Likely heat dissipation and/or fire blocking so if one cell goes, it doesn’t create thermal runaway to ignite the whole pack.

Availability of public spaces being the main reason. While there is a lot of nothing along the totality line that wasn’t in cities, that nothing is owned by someone, who probably doesn’t want you do be there.

At least as far as I’m aware, Cybertruck’s Autopilot software is delayed and not downloaded into any of the trucks yet. So the cruise control it shipped with literally is just cruise control for the time being, no auto-steer or anything like that. Presumably it’ll arrive quite soon, but I haven’t seen any articles…

Likely a copy-paste out of the manual. Last I heard, the software for it wasn’t downloaded into any of the fleet it, and it shipped without it. Just like how the diff locker software was not present when shipped.

Included in the sense that the software license is enabled as part of the purchase price. But it did not ship with the software downloaded, and at least of January the download still wasn’t available yet. I haven’t heard otherwise that they’ve patched it in yet, and I feel like that would’ve been headline news on the…

Dropping the floor and seats out with just a few bolts and a lift, how much easier could it be? I’ve done extensive teardown work on a Fiat 500, and then I’ve taken a few pieces apart in a Tesla, and it’s night-and-day how much more serviceable the Tesla was designed.

Correct, previous Tesla models, the battery mounted to the underside of the floor. Cybertruck makes a lot of things easier and several parts of the interior are mounted to the top of the battery, which speeds up manufacturing.

Note: The auto-pilot is simply a glorified reactive cruise control.

The biggest turn off for me about the Solterra (and the bZ4x) aside from the specs and the price, is that it looks like it has poorly repaired body damage, even when brand new (haven’t gotten that new primer-gray body panel painted the right color yet)

The Subaru Solterra is the same thing, and I don’t think that’s selling very well either

^{I was just pulling it off Toyota’s site. They don’t actually list the Tacoma as being available as a hybrid}

Toyota’s Hybrid Sales Are Far Outpacing Its EV Growth

Finally.

Twitter is an echo chamber. People not on Twitter don’t really know or care what Elon is tweeting about

The embedded ABC News quote says:

And in Kentucky, State Representative Steve Rawlings introduced HB 506, which would ban “any form of geoengineering activities,” including “intentional manipulation of the environment, through an atmospheric polluting activity, to effect changes to the earth’s atmosphere or surface.”

Same thing here with Fiat 500. People call it a clown car, but I’m 6'2" and have zero headroom issues. Legs are fine too, and it’s got weirdly SUV-like seating posture.

You’re much better off doing a tour excursion with the cruise ship company rather than a private local tour since they’re much more likely to accommodate the all-aboard time. Same goes for cruise ship staff: if you miss the all-aboard time, you can get in pretty bad trouble including being fired. I’m sure this still…

I would say for everyone just pull over long in advance and just watch the spectacle. It’s kind of shocking that the venn diagram of (people who will be in the area of the eclipse) and (people who are aware of the eclipse) and (people who plan to watch the eclipse) isn’t just a complete circle. I’m traveling quite a…

The difference is that you generally don’t have FOMO about just being outside when it’s ordinary night time