If could not afford the extra dough for an EV you were not in a position to claim the 7500 tax credit. The EV tax credit did not lower the price of the car and it was not the government giving you a check for 7500. What it was is a credit towards the taxes you owed. A single filer would need to make over 55,000 in…

What a bunch of whiny little pissbags everyone is being. Look, if you don’t like it, CANCEL YOUR DEPOSIT.

Cars NEVER burned before*

Not so much - the chemicals only produce electricity in the context of intact battery - electron-donating chemicals adjacent to, but separated from, electron-accepting chemicals, with the requisite electrodes governing the passage of the current. Compromise the separation by, for example, smashing them against a tree,…

Catch on fire you say? Why this never happens to gasoline powered cars, we have been deceived by “Big Battery”!

Elon: “If they were using Autopilot they would still be alive”

But he will definitely quip, “and the only reason this made the news is because it’s an electric car.” Which is true.

You mean when catastrophically crashed and comprised electric cars can catch on fire.

I doubt that anybody is unaware that older cars were designed to meet a lesser impact standard. That’s the whole point - here’s why car designed over a quarter century ago that’s still being produced probably shouldn’t be.

In Mexican Tsuru, crumple zones YOU!

As my grandfather would say “they don’t build ‘em like they used to” to which I’d reply “Thank God.”

If being in the minority makes it wrong let’s talk about the metric system... :-P