To me, it’s frustrating...

There’s a big gap between 1 in the next 33 years, and 1000 per year. Do you think the reasonable number might be somewhere in the middle? Nothing made by man is ever perfect, and spending billions to stop one death might be a bit much.

It seems like Tesla is just acting like legacy automakers. Cover up known issues and quietly fix the design while fixing some customer cars as a “good-will gesture”, hoping they can get away without a recall and avoid the issue until the vehicles are out of warranty.

The part that’s always missing from the metrics (and is usually pointed out in the comments) is general trend in the marketplace and how it relates to vehicle prices. Ford is cutting back Lightning production, but I bet if they would build and stock base models they’d be selling a ton more. But it’s not just the Lightn…

It’s always worth remembering that most dealers don’t want to sell EV’s in the first place, and make little effort to do so

It’s faster to back in and pull out, at least in my experience, unless you can’t drive.

Right? Driving past the Jeep lot yesterday, they easily had 15+ 4XEs on sale

It’s pretty tough for the RAV4 Prime to outsell anything when there aren’t any for sale.

No to mention they make engines for more than just cars. 

Or in a container off to Eastern Europe.

Never lived in NYC, but I did live in DC. You can't drive 6 miles in DC in 24 minutes, unless it's Sunday at 7am. Is this the city, or the metro area?

“You skipped a step, where stranded motorists have to fend off agressive as fuck pan handlers and robbers who descend on this oasis of sitting ducks, ripe for the plucking.”

Toyota in particular simply does not build to order, at all. They build so many of each trim of each model to a plan, and you get it when you get it.

T.L.D.R version: Firefighters can easily deal with EVs

I’m a 35 year veteran firefighter, 13 years as a Battalion Chief, so I know what I’m talking about. EV fires are a concern, but not a huge problem. True, firefighters need to be informed about handling EV fires, but they are a kin to other types of situations we…

I have been screaming this forever. Plus we think we have problems with pedestrian and bike deaths now, add another 3,000 pounds to the curb weight and no one has a chance. Plus the idiots driving these will be killing drastically higher numbers of people in reasonably-sized cars.

Its mind blowing how much shit the current administration handled with aplumb compared to the previous (including cleaning things up from the previous) and people on both sides still shout out “not good enough.”

Sadly pragmatism isn’t as sexy as hot blooded idealism; its also less likely to make you a martyr.

At the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, there was a very real concern that mistakes on the part of the US and NATO could lead to escalation and potentially WWIII. At the time, there was a consensus among the more experienced and competent foreign policy experts that the ideal resolution would be giving…

The President of the United States, with a phone call, can have someone killed with a presicion-guided sword missile, and that snowflake is upset that the presidential limo is tuned to certain operational specifications that fall outside of DOT regulations?

It’s on leases, so it’s basically free money for the lessee , even if maybe they lose a bit more range by the end of the lease.

Mansion?