I get why you’re excited but this is just a press release. You can’t claim 350 mile range and “strong offroad capabilities”’ while also writing “We don’t have many powertrain details yet, but the electric Scouts will have an electric motor at each axle and an 800-volt battery pack of unknown size.”

Triple negative technically. But you’re right - the result is the sentence means that author thinks the car is ugly.

I don’t know about “curmudgeon boomer executive” but I do think “boomer clinging to youth” is probably the vibe this exudes now. I don’t think it’s going to be a hit with most families. It’s probably got a small niche appeal with aging surfers and grandparents who want to haul the grandkids to Disney once year.

It must be tough to go through life so bitter and narrow-minded. I hope you get some help for that.

You’re so angry today. Who pee’d in your coffee?

What would be “transformative” is creating a remote labor force for physical work. That would be as transformative as the call center industry was in the 1980's and 90's. Not always in a good way, but transformative.

The irony is that a good remote system would be really useful and almost as transformative as real autonomous robots. And with StarLink, Musk has all the pieces there.

I agree 100%. I actually think the “robovan” is probably the vehicle that makes the most sense. A robotaxi doesn’t really solve any problems. Musk opened the event with all this talk about traffic and getting around in LA but automated taxis don’t fix that - they only contribute to the problem of high density traffic.…

Nobody really needs a 650 horsepower SUV, much less a 650 horsepower minivan. 

Exactly - the people who think that electric cars aren’t good for the environment don’t care about the environment anyway.

It’s not about them being “trucks,” it’s about them being electric vehicles.

“the first (and currently only) production engine that revs to 10,000 rpm”

Mustang Panamera? Mustang Dakar? I don’t care what they call them; I’m in.

Difficult/expensive or not legal. There’s lots of land (npi) that doesn’t allow for permanent construction where you could park this thing. And that land tends to be cheap because nobody can build a house there, and it’s just used for hunting/camping/etc.

I think it’s inevitable, no matter the source of their funding.

I really hope Rivian takes advantage of the collapse of Fisker & Lucid to pick up some talent and production capacity.

I think we need to be really clear about what was happening at the time so that he can’t rewrite history; in the wake of Musk’s takeover of Twitter, he fired pretty much everyone who dealt with content controls, which meant the floodgates opened to hate speech and misinformation. Some of which came directly from Musk…

There are literally more than 6000 Dunkin’ drive-thru locations in the USA. What is cliche about a drive through coffee shop in Seattle except that it isn’t a Dunkin’s?