While some Unions are OK and do right by the employee and employer, I worked with and then supervised some of the most hostile and petulant group of people I’ve ever had the displeasure to meet. Brand new employee, made $21 an hour and paid $50 a month for Union dues. Free healthcare for them and their family, pension…

Wrong metric, kid miles are what count. Our 2010 Sequoia has 127K kid miles on it, family trips, daily generic kid/food/slime/coloring mess and once detailed it still looks acceptable (scratches and stuff but fundamentally it’s sound). Not many vehicles hold up under the abuse of 4 kids for 127K

“70 miles”? Err, no.

On the NEDCycle, Model X 100D is 351 miles and i-Pace (90D) is 337 miles.
The Model S 100D is 335 miles EPA, and the 85 (or perhaps 85D) is 310 miles on NEDC (and 252 to 273 on EPA).

the Porsche 944

something’s wrong with U then

In the era of $32K average cars, the current GTi is a steal. Much less than $32K, small, fuel efficient, quick, elegant, nice interior, fun to drive and good safety ratings. A few other cars come to mind that combine similar attributes but aren’t big: Civic/Accord, Subaru Crosstrek. The Golf interior is great, though,…

Nobody was making electric cars before because competitive electric cars couldn’t be made. The EV1 and EV Plus cost a fortune and were nowhere near ready for prime time, no matter what you heard in that documentary.

Before Tesla was around, nobody was making electric cars because “consumers don’t want them.”

Agreed. Small cars were made so poorly, for so long that the public lost a taste for them.

Before Tesla was around, nobody was making electric cars because “consumers don’t want them.”

The market is what created Tesla. No one was picking up the slack so Tesla filled the void.

This is the only argument. It’s what happened. 

Nissan Leaf was introduced to the US market in 2010 but the first model S did not come out until 2012.

But there are good cheap cars out there, and nobody is buying them.

The manufacturing scaling problems would be a bigger issue if they hadn’t already learned some lessons during the Model S launch. They probably feel fairly confident on their technological lead and the times needed to scale to volume.

See, that’s the thing. While the real answer is “parsh,” I do admit that people and entities should own the pronunciation to their own names. Volkswagen’s corporate overlords has determined they’re “Volks-wagon” in the United States, so there we go.

It’s a real person’s name! If it were just some random German word, you’d have every right to go nuts, but it’s not. You’re mispronouncing a real person’s name.

Canadian pronunciation, Porsch-Eh

...................But this one goes to eleven sixth.

Because it’s one louder faster.

I’ve always been vaguely aware of this since the beginning... I’ve always thought that if it was me, I’d have just taken the dollars and moved on, before a lawsuit happened. If you go up against a multinational corporation, you kinda have to know that it’s going to take a toll on you, even if you “win”.