Maybe they were looking at least efficient EVs in the most expensive electricity areas, and comparing that to a Prius in a cheap gas state.

Uh, what? This smells like bullshit to me.

My Chevy Bolt uses about 29Kwh to drive 100 miles.
I pay .25 per Kw to charge at home. That’s $7.25 for 100 miles.

My gas car gets about 22 mpg combined, for 100 miles that’s 4.5 gallons @ $4/gal = $18 in regular gas for 100 miles.

In addition the development and deployment of other battery types, further reducing the need for so much lithium. 

“The coming age of EVs will only make things worse as the heavier cars are harder on consumer tires and brakes”

I’m not going to stan for Elon, everything you say might be true, but there’s no doubt that Tesla’s manufacturing costs are significantly lower than legacy carriers, they have no pensions to support, they use about 1 human to every 3 at the more traditional manufacturers, significantly driving down labor costs. I did…

It’s not really complicated.

I love how people say things like “there are still the dirty parts about EV’s no one wants to talk about” when literally every article and comment thread about EVs is chock full of misinformation about how batteries can’t be recycled (they can), or how lithium and rare earth mining is uniquely harmful (it isn’t), or…

“At the moment, Wyoming has all of 330 EVs registered in the entire state.”

However, within cities, interstate highways were designed for the convenience of people who didn’t actually live there.

The EV MX-30 was by and large a compliance effort. Other companies have done similar with many of their earlier EVs. Let’s not forget that Mazda is a relatively small company and even large companies are struggling to realign resources into EV development.

The Tesla phone-key is so dead simple that I’ve started to forget to lock (and sometimes turn off) our other cars when I get out. I’m too used to just parking and walking away.

Incoming:

I’m as critical of Musk as the next (rational) person these days, but I’m gonna respectfully disagree with your service experience point. Let me know which luxury competitor will come to my house and patch a puncture in my tire, or mount and install a new tire, or rotate my tires. All in my driveway. Because Tesla’s…

Typical Jalopnik hit piece on Tesla.

Wow we have so many gullible people who automatically assume that what the driver said is automatically the truth.

This article is peppered with inaccuracies and assumptions with an apparent agenda. FSD was absolutely note made available to everyone. Nor has it been shown that FSD or AP was active here.

“The driver claims...” Ok, what does the car itself say?

Well I think the issue is, IF it was actually in FSD, it changed lanes and came to a stop for no apparent reason.  The road in front was totally clear, so barring a mechanical malfuntion, no driver would do a move like that.  That said, it’s ALSO clear the drivers behind the Tesla were likely following to close, or…

Alright, I was on the Tesla bashing train for a good while when this news broke, but now that I watch the video I see less “FSD is to blame!” than hundreds of people being used to following too closely while traveling too fast and being distracted.

Hot take: yes Elon is a dipshit and yes Tesla FSD is a mess, but after watching the footage, I’d say the other cars bear a significant portion of the blame for not leaving a safe following distance in front of them