If I was big-on-Bernie, there’s no way I’d vote for Status-Quo-Joe.

In the USA? No. Americans never really gave up driving, so there’s not a huge market of people who could go back to driving. The people in the USA who take public transportation do so largely because they have no choice.  It’s expensive and time consuming to commute by car in NYC/DC/Boston.

This is impressively awful customer service. Good on Hyundai for stepping up.

“Or it could be because that is what they will use in the real world.”

Yes, they snuck a Tesla Model X in there at the beginning, because of course they did.

We’re likely going to lose at least one car company from this, may as well be Aston.

I’m sorry, was your whole comment meant in jest? Teslas, falling apart, says the LEAF owner with an air cooled battery?

Sandy showed such stuff in his teardown.

What is the gestation period of an octovalve?

No random personal shots at Elon Musk?

octovalve aside, we took delivery of our dual motor Y (LR) early march. it is an incredible vehicle. we have already put 80 miles on it.

Working in a machine shop, I can attest that the aluminum part is pretty nice. Seems like a cast part that has all the tight tolerance items machined. If you want to see what a CNC can do, check this out.

How is this different than any other car.  My mechanic has a sign in his shop that reads “Automotive engineers are doomed to hell to work on their creations for eternity”.

I suppose it depends on how often they expect this part to need service.

Tesla doesn’t design their cars to be serviced by anyone else but their techs and in specific ways. Sadly most OEM’s are reducing the amount of DIY service that can be done.

Hey, BMW and Mercedes make a ton of profit by selling overly-complicated cars to rich people who don’t care because they just buy a new one at 40,000 miles anyways. Why not Tesla?

That energy has to go somewhere. Better to push the vehicle up and on the side than into the passenger compartment.

That’s it, that’s all, I’m Done.

“A lot of the mini-crises that fuel the character conflicts feel overly contrived, while the actual issues between people at the fictional studio kind of get papered over, especially between Poppy and Ian.”