True.  The earlier versions were significantly less powerful.

I present to you the 2002 Chevy Monte Carlo Intimidator Edition. It delivers all the intimidation that a 200hp, FWD, 4 speed auto can possibly give. This has to be one of the biggest poseur badge jobs in history.

It’s a kick in the pants, that’s for sure.

Exactly why it’s not happening any time soon.

YES! Thank you. Everyone should already understand this concept. It’s no different from how you charge your phone. Where does your phone live each night? On the charger! When you wake up, how much charge does it have? 100%! So should your PHEV/EV. If I had a gas pump in my garage I would spend far less time refueling…

Good point! Or, move the jobs closer to the labor. That also is not something that will happen within a lifetime.

Banning private cars? Not only is it political suicide (and possibly real suicide, if you piss people off enough), it is not practical until public transportation is VASTLY improved or until a very broad societal shift toward short commutes occurs.

“In the U.S., the typical non-luxury EV needs to log between 28,069 and 68,160 miles before netting any emissions benefits.”

“It’s OK honey, I can...flip it for a profit...! Yeah that was the plan all along!”

He has talents, they just aren’t in the engineering details.  He needs to be locked away in some thought factory where this nonsensical crap never sees the light of day.

The Leaf and Bolt have been around for many years.

A median number would be more useful. The best selling EVs in the USA are the Model Y, Model 3 and Mustang Mach-E.  Only the top trim/fully loaded versions of those come close to $64k MSRP.

I imagine some Cybertruck owners would love to brag about the “sub-micron accuracy” of their new toy but yeah, most of them will get it for the other novel features Tesla is known for.

I worked for a couple Tier 2 automotive suppliers making textile and rubber parts. The +/- tolerances were expressed in percent of the dimension, generally 0.5-1.5%. The longest dimension on the textile parts were anywhere from 1m-2m long. If our customer asked for the length to be +/- 1mm, we would question their…

I can practically hear the supplier laughing at this hypothetical Tesla RFQ.

“All parts for this vehicle, whether internal or from suppliers, need to be designed and built to sub 10 micron accuracy.​”

When losing stars happens in real life.  Impressive (so far).

Yeah. Stretching $30k over the size of a truck will get you lower quality stuff compared to stretching that same cost over something much smaller like a Honda Accord.

In just a few seconds, it’s remarkable how many subtly different facial expressions he churns through. Gary Oldman is a beast of an actor.