Nah, clearly the Tesla crowd knows exactly how to use it...

First step, quit calling it AutoPilot. That term gives the connotation that you put in the coordinates of your destination and the car will fly you there. All you have to do is back it out of your driveway (takeoff) and pull into the parking lot of the Wendy’s (landing) and the car will handle the rest. Easy, right?

So, genuinely curious and also kind of concerned here, is there something mentally wrong with Kanye? Like is it confirmed.

So many people suggesting throwing in modern motors.

I know what I would do with it...

I like this version better. Toyota emerges from the trees and climbs the hill... apparently playing chicken with the man, who throws up his arms in defeat. The Land Cruiser then focuses on the front end loader... and in a surprising move, grasps it with some aftermarket tentacle-like appendage... engaging in a sort of…

Could’a been worse...

When I read that I thought, “That’s a very generous characterization of simply shoving an EV drive train into an existing platform.”

No. It’s 2018. The original Model S was a 2012. This won’t launch until 2020. So, it’s either 6 or 8 years late, depending on whether you count from press release or actual deliveries.

Exactly what Bollinger Motors is doing with the B1

BMW should claim the i3 was half assed.  If that's the best they can do,  they're in trouble.   

i think its called a Fred

You write as if Mercedes is the first one to adapt a conventional platform for EV use, but they’re not. VW also does this with the e-Golf and the e-Up (not sold in the US). VW came out with the first e-Golf around 2015. Granted it only had about 85 miles of range, but they were able to quickly get it to market because…

Seriously? Efficient? Bullshit. Incredibly lazy operations support for building their most important new vehicle in decades. Tesla has been showing them they way for 8 years now and they still don’t want to listen.

Yeah - it seems odd to me that all the components are smaller, yet they’ve managed to make it all take up the same amount of space? The only benefit I could see to this is all that “extra room” is full of more batteries, but I doubt that’s true.

“It’s a very smart move by the German car maker. They might not be able to claim the extra storage space, but Mercedes is proving they’re going to be a manufacturer that can get you an EV faster and more effectively than the competition.”

Is the German company that once had electric cars built by Tesla and is only now…

When talking about a mainstream auto manufacturer, efficiency means leveraging the scale of your manufacturing resources. It’s understandable for MB to not want to build a brand new factory for electric cars. That said, couldn’t they have put at least a little frunk in there? The electric drivetrain is still smaller…

It is efficient if it lowers the price of the vehi— oh fuck never mind, we’re talking about Mercedes.

When talking about EVs, efficiency means MPGe or mi/kWh.

At this point, we can make some reasonable assumptions about Toyota’s production timeframe: