They offered royalty free licenses to anyone who would build stations proportional to their share of the EV market. Nobody took them up on it.

Regarding that last point. Tesla actually cooperates with existing businesses already to position the superchargers at locations that already have a restaurant or at least a convenience store. In Texas, they seem to have a deal with the Love’s gas station chain to put the superchargers at the same locations (the one…

in todays episode of huh?

You’re comparing the Mach-E to the CyberTruck??

Now that I’ve had some time to think about the truck, I can really only conclude one thing: Elon doesn’t give two shits about the typical Ford or Chevy truck buyer. Likewise, he’s not going to care much about the electric vehicles that Ford and Chevy are going to come up with.

I agree that it is not ugly. It is also not beautiful. I’d say its striking, and different.

The more I look at it, the less ugly it gets.

Yup. Nobody is talking about how at $40K this undercuts the Rivian by probably 30 grand. Rivian starts at $70 for ~230 miles range and probably goes over $100 if you want the 400 mile battery. And despite the occasional bullshit, Tesla is the market leader in self driving tech and charging infrastructure.

Im pretty excited for long range electric pick ups to haul motorcycles and snow gear. Im pretty excited for the Rivian and Bollinger but the prices are way up there for me to justify.

I like how you point out the over promises(legit complaint) but totally ignore the actual delivery. Tesla has accomplished almost everything they have promised. EVERYTHING. Not always exactly in the timeframe promised, sometimes over budget and more expensive than promised but they deliver.

It’s not ugly, it’s different. Very different.

Calls others “lemmings” while quoting the carbon footprint of a battery pack without mentioning the carbon footprint of the oil industry required to make gasoline available.

Source for your tesla claims?

Please show reliable evidence to back up your utter bullshit CO2 output numbers.

Who would want this? Why would a factory want to introduce a fuckton of complexity into their production line? Why would a tesla owner want to spend a bunch of money to have a refreshed version of their old car? Why would a jalop want to constrain the supply of junkyard tesla parts?

With the slower car at *124mph*?? Get out of here with that nonsense. Again, in the REAL WORLD, who fucking cares? Either one gets your license shredded in a nanosecond, and if all you want to do is go 1/4 mile really fucking fast, you can do it a lot more cheaply than $200K. A Hellcat Demon is faster than either of…

Louvres are the solution. Never forget the 1980s.

That punch came from Renault, the engine supplier McLaren is leaving in order to go to Mercedes. When asked, Renault said McLaren’s departure won’t hurt financially and will be “one less distraction.”

They run those generators on “a pollution-free, non-toxic glycerine” according to the article they did on it awhile back. Yes they use generators but they are not burning a bunch of diesel.

Not sure if anyone’s been to an FE race, but in the paddock are massive diesel generators which they use to charge the cars. It isn’t green at all... but I guess it does promote green power, so that’s, well, good.