No. The police are supposed to bring criminals to justice, not administer it summarily on the side of the road.

No, you can’t.

If I bought one of the Trucks, it would be the Adventure package. The off road capability and skid plates are a must in a truck or SUV for me.

1. Show me a brand new full size truck for $20,000 because I don’t believe that.

Vegans have naturally softer and more supple hide. Would you have it go to waste after the rest gets processed into Soylent Green?

“So while this will mean people looking for a $40,000 truck”

The $67,500 Rivian would very likely have a lower cost of lifetime ownership.  But that’s an education issue that is still a very real problem in the short term.

By the time you are done fork-lifting a new battery into the truck, the existing one would have already been charged. Having stacks of ‘charged’ batteries is pointless

This seems to be the trend for startup EV’s, they market to the Luxury crowd first to get those extra profits, and then re-invest those profits to be able to afford to make a cheaper model.

If a truck like this is intended to go on road trips of any kind or off-roading, something like this is pretty much essential. If Rivian is smart, they’ll work deals with gas stations to have a supply of charged battery packs and some kind of battery swap/rental system so people could swap packs as they drive on…

The US Dept of Energy claims that delivery trucks and light trucks/vans travel an average of 12,000 miles per year. If you assume 261 working days in a year you get an average journey of 46 miles per working day.

Yep, this is exactly it. Those 25% were the people with their panel in the garage, space in the panel for a new 240V breaker, and an easy exterior wall to put a plug on (or they were putting it inside the garage).

Because you’re not comfortable using both sides of your breaker box for something new instead of just one, that makes all these people liars?

You’ve never swapped a dryer or oven pigtail, a part that is sold in all home improvement stores and most department stores? Because if you have, you’ve just rewired a 240 appliance. It really depends on how complicated running wire from an existing panel is, not whether the load is 120 or 240. Given that the main…

240 is much more dangerous because the higher voltage will develop twice the current through the same resistance as 120v. Meaning you’ll get twice the current through you when you’re shocked by 240.

Most reasonably competent DIYers can handle it. Every serious diy person probably already have at least one 50a 240v garage outlet for a welder. My garage has 100 amp service for welder, compressor, and plasma table that are all 240v. But I could pretty easily wire up a new one. 

That doesn’t usually happen, does it?

If a 99 Honda can take a few curb hits over 10 years and not crumple into scrap, what the fuck is a Tesla’s excuse?

If a little “curb contact” busts a ball joint or breaks a control arm, your car is a piece of shit. Go walk down your street and you’ll probably find curb rash on 9 out of 10 sets of wheels. Then note how many of them also have busted ball joints.

Just remember the Steve Jobs iPhone motto: “Don’t hold it that way.”

People are stupid and buy whatever garbage apple makes these days because it’s cool. People need to vote with their wallets, otherwise there’s no incentive for Apple (and other companies) to make something that works as intended while lasting.