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This happens all the time at other manufacturers.  It’s just not Tesla, so it’s not in the news.

Also, Chevrolet makes *exactly* the amount of Bolts in order to get CARB credits, and no more. This was predicted long ago. It’s simply to meet regulation requirements - if Chevy had their way they’d crush every Bolt made to get back to gas-only cars, just like they did with the EV-1.

But but but it was on the internet so it has to be scary! /s

British, yes. Electric, no. Gas powered cars are 10x more likely to catch fire.

Base model AWD should be available by the end of this year, according to Tesla. Not 3 years.

They also seem to skip the part where, once you drive 240 miles, there’s really nowhere to quickly charge it here in the USA because Jaguar doesn’t have a charging infrastructure like Tesla. Also, it’s no secret that Jalopnik doesn’t like Tesla because their cars don’t burn dinosaur juice.

Why would a futuristic car....have a gasoline engine?

You lost my attention at “Fiat”
Also at “Fiat turbo” and “Italy”

Yet Tesla will be just fine. The news goes *nuts* over timelines, but at the end of the day people want Teslas and Teslas are being built faster and faster.

The USA would also have to be less independent-minded (read: selfish). It’s amazing what a society can do when it’s goals are for the betterment of all.

Give it time. When we’ve been running around with electric vehicles as long as we’ve been using gas-powered cars, then you can compare. The fact that electrics can do what they do in their technological infancy is astounding. Personally, my money is on electric.

Depends on your perspective. The annoyingly-loud exhaust notes of exotic cars is actually just audible inefficiency. Any energy generated in an engine that isn’t sent to the wheels is wasted energy. Some of it is in the form of heat. Some of it is in the form of friction. A little bit of it is in the form of sound.…

Times are changing. What we want out of cars is changing. The fact that we want a clean environment instead of runaway global warming is coming into focus. Lambo just announced that they’re choosing to become a dinosaur and eventually go extinct as a result. It might not happen today, or tomorrow, but if they don’t…

I love how people are so miffed about Elon’s bad sense of time, but somehow forget that every one of Tesla’s vehicles becomes a real, mass-produced line. It just takes longer than Elon says - is that hard to remember for next time?

Limit, or start?

It’s 200k cars, not 250k. Sorry to see you go so angrily, but I’ll take a non-bankrupt Tesla over you owning one early. Have a nice day!

I saw a kid, about 15, wearing one at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in DC. During the March for Science. I was dumbfounded, and a little sad. He probably has no idea what he’s supporting - just like everyone else who supports him.

Unfortunately retooling the production line to accommodate the standard battery would take up too much time/resources. They need high-margin cars at first when production volume is low. After production is ramped fully, they can slip in the less profitable models.

Summer? Mine says early 2019.