The bed is 6'6" long. Under a roller shutter. And with a tailgate with a built-in 3-part ramp.

Everyone knows - you should never go full DeLorean.

Yes - Elite is exactly it. Maybe they used old-school Elite as the CAD software.

It has a 6'6" bed - under the sort of roller shutter that you fit to shopfronts in, erm, low-rent neighbourhoods

The sharp front edge must be really bad for the frontal pedestrian impact test results.

I spent the entire time that it took for the Cybertruck to drive onstage saying to myself “What!?!? He can’t seriously be offering that as his truck.”

And most of the presentation thinking “But the aerodynamics of that roofline must be awful!”, and then “He’s extolling the virtues of a monocoque body. How very 1930s;…

Well, they got going at 11pm Eastern. Which is 4am GMT

They learnt that from Roy Axe, the stylist on the Rover 800/Sterling/Honda

The Austin Maestro in HLE (High Line Economy) spec only had the vertical strakes - it didn’t have the horizontal component.

When Toyota sold the 2012 high of 236,655 Prius, there were few other Toyota hybrid models. Now that it only sells 88k Prius/year, there are Yaris, Corolla, Camry, Lexus UX, Lexus ES, LC500, and RAV4 hybrids either on sale now or within the year. 

“You can’t make an omelette without crushing a few skulls” is now Uber’s motto research policy.

Like I said: “The paste photo function seems to be screwing up even more than it used to. Sorry for the duplicates.”

It used to only put in one and a spare of each. I’ve not seen it go full tropic thunder like that before.

He picked Teslas with aftermarket fascias *because* they look like that from the factory

Model S & Model X have no grill. Are prone to overheating when used hard, and switchinginto “limp” mode.

ICEVs haven’t needed grills since the days of  

MG Maestro a spoiler with vertical strakes at either side.

Tatra made the minority of the cars in that country - Skoda made the majority.

Why is CO2 bad?

CO2 in the air traps heat.
More CO2 in the air traps more heat.
Trapping more heat makes things hotter.

Charging an EV can be dirty and carbon intensive - but not in comparison to fuelling an ICEV.
An EV generally uses only as much energy to accomplish its journeys as is used to produce the fuel for an ICEV to accomplish its journey.

Tesla partnered with Panasonic, committed to particular levels of of purchase. Panasonic sold to Tesla at loss-making levels of production, based on Tesla’s contractual commitment to increased purchase levels. Tesla then did not increase their purchases to the contractually committed levels, and repeatedly went back…

I can’t believe the name they went with.

It’s like they decided to polish a TRD.