I love seeing green come back as an automotive color on more affordable cars. 

My wife drives 400 miles per week. The trickle charge wasn't going to cut it. But I have a friend with a Niro that does this and it works for his short commute life 

Oh yeah,I have one friend in that scenario. My wife drives 70 miles per day. The level two charger is a must for the amount she charges per week.

The tax credits helped a lot with the vehicle purchase and install options. There are credits for solar too, but there are thousands in up front costs for that regardless. At the moment I'm not looking at solar as the value return is most likely not there for me.

I was lucky that my older home is already wired up to code,but my breaker is far from the garage so installing the wiring to support charging wasn't cheap. The rebates and incentives helped a lot here in MA,but I still see this as a big barrier to wider EV adoption across the US.

I’m curious about this too and will be finding out with each passing year. The dealers have dreamed up a 10k mile service interval that just seems to account for loss of oil changes etc given there isn’t much to service

I don't mind gas stations myself,but it's an advantage to not need to stop. It does require a little bit of planning for long one day round trips in cold weather. I have a hybrid Maverick and if there's any doubt,we take that over the EV. But usually finding some charging isn't a huge issue in most of New England.

I agree with you for the most part. But my wife is a high miles driver. The OEM tires are still good at 40k miles but due to change soon. But those high miles fixes do start to add up. Timing belts,spark plugs,water and fuel pumps. I’m doing all of that with a relatively bullet proof Mazda that is approaching 200k…

I tend to believe the numbers especially as I suspect the first wave of buyers have made the upgrades needed to support home charging. My wife has an EV and is very unlikely to go back after her first experience. I'm hoping the lifetime maintenance costs do balance out as we don't really save on gas due to having some…

Hey, remember how Tesla got Department of Energy loans back in the day to support their early manufacturing!?

I mean, the union has been offering wage concessions for years and is now willing to forgo bonuses to protect jobs. 

Cybercab is definitely never happening. Musk needed that plus Trump to pump his stock and stay out of legal trouble. He’ll keep the stock pumps going for a while with deregulation of Tesla Self-Driving, have his W moment of Mission accomplished, and then have a brief period of a good time before Teslas start having so…

Praying that one of these oil tycoons also gets Trump to kill off credits Tesla gets from companies that sell more ICE cars. 

Ha ha. There’s a roofing/siding company in my town that wrapped a CT in neon green with their logo and just leaves it parked in a shopping plaza on the main road most of the week. I guess that’s as good as buying a billboard or two?

Same! 

A local Ford dealer in my area is advertising 0% APR on Lightnings and Mustangs. The Lightnings list at $65k, but not sure if that includes the rebate or not. I don’t need a vehicle, but the base Mustang with 0% APR is an attractive offer.

My cousin said she swore of German luxury cars after leasing an A3. It wasn’t that reliable and the maintenance costs were astronomical in words. Of course, she moved up the job ladder and what do you know, she bought a used Porsche Macan. This time she went in eyes wide open knowing what the costs would be and she…

We'll need the kids once we lock up and deport all the people here working their asses off. 

Ah the Elon gambit, ramping any day now! It’s hard to find any coverage that doesn’t read like a PR press release. I'll believe it when I see actual volume production and sales. 

Four. Is the Tesla Semi still a thing?