To the company. The service model Tesla has currently is much more expensive to Tesla than the model that BMW has is to BMW, Mercedes to Mercedes, etc.

That has to get baked into the cost of the car if the company is going to survive. If, say, absent service/warranty costs, a model 3 costs $34,000 to build and deliver…

As I’ve said before, I think how Tesla is marketing this is reckless. It isn’t autopilot, it’s a driver assist feature. That can make people too blase about what they should be doing.

In this case, I don’t have a clue what the driver was or wasn’t doing. However, they did say they were going 60 on a stretch of road…

Call me odd, but I love how they’ve used some of these to make class B motorhomes - I’ve even seen a few that slept 4 and still had a kitchenette, bathroom, and “living room” on board - things were IKEA like transformers.

Centuries of inexpensive oil reserves? On what planet?

The entire world has about 1.5 trillion barrels of proven oil reserves. The world uses about 96 million barrels of oil per day. That’s ~40 years of proven reserves at current consumption rates.

Now, you do have to consider that proven reserves are based on what is…

Even if you get electricity from petroleum, industrial scale power plants are much more efficient and cleaner than IC engines, and there is a significant efficiency boost overall using petroleum to create electricity for EVs than just using it in your gas tank.

We’re much closer than you think. Teslas are pushing 300 miles in range, and many manufacturers are now stepping up to meet them at the plate for that sort of range. IMO, when you’re up to 4-5 hours of driving, you’re probably looking for a rest stop anyway. At least I am. Maybe I’m just old and crotchety and have a…

Separated at birth?

“This diversification is something that a car company, or at least a company that started in cars, has never really done.”

Oh, good lord. This Tesla love is absolutely absurd.

Ford Motor Company started with cars. Did you ever notice a striking similarity between the Ford logo and the Carrier HVAC logo? Not exactly a…

It may not save on plastic during construction, but it may save on energy use (agave fibers being lower energy consumption than making glass fiber). And then after that, if the components are 15% lighter, that’s saving on gas, which “doesn’t support the oil industry”.

I can easily get in and out of the PO in just 2-3 minutes.

Unless someone else is using the automated kiosk - for some reason the average intelligence of people using that in front of me in line is abysmally low. It’s like they’ve never used an ATM before.

2nd:

If the car can tell how long you’ve had your hands off the wheel, then it would be pretty straightforward for Nissan to program it such that if it sees this behavior repeatedly from a driver, it could simply disable itself for some period of time. Pretty easy ways to give the company cover from inattentive…

No, that’s not exactly how this will play out. GM (and other companies) have to plan ahead. If the new Astra is going to be launched in 2020 for 2021, they actually have to start planning out permitting/construction work generally 2-3 years ahead of time. That gives the UK until about 2017 or 2018 (2019 would be a…

I think I prefer these, when it comes to airlines:

Not likely. Here’s the location of this incident. Culprit’s home is well up the road, completely unconnected to this property

The location of the incident:

“Why would anyone ride on the road when there is a paved trail mere feet from you?”

Excellent question. Even more so, why do people in my neighborhood take a walk out in the middle of the street with their infant/toddler in a stroller when there are perfectly good sidewalks feet away? Sidewalks that are, in fact, so…

The Mustang’s platform (D2C) also shares suspension components with the C1 platform, which the Focus rides on.

The 30 hour figure is generally applicable across all mainstream brands and lower-end premium brands. You have to get up to near 6 figure prices before labor starts adding up to more. Even the lower end BMWs / MBs are assembled in a near identical manner to mainstream brands.

Most of the cost of a vehicle comes in the…

There is virtually no difference between union and nonunion costs anymore.

An automobile takes about 30 man hours of labor total to build the engine, transmission, body panels, and to complete final assembly (basically nearly all of what is done in house anymore). That’s pretty much $1500 per vehicle, regardless of…

Honestly, I think the bigger issues are pretty simple:

1) Tesla, while telling drivers that they need to remain alert and attentive, is using terminology here (Autopilot) that actually suggests to customers that it is more capable than it really is. They really should have chosen a more appropriate name, such as…