Cybertruck Values Have Cratered And Are Still Dropping

For both Mexico and China made products, if you eliminate the inexpensive options, the free market will adjust by raising prices now that the American-made products will be the monopoly / captive market.

Though the used EVs will also be more expensive than they are right now, since this means the $4000 used EV tax credit will likely be going away too. And with the price of both new and used EVs about to rise, the gas cars that were competing against EVs previously lowered by the tax credit, can now also raise prices…

And with gas cars previously competing against EVs lowered with the EV tax credit, now that the tax credit will be gone, gas cars can raise their prices too!

Agreed, much too boy-racer especially on this style of sedan. I do enjoy the body color wing, but even those have fallen out of style. The Subaru WRX doesn’t even have one anymore, and just has a duck-tail

Agreed. It’s definitely a X-37B clone, which itself did also perhaps coincidentally look like the Space Shuttle

I’ve been to a rental location (I think Hertz, even) where you show up, get a text for what parking space your car is parked, and the car is just unlocked with the keys already inside (!!!). Presumably this system was the one in use there but the guy who was dispatching the text messages went AWOL, so people didn’t…

I just immediately recognized it because I can hear it being said in Sandy Munro’s voice 😅

standard battery cell, the 18650

Agreed that it will push back mass adoption. Sure, Tesla has the ability to use their high margins as an advantage to survive better than the low-margin legacy and newcomer brands, but really what it will do is raise the price of all EVs so they lose one of their competetive advantages over gas cars. It will have a…

That’s a great point that nobody here including myself seems to have come up with! Even in most cars with mechanical door releases, the rear doors can still be disabled via child lock, and they would be in the exact same situation. Especially if the driver door got smashed to oblivion and the button to turn off the…

The Model S in that relative bodystyle is 5 years old, though including the facelift they came out in the same year (though the 2016 to 2021 facelift was pretty minimal on the exterior). But it could also come down to familiarity: you’ve probably seen hundreds of Model S’s and have become used to them. Where Lucid…

One of the purposes of the Polaris Dawn mission aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon in September was to test Starlink from higher than their orbit, I think to prove that they could be used for at least low earth orbit communications. Unsure if Starlink has ‘antennas’ that point outward or if they’re just catching the…

Due to the massive twisting of the frame the fender very well could have overlapped the door hinges, and maybe even pushing the driver door underneath the leading edge of the passenger door locking both doors in place. This is an absolutely massive crash. Personally I’ve never seen one before where the two front tires…

“That front release is well designed and intelligently placed.”

Going by how the front-left wheel is basically toughing the front-right wheel, it’s possible that the driver door especially was just mangled beyond the ability to open regardless of the type of door handle.

All very well said! The paperclip analogy is perfect.

I was relating the phone-key’s existence to what a different car’s proximity key is like, in that they both work by staying in your pocket. Phone stays locked in your pocket, you just walk up to the car and grab the door handle, and it does some behind the scenes bluetooth magic to unlock the door in a split second.…

Very cool site, I’ve bookmarked it. Currently I’m seeing Juno to Madrid, Voyager 1 to Goldstone, and SOHO to Canberra.

You don’t need to get out your phone to unlock the car. It’s what you already do with your proximity key, where you just go up to the car and grab the handle and go inside. Minus the having to carry around a whole separate electronic device in your pocket part, which you seem to enjoy for some reason.