This becomes clearer everyday. He nailed the timing and initial launch of Tesla, regardless of how he procured the company, he rode that wave to great financial success. The rest has been an utter shitshow. Buying his cousin’s failing solar company with Tesla funding? Killing Twitter? Forcing Cybertruck to happen?…

Now, an exec departing from the American electric vehicle maker has questioned the “long game” behind boss Elon Musk’s cuts at the automaker.

For our friends in the civilized world, 39.3(7) inches = 1 meter

While I loathe Trump with every fiber of our being, I’d be curious if all of this backlash would exist if Biden went to the race. Trump somehow managed to avoid saying anything overtly political about his election bid. He’s just... a person. A shitty, orange, liar of a person. But surely he should be allowed to exist…

The design of this car has not aged well.

If the rotors are no longer being manufactured, that means they have to be custom fabricated. They are probably being made by some boutique shop in Germany. As you might imagine, this is not a simple process. Here’s how one UK racing shop describes it.

$53k per rotor? That is just ridiculous. Bet you can find one for another, more modern car that would fit, as cars have been getting faster and heavier, and thus the brakes has had to follow suit.

‘Could care less’ suggests you still have some care left to give, while ‘Couldn’t care less’ truly means you have no care left at all. You reply makes it sound like you care a lot.

But, that’s exactly what “Mid-Engine” means. It means the engine is mounted inside of the axles, regardless of if it’s the front or rear.

Looking at the stance of the car, I would say it IS a mid-engine layout. Just a front-mid and not a rear-mid. (Based on the side profile, the majority of the engine is sitting inside the front axle, and not in front of it.)

They are scraping the plan to use a single cast for the platform and staying with the current 3 cast approach.

I’m a mechanic and shop owner that has rebuilt electric/hybrid vehicle batteries. The issue isn’t untrained techs, tools or anything else it is the manufacturers purposefully making the batteries impossible to service.

“We have like 350-plus appointments for Model S battery repairs, and we just don’t have time to go any faster,” Medlock said.

Perhaps American Muscle, they probably refer to as Mustang, Camaro and Challenger

“American Muscle” is a very specific style of vehicle. It does not mean “fast car made by an American brand”. 

I’ve never understood the idea that people would want EVs as a rental car.  Going to a location like a hotel or VRBO, not knowing if there’s charging stations nearby (or how to use them, if ICE is all you know)...seems like a nope.  Not a headache I want to deal with while traveling for biz...

Tesla infamously prioritises new car production over spare parts for repairs. The repair itself being cheap is meaningless if you’re waiting weeks or months for parts to become available. Downtime is a big consideration for fleet maintenance. A Ford might have a higher cost to repair, but you can go pretty much…

The Lucid is also way nicer inside (and outside IMO but that’s subjective), it gets dramatically better range, and it’s more aerodynamic. The significance here is that the Plaid’s whole schtick is being really fast in a straight line, and this luxury-focused competitor still managed to be faster.

At these speeds that .3 second difference adds up to multiple car lengths, so smoking it still applies. 

It turns out that Dietrich Mateschitz was the glue that held that team together. I’m not sure anyone quite recognized how true that was until he died, but team management since then has been a behind-the-scenes disaster of people trying to claim the power/authority Mateschitz had. It’s no surprise the team is falling…