On the other hand, it charges at half the speed and has a greatly inferior charging network, is smaller, doesn’t go as far, takes almost twice the time to accelerate to 60, and doesn’t wow the neighbors like a Tesla does. They both have their places in the market.

And this is why Teslas continue to sell better than pretty much all other EVs combined in America. They don’t just have the best range, they have the best charging network. Superchargers are reliable, fast, incredibly easy to use, and they have 8-20 chargers at each station (and sometimes separate stations for…

Yes, it’s sad to see what was once a company at the forefront of aerospace innovation and manufacturing have two major failures on two systems they were once famous for.

The A320 was always at an advantage because it was designed from the outset to fly about 180 passengers 3000 miles, which is essentially what the A320neo does today. Boeing started with a plane that could fly 100 passengers 2000 miles, and stretched and re-engined it until it reached its current capabilities. That…

Fuck Boeing for their shitshow of a development and certifying process for this plane. They should’ve replaced it with a clean-sheet design a while back, and the executives at Boeing and the FAA deserve much more financial ruin than they’ve experienced.

I paid $35,000 for my car...

Autopilot is a perfect name for Tesla’s system. From Wikipedia:

What I’m saying is that I know that their tech is really really good. But how much growth can people possibly expect out of them? Let’s say Tesla eventually makes 5 million cars per year, at an average price of $30,000 per car. That’s 10 times their current production. They would still have revenues of $150 billion…

Cloth seats are so much harder to clean than leather or fake leather ones. I have a car with cloth and a car with fake leather. If I spill something on the cloth seats, that smell stays in there for weeks. If I spill something on the fake leather ones, I get a wet cloth and wipe them down, and I can’t tell the…

Autopilot is not their ridiculous “FSD” and isn’t really any different from any other company’s driver-assist tech. So, no, it doesn’t make the cars uninsurable. And go sit in a car with cloth seats and one with well-made pleather seats and honestly tell me the cloth is better.

Listen, I’m clearly a Tesla shill, and even I will admit the stock price is ridiculous. Nearly $400,000,000,000 for a company that might sell 500k cars this year? I think Tesla has a lot of growth potential, but for them to really be worth 4x that of the VW Group, they had better be making 4 times as many cars and 4…

Honestly, this whole debate is dumb.

I’d be more convinced if Toyota weren’t so damn stingy with the Rav4 Prime. They’re targeting 5,000 US sales this year and 20,000 a year after that. The Tesla Model 3 sells more than that in a single month, and it’s a sedan and comes from a much smaller brand. If VW can get the ID.4 out without software issues like…

When you’re not taking a road trip, you can go for months without touching a charging station that’s not in your garage. I would bet that many EV owners haven’t used a public charger since March.

And as much as I like Teslas, Elon Musk has probably dislocated several bones with how far up his own ass he’s gone.

This is going to cement VW’s position as the world’s largest automaker in the decades ahead. 10 years ago I would’ve said Toyota would be in a stronger position to take advantage of the transition to EVs, but VW has been really impressive since Dieselgate.

You’d hope the Polestar would have a nicer interior, since you’re paying $13,000 more for a heavier car with less performance and range. You could even buy a Model 3 SR+ and get more range and faster charging, and save $23,000.

Except this is actually worse in all 3 categories (250 miles < 353 miles, 4.7 s > 4.2 s, $47,000 < $60,000) than the Model 3 LR. I think it will find success with people who buy an EV as their second car and thus care more about comfort than range and usability, kinda like the e-tron.

This thing starts at the equivalent of $10,500 in China. 0% chance it passes a single crash test here in America. I’d much rather have a car designed for our market than one shipped over and rebadged, even if cHevY sHoUlNd’T HavE cALlEd iT a BlAzEr.

Toyota could spend a few million dollars offering fat checks to Mazda’s chassis engineers (which they don’t even seem to need, Toyota is plenty good at selling cars to non-enthusiasts and their boring reliability can even be a selling point.) They don’t need to buy Mazda and its compliance-car EV. I like Mazda, and…