This looks very much like a side-impact collision to me, not a frontal impact.

(when it’s finished)

Well, if it had to stand up they probably would have made it smaller....

I can almost picture the tumbleweed blowing through the half-finished, abandoned site in 5-6 years.

Ok, so the point that Musk wants to make is “HEY OUR NEW FACTORY WILL BE THE BIGGEST IN THE WORLD!”

It’s nice that Elon made such a nice building for Panasonic to manufacture batteries in

Soo, they invited you out to see a fraction of a factory, with no clear picture of when it might be finished and take a few pics? Given the info already available already this is a bit of a non story.

No they didn’t. They had sales people bragging about how far they have driven without their hands. They have hundreds of youtube videos showing no hand driving. Dozens of reviews of the feature with the journalist playing chess or otherwise goofing off. You have the wife driving while not looking at the road. All of…

Because that’s not the issue and no one cut across traffic. Another site had analysis of someone who actually drove the road. Because of the hill on the road, the truck driver could have started the turn with a completely clear road, not even knowing any traffic was approaching. In other words, it could be a…

Right, but no: cam shafts, cam shaft pulleys, valves, valve springs, cylinders, cylinder rings, compression rods, connecting rod, rocker arms, oil pumps, fuel pumps, timing chains, starter motors, flywheels, clutches or torque converters, so on and so forth

Parts failure is a repair, not maintenance. But since you’re including time in the shop as maintenance, you have to use real world and not theory. Believe it or not, there actually can be poor implementation of parts and systems used on other vehicles that fail more frequently. Some cars chew through brake pads, some…

But they are not that much lower maintenance then any new ICE. The big difference is the whole once a year oil change. Warranty work these days are not for the drive train its for the computers or fit and finish and given Tesla QC that is more then enough to keep a dealer in the black.

Why would that be so hard to believe? The EV1 which was about 20 years ago had a range of a 100 miles with lead acid batteries and a 0-60 time of under 8 seconds. Second gen models with NiMH had a range of up to 140. If anything I would go the opposite and say people would have expected more from EV cars at this point.

For anyone living in California, a battery reduces the benefit of solar panels (unless you have no access to grid electricity).

Teslas X is a shitbox. Hard to meet your numbers when basically every car you build rolls out the door falling apart, or doesnt leave and sits in rework. I guess the S is ok by now, but if they cant handle a small production car at the $135k price point thats parked in a garage next to a Porsche and a 750i, how will…

Yeah, if only people like Elon Musk’s own wife didn’t post videos of themselves goofing around and ignoring the road as though Autopilot was a self-driving feature.

Sure, but it’s not like that hasn’t ever happened before in the history of the USA. The thing is, tractor trailers are not substantially fast, and seeing as how the Model S plowed straight into the middle of the trailer portion, that would have been a good couple of seconds for the Model S to realize that the tractor…

It's a misleading stat. That's why tesla used it. They are cherry picking the data to present themselves as looking as good as possible. Tesla always skews data or doesn't tell the whole story, it's actually kind of gross how they do it. They are claiming that they are safer when they drive those miles only on…

So you’re saying zero fault in the hands of the Tesla driver, who was obviously not paying attention? How the hell does a semi truck turn across a 65 foot median and manage to get completely across the road, to the point where the Tesla went under the middle of his trailer without ever touching the brake? It’s lot…

Neutral: I feel private ownership has little to no threat from the autonomous pool model. The biggest threats are to taxis and to a lesser extent public transit and rental fleets. There still will be a desire to own your own vehicle, autonomous or not, because it’s yours. There is a lot of freedom available when you…