No, they’re a real company and well known in the battery world. It’s mostly just a proof of concept so they can sell their battery technology to automakers. This isn’t Nikola rolling a shell down a hill.

Because $1 now doesn’t buy you as much aluminum and steel as it did 10 years ago. They printed a lot more dollars, so each dollar is just not worth the same amount in terms of real hard assets.

Between Ford’s options list and GM pricing the fully loaded Silverado at $105K the R1T is starting to look like a screaming bargain for both the 300 and 400 mile trims. The XLT is $72K+ if you want the 300 mile battery which is a big oof. If you actually use the truck for work then the base models from Ford and GM…

It’s a win-win thing. The kid who was totally screwed has a car again and the dealership gets good PR. Not sure why people feel the need to whine about stuff like this, nobody’s being hurt by this dealership doing this even if it does lead to free advertising for them. Intentions don’t need to be 100% pure for…

Maybe long COVID is a real thing after all and it’s deeply affected his brain.

On newer models it’s much harder to get discounts due to all the supply chain issues. I still need to call my dealership and ask them what their policy is, they usually don’t mark anything up but who knows with the Lightning. We’ll see how much the options cost though, I get the feeling that between options and the…

There are a few cities where you could use this without constantly breathing smog, but yeah...for most cities you wouldn’t want to drive a convertible unless you hate your lungs.

Their wee wee is very small so when they see very small cars it reminds them of how small their wee wee is and they get really scared and go into a tiny wee wee rage. That’s why they have to always drive a gargantuan vehicle everywhere so they aren’t reminded of their other inadequacies.

Toyota talking out of both sides of their mouth about EVs has honestly alienated a lot of EV buyers. I guess we’ll see if them being Toyota and having such a great reputation for reliability will help them overcome that.

Yeah unfortunately crazy ads like this are counterproductive since most people end up running adblocking to get a functional site. If you’re on Android then use Samsung Internet Browser since it supports ad blocking extensions. Install the browser then go into the menu and there’s an ad blocking option that lets you…

It’s gotta run in the 40's given the pricing of the Mach E and ID4. This thing is already underpowered compared to everyone else, slapping a $50K+ price tag on it would be a death sentence.

It’s also just a branding exercise here since this thing is electric and has two separate motors so there’s absolutely nothing in common between this AWD system and Subaru’s existing X-mode.

Honestly even one accident is going to cost a lot more than a signal system and I can’t imagine there never being an accident. Even at crossings with proper signaling systems there’s almost always an accident every few years

Q50 and Maxima are on completely different platforms. Maxima is built on a FWD platform and Q50 is a RWD platform...they’re not at all related.

Yeah they really needed to do more to separate it from the Civic. Especially when you look at this car from the side it just screams Honda Civic hatch.

What can happen is that the car does also have the lane departure warning system that can attempt to steer you back into a lane if it thinks you’re accidentally departing it. Could be that the driver tried to steer out of the incorrect lane but the lane departure system kicked in and tried to keep it in the wrong…

Wasn’t so much a money grab so much as that the government mandated that they do it by a certain deadline, so they rushed to meet the requirements of their settlement. None of which required the stations to be...actually reliable. So you get this haphazard network they threw together in a rush as the backbone of…

It’s likely due to tax credits for infrastructure with the new infrastructure bills. At least where they’ve rolled it out so far (in parts of Europe) they charge non-Teslas a higher rate unless you sign up for a membership so there’s also a legitimate profitable business model there. Plus I’m sure having other EV drive…

Yeah the problem is that most traditional car companies don’t seem to want to get into the charging infrastructure game. The only one that’s involved is VW and that’s because they were forced into it as mentioned. The worst part is that even though the Taycan is a VW product and EA is VW’s charging network they still…

It’s really not illegal for him and his brother to discuss selling because the price of the stock is sky high. Unless he’s trading off of internal information on how Tesla’s business is doing that the public can’t see it’s not insider trading. Even if you don’t think it’s fair that he knew that his brother would make…