When the boat starts floating, it pulls up on the strap and on the trailer, which takes weight off the boat’s rear wheels

How many Model X owners do you suppose read their owner’s manual?

Covered up in the garage 360 days out of the year is their pride and joy, which is one of only 547 built on a Tuesday in the middle of August by a man named One-Eyed George and one of ONLY 219 with these EXACT options. It was appraised by Racist Bob Collector Car Appraisals 5 years ago at $375,000 and they will never…

I’m just here for the comments…

You really are that dense? 

Chargers have been exposed as having generators, not being powered by them. I’ve installed a bunch of gas/diesel backup generators at primarily electric sites so they can do just that, act as a backup if the power goes down. It would take a rather large & loud generator to charge multiple cars all the time, so it…

Excellent job by that water taxi captain to see the issue and respond quickly.

Insert "that's what heroes do" gif here.

When an EV owner connects to the electric grid, how much are they paying for the extra generation, transmission, and distribution costs that they are imposing on the grid, and will those embedded costs rise over time?

Sex work is a perfectly acceptable profession (so long as a person gets to willingly choose it and have control of their clientele). The authors of that paper are just greedy assholes who find it easier to lie to the public than adjust how they make money.

Not that I agree with their calculations, but the idea of creating equivalencies between two differing units of measure isn’t that crazy, and heck, it’s actually a good way to simplify things often. Your general take on that is dumb as hell, as demonstrated in your sub-headline.

If I ever get to the point that I need to prostitute myself (i.e. screw others for money) as much as the authors of this report apparently need do, it’s time to exit this world.

Everything.

He wanted to see if it would fit. 

It’s a testament to the Fit that the driver and passenger survived this at all.

The offramp basically points right at the front of the building.  And, according to the source article, people had reported the vehicle to police for driving erratically just prior to the... incident.

probably the classic, “brakes failed” even though the pedal was all the way to the floor, because the throttle was stuck open due to a shoe being mashed down on top of the gas pedal.

I vote wrong pedal as per 99.99% percent of such cases.

The car will know what you want and do it for you, including indicating/turn-signals.” Sure, buddy. Whatever you say.

Tl;dr; “some people have different opinions from me.”