I’m not talking about a discount relative to Tesla’s cost. Of course Tesla is making money on “FSD.” They were making money at $6k.

Nope, they are Yamaha 425 XTO Offshore outboards. On the last pic you can make out the Yamaha roundel on the midsection.

I agree, but if they don’t offer a way for people to sample the racing you’re not going to gain fans. They have season-long and monthly passes, but they really need a PPV option so people can try a race or two.

Pretty much any stop sign, anywhere.

This is why economists prefer carbon pricing to regulations. Carbon pricing provides incentives, but doesn’t pick the winner. Regulation assumes what the solution is tries to direct efforts in that direction.

The flaw in your analysis is that it assumes there is a charger at 300 miles. More likely, your options are going to be 250 miles or 330 miles. So you stop at the 250 mile charger because you don’t want to get stranded. Likewise, the next leg doesn’t have a 250mi charger, so you stop at 220. Over the course of a long…

I think the idea here is that full Level 5 autonomy is worth, say, $20,000 to a buyer. By taking a risk that you’re paying for something that may not pan out, or by paying for it before it’s finished, you get a discount.

I’ve never been one to jump on the “Jalopnik hates Tesla” bandwagon, but how do I parse this sentence any other way?

If demand stays low, price will stay low, and it’s going to be that much harder for EVs to compete. We could see an unstable automobile market for a while, with demand whipsawing between gas and EV.

I think you’re much more likely to get injured mountain biking, but more likely to get dead road biking.

Death might punish drivers who get it wrong, here. Miss your braking point and overcook your entry to 24 and it could be game over.

The Schmitz Carousel.

This is firmly in the “No Nap” phase of automation.

Not my observation here in BC, but YMMV. Here it’s the guys on clapped out 2-stroke conversions that look like the suspended license types.

As a regular biker I also see e-bikers doing a lot of sketchy things, at speeds they would never be able to achieve without a motor. I’m of the opinion it’s because the e-bikes appeal to people that don’t give a crap about biking, they just want to be able to get around traffic on multi-use paths and use the sidewalks…

My commute is over 16 miles, each way, and I do it daily on a regular bike. Lots and lots of people could do the same with an e-bike, and you wouldn’t have to be a glutton for pain like me.

It’s pretty easy to spend $8k on a cargo bike, so I suspect that’s where the cap came from.

What a shame. This is sad news.

That’s a code brown event right there.

Replace the gasoline tax with a revenue neutral carbon tax to incentivize carbon reduction, and use VMT tax for what gas taxes are currently used for.