The rumours I’ve heard is that the gigapress’d (single piece cast aluminum) chassis of the Model Y is a “you crack it, you total it” proposition. There’s not much chance of a repair.

By the time you need a new battery (200-300k miles), you need a new ICE, transmission, or other major service.

Arguably the cost of the 420 joke when buying twitter was only the marginal amount of cents per share he added to make sure it ended in 420.

I would sit here and argue with you about how false your claim is that range numbers differ from the real world, I believe there would have been a lawsuit class action or otherwise about Tesla lying about their range

A lot of it will just go to being collateral for loans he’s taken. Many rich folks that are only rich on paper due to stock holdings take out loans backed by their shares so that they can actually go do rich-people things.

Given those operating costs for The Loop, I wonder if at some point their contract will get canceled and whoever owns the actual tunnel (assuming it’s not Tesla or The Boring Company) just installs a high-speed airport-style people conveyor. If you can get a continuous stream of people up to 10mph, your…

The big difference is that they don’t claim to be able to handle these conditions, so it’d be unfair to put them there.  I assume if they expanded to northern cities it’d be the same slow, deliberate, gradually-expand-the-envelope approach they’ve taken everywhere else.

California just passed a law about false advertising in car ADAS systems, so it’ll be interesting to see what happens now.

It does/did: it meant that way more cars get the full $7500 until March, making it even more tempting for GM or Tesla buyers to wait until 2023 to buy a car.

A possibly-benign interpretation is that they’re just trying to fill the gap until the $7500 IRA EV tax credit/rebate/whatever activates on Jan 1.

The upfront cost is higher, but over the course of the ownership period the lack of ICE maintenance and fueling costs can almost make up for it, sounds like.

If that cash would’ve or could’ve been invested and you can get a good interest rate, paying cash is a bad idea. My $27k car that I bought in 2012 with cash (that had been invested and would’ve otherwise stayed invested) has cost me like $55k in opportunity cost. The dealer would’ve given me 2% financing and instead I…

If they’ve got the parts in-house and can get cars built that match to the order list, they might be able to book the revenue whether the customer is ready for delivery or not. I’ve worked for companies that were teetering on the financial brink and this kind of “get it built and ‘shipped’ so we can book it as revenue…

I think the pitch is always that “we pay for this show once, but bring in subscriptions for it for the next 50 years”. It’s a decent pitch if you make good content. I grew up watching Disney films that were like 40+ years old at the time, that my parents still had to pay full price for. Dumbo, Sleeping Beauty, and…

In Canada, our passenger rail service’s cheapest seats are HUGE compared to airline seats. They’re wide, there’s tons of legroom, it’s like 1st-class domestic flying.

Syscrush was saying “if the cars were smaller, you wouldn’t need permission to pass”.

In context, Perez’s tires were shot and there was no way he was going to get back past Max unless Max slowed down 1 second to let him by.

If Tesla actually gets into trouble there’ll be another automaker that’ll buy the pieces, they won’t just evaporate. They’ve got plenty of assets, technology, and fawning customers that any other automaker would appreciate to help them jump into the BEV age.

It’s a social network with a relatively low # of active users, but that journalists make ultra-influential by reporting on every tweet, like, or retweet that a couple individuals make.

Sure, you could hop in one of these sardine cans and get to your destination faster slightly faster (after arriving 3h early for your international flight), or you or your employer could spring for business-class and in-flight wifi and you just have a workday in a decent seat on a regular plane.