The article mentions nothing about the amount of profit the California franchises make (as a percentage or otherwise). So the article doesn’t address the point at all.

The world and market has changed considerably since they last announced the concept, so there would never have been a way they can keep the old price. All the other EV pickups have also raised their price considerably. It’s still a challenge to even release a vehicle like this so close in design to the concept, plus…

Huh? You are talking about something else entirely. We aren’t talking about the concept to vehicle timeline (which by the way their expected production date was late by 2 years, not half a decade; and regardless it’s pretty wild they were even able to get the Cybertruck into production with minimal changes, according…

My point is that everyone is now planning things in a way that things will go on time only if everything goes perfectly. Gone are the days where they build parts years in advance and have a considerable stock pile built up first before they start assembling the vehicle. The battery production lines are coming up…

Actually this is not longer true.

Actually if you have been following 4680 production this was totally expected. They were first using it for Model Y and were struggling to bring up the production numbers and discontinued it for that model back in September. That indicates they weren’t able to get enough production capacity.

Nope, it’s nowhere near as simple as you think it is. Look at the station layout. You have multiple cars coming in to a stop and for efficiency, it is designed so cars can pass each other. It’s not like a train station where the train cars come in as a line. Also unlike a warehouse, the passengers are not inanimate…

Well, the Loop is working to the capacity it was designed for (it handled peak CES demand with ease), and was built for much less cost and time than an equivalent light rail would have cost. I think Las Vegas is pretty happy with it, so much so they are agreeing to plans to expand it further. People instead just brush…

I think handling the stations and loading/unloading passengers remain an issue even if they make the tunnel part automated. Autopilot is an L2 system anyways that requires a driver in the driver’s seat, so that doesn’t change much, especially for such a short trip.

Tesla has no desire to dabble in L3, just like the L4 companies didn’t. They are instead working on door to door L2 (L2 that works in the city also), which would lay the basis for eventual L4.

They can hit much higher speeds if they wanted to. From a quick search here is one hitting 116 mph. But given the short distances of the initial stations and more than enough capacity, there really isn’t a need to go that fast for these first stations in everyday use (most equivalent light rail subways peak at around…

The Loop in Las Vegas has nothing to with Hyperloop, even though journalists like to use the two terms interchangeably. Hyperloop is low pressure tunnel using maglev trains that is intended to allow traveling very long distances at speeds up to 700mph.

The one I linked is the most comprehensive and has primary sources you can verify yourself (it’s easy to look at the NHTSA complaints listed and see the cars are taken from auction sites and not actually written by owners, Keef didn’t do a particularly good job with his fake reports).

The Model S suspension problem story has been pushed by a person named Keef, who gathered pictures of cars from auction websites that have been in crashes and falsely reported them to the NHTSA as failed suspensions. He filed hundreds of false reports and NHTSA did an investigation and didn’t find fault in the…

Tesla actually does allow more than one account to control the same car, it’s just most people don’t set it up that way because it’s a hassle to manage two accounts.

Yeah, I see no legal basis for the woman to request Tesla to remove app access to the vehicle when the husband was still the owner. If she wants sole access to the car, that needs to be ordered by the court to change ownership.

Given this is based on insurance quotes, could this simply be just that Tesla owners are more likely to claim insurance? This is based on the cars being generally newer, costing more to fix (than even other similar new cars), so people are more likely to go for insurance than to fix out of pocket. I also venture to…

Except adaptive cruise do NOT react to all vehicles the same way! Nor should they be expected to.

Some of these so called experts don’t know the difference between an L2 vehicle and an L3+. You are correct, Autopilot is just a adaptive cruise system with lane centering. It is not tasked with handling all situations. Tesla already did an update to detect emergency vehicles and to slow down the vehicle when it does,…

The way features are advertised plays no role in recalls. It didn’t back in the 2016 investigation, nor did it do so here. And Tesla is very clear even during ordering that the car does not drive itself, especially with the AP feature that is being addressed in the current recall (which is not about FSD Beta).