Holy shit, I skimmed the normal Tesla hate, but that is so ignorant of economics and business that ... well, it’s the usual reality and rationality warping hatred from this site.

Dealers are assholes, but raising prices is just business.

First of all, there’s inflation. Second of all, this is THE market to raise prices…

It all sounds great, but consider that puts Mercedes about 5-10 years behind Tesla. Oh, you’re doing that NOW. Well, hope you win the war of the also-rans.

Minivan please. 

1) Grid
2) Incent home solar and storage
3) Every gas station will put in a charger.
4) Oh yeah, every bigbox with a parking lot will put one in too, because it’s easy and drives foot traffic and will probably still be at a profit.

So unless you 1) don’t have a garage, 2) don’t run errands 3) don’t have time to gas up…

What the fuck is this? April fools? I’m agreeing with Torchinsky, particularly his correct nuanced take on self-driving?

Seriously, this is Bizzaro demiplane.

Does Amica still do the “dividend check” if you don’t file a claim in the year?

In Minnesota, EVERY GODDAMN WINTER, to emphasize, IN MINNESOTA, it is apparent that at least 1/3 of the drivers don’t remember that driving in the snow is different with the first snowfall, there are a huge number of accidents, then things get back to normal.

Our entire civilization has the functional historical memory…

It’s not just economics in the microeconomic sense of supply and demand of componentry.

And it’s not the just the macroeconomic level of year-on-year covid impacts, inflation, unemployment, and GDP.

No, what the current shortages are even higher-level than macroeconomics. It gets to the fundamental logistical design of…

The olympics also mark a somewhat unfortunate deadline for Toyota: they promised a solid state battery ready for production in vehicles used in the olympics.

At some point the government will “GFC” the (superpolluting) old ICEs when BEVs become more prevalent. HOPEFULLY by that time BEV drivetrains will be substantially cheaper than ICEs and the government offers a nice credit for the ICE trade-in. 

The car industry will have a surge of oversupply. There’s too many competitors looking at prime sales conditions, and no one to enforce a cartel-like shortage of production.

Maybe not in two months, you’re right.

This site HATES the Musker, but compared to Lordstown, Nikola, and soon to come QuantumScape and a bunch of other solid state frauds, he heads a company that generally delivers what it says it will and isn’t a fraud.

Have you been in rural america... like ever? There are absolutely dumb young truck buyers that buy and drive trucks on the basis of their speed, torque, acceleration, towing and other dick measuring numbers.

Those range estimates are bs until it hits real world testing. I didn’t see anything about the extra battery pack placed in the vehicle to account for that. Nothing about some magic coefficient of drag that made the truck go far. Nothing about how it handles the aero penalty of whatever its towing.

So that is all…

You just answered your own question. Your suggestions are for work trucks.

The largest segment of truck buyers are frustrated suburban males wanting to project the opposite image of their flaccid existence.

I read somewhere that if you were in the stocks, you needed a friend to stay with you all night.

Otherwise you’re getting anally raped overnight.

Sorry guys, Branson is charismatic and handsome.

It’s waaaayyyy harder to get the internet hate on a good looking person.

You’ll just have to fall back to the normal nerd-hate high school vibe that permeates all of American antiintellectualism.

Of course “car guys” are nerds pretending not to be nerds because cars are…

Good thing it wasn’t a battery fire, that would REALLY be dangerous. And worth about five days of high-engagement click coverage.

Are you SURE Elon Elon Elon Elon didn’t cause this?

10 year old EVs are basically 80 year old cars with the pace of change. Chemistry probably sucks, didn’t have a charge buffer so “full” charges degraded the battery, etc.

I think the parent is right. This is an evolutionary design for adopting the EV platform. If it costs a bit more, it doesn’t matter. This is basically Ford’s first generation of EVs, and they’ll be at a loss regardless.