Tesla offered their interface as a standard. Competitors refused, thinking it would allow Tesla a competitive advantage. 

“if gas stations were allowed to...” - This is America, the ARE allowed to do this. They’d sell less gas if they did. Go back 100 years and you’d have cars that ran on proprietary fuel blends (ethanol, various ratios of oil mixtures, various octanes, etc.). A dominant standard will emerge at a given level of…

Most laughable is the bit about long-term battery health as if Audi gives a fuck about reliability outside of their warranty.

So you want to nationalize the Supercharger Network, a private asset financed by Tesla investors as a strategic advantage? That would be a perfect way to destroy it (see history of all nationalized assets ever). If VW, etc. want their own network, build it. If the US wants a nationwide charging network, build it.…

yup

Not quite sure about that one. Maybe if he’d done it in black sharpie I’d agree with you

Stanley Meyer? He was a fraudster. You can’t split water and then get more than that amount of energy back from turning it back into water. 1st law of thermodynamics.

Yeah. Any time I see a headline that contains the words “may”, “could” or a question mark, I automatically append the phrase “but probably not.”  And I’m almost never wrong.

My confidence in bold claims is inversely proportional to the number of typos in the presentation.

It’s like you choose to completely ignore economies of scale.

Here’s the thing—I have both a Model 3 and am F80 M3. In the right setting, the M3 is a riot. It’s super fun to wind it out, and I love shifting for myself.

Spoken like someone who’s literally never driven it. The Bolt is a nice EV, the Model 3 is a great car. 

Im guessing you don't live in Southern California.  The model 3 is like what BMW 3 series used to be-freaking everywhere.  There's one at every stoplight.  It's crazy.

Hey Jalopnik, you have mistakenly added the comments from a Tesla story to the bottom of an article about the C-8 Corvette.

call me when ICE cars stop receiving billions upon billions of explicit and implicit fossil fuel subsidies like they have been getting for the last century.

Opinions are what they are: To each their own!

Bruh its a fucking stepping stone. You can’t just build a $25k car with brand new technology. We’ve had like 7.19 million years to prefect the ICE engine.

What about it is making you smile like an idiot, though?

I mean, it’s pretty straightforward. Tesla is on the vanguard of producing long range EVs and building the charging infrastructure necessary to make them a realistic alternative to ICE cars. The Model S showed these vehicles could be mass produced, but still in fairly limited numbers serving a small niche market.

Now I’m a little less excited about having to run my ICE car in the future.