Listen, I know the Cybertruck isn’t the only vehicle in the world that can only be towed on a flatbed because it could be damaged otherwise

Having had my fair share of cars around the 100-150hp range, and my current daily driver being just shy of 400, I would say at least 350hp or it would feel too slow. I can’t imagine whatever my next daily driver will be will have any less than 400!

What exactly are the claims you speak of? I don’t remember anything in any marketing material that said “drive from the lower 48 to the Arctic Ocean!”. They could’ve done this in any EV, but it gets them better press to do it in a Cybertruck, and now they’ve enabled any EV to make the journey. Lack of infrastructure…

Wait, sometimes you don’t?

“If in fact it’s a failure in a self-driving or a driving system, that may not be a homicide by DUI even if the driver is intoxicated,” he said

My exact question. I have a 2018 Tesla Model 3 and if I’m oogling at a cool passing oncoming car for more than a couple seconds it starts complaining.

“Tesla’s sales suck”

Fortunately home chargers don’t run at such a high current, so they typically come with longer cords. Mostly a problem with level 3 chargers where they had optimized the cord length for what was 100% of the user base at the time, to have the least voltage drop and least amount of liquid cooling necessary. At least…

Except they messed up in the same way Rivian messed up with the R2/R3 prototypes, and they put the charging port on the wrong side. That means you need to take up two Superchargers in order to use a single charger, and you have to walk around to the complete opposite side of the car to plug in, rather than just…

Well, the “real” ones cost in the $130,000-240,000 range.

I never noticed it was “removed in 2022" as they stated in this article (I think maybe they meant stopped including on new vehicles), but I’ve had Smart Summon in my Model 3 car since around 2019. One of the first times I used it back then, pre-pandemic, was when I sat in the back seat with a colleague in our work…

One thing is solves is the arbitrary goalpost that the “gas 4 life” people set is that it has to be equal or more range than a gas car. Realistically even getting into the 400s is more than a lot of gas cars, especially performance cars. But 500 really seals the deal. I’ve definitely never owned a gas car with 500+…

Ship of Theseus situation then rather than a true legacy style “generation”. There is almost nothing the same aside from a squinting side profile between a ~2012 Model S versus a ~2020+ Model S. The entire interior is completely different, facias are different, motors, battery, etc. 

The drive units and batteries also depend on year. From the surprisingly comprehensive Tesla Model 3 wikipedia page Specifications sub-heading:

For the record, I don’t like Elon as a person. I don’t know why everyone makes that assumption. Tesla makes great cars, that by the way are not designed or built by Elon himself, but by a team of tens of thousands of other people, and are globally renown, as evident by the Model Y having several crowns for being the…

I still can’t do the drive from my in-laws to my house in a day on the 500 mile car. That is 850 miles.

2017, 2018, and 2019 don’t even share the same glass. I’ve got very obvious 2017/early-2018 roof glass on my mid/late-2018 and I get asked about it a surprising amount.

Because Elon Musk works for SpaceX, and Elon bad. So why would Jalopnik talk about positive things tangentially related to him?

Possible but somewhat implausible scenario. It would be quite foolish to fully charge an EV if you’re going to be going down a long steep grade (and just to charge to 100% anyway is a real edge case due to how EVs work)