Oh how I loathe marketing people.

I have never once been like “this entire room of strangers needs something from me”.

1st gear: If Mercedes concept featured in the lead photo were a transformer, it would turn into a penguin. Tell me I’m wrong.

I don’t have a garage. I have a house but the nearest outlet is on the other side of the house away from the driveway. If I bought an EV I would probably just install a charger on the side of the house close to the driveway, but that’s probably close to $1k with labor and low income people would struggle to pay that…

And about 7B of them REALLY want the sort of middle-class lifestyle the average American or European enjoys, which is kind of a problem.

I don’t think I have seen a Lumina that nice since about 1995. That is a collector car at this point, not a daily driver. Under $5K for some early ‘90s nostalgia is not really THAT ridiculous.

They won’t. But they have to say they will because the stock market is a futures market. A company will promise to do in the future whatever is popular now. In 2028 when they announce their 2040 plan, nobody will remember what was said in 2021.

Yeah it’s also kind gross to tell someone that they need to charge their car at Walmart or Target or something like that. Like if you need to get to work and need a charge, you have to leave 30 minutes earlier and sit in a Walmart parking lot. Takes away a lot of the independence of owning a vehicle.

im not rich and i could use one as my daily. hell im not even upper lower class i just got lucky and bought a house just after the collapse in 2008 when they were cheaper. if you dont own a home or your apt complex is old and too cheap to install a charger then electric isnt for you. its not like gas vehicles are…

That was a very “tell me you’re 25 without telling me you’re 25" answer.

I do installs for Tesla supercharging stations, and they are currently moving towards building them in rural towns between big cities that aren’t reachable on one charge. There’s something a little gross about building this $200k station for effectively nobody in the town itself.

Isn’t the first thing you buy after a house, a pick-up?

Its not about the car as much as how soft of a compound the tires are from the factory. High end performance cars sometimes come with soft performance tires that wear out super quick. My S4 came with soft summer performance tires that were super grippy but lasted 15k. I put on some harder all seasons and got 60k out…