The irony is that it’s pretty obvious that Tesla could do with a few more adults in the room.

The 4 houses from 1976 on my little cul-de-sac all had them when new. You can tell from the random pieces of broken PVC in the attic and plated holes in many of the rooms. I imagine they’re cool until get get a leak in a tube that’s sealed in a wall.

Range Rover, Mercedes (any SUV), Cadillac (Escalade), and GMC (Yukon Denali) seem to have the designed-for-women thing down already. <- Based on scientific observation of drop-off at my daughter’s grade school.

I use my e-golf the same way you use your i3. I’ll get a proper 7.2kW EVSE eventually but the prices keep coming down and I don’t need it so why not wait?

To your point, an anecdote from the early day of Model S deliveries.

Huh. I’ve been in two higher mile Cruzes (one poverty spec, one Eco) and had the exact opposite reaction.

Yep, I did this on my own motorcycle back in college with my girlfriend following behind (in my mom’s car, in fact). Started to accelerate to clear a yellow light, remembered her following me, stopped fairly hard, watched her slide past me with brakes locked. Yikes.

Absolutely. It’s been a while since I followed him but it was great to watch his ideas go from his head to CAD to hardware to the track.

Yes, my worldview is shattered.

I’m friendly with someone who recently acquired one. Randomly:

That’s weak sauce. Many years ago, they had preferred dealers with some kind of negotiated pricing. My father ordered his sweet black ‘86 LeBaron GTS (power windows!) from a dealer more than an hour away. IIRC, everything was handled over the phone/via FAX until we picked up the car.

If it was only that easy...

The old trailer was so much more practical. He had a lot more usable driveway area with it alongside the house.

I did exactly that when I had a considerably smaller 16 foot open trailer. Kept it at a local marina. It fit just fine on my driveway but keeping it somewhere else just seemed like the thoughtful thing to do.

An e-golf won’t even turn completely on if it is plugged in.

I don’t see how this can have any meaningful affect. Sure, shocks are dissipating a (relatively) tiny bit of energy but have you ever heard anyone discuss shocks as a contributor to fuel consumption? On a street car, they barely get warm.

Timing. The Leaf was already on the market when SAE released their standard. The Model S debuted about 6 months later, IIRC.

It looks like this will sort itself out.

I shared this one with my friends a month ago. Even chatted with the wife about it. In the end, I couldn’t see taking on the liability.

Yet it was pretty easy to figure out that you were an EV guy from your defense.