The part Tesla nailed down is the most important for a business that’s ignored by the Jalopnik commentators: automotive margins. Tesla’s profit margin on cars is #1-2 in the entire industry, with only Ferrari being in competition. Sales of Model 3/Y are skyrocketing year after year and they can accord to cut prices…

High EV inventories? 92,000!? Is not high. That is .5% of total vehicle invetories sitting on lots. Unsold ICE vehicles sitting on lots account for around 2 million total. Lets get the story straight here. Please, someone with real journalistic integrity, put this situation in a realistic perspective.

Yeah, coupled with the line about crossing picket lines, it makes the House of the Dragon cast look like scabs, when no, they aren’t?

Gee if only volkswagen did not massively break laws and harm the environment they would have 33 billion more dollars in their war chest to spend on R&D and weather the transition from ICE to EV.   

Read the Variety article.   It is because the local union in the UK is legally barred from a solidarity strike with SAG.  For some weird reason, Linda and Gordon dont think that bit is important to mention.

Linda/Gordon you need to rewrite this:

Same, my wife wants one and will probably get one as a company car for her boutique/jewelry business. This thing was tailor-made to fit that image. Hopefully dealer markups have gone away (at least to some extent) by the time they come out and you can get one close to sticker.

I love the idea of the van, but the cost is going to be astronomical in the US at first.

Thank you. Can’t believe this article literally doesn’t expand beyond the headline, and doesn’t even mention the actors’ strike, only the writers’ strike.

Yup - here in San Francisco you see people driving like they’re qualifying for the Indy 500. Interstate 280 might as well be called the Autobahn. Speeds have definitely increased a lot since the pandemic, along the aggressiveness. People are way too impatient. Naturally, no CHP’s out there pulling people over unless…

It also helps that in Germany, they heavily tax engine displacement. Way fewer giant SUV’s and pickups on the road there with large V8 and V6 engines means better safety, too.

Highway speeds are one thing, but on smaller streets, small changes in speed are even more important for pedestrian survival. Others matter more than self. 

Death rate for pedestrians hit:
25 mph: 4.4% auto, 6.8% SUV / Pickup
30 mph: 6.8% auto, 10.4% SUV / Pickup
45 mph: 22.9% auto, 32% SUV / Pickup

Are we talking ground speed or airspeed? Below 10000 MSL the limit is usually 250 knots and there’s good reason for it, but above FL 300 anything goes, I guess, as much as your airframe will take. Minding noise reduction (no sonic booms).

Or just read the rules and ride a regular bike.

You need to change the title to: “Perseverence finds organic molecules on Mars.”

This “Giz writer’s” obsession with AI is certainly interesting...

Duh, it’s in the model lineup: S3XY.

Ah, you noticed that. Texas has practically no efficiency standards or regulations in place, unlike California. Those numbers are pretty telling. One third less people yet over 50% more wasted electricity (and corresponding pollution). They can build leaky, crappy homes, outfit them with energy wasting appliances,…

I hope Nintendo doesn’t overthink it and try to reinvent the wheel. They really knocked it out of the park with Switch so why couldn’t they just keep the same system but push newer hardware? Like with Steamdeck and others entering the market it would be nice if Switch 2 was as powerful as a Series S. 

Reviews like this one show how good it was for Kotaku to ditch scores all those years ago.

Well written. I’m looking forward to finishing this game sometime in the next few weeks.