Acknowledged.

That and battery degradation. I have a friend that bought one at auction and it only goes 40 miles on a full charge with the AC running. He knew that going in and it gets him to work and back so it was easier to justify.  For $7k it’s turned out to be a great EV commuter for him.

So 1000 of these will be operational at any given time based on most experiences with EVGo and Electrify America.

5th gear: since Elon said he’d vote Republican, I’ve seen a lot more Teslas in my corner of AZ. Used to see 1/day. Now you see 4-5. Maybe correlation and not causation. That being said, there are tire shops in town that wont even change tires on an EV. As RATM said: Fear is your only god.

With the announcement that Tesla Superchargers would be open to non-Tesla cars, I watched this video today:

Wife and oldest son got it 2 weeks ago. Myself and my youngest son managed to avoid it.

Whatever transpired before, the swerving into oncoming traffic to hit/scare the guy in the bike crossed a very big line. Reckless driving should be one of a host of charges. Also, this guy is obviously a great candidate to have his guns taken away.

True.  He gets “paid” in stock options so...

In a management town hall at my company recently, someone asked the CEO why one of our company metrics was to match or exceed S&P500 performance.  “Why isn’t making a ton of profit enough?”  CEO spent the next 5 minutes not answering the question.

I’ve seen a couple people looking to do lease transfers on Teslas and the LEASE payment was over $1k/mo.

Knock a kid over = 3rd degree assault

This. Before I bought my Model 3, I was looking at other EVs (Bolt EUV, EV6, etc.). I watched quite few EV channels on YouTube. Almost all of them bemoaned the non-Tesla networks. Pulling up and finding them non-functional or severely limited was not uncommon. Then you had to deal with an app and hope that it would…

Funny.  I thought the same thing. I love R&M.

I was going to say that you missed the Tundra UR 5.7L V8.  Then I remembered, the Tundra doesn’t come with any V8 anymore.

My point exactly. People get jobs at places places they think they might like. If it turns out they don’t. then they find something else. The workforce has a low tolerance of crap jobs for crap pay now.

Agree.

But I thought after we cut all the federal unemployment benefit adders, the labor shortage would end! WTF?!

It is a “suggested” retail price. They can charge whatever they want for it. If they want to inflate the price AND put a sales restriction on it AND they can find someone that’s good with that, why shouldn’t they be able to sell to them? Sucker born every minute and all that. I mean it is easy enough to call/email/driv…

I think most states have regulations to state that anything out of the ordinary must be called out. I think something like a sales restriction would fall into this bucket and would likely be a separate item on the contract that would require an initial or signature.

Personally I believe the dealer, being an independent entity, should be able to put whatever language they want in there and price the vehicle however they want.  Some wont, and customers will find them.