I’m super mildly interested in a Gladiator, but this scares me off. I don’t really need a Gladiator, and they are a bit more expensive than I’d want to spend, and they get worse gas mileage than the other mid-sizers, but removable doors and roof is cool.

That looks like a Cavalier to you?

Strong disagree. If you could get it for a bit less (I’m talking ~$3,500) it seems like the perfect condition for a car that simply have some fun with. Is it the greatest car ever? Not by a long shot. But it seems like a car that would be great to take for a cruise with the top down, get some ice cream, and just have…

The dumbest thing about it is that the Cybertruck’s speed is pretty impressive. Why they felt the need to lie about it (or if you are some Tesla die-hard, “be slightly misleading” about it) is just odd.  Your damn Lego brick is faster than a car most people consider very fast.  Cool, show that.  Don’t friggen show…

I see Lightnings and Rivians (if you exclude the R1S) with about the same frequency as each other, maybe slight favor to the Lightning. I’ve seen two Hummer pick-ups and one Hummer SUV. I haven’t seen a Cybertruck or Silverado EV yet.

The R1T still seems like the best e-truck offering to me.  I’m just somewhat scared at the long-term viability of the company, but I get the feeling that if things got bad enough for Rivian, they’d likely be scooped up by a more major brand.  Hopefully that’d mean long-term support, but it could just mean vultures…

If you are entering a new marketspace, you need to know both.  Because not having customers buy it, vs not having customers buy it because they’d rather buy your competitors, take two entirely different approaches to fix.

For all we know, maybe consumers feel $8k is too expensive for even a competent full self driving system. I’m not saying Tesla’s FSD is a competent system, but lack of other data points means we can’t make any real claims here.

Is there $50k worth of gold hidden in the frame rails or something?

98% is kind of a meaningless metric without knowing how well other brands do convincing people to buy similar upgrades after a demo period. I realize that’d be tricky since “software unlocks” is still a relatively new practice in the autoworld, but for all I know, only 1% of BMW buyers upgrade to heated seats after…

Are Portuguese and French schools known for fraternities? I thought they were a largely American thing.

The headline is wrong. He doesn’t have a $39M salary, his salary is something like is like $2-2.25M. The rest is his combined total compensation, so it’s his salary plus stock he gets, plus any other benefits.

The styling seems stale for a new car too, since VW has been pushing this language for like a decade now. Plus, it seems ridiculous that they started this styling (production wise) with the ID.3 and then spread it upwards. So it feels cheap, since it started with their cheapest vehicle. Trickle down, not up.

The adjustable ride height apparently moves the wheels laterally

I feel like this vehicle has been being released for over a decade now.

And in just a few years, basically all other chargers will be NACS. So there will be a short period of time you’ll be beholden to Superchargers.

How much carbon was released just to construct this thing?

NACS is no longer under Tesla’s (and thus Musk’s) control. So other charging companies are free to build chargers that meet that standard. I honestly don’t understand your complaint.

Ford was an early investor in Rivian. So Ford clearly had irons in the “electric pick-up” fire well before the Cybertruck was teased.

In what way did Tesla have a huge headstart on the electric pick up market?  The came to market after Ford, after Rivian, and after GM.