Perhaps it would’ve been eye opening for the Secretary to then take the same road trip back the other way in a Tesla with zero pre-planning aside from which hotels to sleep at. The ease of use and reliability of the Supercharger Network is the gold standard of what all EV charging networks should home to be, and…

I agree that it’s not ideal, but my point was that most of the time the driver won’t need to use the touch screen. Really you can drive around on a regular basis in any Tesla and not use the touchscreen while driving. It’s mainly infotainment, navigation, and settings. I’m not sure how the wipers or autopilot work on…

That isn’t quite how it works. Under most circumstances, you don’t need to touch the touchscreen to shift gears. You put your foot on the brake and it notifies whether it’s in drive or reverse, which theoretically most of the time will be accurate. For example if you’re parked nose-in against a car, it will default to…

Agreed, I just do it so infrequently. I literally could not tell you the last time I had to parallel park between two other cars. My wife has actually never parallel parked, ever! She aged out of driver’s ed before getting her license, so I taught her all myself, and in our state the test just requires backing into a…

Way more than halfway! With $12k from an old ICE and $7500 from the feds, you could get a brand new Chevy Bolt for $7,000 or a brand new Tesla Model 3 for $20k. Compare that against $18k for a stripped out new Kia Rio

Tesla having the #1 best selling vehicle model worldwide (Model Y), with a starting MSRP (before tax credit) below the average new gasoline vehicle sale price is the opposite of failing miserably. Model 3 is a fantastic deal at around $30k after tax credit, but really with crossovers taking off like crazy, Model Y was…

Quite a lot of people shopping in this MSRP range would be eligible. My wife just bought a Model Y, and even as a public high school teacher, if she was filing her taxes as single she would still be far into eligibility for the whole thing.

We bought a Model Y less than a month ago and got $500 off from using a referral link. I’m pretty sure it’s still the same case for a Model 3

You can’t really reliably predict the rate of inflation, especially if a global pandemic happens in between talking about a price and the time when the thing is supposed to come out. $25k in 2021 is $28,200 in 2023, so that’s basically spot on after certain state incentives like Colorado that I had mentioned

Get a $19k Chevy Bolt to hold you over in the meantime

Back in 2018, then again in 2020, Elon Musk promised that Tesla would bring a $25,000 electric car to market within three years. The pandemic may have messed with our collective perception of time, but I’ve done the math, and it’s been five years since that initial promise and we still don’t have that $25,000 Tesla.

Absolutely an incredible value. And significantly below the going rate of $48k for the average new gasoline car

Don’t even get me started on how cheap used Tesla Model 3s are.

Yes! I was going to mention Engineering Explained. Specifically that episode where he performance experiments to prove that it’s more efficient to tow a Tesla with a Ford Raptor to charge the battery, and then drive the Tesla on said charge than it would’ve been to just drive the Ford Raptor by itself the full…

But is it killing people more people than not? Going by the automakers’ quarterly safety report, a Tesla with AP technology engaged is about 7.5x less likely to be involved in a car accident per mile driven compared to the average human American driver.

What a great show. I was absolutely blown away by how they were able to use the DeLorean as a prop, especially the driving scenes and such

I was specifically responding to a comment from Mr. Pomodoro where he said the 2023 Tesla Model 3 Highland looked like a 2013 Tesla Model S, which is why I put a picture of a 2023 Tesla Model 3 Highland and a 2013 Tesla Model S. The Tesla Model 3 did not exist 10 years ago and thus I cannot show you a picture of it…

It’s an implementation of ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems). Each system has their own brand name. The goal for Tesla’s FSD system to eventually be full self driving through only software incremental updates. Right now they’re as far as being able to drive on any public or private road using a vision system,…

Tesla’s FSD package can be activated on any public or private road in the United States, it’s not limited to being activated only on “easy” roads like Chevy SuperCruise for example.

Could’ve fooled me: It seems like at least 1 in every 4 cars I drive by on the highway has somebody looking at their phone while driving.