The range is not, in fact, better than some electrics. The Mirai can go 300 miles, like a top-end Tesla. As for performance, it’s basically a Prius that costs three times as much and cannot go anywhere. By contrast, electricity is pretty much everywhere.

That’s why there’s fast charging and charging stations. They’re a much better solution than hydrogen stations because they’re so much easier and cheaper to build.

No kidding. Talk about your unforced errors.

The confounding factor here is value. The Model 3 competes with other $35,000 gas cars, so it has it. The Bolt looks almost exactly like a $14,000 Honda Fit, so it doesn’t.

My thoughts exactly. No one would ever suspect it.

Thankfully, as several small-volume car sales have shown, manual transmissions and electric cars aren’t completely incompatible... someday there’s going to be a sports electric with a stick, just you watch.

What the hell is with that ground clearance? Is this a sedan built on a truck platform?

That’s... not how pyramid schemes work. A pyramid scheme is when a product is all profit and not at all worthwhile, and depends on people spreading it like a virus. This is a case where the product has worth—these are real cars, after all—but the company doesn’t do any advertising, instead depending on incentivizing…

There are two of these on my block. One is parked in a driveway next to a Toyota Prius.

The old “ship of Theseus” question.

Yeah, one of those volcanic acid ponds.

If by “barn find” you mean “dredged up from the bottom of a cow pond,” then yes.

I can see the confusion. For some odd reason, pornography tends to mimic conventional movies and franchises. God only knows why. It’s like the ascension of awful smutty fanfiction into the real world.

Talk about your foregone conclusions. If the “History” channel were accurately named, it would be called “Urban Myths and Debunked Bullpuckey,” or UMDB for short.

Yes, actually, they do. Priuses started out with very heavy NiCad batteries and moved on to much lighter Lithium ones by today, and Tesla’s Model S went from a maximum capacity of 85 kWh to 100 since their introduction five or six years ago, and their Roadster was given an optional upgrade that doubles the battery…

They aren’t? How? The July launch date was originally a wild-eyed pie-in-the-sky promise before it actually happened. The Model 3 is all but confirmed to conform to the original specifications that people put money down on, namely $35,000 and 200+ miles of range available starting in 2017. Those aren’t impossible…

Hydrogen only seems viable for large semi trucks. Batteries are advancing too quickly and already have capabilities and characteristics that Hydrogen simply can’t compete with. Just compare a Toyota Mirai to a similarly priced Tesla Model S. And the elephant in the room is infrastructure—charging stations are easy and…

It’s about 3,000 pounds, which is honestly better than what I was expecting, though by no means fantastic. Still beats the Focus ST by 200 pounds, though.

I think Tesla saw this coming. Musk has been frantically trying to de-hype and undersell the Model 3 because he thinks it’ll hurt the S and X.

What I don’t get is why they made it an airplane with foldable wings. Wouldn’t a gyrocopter make a modicum more sense? Not that there’s any sense to a flying car in the first place. Now, a flying dune buggy, on the other hand...