At this point I only read Jalopnik for its “articles” on Tesla just to see SBA’s comments. The mental gymnastics are just so much fun to witness, and the pure delusion makes me feel better about myself.

‘“Dealer overhead”? Do you mean the cost of maintaining and operating a service department along with paying a qualified tech to do the work?’

Seriously, what a joke. And then Jalop writers wonder why the comments just make fun of them.

“Teslas in particular are for rich tech bros who like to tell you how superior they are”

I love how in your artificial disdain about Tesla cutting trees, you completely forget to mention they’ll be planting 3x as many trees they’re cutting down.

Those are not global sales. Nissan global sales in 2018: https://www.nissan-global.com/EN/IR/INDIVIDUAL/GLOBALSALES/

Obviously number of cars sold is not the criteria I used to measure how much a brand would be missed. Especially since Nissan, in its mediocrity, sells more than Seat or Chevrolet.

“Is there any brand that would be missed less if were to disappear?”

Jalop cult calls Tesla cult, a cult.

Panasonic manufactures the cells, not the batteries. 

“because we all know it won’t serve the masses, just the avocado toast eating crowd in King County.”

The fact that you think climate change is a "CNN thing" is hysterical

Lol, that’s some Trump University skills right there

Except no. Panasonic manufactures the cells with Tesla’s chemistry, and Tesla then manufactures the batteries.

Well he did say: 

Don’t you know? For someone who obsesses over Tesla as much as you do, it's kind of surprising you don't. Kind of.

TSLAQ is that you? Lol.

So like every other company doing crossovers. Shocking!

That's the real news here

That, or maybe they recognize that EVs wont magically solve climate change, but merely shift the production of emissions somewhere else.