It’s like they tried to analyze why Tesla was successful and decided that consumers liked their occasionally glitchy software, so they did them one better and made their cars with always glitchy software.
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I disagree. As a past owner of many Toyotas, it’s been a while since Toyota entered any segment with objectively the best car. The Corolla is worse than the Civic and Mazda3. The Camry is worse than the Accord, K5, and Sonata. The RAV4 is worse than the CR-V and CX-5. The Highlander isn’t even close to the Telluride…
Making cars is never easy, and EVs are even less so at this stage in the market.
No, that’s literally how these statistics work. But what they should really be doing is comparing Alameda County to the Tesla plant. The county has a positive test rate of 5% vs the factory’s 4.5%, so Tesla employees are about as likely to have had COVID as the rest of the population in the area. If this wasn’t Tesla…
It’s only for people who already have the “FSD” package.
But also “We’re getting there, please pay me $10k because it’s gonna be worth BILLIONS in the future, and your car will be able to be a taxi and make money and stuff and oh also fart XD”
That’s a big ass-tablet.
This gave me a new idea: Frunks for gas-powered cars, specifically to keep pizzas warm. I’m sure you could get 2 or 3 inches of vertical space just by taking off those plastic covers you have on every modern engine. Then just make a little liner and it’s a perfect place to put your pizzas while you drive home.
If you drive 1000 miles a month in a Tesla, that’s about 250kWh. At the average US electricity rate of 13¢ per kWh, that would cost $32.50.
I’m about to take a long road trip with my Model 3 SR - 1000 miles in 1 day from MA to SC. It usually takes about 16 hours including stopping for meals and I think even with the shortest-range Tesla, charging will only add about 1.5 hours to the total time.
No. Tesla has sold about a million Model 3s and Model Ys combined (they use the same batteries) and there have only been 2 cases of spontaneous battery fires, both after some kind of serious battery damage. One in Russia collided with a truck and then caught on fire, the other, in China, ran over an improperly-secured…
Uhh... no it wasn’t. It was difficult for Tesla because modern car manufacturing is a wicked blend of precise, high-tech, elaborate systems and cheap, industrial, high-volume production. Possibly the only reason Tesla succeeded was because of Musk’s personality, not despite it. He took risks with Tesla that no other…
I think these startups have potential to make really good cars, but they won’t really have any impact on EVs as a whole. I have doubts about Lucid and Rivian ever expanding beyond the ultra-luxury market. The EV scene 10 years ago when Tesla first started selling cars was vastly different than it is today. Tesla …
That’s a last-gen A8.
I think hydrogen has great potential in airplanes, especially long-haul jets. Electric motors can’t achieve the high-speed efficiency of turbofans yet, but an airliner with hydrogen-fueled turbines could approach the performance of current planes with only minimal changes to its design. The only real barriers are…
I think the one contender for better SUV value would be the Mitsubishi Outlander. Nobody is arguing that it’s a great car, but it’s perfectly OK and has good standard features, especially the new one, and it’s $25k for a 3-row SUV!
“Shitty Audi”
Have you been near a recent A4? It’s a damn fine car. Certainly a level above the Stinger.
The Mirai is a joke. It’s only usable in California, it’s overpriced, and the hydrogen powertrain eats up so much interior space that the EPA classifies it as a compact car despite having the same footprint as an Avalon. In the US last year, Tesla sold more Model 3s every day than Toyota sold Mirais in total.
Oh yeah I know that most mules are based on other cars (my favorite one was the C8 prototype that looked like the world’s coolest Holden ute) but Lordstown claims that they’ll begin production in September. That’s only 6 months away. Maybe they do have fully complete trucks in production right now, but like I said,…