I think it’s a somewhat half-assed attempt to keep the average price down. That is, if they set the cutoff too high, the manufacturers will tend to only offer higher priced models. Buyers can only buy what’s made available to them and between a desperate and/or uninformed buyer and a dealer that wants to make a sale,…

Not sure why this should be at all surprising. Tesla has it’s rabid fanbase, but the normies who are buying them NOW seem to be a LOT less impressed with them. Especially as now there are legitimate competitors.

I’ve been a diehard Euro buyer since I got my first Golf way back when I started driving. But I got a hyundai awhile back and I’ve been so pleasently happy with the quality, performance, and reliability of it that I’ve even convinced my family and friends to go Korean for their next vehicles.

I agree in some cases. But this is about juvenile diabetes research - I figure that’s a good place to spend money fixing an issue that won’t resolve itself outside of solid, well funded, research.

I think PHEVs are a great transition vehicle.  Electric for daily, gas for long distance.  Once the charging network is robust and/or batteries are fast-charging, then pull the lever of electric for sure.  I’ve had an electric vehicle and am going PHEV for my next one.  I’m capable of doing long-distance drives in the…

A well designed PHEV, like the Rav4 Prime, doesn’t turn the gas engine on unless you are asking for over 200hp or driving further than 42 miles. It is basically an EV for day to day driving while having the flexibility to do big day trips without taking out of the way routes or making additional stops to make it home.…

Manufacturers’ insistence on intentionally making EVs more of a pain in the ass to live with than a typical gas-powered car, even when they should theoretically be easier to live with, is just one of several reasons why I’m not getting one anytime soon. If I were to buy an EV, it would be one that’s completely…

EVs are cool and neat and great, etc, etc, etc, but constantly-connected consumer electronics put unprecedented control over your property in the hands of the company that sold it to you (or, as they’ll likely claim, licenced to you).

They had largely overcome their old reputation, but then the whole easy to steal thing happened, and their reputation is probably shot again.

My first thought:
It’s not your car. Don’t touch it.

On second thought:
You know what? fuck those pretentious bastards if they actually do this. 

I’m not going to stan for Elon, everything you say might be true, but there’s no doubt that Tesla’s manufacturing costs are significantly lower than legacy carriers, they have no pensions to support, they use about 1 human to every 3 at the more traditional manufacturers, significantly driving down labor costs. I did…

Right - Last I’ve seen, Toyota is ahead of the curve on battery research, particularly with regard to solid state. Hybrids use batteries too.

Frankly, I don’t think they’re behind the curve at all.

You have no idea how the auto industry works if you think what Ford and GM are doing is anything close to methodical. 

My hybrid Ford has been one of the most reliable vehicles I’ve ever owned.  Much of the stuff that normally goes bad on ICE cars isn’t there (starter, alternator, belts, etc.) It doesn’t have all the weight of an EV because it only hauls around a little battery, but it gets double the gas mileage of cars of similar…

Because for a vast majority of the population, THEY ARE GOOD ENOUGH. Toyota is banking on people realizing this and since they already know how to make hybrids really well, they are just biding their time rather than spending ungodly amounts of money on the latest hot thing to grab simple minded shareholder’s and…

The EV space doesn’t feel quite ready for prime time. Most of the vehicles are quite expensive and the charging infrastructure just doesn’t seem up to the task. On top of that, I’m not convinced that driving around heavy batteries is doing much for the environment. The electricity is generated and transmitted. The…

LOL. A scalper lost money, I won’t be losing sleep over this.

You’re a competitor, and you’ve trained a lot for this. You choosing the race with the reasonable failure/disconnection rate and safeguards in place? Or the one that leaves itself and all your effort open to fuckery? Some people are so desperate to establish a real-world metaphor to justify failures that clearly…

As good as this car is, it is not worth $48K, sorry.