Yeah, I’m not feeling the “Oh, but it’s so expensive!” excuse the GAS STATIONS are trying to play here. Those places are damn cash-factories, so there’s really no excuse. Hell, even my local mom-n-pops tobacco shop has a chip-reader already.

If you are using your card as a debit card, why not get a credit card with a good point system.  Then set up auto payments to pay the balance every month.  That way you get points without paying any interest.  It’s like getting an interest free 30 day loan, plus free stuff from amazon/rei/United Airlines etc.  In…

There’s not much you can do to at the gas pump except avoid paying at them. Your best option is to walk into the gas station and pay at the register, where you’ll be able to use a chip reader if you pay with a card.

I am being hyperbolic. However, the difference is that once your account gets debited, perhaps fraudulently, the money is gone, and it’s up to you to get it back. Which may be easy, or may be not easy. With a credit card, the bank will put a hold on the charge and you are not liable for it until they investigate.

Yep, Tesla and everyone else have to go through these exact same EPA tests, so unless they are cheating the tests (and Porsche’s corporate family is the one with experience there), it should be pretty much and apples to apples comparison.

Why does it matter if “electric vehicle testing is complicated”. As long as the EPA applies it’s rules across the board for all electric car manufacturers, why give Porsche special treatment?

I know what you did. You ignored the fact that one of those trucks is unibody construction while the other is body on frame and then pretended the numbers you came up with actually mean anything

You did the “math” on a unibody constructed out of SS? Hahaha, id love to see those made up numbers. The F-150 is body on frame and you just ignroed the frame and pretended the math still makes sense

He certainly has his faults as evidenced by his Twitter feed, but surely there is some possibility that he deserves at least a little credit for his accomplishments? His father was an engineer, not some real estate magnate (who he later severed his relationship with and said was a terrible human being). He got bullied…

Except he sells more electric cars than anyone else, with the best range and far and away the best charging infrastructure. And Tesla is a part-time gig for him.

Remind me of who is that other guy that created, from whole cloth, a successful American car company in the last, oh 100 years? And with a revolutionary design? And a successful aerospace company? And a successful tech/finance company (that’s Paypal in case you forgot)? I’m not even a Musk fanboy, but for fuck’s sake,…

If it’s so unimpressive, why hasn’t Ford, GM, or Ram been able to have a full EV pick-up truck yet?

Hah! Shows what those rubes in Knoxville know. It’s clearly a scalene triangle.

I don’t think the notion is waterproofing but mitigation. I agree, water will find a way in but if less of it gets through, so much the better.

Man that’s very cool.

You think that’ David’s going to buy a new tool?  I’ve got betting money he takes a bunch of sticks, weaves them together, and makes a support basket for the cross member support.

San Francisco?

There is very little worth mentioning here. They used to limit people to 88% of the battery, and now they limit it to 91%. For a car getting 2-3 miles per KWH, thats 6-9 miles from just giving people access to more of the battery.

They can’t improve that color though. Delicious.  

Are we sure they didn’t just steal those miles from Porsche?