In the Tesla Cybertruck’s defense, it’s awful in plenty of other ways, too!

You assume they’re being honest about the number of times it will work. This is just enough CYA to let them escape liability even if it breaks on the first pull because you can’t prove how many times you have actually used it. And there are way too many examples of Tesla trying to weasel out of totally straightforward…

Oh, great, the release cable can only be expected to work once. As if you have a problem with the cable/plug, it will only happen once.

I’d go with a KIA lease. Battery tech is changing fast, same with chargers and access to them. The KIA/Hyundai cars are less daunting coming from a “normal” car; still plenty of tech but the controls are similar enough that you don’t have to study a plethora of screens or read a 300 page owners manual. If it’s not…

The issue with separating politics from a commodity is that the sale of the commodity ends up funding the politics. Musk largely paid for the Twitter acquisition with money earned from Tesla stock sales — stock which is valued based on the business Tesla does as a company. Model Y sales funded Musk’s Twitter buyout.

This is exactly correct.

“I read it, but maybe it’s me and everyone I know that realizes that 10 or 15 mpg is bad.”

Math is math no matter how to do it.

Except it’s math that people are bad at understanding, and we could present the same information in a much more helpful way. Survey a bunch of regular people, and most would answer the quiz at the top incorrectly, which we know because the study has already been done, and most got it wrong. 

Why would you ask for two figures that have zero to do with vehicle efficiency under an article about how replacing the most visible figure used to signify vehicle efficiency with another one would improve informed purchasing and policy decision making?

The car carrier fire actually didn’t involve any EVs. Instead it was assumed the fire started with the EVs and the media carried that with them. It’s myths/assumptions like that why people think EVs are more likely to catch on fire.

You literally can’t. The water running under you as you cross is different every time. That’s what makes the metaphor work.

Oh hi! Congratulations on the new you.  

I guess metaphors just don’t work on some people.

Congrats on embracing the person you are and finding the courage to share that with us. 

Rock on Amber, thanks for being you. 

Good for you Amber!  Nice to meet you! 

Well I guess when your share price is down 70% over the last year and 53% year-to-date every $277 really counts. 

Oh shit, you’re right. I totally read a -s where there isn’t one. I just needed more mid-afternoon coffee, I suppose.

I wouldn’t say he’s unlikable but I definitely like his writing better than his stand up.