Don’t be so glum, Patrick. Tesla’s sales are up. Given the viral nature of Tesla’s success selling “the iPhone of cars”, nobody is even going to want a gas powered car in five years unless they are a muscle car grandpa.

I’m 39, and I just bought a red Focus ST last year.

Gross margin is what’s most important in a manufacturing company because R&D become a very small component of overall costs as volume increases.

Since most of the cost is in the battery, and the mid range model is single motor instead of dual, it's entirely likely that the 20% margin is still there on the $46k version.

I wonder when news and commentary outlets are going to stop highlighting only the absolute worst cases of humanity that a million video cameras can find in any given news cycle, and attempting to associate those behaviors to the millions upon millions of perfectly normal citizens within the mainstream on both sides,…

Should be fine as long as it doesn’t flip the script and decide that a bus is a washer and dryer.

Same form factor - fewer cells. The “standard range” pack incoming may or may not be more of the same.

The findings weren’t as dire as you’re implying. They said Tesla was losing out on some margin because some of the assemblies could have been designed to be manufactured more efficiently. But if anything, they complained that the car was overdesigned - not sloppily designed.

It has always been disclosed that the timelines are target dates based on the best case scenario rather than a firm deadline.

point of fact: The TM3 interior is vegan leather.

This a thousand times. I absolutely love my Focus ST, and was dead set on upgrading to an RS once I needed to replace it. Now I have to buy either a Golf R or an STi, both of which I consider to be inferior in either looks or performance (or both) to the Ford.

If you’re going to drop $30k+ on a third gen F-body, the only way to go is a 1989 Turbo TransAm. They took 1550 white on tan GTA’s that year, and stuffed the Grand National’s turbo six under the hood. $15k will get you a decent drivable example of the car, and $30k will get you a museum piece in similar condition to…

Talk trash. When that thing is jumping through third story windows from the ground you'll wish you had welcomed our robot overlords like the rest of us!

For me, 8 hours of sleep, losing 30 lbs, getting physical therapy done to finish correcting my horrible case of nerd-back, and a bowl of amphetamine frosted wheaties.

This exactly. Because of the modular nature of the algorithms and the iterative nature of the software improvements, the first time it succeeds at a task is often in very close proximity to the last time it fails at said task.

This society used to promote the economic and political power of the individual society.

1) Charging options are improving constantly, including in apartments. An EV charging station is almost trivially easy to install anywhere there is a functioning power grid.

There is so much misleading information in this article.

Late third generation Firebirds and Camaros, and the C4 Corvette have all actually increased in attractiveness over time.

The original settlement offer demanded that Musk admit wrongdoing with his actions. The second settlement did not. This is a key point that the entire media has ignored.