Placing them at dealerships is pointless.

I dunno man, with all those capital letters and exclamation points, how could Gordon possibly be incorrect? 

Wow. Ok, mr. Hertitage Foundation. Go back to sucking some Koch.

Those numbers are pretty much in line with HP needed to move a pretty aerodynamically efficient ICE car at that speed, too. Nothing weird there. I guess this guy’s just another clueless “car guy”.

Yeah, my lifetime average on the SR+ is 220Wh/mi or about 4.5 miles per kWh and I’m not driving particularly efficiently. It’s actually not that hard to get in mixed driving. Sure, that doesn’t include AC to DC conversion losses and other idle losses, but if comparing supercharger miles that doesn’t matter (as that’s…

Yeah, about that delivering as promised..

If you don’t drive and still pay taxes, you’re propping up oil/gas because they’re massively subsidized.

Here’s the article, which definitely does not conclude it would cost the equivalent of $9/gallon:

Doesn’t Tesla’s touchscreen UI have a functionality to route you to your destination with stops at Tesla superchargers along the way as needed? This is a non-issue IMO.

5th Gear (Electric cars are expensive):

Don’t disagree with increased testing, but the harping on about ‘public testing without our consent’ is garbage.

So Jalponik, in more than one article (you only linked one) blamed Autopilot, even though several commenters (myself included) proved it wouldn’t be possible simply because of the rate of acceleration that had to happen and where it happened.

Months later, what we already knew is proven.  Now you decide to lean towards…

Even if you didn’t give birth you clearly don’t fucking realize the sheer amount of work and effort newborns require. That and twins don’t double the work, it’s more like an exponential growth in required parenting effort.

On the chip issue, what I’ve heard is that since Tesla uses modern chips, the foundries have no problem cranking them out.

A lot of the other auto manufacturers use chips several generations old for reliability and known history reasons, but that means they’re physically bigger and yield less chips per wafer.

I didn’t realize the Secretary of Transportation was directly responsible for offloading cargo.

“Is Pete taking calls now or is he still on child leave?”

1st Gear: I would say it was more than just good. I’d say Tesla had a kick-ass quarter.

You’d be surprised the reactions some people have to a man taking parental leave. Add in the fact Pete is gay and you’ve got a double whammy of backward thinking.

“The Wall Street Journal is a newspaper that fundamentally loves successful business. These stories are not bad, necessarily, even though they celebrate capitalism”

I don’t understand the point of your comment. Are you opposed to parental leave?