I once read about Tulipmania, and how it kept expanding until suddenly one day, an auction for the latest bulb failed to reach expectations. Almost overnight, the irrational market got rational. I keep hoping for that event with TSLA.

Tesla has defied expectations for a long time.

It’s a meme stock.

Funny how people used to think Silicon Valley and Big Tech were liberal.

We live in the dumbest timeline

Europe’s taxing models for consumer vehicles would have saved us from the huge suv and truck onslaught.   Those vehicles would simply be unaffordable to own.  

We could tax fuels to the extent that they do in Europe and almost every other developed country, causing the need to consume less and add to the nation’s coffers for frivolous expenditures like universal health care and top-notch public transportation.  But fuck that.  We are America, and we think we are the best at…

If fuel economy standards had gone up for 30 years, people would burn less fuel. If the government had increased gas taxes proportionally, they could have both more fuel efficient cars and enough money to maintain the roads, while maintaining similar gas prices (in as much as gas prices are affected by taxes, rather…

Does your equivalent fossil-powered car offer the convenience to refuel at home? Probably not.

I feel sorry for Suleman Dawood, the nineteen yr old, he was basically guilt tripped into being there with his dad. The rest of them were grown ass adults who oughta have known better, but they dragged a kid along with them to his death.

This is ridiculous thinking likely coming from someone in the rarified air of having a long-range EV and reserved charging spots both at home and at work. Some practical points:

“This is what happens when you have someone with too much money and not enough sense in charge of things that ignores the rules.”

it’s even worse than that. Toyota’s core customer is people that buy a car like it’s an appliance. They don’t care about the driving experience as long as it’s reliable.
The people buying Teslas are looking to buy a status symbol, like it’s a purse or a new cell phone.. It’s the same group of entitled mid-level manager…

Kind of crazy that Pontiac is #1 for DUI when there aren’t even very many of them left

“to have just one SKU”

Horsepower and range isn’t really correlated like that in an EV the way they are in an ICE. You can’t just decrease the power by half and get twice the range. The range is more about overall weight, motor efficiency, and aerodynamics. If you want more range you’re going to need a larger battery, which will make it…

Thought it was just me. They’re being far too casual in their pace for me, maybe more so after seeing this years ago.

Speed, not acceleration.

All of them guilty: Driving too fast for conditions.