I’ve had a Leatherman without a knife (for the very same reason as this article) for about a decade. I’m surprised Swiss Army Knives are so far behind

Agreed. Bad take on Jalopnik’s part to suggest that the ATV driver running through a bunch of cyclists and pedestrians was the more desirable outcome than hitting a stopped police car. This isn’t exactly the trolley problem, because one of the outcomes is measurably worse than the other.

Smart Fortwo*

I would like to see some expert level journalism by trying this same stunt with a variety of other cars, with the finger the same distance from the hinge

Awesome. With any luck your kids were born just at the right time where they might not even need to ever drive a gas car unless it’s for hobby reasons.

They’re also good at long periods of driving since the range is fairly equivalent to bladder sizes. But I don’t really think that many people rent a car and then go on a road trip. I would think most renters land at an airport, make a bunch of short trips for a few days, then return it.

Not even!

That is typically how all 0-60 times are calculated

The wild part about the 200k club, is that with the fleet average MPG for cars and trucks, at today’s price for various gas octanes you’re spending $22,000 to $34,200 just on gasoline to get there.

thankfully drones are here to save the day

My OEM all-season Model 3 AWD tires lasted 30k miles, which I’m guessing isn’t too far off of my previous cars.

If I recall the original reasoning was that Tesla was not a licensed electricity utility in most states, so they were charging you for the parking by the minute and the charging was free. One of those great loopholes. But it seems to universally (or at least from the 15 or so states I’ve traveled in) made the switch…

It seems like they must keep them until just before the 100k powertrain warranty expires. Seems like most of them that Hertz has listed at low prices are just a squeak before expiration. Check out this first one, it’s a 2023 with 86k miles. That’s a ROUGH life!

If you look at the Hertz Tesla sales site, at least sorted by price low-to-high, they’re almost all around 85k-95k miles. The powertrain warranty expires at 100k. So that’s a clue as to why those ones were selected to be sold off.

Correct. It pops up something like “Your charging session is almost complete” with something about the idle fees. If you have your max set lower, you can just bump it up higher to buy you some more time. Since they mostly charge by the kWh unit now instead of by the minute like they used to, it’s not as big of a deal…

All makes sense. If you look at Hertz’s Tesla sales site, especially when sorted price low-to-high, they are almost all Model 3 RWD in the 85k-95k mile range, which has a 100k factory powertrain warranty. It seems that the end of warranty / high miles is the real thing and the other factors are being pumped up to be a…

Regardless of if they can do the work themselves or not, one of the constraints is likely that lead time on ordering parts. Not a Tesla-specific issue, but maybe due to Tesla’s small size relative to volume behemoths like GM and Toyota.

Basically covered by the other reply you got, but Tesla Supercharger does charge an “idle fee” if you’ve completed your charging session and don’t unplug within a 5 minute grace period. From what I’ve seen you get billed at $1/minute fee. I think it is only enforced when more than 50% of the stalls are occupied.

Ford Mach-E.

Heavy American car with gobs of power doing smokey burnout seems to be the key. Is a big burbling V8 part of the equation? Surely a lot of people would say “yes”, but I still think the early RWD Model S especially fits the spirit of it