Thankfully there is a pretty big stipend in the recently-passed infrastructure bill that is earmarked for building out more charging infrastructure. How should that money be spent?

Your stock is worth what people think the company will be worth in the future, not today.

I will be curious, though, to see what kind of premium Hertz will charge to rent a Tesla; I’m sure it won’t be cheap.

I think it’s more likely they’ll be a boon for “fast casual” restaurants like Five Guys and Chipotle, you really only need to stop for 20-30 minutes generally speaking for highway charging. Over time this will likely only drop as batteries are able to handle faster and faster charging rates.

He bent the steering wheel, meaning almost certainly unbelted. If you think the driver “tried” to do anything after the crash you have no understanding of what happens to the human body when you hit something unbelted at 65mph.

1) It crashed leaving a cul-de-sac and there’s no way to make Autopilot engage on a road like that.

Certainly there’s no reputation of these sorts of single car accidents in non-EV performance vehicles like Mustangs.

With this I’m seeing a short-term loss. EVERYTHING looks expensive. Suspension, battery, motors, inverters, interior…it all looks REALLY spendy. I’m not complaining that they want to sell it to me for the price they are…I’m just worried about the long term viability of something so costly to make.

Silver lining, maybe they’ll end up with better designs in the future for it. My welding teacher was excited that I (at the time a ME student) was taking a welding class because “You wouldn’t believe how often the engineers ask you to weld something that’s physically impossible, like sealed tanks welded from the…

Local environmentalists say that the plant could pollute drinking water, which may or may not be true. (It is probably true.)

Depending on what your definition of “coasting” is, they might just be on the high regen mode and one pedal driving. You have to brake harder than 0.3g to get dinged by the safety score, which is noticeably harder than most drivers would routinely do, so you don’t exactly have to creep up to the red line to keep the…

Seriously, it’s difficult enough that car companies would rather transfer development funds directly to their own competition than have to try to develop and sell the cars themselves, and somehow it’s seen as the easy road.

Is there a car company anywhere making all of it’s profits purely selling cars? Doesn’t Ferrari make more money selling hats and t-shirts than cars, yet I don’t think anyone denies they’re a proper, if strange, auto manufacturer.

Because Tesla wants to deploy their FSD software in situations where it will be least likely to encounter situations it cannot handle.

I live in a rural area so basically all I had to do was drive normal, with the exception of just making sure I followed about 20% further back than I might otherwise for follow distance. When there’s no one in front of you have no worries about forward collision warnings. If you’re one pedal driving you’re already…

Yep, if your product is sold out months in advance and you’re not relying on artificial scarcity, there’s no reason not to increase price until your product is sold out just a few days in advance.  The number of sales is the same and for more money, which can be used in turn to fuel more production.

The market is small but its out there. If you’ve ever driven a small lightweight British roadster you wouldn’t question why this car exists, their 0-60 measurement belies their appeal. At 6.9 seconds, this is already significantly faster than the MGBs, Midgets, Spitfires, Austin-Healeys, ect that it’d also out handle. …

You’re right, its not the farts, its the burps. That and the incredible amounts of farming that goes into growing their food. I recently drove from OH to CA, and every inch of land you see from the road that isn’t built on is either cattle grazing or corn for feeding cattle, all that human effort adds up.

I still eat…

Teslas come with “Chill” acceleration mode for a reason, frankly all sub 7 second EVs should probably come with one and default it to On for the 80% of American drivers who don’t really care about performance and have never intentionally gone 0-60 faster than that their whole lives.

Unplugged Performance is good, but they don’t have nearly the development resources of a company like McLaren, and haven’t had the car for that long either. The Unplugged Plaid may have a splitter, wing, ect, but I’m sure they’re not getting the performance out of them proper OEM developed ones would.