The Bolt is limited to 50KW because of cost concerns and battery architecture, which also kept the price way down (under $20k brand new but gave strong range and power figures for the price point - 252 miles of range and 200hp) and was a lot easier to put together in volume, notwithstanding the glitch that caused the…

My dude, re-read all 30 (or so) words in your one sentence post and then come back here and desperately try to shift those goalposts. AGAIN.

HAHAHAHAHAHA

What is this “testing” you speak of? Tesla is a tech company, a la “move fast and break things”*, not a car company.
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* doesn’t actually “move fast”, introduces promised new models years late, sometimes never

Shift those goalposts as fast as you can!

Because splitties are cool AF, and I wanted to? Why does anyone drive a car that’s not a new Corolla?

Seriously. THIS.

I’ve filed these damage claims in California and Maryland for pothole damage in years past and they have never paid out because the state says the potholes were never reported.

A few examples of radically underposted roads come to mind:

If you do the posted 55mph speed limit in Philly on I-95 you are going to be a massive traffic hazard to everyone else doing 70-75 mph or more. Even in the far right slow lane, as I have found out personally many times when driving a stock 1964 VW bus on that…

Can’t fix stupid.

My dude, did you already forget you said this?

No, where did you get that idea?

Not “every one”. The top selling EV in the US not named Tesla was the Bolt, 0-60 in 6.5 sec and 252 miles of range in a practical small hatchback starting at under $20k with federal incentives. GM sold about 202,000 of them and last year’s sales were a massive and growing success with 62,044 sold. So there’s…

Politics are integral to cars, whether you like it or not.

The cars we buy or don’t buy, how you buy or lease or rent them, the fuel you put in them, the places you drive them, how you drive them, park them, insure and repair them... politics is integral to all of that, and has been for your entire driving lifetime…

Sometimes! Depends on the car, how often you rip through brakes in stop and go traffic, whether the rotors get replaced with every pad replacement, if you’re paying shop labor and the usual parts markup, etc etc.

It also depends on the tire, because short lived OEM compromise tires can be replaced with longer lasting…

More tire wear but a lot less brake pad wear. After 30,000 miles our Bolt brake pads look almost like new and the OEM tires are coming up for replacement soonish. We will look for something that lasts longer, it’s not a race car and we don’t drive it like one. But the brake pads and rotors look like they will last to…

“One speeding vehicle had its case tossed because it was straddling lanes. It’s such a small irrelevant technicality to escape a speeding ticket.”

Is it, though? Or is the system engineered so that it needs the car to stay in lane to get an accurate reading? You can’t make statements like that without knowing how…

Building a truck that lives up to the promises costs real money, lying is free.

Tesla’s market cap is $580 billion. Subaru’s is under $15 billion.
Tesla sold 1,810,000 cars worldwide in FY 2023, Subaru sold 852,000 cars in that time period.

If Tesla wanted to do it right, they could have. But Elmo didn’t make getting it right a priority, because why spend money and time getting it right when you…

The software company that doesn’t know how to build a car also doesn’t know how to build an offroad truck that actually works offroad?

SHOCKING!
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These are not world figures, only ships that are required by law to report to the US CDC, and only when they meet the requirements to do so. And note that I was responding to the guy saying he’d rather be blown out the door of an airliner, which is orders of magnitude less likely than getting sick on a cruise ship.