I would agree but then you get rental spec everything. Sure you can rent nicer cars but few companies are going to allow it if you are not in the C suite. The point is to spend that time somewhere more enjoyable than a rental spec compact car trying to get your phone to sync with yet another infotainment system.

2nd Gear, And...

Also, this is just autopilot, which (if I understand the marketing) is not the same as FSD, which is supposed to be able to handle city streets and similar situations, while Autopilot is more of an advanced cruise control for use on highways and such. So it feels (not surprisingly) like there’s a pretty big asterisk…

My 2013 Nissan LEAF had a heat pump. This strikes me as mostly Tesla Marketing at work.  I agree that it’s crazy this isn’t more common.  I could understand a “cold weather” package that has resistance heat for those really cold climates where a HP will struggle, but when EVs are fighting for range this seems like a…

I think it’s more hit or miss across the spectrum today, but EVs are hot due to the tax credit, and the Bolt especially because of it’s price.

3rd Gear: It would be cheapest if you could find one for MSRP. Seems like many of them have dealer markups that eat most of that refund.  The used car prices aren’t great for them yet either.

I could see this based on how much vehicle costs, driving, and other things have changed over the last few years, plus the number of EVs that are available today new or used.

He won’t refuse, he’ll just say that he can’t find anyone competent to take over, or that something has changed and he can’t. At best it will just be a scapegoat puppet being paid to take the blame. Just like as his ban of the Elonjet guy, or so many others, where he says how important “free speech” is then bans…

Besides all the “normal” reasons, I think it’s pretty obvious that FCA only spent money where it could make that money back. SUVs, Trucks, and a distant third minivans. The cars make money because they’re long since paid for, but not well enough to justify the costs that come from new platforms. EVs are not money…

I think the more you want the damn thing to die, the more it will live on to spite you.  As a 16 yo kid my friend wanted anything but that car, and despite is hope of it dying so he could get anything else it just kept going.

Can confirm, friend had an earlier model that we called “the roach” for a reason.  That car was horrible for so many reasons but it wouldn’t die.

I’m not sure what kind of study you could do that wouldn’t be tainted by amazon. You can’t do a time study inside an Amazon facility without Amazon’s permission, which means it probably won’t be real world. Same way the official guidance probably looks fine, but that’s not the same thing as what management actually…

What part of the dealership economic model no longer exists? The desire for car companies not to have to fund show rooms and repair shops themselves? The benefit of not having to own their “inventory”? Something else?

3rd Gear: Why do I feel like in a few years Tesla will end up deciding they need to shed the cost and responsibility of owning showrooms and repair facilities and “franchise” them out, but act like it’s still somehow different than the traditional dealer model?

Sick days are also about the ability to call out of work when you need to without repercussion. From what I’ve read if you can’t make it in because you or a family member are sick, you’ll get written up and charged “points”, too many points and you get fired. So I think here it’s less about pay and more about the…

I don’t know if I ever actually saved money, I have a short commute, and it was a LEAF, so you weren’t going on road trips, so it didn’t replace my gas car. But damn was it convenient. The battery on it didn’t last so I sold while used prices were high last year, but I do miss the sheer convenience of always having a…

Yep, this was 2017 on a used Leaf, so it was already cheap, I just remember looking at my GF (now-wife) in amazement as the guy (who I want to say knew our backgrounds during the chit-chat), is trying to use his iPhone to calculate my “future savings”.

Won’t win any awards, but the oddest experience I had was when the sales person used a calculator to try and explain to me (an engineer) and my girlfriend-now-wife (a math PhD) how much money we would save on gas buying the electric car we were haggling over.

News, that employees will be granted restricted stock units, or RSUs, equivalent to the amount being cut from their salary and which will vest in December. Faraday also offered employees the option of taking a larger salary cut in exchange for more valuable RSUs, though it noted that any RSUs granted will be…

I think they mean the sale of the business to a competitor. So if Russia says no, then MB either has to modify the agreement to make regulators happy, stay, or fire everyone and liquidate the factory.