So they put a gas engine in it and it still has a shorter range than most other EVs. Got it.

The MX30 is a weird car. It’s a compliance vehicle like 5 years too late. It looked appealing initially. A small / relatively affordable EV that didnt look terrible and could have of that signature Mazda fun to driveness. Then it released in CA only starting at $34k and it only has 100 miles of range and like 150hp.…

It’s also a difficult comparison b/c the Jaguar has pretty bad efficiency as a baseline.

We are walking away from our Mach-E order that should be on the dealership lot any day now.  With the $8k MSRP bump the day we placed our order, and now on top of the fact it doesn’t qualify for the rebate, that’s a $15k hit we just aren’t willing to swallow.  Could we do it?  Yes, but we don’t need to.  It would be…

You’re missing the point. THEY don’t want to push EVs out, WE want to push EVs out. The incentive is from the government to get more EVs on the road, so they need to target vehicles that can be bought. 

But that $40k buyer may be swayed into buying an EV due to the tax break that reduces the net cost verus buying a gas crossover in the low 30k range. The average car goes for about $36k-ish so having the tax credit get EVs closer or below average is smart for the typical buyer.  I agree there needs to be more EVs in…

All things being equal, including the budget for engineering and construction, a larger vehicle has more crumple zones and a heavier vehicle is more likely to cause damage than receive it in an crash.

This is some insane video game shit. Imagine being a pawn here thinking you’re a hero, where you die on a runway getting shot trying to break a drug kingpin’s son out of jail. Good on the military here, but this whole thing feels so crazy to me in my safe white American suburb. 

“ so I’m not really sure what the point you’re trying to make is.”

In addition to being the wrong model, the fact that a smaller car ended up #17 with all the larger, heavier vehicles is pretty amazing.

Even assuming the Model 3 and Model Y safety ratings are directly applicable to each other, #17 out of top 20 highest safety ratings is still pretty damn good, so I’m not really sure what the point you’re trying to make is.

Were they inside a Model 3 that was inside the Model Y that’s being reported on?

Your comment makes entirely too much sense, stop that.

This article, which was written on the heels of an article from the Atlantic, seems to be written with a false premise- that somehow US automakers are ONLY making huge, behemoth EVs. That is so far from the truth its ridiculous that an automotive journalist versus me wouldn’t at least do the slightest amount of…

It was interesting that NBC Nightly News reported this as “Passengers Survive Tesla Plunge” last night. It struck me that it would not have been reported this way with any other brand of car - I can’t imagine that it would be described as “Passengers Survive Dodge Plunge” for example. Am I wrong?

A possibly-benign interpretation is that they’re just trying to fill the gap until the $7500 IRA EV tax credit/rebate/whatever activates on Jan 1.

Maybe only for Japan, but Japan is a very distant 3rd in automotive sales (1/10th the size of pack leaders; China and US combined). This strategy suggests a circling of the wagons and only serving the home country if they get left behind in the electric market that other countries are pursuing.

Is there any valid reason to actually have so much animosity toward Markle? She just seems like, I dunno, a person...I admit I don’t keep up on the British royal family in the way that someone like Clarkson does, but beyond the usual racism and sexism, is there really anything she’s done to inspire SO MUCH vitriol?

This is the answer I was looking for. I had no idea they could arrest you even if you passed every test. Thank you taking the time to write an answer with information that is useable, unlike others who only are interested in bashing others. 

I think his point is that there is a very good chance the Tesla that caused this crash was being operated by a human driver, not FSD.