Driver’s side is honestly the worst side for a charging port, so they’re both wrong. It should be on the passenger side. In a future with more street-side charging (like the setups on telephone poles that this very ‘periodical’ wrote about) it makes more sense to plug in on the safe, non-traffic side. Plus, you don’t…

To be honest I don’t agree with Rawlinson or Musk. The charging cable should be front passenger side, you can still make that work fine to nose in or back in, but if/when street chargers get to be more common it means the charge port is on the sidewalk where a street charger would be.

Oh no the hit bigot is hollering what ever will I do

I think you accidentally changed the “YOU” TO “WE” in that last sentence of the quote.

Nissan leaf's charger port is front center. Front or rear center is the correct answer.

You have to back in, which seems like an odd choice given most people are used to pulling into parking spots front first and backing out. 

Teslas account for a little more than 50% of US EVs.  That means that pretty much half of all users are not used to it in that place.  I would rather go head into a spot than back in.  I do not agree with your premise.

I don’t think you get it. Loss per vehicle sold is not the same thing as “loss for every vehicle sold.” The former is just company loss divided by number of vehicles sold (what Rivian reported). The latter implies there is a marginal loss for each additional vehicle sold.

I agree. These types of headlines are misleading and disingenuous.

You’re asking for journalism, which doesn’t happen here.

Right - they are holding their sales targets and things are going as planned. Launching new models and updating existing models takes a lot of investment, which they forecasted for. Seems like things are going alright at Rivian.

“In fact, the automaker loses more than $32,000 on every car that rolls off the production line in Normal, Illinois, as Automotive News reports:”

This on par with Apple selling an iPhone charger that doesn’t fit the iPhone.

A manufacturer provided adapter from one of the most valuable companies in the world that doesn’t fit the product isn’t a minor oversight, that is pure incompetence.

The risk is effectively zero (worth noting that tea solids are, in fact, anti-microbial), and this kind of institutionalized overcaution is both ridiculous and detrimental.

Never let reality get in the way of a clickbait headline. 

This is actual nonsense. Sun Tea is brewed before any sugar - necessary to fuel any bacterial growth - is added. Unsweatened tea is simply not a viable growth media. There is one professor that cites one patent (not even a scientific study) that is regularly quoted here. The patent is public record, there was no…

A poorly modified truck?

Of course it was a bro-dozer.

When do your janky car mods become criminal negligence? Guessing this guy put some ebay spacers on or something dumb which caused this.