Very interesting. I wonder if fast charging without the accelerated degradation is something that will be ironed out with further battery development. I hope so since my company does a considerable amount of supercharger installation for Tesla.

Tiny homes don’t move under their own power and aren’t meant to be moved frequently.

ehhh, EV’s a really supposed to be the future of consumer vehicles. If *any* amount of early adopters are going back, that seems newsworthy.

Also, most of them are *supposed* to only be for emergency vehicles. Not that it stops people from using them. 

Saw someone on twitter say this on twitter and think it bears repeating: China is speedrunning all the mistakes of post-war America in becoming a car-dependent society.

Not disagreeing, but I’ve given up on the average new-transaction price actually meaning anything. Leasing and dirt-cheap interest rates have really skewed that metric, along with 3yo used cars with decent options being just as good as anything new in base trim. Nissan is basically the only company left going for stric…

You can get in the both of those for around $26k. $7k worth of trim *probably* buys you the same safety tech the Volvo has (although the point of the article is that Volvo’s tech is the best).

Also notable is that the company does not reserve its safety features for its highest trims either. Safety shouldn’t be a feature people have to buy into; it should be standard.

Favorited, if only for the second sentence. I get why someone wouldn’t want a Wrangler, but the Solara is the blandest oatmeal you could order off the menu.

HELL YES. I work for an electrical contractor, and our electricians will regularly use drills to pull cable through big runs of conduit instead of by hand. You’d be surprised by how quickly it burns through a battery though.

It’s been hitting construction for awhile now. Steel, Copper, and wood, are at about 1.5x what they were before January. And if that’s what I’m paying for it in the commercial sector, somebody else just flat out isn’t getting it somewhere else.

Tesla hides behind the eighty million miles of fine print saying “THIS CAR CANNOT DRIVE ITSELF ALL RESPONSIBILITY FALLS ON THE DRIVER EVEN WHEN AUTOPILOT IS ENGAGED.”

Just never bothered. I also can live with just scrolling a bit if it means people get paid to write for this website I can access for free.

Lol, understandable. FWIW I live in a city with a very robust hub and spoke transit design (Chicago), but the difference between me commuting by car vs using transit is still over an hour. It would take 2 trains and a bus for me to commute one way, or add a half hour if I walk 2 miles to skip the bus ride. And that’s…

You’re a goddam hero Torch. Trying to find humanity in people like Warren (or the person driving that Suburban in the other post you referenced) is something very few people have the patience for.

Pinning this on laziness instead of spending 70 years building a society around cars is goddam stupid.

not running adblock, and all the ads that show up in that space are like 1/5th the size of the space that’s blocked out for them. Looks hilarious. 

Mother Fvckers, should’ve known. They’ll implore your car is worth the premium until you actually need to be compensated for that value, at which point they’ll scream that the car was worthless.

Yikes, that’s brutal. But also, that “old car” valuation was probably reflected in your monthly payment, no? Like, most people aren’t paying an accurate premium on something like a mint Ford Excursion given what those things are going for.