Actually, Tesla basically got that factory for a song, about $50 million IRRC. And about the same amount Toyota invested in Tesla.

Is that the battery getting ejected out the front?

Pure lithium reacts violently with water. Not Lithium that is already forming a compound with other stuff, as it is in a battery.

Nice to see my avatar.

Umm... as "fuel", electricity is pretty much the cheapest and the most efficient. This is easy to see since it basically only takes a couple bucks of electricity to get well over 200 miles of range in a Tesla.

clearly distracted driving.

While I'm excited about this, my main disappointment is that they didn't design the cars for fast battery swapping. Instead they have two cars and the driver swaps cars when the battery goes flat, which is just plain lame.

#5 reminds me of The Roads Must Roll

Frankly it doesn't look all that great, and considering the run of films we've had this year it probably isn't, but Gary Oldman is in it and he's always awesome. (I'm also not going to argue with Amber Heard.)

Depends whether or not the parking pawl is engaged.

Needs a little copy editing. Much time is spent defining and then giving the abbreviation for the VMS. After which EPS is then used instead.

How about the Tesla Roadster in Looper.

Probably for the pedestrian recognition and automatic braking system.

Yeah, the brakes lights came on because of throttle lift.

The Japanese.

Much appreciated. Especially since Gerry Anderson died yesterday.

I think the germs would continue to evolve and mutate even if the humans don't.

broadcast is correct because supposedly the image was transmitted over radio.

I often hear this from high school level science teachers that don't have a full grasp of mechanics. Centrifugal force is simply the result from being in a non inertial reference frame. Would you say that the Coriolis force is a lie?

I thought Bane had a neutron bomb. So most of the buildings should still be standing, just that the people would be dead.