You jalopniks are so outspoken on many topics that one would think you could just say it about EV tires: they are not different in any way that makes a difference except for a markup to gullible buyers. Rolling resistance and rolling noise are readily *measured* and if there really were a systematic difference we…

Every fossil-fueled car...

From what I see, Jalopnik has a loooong way to go before it is guilty of hating cars in the name of the climate or environment. I mean, you guys still love drifting and hooning, which is approximately the most idiotic recreation ever devised by humankind. But hey, own it and never ever let me see an article here about…

Pure, unadulterated BS. And Jalopnik, your implementation of Kinja really sucks. 

Your argument implies that having a standard gasoline pump nozzle is what caused us to be victimized by one single dominant fuel company. Wait...

Hardy, har, har. I for one remember when the extra weight of an SUV was considered to be a feature and not a bug. We haven’t yet gotten to the point of having electric sports cars in production, so let us know when that happens!

A card reader pretty much requires that there be an attendant to service the thing when it breaks. The rest of us can’t help you if you aren’t smart enough to get a Tesla account and go to Tesla superchargers. Soon everyone will be able to do that and the other guys will make their payment systems as simple as…

Doesn’t sound like an EV. Hybrids charge the battery in braking. Point taken on being worth the trouble and expense. 

I had a grey TransSport from 1990 to 1999 to schlep kids around in Huntsville AL all the way to northern Maine. Had an air compressor in the back and was not half bad, EXCEPT the dash curled up in the Southern Sun. Easily fixed. 

Is it honest or reasonable to refer to issues that will be corrected via OTA software downloads as “recalls”? When our computers require a bug fix or security patch, we call that a “software update”. Why isn’t the same term appropriate here?

So this is pumped hydroelectric energy storage without the storage, which is really the central idea of pumped hydro, so FAIL... 

It’s possible to muck it up only because not every charger has a credit card reader like gas pumps do. Our worst experience EV charging was when we had some free charging for long enough that a credit card expired. That meant no card was on file to pay. This was not handled in the smoothest way. We were allowed to…

Most comments suggest the implications here are being missed. “Pumped Hydro” is now the most prevalent form of energy storage besides batteries. We pump water up to a higher altitude to store energy that can later be released by allowing the water to flow back downhill through turbine generators. We could just as…

WTF? Both my Model 3 and Model Y have less than two turns lock to lock. Tesla may have mechanical steering, but they have increased the steering speed dramatically. 

Ya! He’ll probably do for social media what he did for combustion vehicles. I can’t wait! 

Maybe you should talk to the guy who wrote this article:

Users of pouch cells suffer lower performance and higher fire susceptibility.

Would you rather that 65000 gas powered Hummers were on order? 

This article badly garbles the situation, failing to distinguish between Autopilot, which is speed and steering assistance and either standard equipment or relatively low cost, and Full Self Driving, which is a misnomer but costs $5, 10, or 12k at various times. Once the author figures that out, a follow up article to…

An online car could simply send the owner a link to the full information about any given code that gets thrown. Dealers wouldn’t like it but who cares?