If you’re suggesting they don’t, then you just explained why you found examples of a greater than average depreciation that shouldn’t be chalked up to them being EVs, yes?

Yes, I’m saying it makes sense. Single-issue voting is a bad idea on its face, but if you must insist then when your choices on that single issue are between “bad” and “oh holy shit, absolute disaster,” then the smart money is on “bad.”

This was a stolen car chase. The stolen car inevitably got destroyed as a result of the chase, which means the car owner got screwed anyway. What exactly was the point of chasing it at all?

Yep. The big takeaway Minneapolis PD got from George Floyd is “we’ll show YOU what it’s like if we’re not on the job murdering Black people!”

The EV6 drops 20-25% after the first year of ownership which puts it line with regular ICE cars. The rest of the cars in your list are made by companies that don’t exactly have a sterling quality reputation, so any excess value drop can be chalked up to that.

Meanwhile, my old Mitsubishi Mighty Max was in a hail storm that did $70,000 worth of damage to my house and didn't even get a dent. ;)

Most of the EVs out there are in the luxury segment still. Luxury cars in general have horrendous resale value. This idea that no one wants EVs is absurd. I see tons of them every day and no, I don’t live in California. Hell, awhile back I was in Aberdeen, SD which is the absolute heart of “you’d better love Trump,…

That would be typical Musk exaggeration and bullshit. You know, like “full self driving” or “I can cut $2T from the government without sinking the country” or “how could I be a racist piece of shit? I’m from South Africa.”

I hate Musk too, but this is a bad take.

Yes, you made that point already.

You and I don’t disagree that our response to Israel has been wrong. Personally I think they should be told to knock it off with bullying the Palestinians or they can do it by themselves without our help.

I didn’t say I was going to pollute more. I said I’m no longer going to make a particular effort to reduce my comfort/enjoyment/standard of living in order to stave off a disaster that, now, is going to happen regardless of what I do. In other words, if you’re dying of stage 4 cancer, it’s OK to eat all the bacon and…

Musk will still be useful, because Trump wants to do to the government what Musk did to Twitter (you know, slash everything and make it work terribly), but he doesn’t want to do the job himself because he’ll be too busy sitting in his bathrobe eating ketchup steak and watching Fox.

Yep. I know a lot of people who are more intensely considering jumping to another country.

I think the official term is “door projector light.” Which I will never remember, so they’re puddle lights. ;)

No argument there. Hell, I’d rather fly in the (pressurized) baggage compartment with the dog kennels than take a slower long-distance trip.

Agree. It’s really the perfect truck for someone who wants all the stupid of a modern brodozer, but in a faster package. It looks like a space truck drawn by a toddler, it’s oversized, under-useful, breaks in car washes, rusts in the rain, has numb steering, and is best described as (and I really wish I’d come up with…

I don’t mind the rubbing shoulders part.

In the end, it’s not going to matter. Tesla was built for and marketed to liberals, and then Musk decided to remind us that he is, after all, a dangerous right-wing maniac who threw his own kid under the bus for “having a woke-mind virus.”

Entirely correct.