break on the electric bill.

Limiting EV…

Thank god he didn’t tweet something about self-driving cars.

Because that is a crime against humanity.

Running guns is ‘Murrican!

Tesla pioneered mass market EV transport and arguably grid storage for solar/wind.

SpaceX will create the first usable satellite broadband internet that will just simply be an enormous advance for the third world and even rural first world, and that’s just their side gig.

Musk gets a lot of shit, and YES he oversells and YES self-driving is currently BS and YES he gets too much credit for what engineers actually do...

But his public leadership of SpaceX in failures is what differentiates him from a garden variety tech CEO. 

The world isn’t supposed to go in rewind.

Yes. Come to jalopnik, purveyors of breathless BMW pay-for-praise and professional clickhunting Tesla trolls for “the real scoop” on EVs.

Right. And of course it has nary a nibble of science, technology, research, or statistics.

Just a heap of anecdotes.

“Collecting CO2 is relatively easy” Yeah ok. Which is why it’s the subject of a hundred moonshot research projects to make it even borderline economically feasible? CO2 is a thermodynamically stable molecule, and it doesn’t come out of the atmosphere “easily”.

Even then, you’re just carbon neutral. Great.

There are…

“We don’t have it out for Tesla” - Jalopnik staff

Um, you’re writing about solar roofs. On a car site. On a car site that is explicitly themed around junked old ICE cars. That ostensibly dislikes progress and EVs.

What a joke.