Yet, currently, US market ICE products are typically so dirty/inefficient in an absolute sense that they’d be taxed right out of the EU market. We had a discussion about this here recently in reply to some kind of Kia/Hyundai US market crossover. They’d still be allowed in Europe though, they’d merely be very…

Uber got a voter proposition passed in California under the guise of protecting its workers, that prohibits the State Legislature from classifying them as employees entitled to benefits protections unless 7/8ths of the legislature votes to do so. Seven fucking eights!!!!! How can you pass such an un-democratic law?!…

Not only do they not pay enough, they dont educate enough. I worked at a free tax clinic during my senior year of college, anyone under a certain AGI limit could get their taxes filed for free. I cant tell you how many Uber/Lyft drivers we had come in that didnt know they needed to track their mileage/expenses to be…

uber has admitted in various filings that they can only EVER make money if they succeed in driving all of public transit out of business, gain a full monopoly and hten treat their workers even worse.

Part of the problem is that Uber and Lyft aren’t charging the real cost of providing the ride. They (and your rides/deliveries) have been subsidized by the capital markets. For a while, the plan was to make it work by switching to autonomous vehicles, but the reality is the technology isn’t there, and probably won’t…

1st: I think the only fair way that Uber and Lyft can work is to be a booking portal that takes a flat fee per transaction, leaving the fare charges up to the drivers. Then the driver is a real independent contractor who can set their own prices and hours.

Agreed. The corporate overhead for those companies is insane.

I like the concept of Uber and Lyft. The idea of crowd sharing transportation is a good one, and something that shouldn’t absolutely continue.

The 20% can EASILY be explained away as incentive followers.

First of all, Jalopnik is like 3 days late to this. Ive seen this posted everywhere.

I think this is the crux of the issue. The only reason the solar roof exists is that Elon wanted to dupe investors into believing the acquisition of Solar City was a good idea, when in fact it was a way to bail out his cousins who ran the company. It has never been a good idea, any more than the ludicrous “solar road”…

Didn’t that fuzzy math include the energy savings the Roof was supposed to produce?

It applies to all panels, but individual times exaggerates the issue to a whole new level.

Bulletproof like this?

Seems like this joke is flying over peoples heads

You know, I have to imagine panel gaps are a pretty serious issue on a roof.

Tell that to George...

As long as you don’t like road trips I guess.

The “10 minute fill-up” argument ignores the daily use side. Daily - you park in your garage - you plug-in - you leave topped up in the morning. In my city - gas stations are actually becoming rare due to property prices and it often means going out of my way to fill up - and half the stations have lineups on busy…

Do you really have to come post this drivel on every EV article...? No one gives a shit, man. It charges ultra fast. So ok, 30 minutes instead of 5. Get over it.  Or don’t buy one, who cares.