Ex-f-ing-xactly. Can we get all the hatchbacks back down off their stilts?  And I want a station wagon too.

Bexause they’re kinda crappy at doing the things cars are supposed to do, like going where you point them, letting you see what’s around you and slipping through the air better than a brick.

It’s probably not a coincidence that we have tariffs on trucks that don’t apply to cars and Ford and Chevy can’t make money on cars.

Thanks for that suggestion.  Setting up music alarms is enormously frustrating.  I just tried a routine and it’s much better.

My in-laws live with me. We do not share a language. My mother-in-law’s English is better than my Mandarin, but quite limited. If my wife or one of our kids are around, they can sometimes be persuaded to translate, but this would be helpful in my home. The Pixel Buds translation might be even better, but it would…

If the car measures acceleration thousands of times a second, it can vary the braking force to get it just right very smoothly.  This is an advantage of electronically, not hydraulucally piwered brakes.

The transition to friction is inperceptible to me in a Model S and a Bolt.

I’m not a brake engineer, but I’m going to take the estimate you pass on of nine times less wear, apply my geneal impression that brake pads should last 30,000 to 50,000 miles, and perhaps more for the high-end brakes on my Model S and do some math. New pads in about 270,000 to 450,000 miles and maybe a bit more.…

Musk’s statement was false, but so is your equating of pressing the brake pedal with applying the friction brakes. In most breaking situations, regenerative braking can provide the required deceleration except perhaps as the vehicle comes close to a complete stop.

What’s sad and ironic here is that, rather than grabbing one of the dozens of guns (sticking with the analogy in your cartoon) of valid criticism of the Boring Company, the author chose to try to beat the Boring Company to death with the bowling ball of lies and baseball bat of speculation.

There is so much to legitimately question (or mock) about the Boring Company’s ill-defined and ever-shifting proposals that it’s really remarkable that you couldn’t think of a way to be humorous, provide legitimate criticism or both without resorting to speculation, ad hominem attacks, and demonstrably baseless…

Bit you do make up silly false clai.s about an EV somehow emptying its battery in 1/4 mile. I’ve spent less of my time charging my EV than you spend in one stop at a gas station. I have literally never charged it anywhere else than parked at my destination, techically in my garage, but in theory I’ll charge it at…

Are there no cops where you live?  It sounds fun, but I can’t imagine going through tires that fast on public roads without losing my license.

Funny.  I’m also in the Bay Area and see them constantly, but I still think the Model S is a damn fine-looking car.  The X is fugly though and the 3 will take some getting used to.

That’s just not even close to being true. Starting on Jauary 1, Tesla buyers will only get $3750. from the feds plus any state, local, or utility rebates. I got a total of $10,500 back. And now my car doesn’t stink.

They’re not covering it because it’s almost 2019, not 1957.

Oops.  You said this before me.  My bad.

Durant is an incredible player, but the most valuable players to the Warriors as a team, the players who make them win games when they’re on the court and be just another good team when they’re not? Those players are Steph Curry and Draymond Green. And, while I know Steph is the obvious rational choice for the more…

I think I’ve read that it uses for superchargers, so the charge rate is probably somewhat less than 480kW

But the Nilola uses the most expensive and inefficient “battery” known to mankind, a tank full of hydrogen hooked up to a fuel cell. Or did fuel cells start making sense and I just slept through it?Maybe someone found a hydrogen mine somewhere?