Pretty sure this is so that they can drive with the rear hatch open without it slamming shut on them, probably for filming.

I was planning to buy one as a cheapie place-holder car so i can save up for an autonomous car. My commute is 5 miles. I have a “nice” car, but driving it is expensive, stressful, and boring. I thought the elio would be like driving a go-kart to work and cost 1/3 in fuel and maintenance.

Some napkin math says that a 40' trailer would provide up to 3.2kw peak. with an estimated 6 solar hours per day, that’s about 20 kWh, or enough to drive a model S 54 miles under ideal conditions. If you account for weight and aerodynamics using a ratio of 6.5mpg to 30mpg between an ICE semi truck and car, that would…

haha, i can only imagine. I felt so embarassed driving a schoolbus with an overheating transmission 25mph up mountains on the interstate in Tennessee. In honesty, even that was probably too fast. It’s much happier now with an appropriately sized radiator. Luckily if you’re in a school bus, people assume you are…

Maybe the confusion is because it was actually ‘Wizard People, Dear Reader’

What a joke. 1/3 of the environmental harm in a vehicle comes before it has driven a mile. Assuming that these vehicles are on average halfway through their lifetime, even if the replacement car is a tesla powered only by solar, there is no benefit for the environment and this entire process is merely breaking even…

Holy cow.. I only drive old cars... are they really getting rid of the parking brake?! That is absurd!!! I was just feeling smug because my brake habits would have prevented this... but if they took away his e-brake here then they straight up murdered this guy :(

I love how the local news just accepts at face value the testimony of what seems to be a meth addict that just ran someone over intentionally.

That’s a very empty promise when you don’t even know who your new boss is going to be.

The bottle flip is the easy part, what you’re missing, and what he has, is dat hype

“This man has actually not expressed transphobia and is being slandered” is very different from “I like this man”

It’s not exactly that simple. As batteries approach empty the voltage drops exponentially, so to regulate that you need to increase the amps which in turn increases both discharge rate and heat.

I have no idea what they did, but an easy win would be using capacitors so that you could draw power from the batteries…

It is impossible to imagine any politician making the case for a driver-less car mandate right now.

That is pretty typical for YouTube stars. It comes from years and years of feedback from fans. If you say anything that offends your fans you will get comments. They don’t exist in the same vacuum/echo chamber as regular celebrities.

Lol. Total opposite here. In ATL cops tailgate all the time. They get really pissy when you slow down to the speed limit (traffic here flows around 15 over) and they are behind you. Then they lazy-weave around you with no signal.

Former Tesla, GM, Ferrari, Lamborghini, BMW, Audi, Apple and Space X employees have completely free license to use all of Tesla’s patents. They basically got this much for free:

He wasn’t using that mirror anyway, clearly.

This conversation is way too derivative at this point so last comment, but in case anyone believes you, a p90d without ludicrous mode has a 3.1s 0-60, compared to the i8's 3.8 and only costs $110k (82% of i8).

$75k and $134k are not about the same. $75k is 56% of $134k, buddyo

I don’t care about your point but you’re wrong about Tesla selling “six-figure sports cars.” The model S, sold at a $4k loss, starts at only $75k before incentives. The roadster, a car which basically included the cost of buying a lotus, was under six-figures after incentives. Even the top of the line model S today,…