The government will be on the hook for any specialty tooling developed and used for the electric version AND the new tooling to build the gas version.

Nice to see that the “cut government waste” and “only buy American” admin with its stupid DOGE department is going to immediately...waste a whole bunch of money out of spite and potentially hurt an American company with 15,000 employees. But them egg prices, man, they’ll be beautiful.

Oh man! That takes me back.

COTD!

This is a really dumb take.

Musk’s endgame was to siphon money and attention away from actual public transportation. That’s it, that’s the whole reason. And that’s not conjecture, he’s publically admitted that’s why he did it.

“a similar leek was documented less than three months later”

Because the Vegas tunnel was backed by the private Vegas Tourism board, it’s exempt from federal scrutineers who may criticize its construction and operation...

the Vegas Loop can handle“For comparison, around 4,000 passengers per hour traveling through the tunnels in Tesla cars”

I live here. And I work at the Convention Center sometimes. Let me tell you, The Loop is *nothing* like public transportation. It only operates when there is a convention in progress, not in between. Since I mostly do setups and teardowns, I have *never* had the opportunity to take this. It’s not transportation, it’s…

Agreed. If folks haven’t already done so, it’s worth adding ProPublica.org to your news bookmarks. Their longform reporting is beyond excellent.

ProPublica has been knocking it out of the park lately.  This story, the car tows in Connecticut, the mole that infiltrated a few militias.  Really excellent reporting that needs to be more common in America, especially over the next four years.

Musk, Trump, Thiel, et al. are megalomaniacal psychopaths. James Bond would be sent to kill every one of them.

If he can get Donald Trump to have an affair with Hulk Hogan, he’ll basically own America.

AREA MAN ENCOUNTERS MYLAR BALLOONS LOST BY SOME KID

“Reputable people don’t just make up stories to get attention!”

Thiel is an intelligent fascist, and he is doing what intelligent fascists do; use patsys as meatshields. Thiel isn’t mad at Musk doing this, he is happy that Musk is the one drawing all the media attention and public ire while he, Thiel, gets on with the background work of making the world a far worse and crueller…

True. These “tests” seem hellbent on destroy the vehicles.

I’m not trying to pick on you, but there is a certain irony in the fact that you are going to the gym but then won’t walk the 40 paces to your car in the parking lot when you are leaving.

Still trusts self-driving software that almost got him killed, and would have if he didn’t stay alert, stay engaged, stay driving