the chances of getting 0% interest on an 84 month loan are 0%, but only because Ford no longer offers it. the 0% part went away a couple of months ago. The 84 month loan that Ford removed its minimum credit score requirement for is not at 0%. it’s not very difficult to qualify for a 0% loan though if your FICO is 690…

ok then the question is do i charge my Rivian and my Lotus in parallel or in series?

i can unsee this. i think, eventually. like how i conveniently unsaw the Lotus Europa.

you didn’t manage to comprehend that i was pointing out that arguing about what should be done first is doing nothing. this, what we’re both doing right now. arguing about what’s the most important. we’re both Raising Awareness right now. the circle jerk that has never solved or fixed anything.

i’m picturing a Lotus engineer at work 4 years from now complaining that their new car “weighs 3300 pounds, the fat fucking pig.”

probably the very first thing i thought when i realized that EV was going to catch on this time was “well, Lotus is finally fucked.”

haha i was about to be all I DISAGREE THIS COULD WORK but i live in Glendale.

This is an Si with 4 wheel steering in my apartment’s parking garage. it’s got 1/4 inch of dust on it and the tires are flat and it hasn’t moved since i moved here. as far as i can tell, the mobility scooter hasn’t moved either. the front end lost a fight with something, and i’m not rude enough to wipe down a window…

i’d like to know how much of that On Star $2B in revenue is from cars past their 1 month “free” trial. i strongly suspect a big chunk of that claim is from new car sales with the cost rolled into the purchase price.

first year depreciation isn’t and shouldn’t be as big a factor in deciding the terms of an auto loan as a lot of jalops seem to think. say 12 months in you have some bad luck and you’re going to lose the car. if you took out a 36 month loan at 0%, you aren’t as upside down, but you’ve put a lot of money over that year…

on the other hand, if you take out one of these loans and you can’t hang and it gets repo’d, your credit was already shitty and you paid a lot less money for the months you were able to hang on to the vehicle. sometimes when life hands you artificial lemons, you have to make artificially flavored yellow drink.

i see the distinction, but i’m not fortune teller enough to see the difference yet.

they sure didn’t seem to be bashing Tesla to me. but to be fair i don’t think Musk can walk on water and i actually read the articles, so i’m biased.

sounds like the kind of grinding i used to do to get a piece of legendary armor.

Tesla had a profit margin problem in 2020. $721M profit on $31.5B revenue is a return of something like 2.3%.

i’m lazy. how were those reductions accomplished? even over 25 years that’s pretty amazing.

what’s most interesting to me is that there is no charging infrastructure for interstate electric semi trucking. as far as i could find from a cursory google search, that’s not an exaggeration. there’s none. putting that in place will be incredibly expensive, but also weirdly simple to do. with some forethought, it…

well. it’s a trend to someone that won’t be healthy enough to drive for much longer. sort of. 

and his is a shitty, unproductive, stupid point. i’ve no patience for people that argue priority as an excuse to doing nothing.

yeah i can see that. i still think the price is about 2k high though.