I dunno- I think Tesla faced a lot of those issues because of rampant over promising and their habit of hiring like a tech company.
Rivian hires and behaves like a traditional automotive company and they’ve poached an absolute fuckton of storied, experienced talent from other established automakers from the get-go.
They…

I disagree, though likely on the point of what “functional” entails. I genuinely believe that the Rivian will be a well-built, capable, and highly-regarded truck, albeit a premium one for city yuppies who go camping once a year. It’ll be the halo car of wealthy metrosexual guys who couldn’t be caught dead in a Raptor.…

To be clear, “valued” is a far cry from “cash in hand.”
A valuation is just what market leaders have assigned the theoretical future value of the company’s products and IP.

Most of their valuation comes from their hydrogen semis, which are actually very real and have been road testing for over two years.
They also…

See THIS is why I believe in Rivian.
Their CEO isn’t a massive fucking prick (very much the opposite) and they waited until they had actual functioning vehicles out testing in the real world before they even officially announced what they were working on.
Obviously, it very well could all be sloppy and cobbled together…

It’s wild to hear someone use the “companies should take a loss on consoles so people buy games” reasoning with these new consoles, because- FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER -these are actually more powerful than the desktop computer that could be built at that price point. It should be fundamentally obvious that they’re…

The real problem will be all the attack ads when Torch runs for congress about how he’s “in the pocket of China”.

Rent or borrow a suitable truck, take the boat immediately to Used Boats R Us, sell the boat, return the truck, and buy your dream daily driver. You’ll get far more bang-for-your-buck that way, guaranteed.

1st Gear: Most of Nikola’s jump in value is their recent IPO. They just went public a week ago. Its also really important to remember with Nikola that the Semis are priority number one. As for R1T vs F150e, considering the latter will be mostly Rivian anyways, I’d want the R1T on the merits that it is one of the…

That’s how CSU’s FSAE used to be- I was one of those freshmen and sophomores that got to hang about and play with stuff. I never stuck it out on the team, though, because I had other stuff going on. It turned out that was a good move because they imploded and lost a lot of talent to EcoCar, which had probably 50…

I’m in a similar situation to #2. There’s definitely lots of postings. It’s clear engineering is still hiring. But I’m also pretty green experience-wise, so I can sympathize with #2 on how much it feels like all the hiring is mid-career and up. Even when I filter job postings by “early career only”, I still get 80-90%…

My latest touchpoint for SAE shenanigans is Baja with the wimpy little B&S engines- I had genuinely forgotten that FSAE was up at 100hp! Wild.

Nah this is their car from 2012 or 2013 I think, back in the golden years back before The Ecocar Conglomerate took everyone of value and Baja and IREC scraped up the leftovers. The final nail in the coffin was when the graduate students split into two factions over electrification. Last I heard it pretty much…

A go-cart. Or maybe in a nice Formula SAE chassis with all the aero...

I mean, for one- it’s SpaceX’s tech, not NASA’s... and two, you can bet your ass everyone of value over 30 at NASA bitched a fit about it too. Guaranteed they were vetted to hell and back. I remember reading that SpaceX worked directly with the pilots to tweak the setup, UI, and the minor details of the touch input…

Ah, you’re saying do a sweeping update to all lights and parking meters that would include the power delivery requirements for an EV?
I could get on that. Most of that infrastructure needs updating anyways.

Why the sure-to-fail mechanical pop-up box?
Why not just plug directly into a port on the ground, like those outlets in gymnasiums? Make the UI app-based by QR code or NFC.

The power delivery requirements of a street light or parking meter are a far cry from what would be needed to charge a vehicle at a decent rate. You’re still going to have to do major infrastructure upgrades.

If you expect all new technology to be instantly as good as the existing tech it intends to replace, you’ll be eternally disappointed. This is a major milestone that deserves respect in its own right. Remember how fucking terrible the first cell phones were? Or the first automatic transmissions?

I think we’ll start…

Hi, hello, it appears you haven’t read my post very well.
I specifically advocate for appreciating both. I never downplay the awesomeness of noise. You’d be mad to...

I’m just saying that people are nuts if THATS the deciding factor- while it is wholly a different experience, I’m just saying that the noises made by EVs…

BOTH of these things can be exciting you fucking tit.