Does this mean that internal combustion engine owners of high end sports cars have a fast lane reserved only for them at the gas pumps?

But then, Cadillac chased BMW, not setting themselves apart, and failed. Yet you say Tesla should chase BMW, try to be them, as their aspiration.

The vast majority of people charge at home so that’s only really a road trip issue.

Only if you think BMW and Cadillac are equivalent.

Let’s develop this analogy more fully:

Tesla’s purchase of SolarCity was a straight-up bailout (which just happened to benefit some of Musk’s family); SolarCity was already circling the drain and was getting their lunch eaten by Chinese solar panel manufacturers. The Solar Roof (helpfully announced as Tesla was negotiating to acquire SolarCity) has been…

Tesla isn’t even profitable outside of selling regulatory credits to other automakers.  There is no sane reason they should be valued above Toyota, much less Chinese automakers who sell FAR more EVs than Tesla does.

Tesla’s stock price is fully untethered from reality. If you believed TSLA market cap to be an accurate valuation of the company, you would have to conclude that Tesla is somehow more valuable than every other automaker in the US, Germany, and Japan COMBINED. (Or, if you’re really optimistic on the future of EVs: that…

Tesla already makes cars that SPANK performance ICE cars in acceleration, yet you still have people in V8s blocking charging stations.

I’m not sure what your point is. Is your argument that Tesla is not popular enough, or what exactly? Tesla’s image as a prestige performance automaker seems pretty good to me, and to the extent that non-Tesla EVs are unpopular, none of them are near Tesla’s level of performance.

The only way to save Chrysler is to kill off Dodge. There simply isn’t room for both. Personally, given that there hasn’t been a relevant Chrysler model (that isn’t also available with a different badge) in over a generation, I don’t see any reason that Dodge should be the brand consigned to history. Let Chrysler join…

I don’t think it’s very difficult at all for a “performance” brand to translate to an EV-based market; quite the opposite, actually. Bring back the Viper as a high-performance EV roadster and move on from there.

This is a mistake by Tesla. Their path to long term success is to become the BMW of EVs, not to try to compete with GM and Toyota. Currently, there are a lot of problems with their cars that are overlooked due to brand cachet, but that won’t be the case if they go too far downmarket.

Dodge will only go away when “old Mopar” as a whole is completely done with coupes and sedans, and is a fully xover/SUV/pickup automaker. It doesn’t make sense to sell traditional cars under the Jeep or Ram badges.

Yeah, I was rustling jimmies in the comments of that article 9 years ago.

I think we can all agree that the world needs the return of Eagle and badge-engineered Dodgubishis.

Correction: those who were saying “Russia interfered with our elections 4 years ago to boost their preferred candidate Donald Trump, and he received enough votes to win” are now saying “Trump sabotaged the USPS in an attempt to steal this election, but he was unsuccessful and Biden received enough votes to win.”

40% of Americans can’t even afford a $400 unexpected expense because they are already swimming in debt. The notion of “Just buy another car for $6k!” is not even remotely feasible. They can’t afford to buy a replacement car, and if they are priced out of refueling with their current car then it means they can’t drive.

This is what we have been doing and it doesn’t work.