What’s crooked about the realities of manufacturing? If they wanted to do it all at the start, there would be massive delays. And manufacturing efficiency has little to do with it. How efficient they are to manufacture individually matters little when there’s ten thousand different permutations you’re trying to…

They also said that July was a ridiculous and unrealistic deadline, used only for getting the suppliers in line. Yet here we are...

Top Gear DOES like what it sees.

Fall. It will be delivered in the fall.

You can actually control it with buttons on the steering wheel.

This is beneath Jalopnik and should be retracted with an apology. I mean, come on:

They’re going to be building the $35k “standard” version by fall, which was, I’ll remind you, their original projection for when it would come out.

It’s $35k BEFORE incentives, not after. At least check the facts before mouthing off.

I CALLED IT. I knew that the fact that there are options above $35k will result in insipid articles like this.

An Accord hybrid, while nice, is boring. The Tesla, by contrast, inspires so much love and hate that it cannot possibly be boring no matter how minimalist the car is.

Weight surprised me too. It actually weighs less than the Bolt. A car which is nearly two feet shorter and half a foot narrower.

These batteries work in the lab, unlike cold fusion. The trick is balancing out the right characteristics you want and putting it into a cheap, easily-manufacturable format. That costs millions and billions of dollars.

Researchers are already working on chemistries that require less or no Cobalt and Lithium whatsoever, using abundant elements like Sodium and Sulfur instead. Tesla’s already eliminated rare earth metals from their motors.

Morgan has an electric car, they’ll be fine.

I’m all for electric cars. Hell, I’ve convinced people to buy them before. But I think this is aggressively stupid, and here’s why:

That thing probably has all the structural rigidity of a box of donuts.

Tesla makes over $20,000 per car sold. Their profits are amongst the highest in the segment. If it weren’t for their extraordinary expenditures going towards expansion, they’d be making money hand over fist.

They do make money on their cars, they simply spend it much faster on gigafactories and such.

Get a Kia Niro instead. 50 mpg, $22,000, 0-60 a full second faster, and best of all, it has a volume knob.

I am reminded of those species of stalk-eyed flies that, for the purposes of appearing more virile than their male competitors, have evolved to have eyestalks wider than the length of their entire body. They can barely move or fly, and spend most of their time on the undersides of leaves sucking on dew and trying not…