Cash for Clunkers was a backdoor stimulus program coming out of the 2008 financial Crisis as a way to spike near-term car sales. Getting old, rusty, truly fuel-inefficient vehicles off the road was the tagline, but did removing 675,000 cars really do much? Nope.

I doubt most of the D.C. political crowd knows the difference between a Hybrid and a PHEV. Hell with the science denying crowd they might not realize Dinos even are the source.

The US incentivized the wrong tech as the transition point for EVs. PHEV/Hybrids would have been the place to start. Lower the demand on fossil fuels and continue to build out Charging Infrastructure while getting people comfortable. Taxes/Registration based on Gross Weight helps as well.

If I could find a not clapped-out, rust (free) example, I’d spend the time modding/restoring it. This generation of the car was my college want.

Showed a Massachusetts Driver’s License a few years back at a hotel in Annapolis...

When your truck goes full Hal9000...

Given the history of “Dear Prudence” and other newspaper advice columns, it’s possible this series of events is a work of fiction rather than a serious concern (as noted by the author).

Having a 2024 R1T, I’m slightly concerned/amused by the halving of the ECUs in the 2025 due to both complexity and some communication failures that have been reported. (Goofy Info screen in my case). Add in removing 1.6 miles of wiring has me wondering about selling and just ordering a 2025 since I worry there is a…

Next someone will tell me The Washington Commanders ACTUALLY play in Maryland!

I’ll put this as simply as my anger will allow-

I wonder what the software differences between an XC30 and XC40 Recharge would get this level of failure? This sounds more like an ECU/Chip failure than code.

^This comment should be a slideshow!

The question failing to be regularly asked publicly - “Are you going to use this new windfall to purchase another asset thereby diverting more attention from Tesla to another endeavor?”

With the Tender Offering surrounding SpaceX this week valuing the company at $210B, we’re going to see more about Musk’s outsized pay for years to come.

Vanguard being the 2nd largest investment group holding Tesla has to do with “Key Man Insurance”. $45.7B in holdings (out of roughly $7T company wide) is not something you spit on just to take Musk down a notch. They have a fiduciary relationship that tanking Tesla ends up with Vanguard in court. 

Well, those options are more in the range of $47B with the current valuation for TESLA stock... making the math wrong (even if pedantry needed to enter the conversation... start with bad numbers gets you even worse outcomes?)

My thought would be a single manufacturing plant with a dedicated platform line that splits at the point someone wanted to “marry” the body to frame. Basic “Y” design.

Canada has one of the largest natural deposits of lithium, cobalt and nickel in the world, but the labor costs make extractions unpalatable to companies. If countries were being intellectual honest about ethical sourcing, they’d take the necessary steps.

Specific to Volvo... How would “spying” be made easier simply by the difference in the car being built in China versus South Carolina (Belgium for this particular EV, EX90 in SC)? There’s no difference in the software stack provided by Google based on geographic manufacture, and we all know the data privacy pitfalls…

VW is the King of taking a platform and shifting the sheet metal just enough to create products across multiple brands. Why think that they couldn’t utilize Rivian’s underlying tech/platform and just build from the frame up?