The rules around neighborhoods varies regarding street sweeping and side parking.  Each area has it’s own quirks.  But if there’s a lot of snow, prepare for blood sport over shoveled out spots.  Never, ever take a spot you didn’t shovel out.

Charging can be a pain in the ass in the city though. If all he'll have is Street parking, good luck with that. 

If he lives in the city, lose the car, get a T pass, and rent a car or bum a ride when you need one. Zip car can be your best friend. I had several friends who Street parked in Boston sell their cars after their first winter. It's not worth it. 

Thanks for the really detailed reply. I've noticed lots of flats of beer in my local packy going back to the distributor, but this info really paints a picture of market dynamics. 

Any brand will have a hard time holding share, the options are honestly overwhelming in both beer and seltzer when I go to my local packy. But I'd believe the seltzers still have momentum as an overall product category. 

I hope Two Brothers expands to hard seltzers.

Tastes are subjective. I prefer my G&Ts with Polar Diet Tonic. I find the corn syrup or sugar sweetened stuff too cloying now. 

If I were a Tesla owner or prospective buyer, I would be wary of their declining service. Plenty of sales with no investment in expanding service is a recipe for very unhappy current and future customers:

Maybe it’s the dog owner in me, but I wish more effort went into high quality cloth seats.  They take a beating better and clean up just fine.  Dog claws and pleather are not a good mix.

SuperCruise is comparable or surpasses FSD. FSD is overhyped garbage from what I’ve seen of it.  I do agree that people buying Teslas are cross shoping with luxury vehicles. Teslas aren’t cheap by any stretch. A nice BMW 3 or Audi A4 are likely comparable in price to a Model 3.

Need the Jalopnik staff to pull a Defector.

Generally useful to check sites like CR for general reliability. I don't think it's as actively maintained, but Truedelta.com has been a great resource to consult on user reported problems with makes and models. 

Interesting local price differences. Here in the burbs of Boston I paid $4.49 for the Dunks eggs yesterday and the Bucks sous video eggs are $4.65.

New England. In a two hundred year old house that's up to modern code with wiring. 

Really?  That’s not that long ago for things to not be up to a modern code.  

I’d say government regulations are the real big push.  I don’t think anybody would make EVs if there weren’t mandates coming in our subsidies to prop up America’s largest maker.  I don’t think China needed Tesla to kick start it’s EV industry.  Hell, Tesla is using batteries made by a Chinese company now.

I had that synchro fail issue on a 2001 Protege.  I have a 2009 Mazda 3 that I daily and haven’t had any problem with the MT.  I also happen to be 6'4" and find it to be plenty roomy.  Just don’t put anybody in the back seat behind you that is tall.

That’s a big market tease.  Tune in next week for the shocking conclusion to this epic tale!

You’re no more than 10 minutes away from a Dunks in Eastern, MA.

Plus Rhode Island’s official drink is Coffee Milk.  Autocrat makes sure we start them young!