So your conclusion is that lack of clear accountability in part due to Tesla’s more vertically integrated supply chain means they must not have an advantage and are lying about pack cost, despite clear advantages in manufacturing scale, materials cost and battery density. 

Did you even look at that article? The headline is comparing PACK cost for Tesla against CELL cost for GM (there are a lot of parts in a battery pack besides just the cells). Tesla has the lowest pack cost of any EV manufacturer, partly through using less than half the Cobalt in their cell chemistry.

If you set it before allowing you car to roll until it’s resting on the parking pin, it keeps the load off of your engine and transmission mounts. 

The problem is it’ll be supply constrained. Hyundai can’t keep up with demand in the US with its current EVs, and the Kona and Niro are likely to be much more popular since they’re marketed as crossovers

Wait, did they say this has a driver side glovebox too? I’m sold

No OBD2 port on them, Tesla uses a proprietary diagnostic connector

I replaced a 12 Chevy Volt with my model 3. Surprisingly the msrp on the Volt wasn’t much lower (44k). 

I have both a 13 Leaf and a model 3 - the Leaf is spacious enough with 1 kid but the 3 has a much larger back seat and better shaped cargo area. The front seat in the Leaf is pushed up pretty far to allow a rear facing car seat, the 3 has no problem accommodating one. 

See? First it starts with the headlights on the Juke, now this!

If you’re assuming the transporter doesn’t somehow displace what’s in the space you’re transporting into, why even worry about a twig or insect? Even the gaseous atmosphere presents a matter interaction issue. You’d need to transport into a vacuum.

If Nissan offered the 40 kwh leaf with liquid cooling for the battery I might consider it. As of now, that’s a bigger issue than the lack of capacity. 

Ok, I own a 13 S in Houston and our degradation has been terrible. We’re at 10 bars but it feels like significantly less. I wouldn’t drive the car more than 60 miles in any weather, and I live somewhere completely flat. When we got the car I could do about 90 miles. I’ve taken excellent care of it, parked in a garage o…

Some advice from experience: don’t buy a beater one...

That’s probably why they put a second evaporator core back there between the seats (not just ducting, that’s a full second AC branched from the same compressor)

E24 m6. Looks nicer than the leather version. After looking more closely I see the article was talking about sedans. 

Like this?

The Tesla wouldn’t have 500 miles on the odometer and a warranty that’s already started... Those super discounted cars are clearly demo cars, and yeah, Tesla does provide discounts on their demo cars too. 

The $2500 wasn’t a deterrent because it wasn’t new - misleading reporting simply implied it was. That’s always been how their reservation process works.

Any surprises getting the Texas rebate? I’ve been waiting for them to start the program for a while now. It sounded like it went through the dealers, which seemed risky since that requires the dealers to know about it...

Robots and automation require skilled technicians and engineers to setup and maintain, albeit far fewer employees than would be required without the automation. We’re doing our best to prevent this scenario and keep old school manufacturing jobs around by gutting our education system. You can’t engineer automated…