You get “stung” by 120 once in awhile and walk away fine.

And the likelihood of killing you dead, which goes up with the square of voltage...

having fixed a mis-wired circuit for a MS Cptr Eng friend recently... I think you give the software geeks who are the biggest fans too much credit.

Well TWO spaces since you’re wiring across both sides of the buss bars.

Only something a committed Cultist would do, so yeah, totally, the story checks out. Think of that the next time they pop into these threads to preach how “easy” the EV lifestyle is to adopt. They are the same ones sitting in the cold car on a -22 degree Minnesota night at a “Super”charger waiting for their Tesla…

Yeah. We’re in complete agreement. The batteries just don’t scale up at all. I’m in mortal fear that somebody’s going to a passenger vehicle with 1000 miles of range, just to prove the wrong point. Nobody knows what CyberTruck will have yet, but it will be a lot.

it’s a study in contrasts... on the one hand you read “oh, highest brand power in the industry”, but it doesn’t take long over on the forums to find some huge horror-show stories about Tesla ownership.

A pity the Early Adopters buying ‘em only want the latest-greatest styling... Having a 10 year old design sitting on the circular driveway ain’t gonna cut it.

Why is this disingenuous? Because you want to ignore that policy makers in this country will make “green energy decisions” that fuck millions of people on the other side of the planet? That’s EXACTLY my point. Hell, California did one of those when they intentionally selected MTBE over ethanol as an oxygenation agent—…

My view, and I’ll keep this short since I have things to do today, is that this is another “VC Story Gone Way Overboard”... absent over-exuberance from VCs and, now, private investors buying the stock, this thing would not have gotten this far out of control.

Er, you do realize that the EV market in North America declined 5 straight quarters heading into Covid, right?

Parity in fuel cell pricing, and $2 per KG hydrogen, which will move a FCEV 60-80 miles.

All of which has the (flawed) baked-in assumption that a car with 8000 laptop cells into it is a viable mainstream solution. Weight’s too high, charge times too long, fabrication levels of CO2 are simply over the top.

Keebler elves would like a word.  They seem “fractious”...

Well, I’m sure Toyota’s really worried, having made $25 Billion last year, and actually having a “strategy-and-plan” rather than “wild vision”.

You do realize the Model S sales are in steep decline, right? All the Early Adopter Cult guys have one in their garage next to the Model X.

Well, the answer to the CyberTruck came quickly too...

I’ll also admit that he’s this weird combo of self-unaware yet vain, while cravenly commercial.

Alternatively, if Trump had said, you know what I own a lot of depreciable assets that are very front-loaded. Okay, at least then I’d say, that makes sense, I get where you’re going. Maybe there’s nothing to see here. But if he says something that makes me go, “errr....what?”...well, it doesn’t help.

Because the whole sweeping notion of “oh, nobody ever has to pay a fee to file a tax return” is blatantly false. Why all the words to obfuscate EVEN FURTHER complex topics.