I live in a state with state safety and emissions inspections but somehow there are plenty of coal-rolling brodozers with near-zero pedestrian visibility and Jeeps with obnoxiously blinding light bars so I’m not sure what the point is.

Another step in the Lone Star State’s journey towards 3rd world kleptocracy status. Privatizing a bunch of public infrastructure, chiseling away at democratic norms (really? separate rules for voting in Harris County? Gerrymandering wasn’t enough?), sprawling impervious cover far and wide to guarantee catastrophic…

Buttons cost $$$, I wouldn’t be surprised if not needing to engineer a button stack saved a good chunk of money, same for no instrument cluster. If you want buttons you can spring for the XC40 Recharge for $15k more.

Tesla isn’t selling 3s for $20k. They’re being subsidized by tax payers.

Fucking assholes. And I know a lot of people are going to flame me for saying this but here we are in a world where people are literally starving or barely able to make it and then there are these kinds of people, blowing more money on a fucking parking spot for their stupid yachts than most people make in a year. …

Until they are better than a horse... (100 years ago)

Model Y after tax credit starts at $8k less than the average transaction cost of a new gasoline vehicle in the US. In my household, one daily driver was replaced with an EV 5 years ago, and now the remaining gas daily driver is being replaced with a Model Y this summer.

“Ask any Tesla owner if they have a second car, and if it’s a Tesla,” he directed me. “Ask what they take on road trips.”

Dealers deserve to go extinct. Who cares what these fat old conservative alcoholics have to say 

Tesla owner here. Second car is a 4Runner, but the road trip car is the Tesla. 4Runner is being replaced with an R1S hopefully later this year.

Wireless charging is a long term goal.

The point is development. You don’t start wireless in-road charging with the highway equivalent of i-Robot. It takes time to get there.

I know it’s not exactly the same, but I’m sure similar questions were asked when we built the interstate highway system the first time.

At current prices, I will never buy another new car again.

So what you are saying is that we are about to get a flood of rust free used cars in the rest of the US, and that the poor in California are about to get shafted into expensive EVs that they may not be able to easily charge.

You won’t have to worry about the next generation if the current impoverished generation either freezes or starves to death first.

It’s a little more nuanced than that:

In addition, we all also “feel it” in the form of our health insurance premiums and healthcare costs. 

Republican Senator Deb Fischer said “every American consumer will feel the effects of this rule and its price increases.”

2nd: Fuck off and die, poors! -the GOP