Um, you’re completely ignoring “Old GM”. You know, the part that the American Taxpayers agreed to buy out from pre-bailout GM. “New GM” did in fact pay back its loans, but pre-bailout GM was so far in the hole in so many ways that there was no loan they were ever going to make solvent. In fact, the

I note you skipped over the whole government bail-out comment and went straight for the investment critique. I’m not blind to the rest of the industry, I’m recognizing what Tesla is doing differently and how it might pay off for them. (Might.)

Agreed.

Um, not all the time they don’t. How many times has Ford, GM and Chrysler been bailed out of bankruptcy in the past 40 years?

Cajon pass is steep, its pretty common for truckers to put their 4-ways on as they slow down going up the grade.

I get that he may have not known about the weight or drag, but I don’t buy the “could not see” argument unless he’s negligently ignoring his rear view mirrors.

Tesla’s not the only one who benefits from government help here or there. The same tax benefits that are available for Tesla’s cars are also available for other manufacturers too.

I didn’t say “should have used Tesla standard”. Not necessarily advocating for that either. I’m more of a “the more charging stations, the better” sort.

This is a management/maintenance thing as much as anything else. Tesla does a really good job of keeping their Superchargers in good shape, but I’ve been to other stations (I’m looking at you, Blink!) have been less then well maintained.

No, LostMyBurner is referring to the fact that Tesla open-sourced their Supercharger standards. If VW wanted to build cars with Tesla style connectors and build their own VW branded Superchargers, they could do that without a single dime to Tesla.

Sure. We had a great charging standard in the 90s and early 2000s called Avcon. It easily charged the EVs back then, no problem. 240v AC, 40 amps, it was easy to install pretty much anywhere.

Oh, its definitely running. I’d have no hesitation in driving it anywhere...

That little black hose is the overflow line. Coolant that goes in there gets urine-dumped, and I believe it was like that from the factory. Same as my e21, no catch tank for it. I’ve been told that you just let it pee it out, and not replace the missing fluid constantly, but then that necessitates the need to check…

If your car doesn’t have a coolant overflow tank, just rig one up with a water bottle cage and a soda bottle.

When we adopted/rescued our sorry-than-normal-excuse-for-a-BMW e21, my personal rules for its continued presence in our midst were that it had to run, and it needed to be reliable enough for my wife to feel comfortable driving it whenever she wanted.

My 1985 Volvo 740.

This would be known as the New Zealand trim package... mate...

Wait, I thought we were all pissed off about too many Tesla articles...

Says GM’s target Cadillac audience.

Speaking from experience? Cause, it hits a little close to the mark!