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This seems like an incredibly rare thing though. They’ve sold over a million Model 3s and Model Ys, so if this was a major issue, you’d hear about it all the time. Sounds like bad luck.

The entire battlefield was already leveled by a large nuke 18 months ago.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Tesla makes more profit from the top-trim Model 3s than the base Model S.

Except this is more expensive than the ID.4 or Model 3 SR+. Both of those cars are more practical, bigger inside, and have ~250 miles of range. They also have access to much better, faster charging networks than this Mazda (the VW uses CCS and the Tesla uses Superchargers, while the Mazda only has ChaDeMo, which is on…

No. Car safety is amazing. Driving deaths have declined by 50% since the 1970s despite the country driving over twice as much. Right now about 35,000 people are killed in road accidents in the US every year. If cars were as unsafe as they were before the NHTSA started getting serious, that number would be north of…

It charges slightly faster than Teslas, but not twice as fast. My Model 3 SR goes from 1o to 80% in 20 minutes, the SR+ takes 21, and the LR AWDs do it in 22. The longer range of the Model 3 LR makes them about even in terms of miles added per minute.

I do see a $35k Model 3. In my driveway. I got it in March 2020 with better specs than originally promised.

There’s no way that light bar uses more than about 50W. At 75mph that truck is probably using 40kW. So the light bar sacrifices about 0.1% efficiency.

Kia really is on fire these days.

But now you can get all of the murky ethics of Uber and the empty promises of another photocopy EV startup!

Yeah. The range it shows varies all the time for me. Like I said, if I charge to 100% and then drive it all the way down to ~5%, it shows a max of 217, but I usually keep it between 60-80%. Right now the app says 209.

I just passed 14 months and 15,000 miles with my Tesla Model 3 SR.

The difference is that China also has the best passenger train system in the world. Although yes, I think considering that most big Chinese cities have been almost entirely built in the last few decades, they definitely could have designed them to be a lot less car-dependent.

I don’t like Tesla’s business practices very much, so I don’t have a ton of sympathy for them, but the Chinese government is well-known for kneecapping foreign companies, stealing their tech, and giving it to domestic, partially-state-owned businesses. I suspect that’s what’s happening here.

Because they recharged it along the way? The ID.4 barely goes 200 miles on the highway before needing a charge.

Can’t tell how much of this is satire...

I assume this will lead to about 8 more articles about how the 3rd-gen Supra is unsafe, as well as an unprofessional and borderline-illegal string of tweets by the CEO of Toyota.