I wish we could just nuke the dealer franchise laws from orbit. 

COME ON AMAZON! I can’t wait for my Warehouse Deals EV6 GT!

Cash buyers should be able to buy direct from the manufacturer. I assume dealers are the road block to all efforts to improve the buying experience.

Bullshit. That’s what you read into it because your bias overwhelms your rationality. There is nothing in the article that even comes close to being anti-police.

Oh yeah man, I’m constantly wading through articles about how the state should nationalize everything and anarchism should reign. Dolt.

As someone who thinks the cops are douchy, out-of-control fuckwads most of the time... what the fuck is this bullshit article. She hit a cop car. She got a ticket. Seems pretty fucking straightforward to me. Don't wanna get a careless driving ticket? Don't run into someone else's car. And WTF is this "I don't think I…

I’m not saying landmines around the perimeter is a good solution, but I’m not, not saying it either. 

People do weird shit all the time.

If I saw this I’d flick a cigarette at them.

The people who really need to hear this are the asshats literally pouring gas onto the ground because they would rather commit environmental crimes than risk having a drop of low-octane swill touch their FiNe LuXuRy AuToMoBiLe

It would need to run on the blood of the poors to get his tent to pop. 

But is it enough to bribe Clarence Thomas off the bench?

It doesn’t help EVs case of being better for the environment that the CEO of the largest EV company has been downplaying the benefits in an attempt to ingratiate himself with the Republican party.

I completely understand why new technology has to trickle down (to some extent) from the upper end of the market - because there’s more margin there and because there is less price sensitivity. But I completely agree that

Exactly - the people who think that electric cars aren’t good for the environment don’t care about the environment anyway.

So my take - probably a bad one - is that EVs aren’t selling well because carmakers are not marketing on, or playing to, their strengths.

The thing that really kills me about all that nonsense is that people are putting their kids at risk. It’s fine and dandy for an adult to make a stupid, ill-informed decision for themselves, they can all go die if that’s what they want to do. But children don’t have that agency. Putting innocent children at risk…

I wonder if some perception of EVs is additionally colored by behemoths like the Cybertruck. Yes, it’s an EV, but it -feels- like an 8000 SUX.

RE EVs: For the last decade plus, everytime I’ve seen EVs discussed in a public forum (even when it’s about the merits of a specific model) someone who has been watching way too much Fox News always barges in and says something to the effect of “I bet you greenie weenies never considered those fancy electric cars are…

First Gear: The media has GOT to stop equating “some dude skimming a few Google search results” and “scientists painstakingly subjecting a falsifiable hypothesis to experiment.”