If you actually look into what Pepsi said it’s just that Tesla is telling them that they’ll deliver 15 trucks to them this year. That’s not so much volume that they couldn’t just hand build the 15 to be able to proclaim that they’ve delivered the Semi. So I actually think Pepsi will get the trucks this year, right at…

Well I mean, if they were trying to cover for her while still replacing/reimbursing for all the bad steel that’s definitely a lesser crime than purposely making up test results. Probably just didn’t want a longtime employee going to jail, they could have just thrown her under the bus from the beginning and blamed all…

Get the 40 mile model and I’d bet it’s so heavy that nobody could easily steal it lol. 

Yeah the target customer is realistically going to be tow truck operators and not normal drivers. Mostly to help people who accidentally ran out of range.

Why do we constantly write that the driver wasn’t arrested at the scene? Unless you think they’re an active danger to other people there’s no reason to arrest them immediately, the DA will review what happened and file the appropriate charges. Throwing the guy in jail immediately is idiotic. It’s literally never been…

More likely that Tesla wants to eat up the tax credit they know is coming and with demand as high as it is they can do it without selling any fewer cars. They can’t really raise it $8000 all at once since it’d be too blatant and too much of a price shock for customers.

It’s not feasible because of liability issues. These old cars weren’t designed to protect the batteries in an accident so you get into any accident and the batteries can go kaboom. For them to put out a battery kit they’d need to armor the crap out of it because people tend to jam these anywhere they’d fit and half…

You really need to do some research before trying to write an article off of two Musk tweets. That’s not at all what happened. I have the beta software and you’re mixing up Musk’s tweets about two different issues. They never released the version of 10.3 with the turning issue he tweeted about. They fixed that and…

These are Standard Range Model 3's so they’re really just 55kwh and since people are unlikely to return them with 0% it’s going to be like $5 for Hertz to refuel most of these. They’ll probably just charge $20-$30 which will seem cheap to customers used to paying for gas and just pocket the difference. Probably end up…

The cars just come with basic autopilot which is just adaptive cruise control and lane keep assist. A relatively robust lane keeping system but still it won’t come with the fancier features. 

They can basically just charge the regular price for the equivalent tank of gas but still make a ton of money on it since electricity is much cheaper in the vast majority of places. So they could say the recharge fee is a flat $30, knowing that most people aren’t going to return it at 0% anyway and they’re only going…

These are the standard range cars not the high performance ones. They’re paying $42K each if you do the math. They’re not buying loaded out 500HP models.

Probably a recharge fee at the end of your rental, knowing that you won’t want to sit at a supercharger for 30 minutes. But they could probably make money on it without charging an insane amount since electricity is usually a lot cheaper than gas so they can just charge the equivalent normal gas prices and pocket the…

It’s a global fleet and there are countries that are very heavily favoring EVs now while gas prices run like $8-10 a gallon in those same nations and they’re small enough that you basically won’t ever need to refuel during a short rental.

I swear BMW is making their electric cars look as hideous as possible so that people continue buying the ICE versions until they have their EV supply chain ramped up. Why would you make something look like that otherwise?

The carbon fiber shield is an additional layer of optional extra shielding on the battery and it’s not really just carbon fiber, it’s a sandwich of carbon fiber and steel and it gets bolted onto the bottom of the battery pack that already has it’s own other reinforcements.

Rivian has a LOT of cash and they haven’t even done their IPO yet, I think they have a lot of runway to scale things up to make it profitable.

Vroom once sold me a car that was already sold. Not like lured me into the dealership, they had me wire them funds and took days before they realized oh they didn’t actually have the car.

I can’t imagine a normal car buyer caring whether the battery cells are coming from LG or Samsung so long as the car functions well. It’s also a very competitive industry where manufacturers are constantly coming up with new improvements so even if you may prefer an SK-I battery pack today in another two years you may…

I doubt the conversion rate is going to be super high on those reservations since they only wanted $100 to put in a reservation so it’s going to be like the Cybertruck numbers where you get a lot of inflation over how many people will really buy one. I know people who’ve thrown in reservations for every EV pickup just…