Making the cars in Mexico (or even China, Chinese tied enterprises have an advantage in subsidized labor and costs) still doesn’t solve the problem of BEVs for everyone else, that the cost of batteries and specifically lithium to produce useful battery packs is the largest variable cost driver of production.

or David Tennant. Either/or.

Pepperidge Farm remembers when Elmo publicly proclaimed he was going to hire the crackest of crack legal teams at Tesla and never settle a lawsuit.

Unfortunately many gasoline refineries in the United States are not set up to use American light, sweet crude, meaning despite the US exporting a lot of light, sweet crude, a lot of our refineries still have to import oil from overseas.  Being a net exporter means nothing if the US can’t use large portions of what…

The MAGA echo chamber will believe any sort of shit their billionaire overlords are shoveling down their throats.

I can attest to that!  Plenty of people living in their cars here in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and we have one of the lowest cost of livings around.

Robotaxis are a vaporware pipedream. The only reason it’s being mentioned by Elmo is because Tesla’s stock price is in the gutter (and still overpriced!) and the venture capitalist hype man needs some hype to bring it up again, or else Elmo is fucked.  

WELLLLL, at the beginning of Fury Road, Max is on the run from War Boyz, so maybe before Fury Road, it was stolen from him by someone in Furiosa and he stole it back leading to being chased and turned into a blood bag?

“MOLON LABE”, “come and take it”, “try that in a small town”, blue stripe flags, “WARNING: driver is armed”, there are many other idiot self-labelling bumper stickers around where I live that tell gun thieves exactly where to get what they want.

I totally agree on expensive BEV offerings from Ford that they jacked the prices up on 2 years ago, but have to completely disagree on the Maverick.

Why doesn’t Congress slap tariffs on everything from China?

It’s literally no leverage. The US just stopped weapons deliveries quietly to make a point to Israel about Rafah, and Benjamin Netanyahu just said “fuck off”.

This is harsh, but all the hand-wringing about Israel-Palestine doesn’t even rate on the top 10 reasons for election decisions in 2024.

lol that’s just die casting parts, my man

Not only is Toyota selling hybrids, they’re making big money off of every one sold. They’re charging $3-5k for hybrid versions, and a lot of them (all of them that aren’t plug-ins?) are the ancient NiMH batteries that cost half of what a Li-ion battery would cost to make for Toyota.

Musk was never gonna go for a $25,000 Model 2, any more than he was excited about making a $35,000 Model 3 widely available. And there’s a simple explanation for that: ego and money.

The death of the middle class that has been ongoing for 10+ years now with wealth inequality means in real life that there are the working class people that have to deal with increasingly higher prices with less money to spread around their needs. Then there’s the management for which paying an extra $40,000 in a…

Probably his brain just acknowledging the reality that “Raptor” is becoming less a trim level for Ford and more its own brand or sub-brand.

Costco doesn’t have any house-made products. Kirkland Signature, like other store brands, are just repackaged name brands bought at a discount in bulk to resell.

Well, yes and no. The Power of the Press is what got those large swathes to start denying what was right in front of their face, or start parroting ad verbatim that “maybe a little authoritarianism is what we need”.