The squeaky wheel gets the grease, or, in this case, the public media attention. Tesla gets a ton of media attention, and I get the sense that journalists generally look to be the one to break a new bad story about the company.

I live in a relatively small town (100,000 people) in the center of a larger western state. The closest service centers for both our Tesla and our Sprinter are in the same city, and its over 180 miles from where we are.  There is also a significant mountain range between us and the service centers.

Your statement does not invalidate my direct experiences, nor does your opinion of my experiences change the reality of that past. I’d be happy to post photos, repair logs and dates, but as you mention, a single data point is not too important. Nevertheless, my experiences have been what they’ve been.

Welp, I’ve had the exact opposite experience with my Tesla and my Mercedes Sprinter. We’ve owned our Tesla Model S for over 4 years now, and our service center has been fantastic. They give me a Tesla loaner when I need it, they perform the work they say they’ll perform, and my car comes back clean and detailed.

*Cough* Ronald McDonald houses. And if you don’t know what those are: they are places where loved ones and family members can stay when their loved one or family member is in the hospital, and they cater mostly to lower income folks.

“swirls and swoops”

Thankfully, I don’t have any food allergies, although I suspect a mild allergic sensitivity to some nuts (mostly of the political variety, but that’s another story). However, I am highly (evil-pen* level allergic) to bees (yellow jacket wasps in particular), so, can relate to the situational reality of being in the…

I would actually argue that the especially sad sight is the lines of rental cars attempting to circle the blocks around Times Square. This guy actually managed to find a spot...

These were decent cars. They were almost identical to their production mate, the Toyota Corolla. They drove lightly, got good gas mileage and were pretty simple.

Hey, I heard that BMW e21s are starting to get crazy in price now too.

I lived through the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake in the Bay Area, and one of the most positive outcomes of that disaster was the decision to demolish the Embarcadero Freeway. That instantly opened up San Francisco’s waterfront and it has rebounded incredibly. That first highway removal was the domino that helped prove…

There’s really no “right” answer. There’s definitely solutions that have pros and cons to a bunch of different people, and they are all going to be vocal about the cons, and not work together on shared pros.

Well, you know what they say, right?

Some airports don’t have a fully separate Pre-Check line, so if your bag is going through the same scanner as everyone else, you gotta remove your electronics. (This is the case in a lot of smaller airports). Sometimes you won’t know for sure until you get right to the scanner. Its caught me off guard in a few places.

Just for clarity’s sake: Tesla does actually make money. A lot of it. They just choose to reinvest it back into the company in the form of CapEx and R&D. For a growing company as young as Tesla, its what they have to do to be a long term competitive auto manufacturer.

My current daily driver is a 2013 Tesla Model S P85. It was built in Feb of 2013 and left the factory with a range of 265 miles. Today it has over 58,000 miles on the clock, and when fully charged, has a range of 255 miles.

Ug. Its like flood damage. It looks just fine, but its just luring you in to take on all of the unfortunate gremlins that moved in with the water...

Think of balancing a hammer on your finger. As long as you keep your finger right under the hammer, it will stand straight against gravity. If it gets off to on side, you have to quickly adjust to get back under it again otherwise it goes quickly off to the side. Depending on the speed and amount you correct, the…

As someone who is very allergic to bees (well, yellow jackets, I haven’t specifically tested out getting stung by honeybees), I would love to have my own hives, but probably shouldn’t.