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This is one of the most idiotic articles ever posted on Jalopnik.

Well to be fair, Tesla has never actually removed options for 3rd party sold cars. What actually happened was the dealer bought a used car from Tesla, then sold it to another person. Now while the original car had a software option, we aren’t exactly sure what the sale contract to the dealer said.

Ok, if we accept that there was no racial element to the add, can someone explain to me what the ad is supposed to evoke? What were they trying to do?

Tesla drops MSRP all the time. A performance Model 3 used to cost near 80k when it came out. Now you can get if for 55k. The latest 2k drop also comes in line with a bunch of features being scrubbed over the past year or so. You don’t get homelink, ambient lighting, frunk mats or bag hooks, auto dimming exterior

Not that much of a difference between e-Golf and TM3 jan-march imho. And the TM3 costs quite a lot more.

(Tesla’s so desperate to move S, X and 3 that the “we will never change prices” guys just dropped list prices across the board)

I mean, sure, it can be kind of annoying to have the honcho strolling around and watching things work, but he might see things that can get better or get suggestions from people on the line. I think it used to be called “management by walking around” or something like that. There was a Japanese variety of the same

Which is worse: and over involved CEO stalking the factory floor, or GM executives back in the day so disengaged that the engineers would mock up fake “production ready” models for the executives to look at, that didn’t reflect the readiness of the car for productions (which is how GM produced millions of shoddy cars

Grow up? For speaking rationally about economics?

It’s still a helluva lot of batteries— and a lot of waste carbon at 20 million grams of excess cO2 production per 100 KW-hours of storage. That CO2 hole being dug, literally you can’t work the math to climb out of that hole.

Grow up. This is not car batteries. Try again.

The U.S. auto industry used fuel cells as an excuse to delay stricter fuel economy laws. It was a delay tactic and a scheme to give politicians cover; “don’t regulate us now, we’re working on a solution”. It was 10 years away for 40 years. Government support was just complicit politicians participating in the ruse.

“Direct PV electrolysis”? I don’t even know what that means. PV is in the 40% range for extremely expensive multi-junction cells with concentrators. You can then feed that into electrolysis, and take the 30% hit it incurs. Direct conversion means the light directly splits water to produce hydrogen, but you need a

From Solar?

Cons:

You just compared, extremely rough, a hydrogen car with it’s fuel generation and consumption efficiencies to an electric car with only consumption efficiencies.

I don’t own a Tesla. Still, a hydrogen powered car means having to go back to visiting a filling station  That sucks. I know my preference.

Toyota Mirai curb weight (2wd, 151hp): 4,075 lbs

You should never stop paying attention while using ACC, though. My car has it and I love it, but I never stop paying attention. 

I’m not necessarily indicting the data, because I do think self driving cars will still be safer enough to be worth pushing (if done properly). But let’s be clear about one thing here. The IIHS is not an independent source. They owe their funding and allegiance to insurance companies. They’re basically an insurance ind