Erik — I appreciate your balance on this article, something other Jalopnik writers and editors have been unable or unwilling to attempt.

Last time I checked, NOBODY helped pay for my car. Sheesh, suck it up GM or make electrics affordable.

And yet there are pre-orders from Anheuser Busch, PepsiCo, WalMart, Bee’ah, Posten Norge, Sysco, DHS, UPS, Ryder, JB Hunt, Asko, Loblaws... and the list goes on.

But does it drive though?

oh no, jalopnik is publishing another hit piece on tesla

15K miles? Do you do track day driving every day? I used to do 400 miles/day with my TDI 5 days a week and racked up 100K miles per year of the same kind of mainly highway driving as this Tesla did, and my tires (Yokohama YK420 or 520s I think) used to last me over 50K miles.

For example if the Town Car got 25 mpg, after 300,000 at $2.50/gallon, that’s $30,000 right there in gasoline alone.

Perhaps Tesla just wanted it to examine better. Do you think even internally they have any hardware that has been used for 300,000 real world miles? Probably not. They probably do running on a dyno for 300,000, but nothing speaks the truth like an actual honest piece of hardware that has been in the field.

It includes gas

i hear there is a 3.5mm jack that is pretty universal

A few drunk kids with a can of paint could cause that havoc today, without autonomous cars. What’s the difference?