I really am not trying to come across as a jerk, but if people didn’t have to be shamed into giving a damn about the environment/if they didn’t seem to think they were completely removed from whatever happens to the world around them things would almost certainly be better. That’s what has always been crazy to me…

Something about taking Trump (or any president) and almost labeling him as a trendy thing that people have mixed opinions on, as opposed to a person with immense geopolitical power, blows my mind.

I’ve always wondered about people that hold that sort of view, do you actively view mass deaths as a positive or are you just apathetic to who lives and dies? Do you make a distinction based on whether or not you know the people that died? I don’t mean to sound ignorant, it’s just hard for me to wrap my head around…

I’ve seen it referred to as a prototype just about everywhere, I don’t think anyone is calling it a production car. It’s previewing a model that’s apparently coming later, not just a modified 1 off P100D.

100% this. If whatever package they’re testing here is made available for the upcoming version of the Model S, everyone’s happy and it’s a legitimate record. That being said, I’d rather them not make the attempt at all until they’re ready to put it all into production just to avoid the unnecessary arguments.

While that’s interesting, I’m slightly confused about their warning there. Unless I’m misunderstanding something, did they get closer than they should have to a testing site and then use that to say that residents should be wary of said testing or are they at a reasonable distance away? Is this some unsecured area and…

We’re not “wasting” rare earth metals. For one, people take that name too literally in that they’re not actually rare. They’re roughly as abundant as copper. Secondly, neither lithium nor cobalt are rare Earth metals and we’re gradually moving away from cobalt anyway. Yes, there is some short term environmental impact…

l I haven’t laughed to the point of tears like that in a long time, I have to thank you. I can’t completely explain why I found this utterly hilarious, but holy shit I was rolling for a solid two minutes. I know this is a serious subject, but that killed me. Maybe it’s because I’m a little tired.

I have a feeling that has more to do with saturation of phones, YOY improvements becoming smaller with each passing year, and people being satisfied with how their devices perform. Other than that, people can’t spend money they don’t have and prices keep rising. I’m not saying attitudes can’t be shifting, I’m just…

I can’t really see I’ve seen any outlet or YouTuber stoked about any recent Cadillac products.

That really isn’t far off the logic you could use for pharma companies deliberately goosing the opioid epidemic and killing tens of thousands of people in the process. Money isn’t totally removed from morality, and I can’t agree if that’s your argument.

It is a amazing how people completely forgot that happened.

I don’t see why you would. The assertion wasn’t that “with age Tesla’s batteries randomly catch fire” which we would know from the cars they’ve had on the road since 2012, it was “they randomly catch fire” which seems to be arguing they are inherently flawed and can go off any minute. I can’t say I agree at all with…

In all honesty, I’m glad Twitter is a thing. Mostly because it has revealed how ridiculously juvenile, tribalistic, and easily mislead our people are.

A lot of this depends on where you’re from or what you’re used to. I’m automatically going to distrust anyone I see walking around with a firearm and assume they’re a potential threat, because I can’t read minds and I have no real reason to put my faith in you. The only experience I’ve had around guns were them being…

I’m not at all disputing that it has happened, but there’s a significant gap between “it has happened more than once” and “it happens somewhat frequently” which is what I thought you were implying. In the context of literally hundreds of thousands of their cars being on the road, I don’t think there has been reporting…

I know people meme about fires with EVs or Tesla in particular on a regular basis, especially in certain communities, but I don’t think that’s accurate.

Porsche does not have to beat Tesla on price, that’s what the rest of VW is for. I have to strongly disagree with you there. Porsche isn’t exactly targeting the same kinds of buyers as Tesla, they don’t really even have to. More importantly, I think this is the wrong conversation to have. The actual competition here…

I don’t get the point of trying to start fights, which is how this reads. Isn’t the point of a conversation supposed to be that all parties are doing so in good faith, at least making an effort to really consider another perspective? Otherwise it’s just a deliberate waste of energy where nothing can possibly be…

I don’t know that you can use a supercapacitor in conjunction with a battery in that fashion.