I saw your headline and my immediate thought was “Hey dummy, 2015 was only five years ago! That’s not a decade ago!”

It’s crazy to think that Nissan could be the Tesla of EVs today if they had simply made an EV that didn’t look like it fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down. 

The first rule of buying a used EV is liquid cooled batteries only. Air cooled battery packs don’t hold up.

I just picked up a 2013 Nissan Leaf with 60K miles and almost no battery degradation for $3500, its perfect for bopping around town and short trips.  They are arguably ugly but for the price I had to pull the trigger.

Faced with pretty much the same situation I went with a used Volt, thinking the engine made it an EV with a superpower.  Now my stress isn’t range anxiety, its how to burn the gas in the tank before it goes bad.

Better be as Trump tried to kill the last guy, he better be ready for the next.

He should go back to the buy here pay here lot they found him on. Ripping off the poor by fraud seems his limits.

It also assumes that the factory lasts for exactly one year and then closes forever.

How can helping an EV company be an attack on Tesla? Tesla isn’t even a car company according to Musk!

Trump: “we need massive tariffs on forgien EVs so they will be made here in the US!”

G*d I hate these tech bro types. This guy is like the (in Musk speak) “super hard core annoying” high-school class president we all couldn’t wait to get far away from.

Tesla got a government loan of 465 million in 2010 (670 million in today’s money). At the time they had produced about 1,000 roadsters and had a revenue of 20 million. 

The corruption and self-dealing we’re going to see over the next 4 (or more) years is going to be on a scale never seen before in US history.

So, is the ghosted JD Vance armed?

DT acolytes: “Tariffs for Mexicali autos, cuz dammit buid ‘em here!”

Just commenting on the article picture. I really want a R3X. Tri-motor, short-wheelbase - it looks like it’ll be a hoot. 

It’s called the Patronage System. It was actually very much the direct, accepted, and unapologetic way of doing presidential appointments way into the 19th century (as opposed to the somewhat less obvious method since then).

President “drain the swamp” is putting together quite the circus with these clowns (and relatives and donors) he’s handing jobs to. I see a big pile of elephant shit coming our way.

Its all three. He’s lying AND he doesnt know how loans work AND he doesnt care.

The invisible hand of the free market for thee, but not for me, I guess.