“Who wouldn’t want an old school S-10 sized EV truck”

Truck marketing is a funny thing. As soon as you offer a cheaper, lower-spec “Suburban Dad Special” you won’t get any sales. We’re all pretending to be general contractors.

Just adopt. Everyone knows jalops don’t buy new.

There’s also a reason things like Technology Readiness Level and Manufacturing Readiness Level assessments exist. It’s a lot more cost effective to go the route of making some cars hybrids in small volumes, ramp hybrid volumes, introduce EVs in small volumes, etc., and learn out the new processes needed gradually.…

It’s almost like the big guys were waiting until the technology progressed enough for it to be profitable for them to make EVs...

You may be right, but I imagine this comes with a caveat along the lines of, “once that’s done, design us an electric drivetrain” or “we get to use your electric drivetrain as we see fit”.

I’m honestly surprised it has a 5 speed.

As an urban planner, yeah, Musk is a idiot. Just look at his tunnels. A vanpool is more effective.

Redoing an episode isn’t the same as coming up with a new show and saying “OK, it features this racist old guy and his ditzy wife...”. It would be killed as being not PC AND being too stereo-typical. Fox News would kill it, of course, as tucker would tell us it’s another war on white men. Blah blah blah. Certainly not…

We need to have a conversation about math.

China and the US have the same $7,500 credit, and the credit probably helps expand the market a little.

I can see spending another $3-5000 to get it in tip-top shape, whereupon I could sell it on for exactly as much money as I have in it. Really. Corvettes hold value like no other American car, including Mustangs.

I am autistic. My kind are not known for our empathy and are frequently tone-deaf. At times I live inside my own head.

Gently whisper in his ear: They’re only “foreign-born” for a generation. The next generation they birth will be the same as you.

I suppose if you were clever enough, you could just hack the car’s software to get all the goodies back.

That’s NOT what I wrote. I included the words “prior to becoming profitable.” Alibaba was profitable in 3 years, and it’s not at all clear their losses approached anything like Uber’s. 

Is it killing terrible taxis? Or is it just making different terrible taxis and somehow losing eight billion dollars in the process? 

Usually I ignore comments like this, but you’re seriously complaining about a writer, who is the reporter on “Investigations & Technology” according to his byline, for doing his job and writing a story about an investigation at what is considered the most technological car company.

Maybe so, but trains, cars, and and ships still existed in 1963. I have no doubt electric cars will be a permanent part of the marketplace, I just reject the notion that somehow gas powered cars are headed for imminent extinction.