Mercedes is definitely taking a safer route than Jaguar or Audi by relying on an existing platform to launch their EQ-line of EVs. It does lo0k less special compared to the i-Pace, but if the GLC 300 sales are anything to go by, more mundane designs for SUV seem to sell better than outlandish ones.

Numerous amount of people & publications are praising this:

You think after the whole “privatization” and “funding secured” that Musk would have learned to keep his trap shut on Twitter.

Neutral: YES - Tesla would benefit GREATLY without Musk. He is and one of the biggest sources of headaches that gotten Tesla into this terrible financial decision in the first place. He does not take criticism...at all. People in the industry & established players, he brushes off. He ALWAYS believes he is the most…

This man is a piece of work. He wants sympathy now the world is starting to see through his BS? The entire Tesla debacle was his own doing. Everyone else advised him otherwise, but he’s Elon Musk - more intelligent than anyone in the world; he doesn’t need advice from inferior people & can “disrupt” dinosaur car…

Inadequate engineering, no prototypes, skipped soft tooling, rushed production lines, built by hand, slapped together in a tent.

Apple isn’t dumb enough to throw money into an LBO in a cash-burning company with about ~$70 billion debt + ~$20 billion for refinancing. Neither does Alphabet/Google, whom already has Waymo.

I’m kind of more interested in the P400e plug-in hybrid version...

I still think the full electric is the way to go, but the 28 kWh battery needs an update with the e-Golf now at 36 kWh & the Leaf at 40 kWh (the latter slated to be upgraded to ~60 kWh for 2019). Sure Hyundai now also has the Kona which sits comfortable at the top with 64 kWh (besting even the Bolt’s 57 kWh), but the…

Side mirrors that angle downwards just slightly when you go into reverse. It is high enough to see if there is any obstacles behind you, but it easily lets you park perfectly between the lines.

Kind of interesting in a sense the stablemate (the Santa Fe) became a massive hit, to the point now Hyundai sells TWO versions (the 3 row XL and the 5 seater Sport).

This is one of those cars I almost hate everything about it. Usually cars I dislike have certain glaring aspects I dislike, but no car ever I know has ever gone this far in my dictionary that is this bad.

Anybody saying the Model 3 has a good interior hasn’t seen the 2018 Peugeot 508

I hate Tesla as a company, but I love watching “Uncle Rich” do his thing on his channel. While Tesla loves to harp on about “sustainability” their operating mantra with scrapped cars, heavy manual labor, lack of recyclable materials & lack of independent service says otherwise. Rich is probably the only one insane…

Something Tesla should take a page out of. Less trash talking & overpromising, more doing and delivering...on time.

One can easily argue that what Tesla is doing skirts borderline on securities fraud.

Lambert is a marketing mouthpiece for Musk & Tesla - not a single critical piece about either has come from Electrek. The fact Lambert is indirectly sponsored by Tesla via referrals is already putting his integrity into question, and that’s before the whole Doxxing thing. Also, notice a month ago where every news…

I saw that post - even as a mod on r/teslamotors u/FredTesla openly commits to Doxxing, a big red flag for a ban on that platform. I have to give credits to u/majesticjg for shutting down that post on the main sub-reddit.

And you see CleanTechnica’s Zachary Shahan & Electrek’s Fred Lambert write articles praising Musk for doing this. Tesla fanboys who masquerade as journalists (minus any integrity) are beyond redemption.

The Kona electric has admirable specifications - it is just the looks that is a turn off for me. The 2019 Leaf which also shares the LG 64 kWh battery hopefully is more promising.