The Fusion Sport was heralded as the poor man’s S4 when it was announced, but when reviewers drove it, they quickly ended that notion. The 300 is the poor mans Fusion Sport, which is not high praise. 

Really?

They are more than a few.

The Chevy Captiva was a rental only car model.

There are ton of examples of rental car companies buying a last generation model to their spec, while a new version is already out(Malibu, Impala, Ram 1500 etc.)

Define “major airport”. A lot of international airports(YYZ, LHR, NRT, DXB, SIN etc), I have been too, don’t have gas stations for rental companies on property but will have gas stations on the perimeter roads surrounding the airport.

Not so “Ultra” then..

They did.  The Hertz cars were locked into “chill” mode.

If that really was the case, I’m sure Hertz could have got Telsa to map the accelerator different for their fleet of cars. It’s not like we haven’t seen rental car specials in the past.  Not sure how true that anecdote is.

Was there a gas station on their leased property?

While it’s easier to install electric chargers, I don’t think it is reasonable to expect them everywhere.

Some people just want an excuse to buy something new and shiny. Buying a brand new car is a want, not a need.

It takes about 4 years and 50,000-80,000 for most EVs to break even on the cost difference... (that’s not counting the extra registration fees for EVs in a lot of states vs the savings on maintenance and etc)

I get that from my wife when she bitches about the gas mileage on her SUV. Go ahead honey get you and EV, you won’t have to pay for gas! Oh it’s just gonna be $700 more a month on the car payment though...no biggie.

Not sure if its still this way, but my son worked for Hertz at SMF and the airport would not allow them to install charging equipment on their leased property so whenever an EV would come in needing charged, an employee would need to drive the car a mile to the public chargers and sit with the car.

1st Gear:

I’ve never looked at Tesla’s books, but Elon has many side hustles. Is the auto selling profitable? Or has the money really come from selling carbon credits and the charging network, among other schemes?

“We are eliminating five products, all lower value. None of those are vehicles on which we made any money, so we are replacing them with new vehicles on newly designed architectures,” ....

I feel like Jaguar died when they canceled the F-Type. A sports car company with no sports car has lost its raison de etre.

And that, folks, is an allegory for Lotus’s future sports car ambitions.

The influencers are their advertising. This is more like Keurig sending better, hand-built and optimized machines to the cult of Keurig and sending mass-produced, less effective machines to the masses. I’d argue it’s tantamount to false advertising.

The way I understood the article-

The difference is, we’re not talking about replacing a handful of broken mechanical devices and then adjusting the manufacturing process to prevent the issue in the future. The way I’m reading this, Tesla is updating specific accounts with software patches, based on the fame of the user and their specific concerns.

Thi…

No wonder he thinks AutoPilot/FSD are amazing. Because the product is catering to him and a select few alone.