• https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-uses-its-profits-weapon-an-ev-price-war-2023-01-19/

In the Berenstein Bears universe, blowing on the cartridge worked

No, you’re looking at the household income. For individual income, the link specifically says:

80% of car sales have always been used cars.

It’s called “having a 30% profit margin, allowing them to undercut the market in times of lower demand.”

A portion of that stock valuation has to do with competitors adopting TESLA charging standards

Interesting, but how are you getting close enough to a raging battery fire in a pretzelled crashed car to do that? Even MORE very expensive equipment?

Yeah, I witnessed a New Year’s celebration gone wrong. One consumer-grade firework (the kind you buy from stalls in the countryside) launched in the wrong direction led to three cars and a carport burning down in a few minutes.

And given that most fire departments in the US are volunteer, severely underfunded, or both, they won’t be any time soon

There’s no reasonable way civilians would be able to put out any large vehicle fire, ICE or EV

As I understand it based on my extremely limited knowledge of firefighting techniques, the innovation is that cutting extinguishers completely fill the battery pack with water through a small injection site cut by the extinguisher. Minimal air intrusion means the fire is drowned and cooled to sub-ignition temperatures…

https://www.ctif.org/news/new-revolutionary-method-extinguishes-lithium-ion-ev-fires-ten-minutes-minimal-water

New firefighting methods are able to put out EV fires faster than ICE fires. Those methods just haven’t been implemented in all fire departments.

I think that top voted Gizmodo comments like yours should be highlighted as the ones that the general public as well as policymakers should completely ignore on the basis of irrational technophobia.

I’m kind of shocked that all the attention in the comments is on the tech beef between the two channels, while Madison literally talked about how she committed self-harm due to the toxic workplace, and no one here is talking about that

there are NO black on air or behind the scene talent

Given some of the public hysteria around autonomous cars, I wouldn’t be surprised if some “prankster” removed the cones/barriers/etc. when they saw the car coming.

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Why would the vehicle be running and in drive while the driver was getting in?

Ah, the article was poorly written