So what’s the difference between a *quality* escape and just an escape?  Probably lunch at Taco Bell.

Aren’t stock options managed by a 3rd party place like Morgan Stanley’s ShareWorks?  Seems like SpaceX is potentially liable for allowing major sexual harassment (almost rape?) on the jobsite, but the whole “transfer of options” thing seems like an external issue that should be resolved with a child-support lawsuit.

I keep seeing reposts of Volt battery “nightmares” on social media, but it’s super easy to find rebuilt, warranted batteries on Google:

True, it’s more like a Model S.

True, for $30K you get a car with a drivetrain that will last ~60K / 8 years until it becomes a time bomb, and will almost certainly be totaled during anything more than a superficial accident.

It’s true, but I think there are also a ton of gullible people who have followed the lies and the crazies to stand on the dark side.  Marginalizing the insane / racists / hate-worshipers was definitely beneficial for the entire country.

Both models use a 100.5-kWh battery pack

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With ~65k iPaces made over the lifetime of the vehicle, don’t expect to buy any cheap parts for repairs. For reference, about 250K BMW i3's were built.

Or reaching for its waistband, at least.

that was almost certainly a sarcastic comment

Based on the pics in the article, it looks like it buffed right out...

Exactly: I’ll take the Woof over that Jaguar Ipace any day. The only Jaguar worth driving is the F-Type.

I agree that government regulations are used by corps to protect their profit, but in the realm of small cars I don’t think this is the case. No one really has a small car like a Mazda 2, Yaris, Fit, Fiesta, etc in the US market anymore due to lack of consumer demand. Now that interest rates are up, people may start…

Why the obsession with the clock? It’s a well decorated piece of 16th or 17th century technology. If the owner is really lucky it’s actually got an electric drive at the back end, but I expect that since it took so long to assemble it’s probably fully mechanical.

I’m 99% sure those hours went into automated testing of the wood, based on the description. They probably contracted out with a testing facility and used 1x thermal chamber with humidity control and 1x solar chamber, like:

No, it’s just that if you’re not selling >>100K then you’re going to have low profit margin, unless you can mark up the price like on a luxury-branded car. The Corolla and the RAV4 both sold ~1M units worldwide last year, for reference.

+1 Ive had ‘jumped the shark’ by this point. He had some great impact in the first couple decades of his employment with the iphone, ipad, and mac laptop designs, but he needed to be replaced by ~2015.

Full-sized satellites like Starlink are not the direct problem. Even if their de-orbit function fails, they are still in one piece and natural orbital decay will cause them to re-enter from LEO within months to a few years.

The Chinese are actually willing to make a large variety of cars that many Americans want to buy and can’t get from any US automaker.