I find it absurd that I can spend 130k on a car that doesn’t have autopilot, sub 0-60 speed and a gas tank I can’t fill up at home while I sleep. See, we all make to tradeoffs. Tesla owners aren’t drinking coolaid, they simply don’t care as much about interiors as they do the other unique features their cars have to…

Weren’t the ignition faults and airbags from design defects and unintended? The problem there was an intent to not recognize them as defects.

“just bigger batteries” shows a complete lack of understanding on how important batteries are to a car like the Tesla. It is easily comparable to a powertrain change in a gas power car.

I love the interior. I was fairly indifferent about the car until I saw that.

Nope, it’s awesome.

Usually exactly this large of a price gap:

This is beneath Jalopnik and should be retracted with an apology. I mean, come on:

Yeah problem with doing this math is that you can keep taking it a step further, I could argue that if you’re really obsessed with minimizing your energy footprint then driving a Leaf-like EV with a small battery pack and then RENTING a small compact gas car for your road trips would further minimize your energy…

Found the guy who shorts Tesla.

Two anti Tesla articles in one afternoon? I don’t even like Tesla and that still looks bad to me.

This is a common misconception. Coal in of itself may be dirtier than diesel, but a coal powerplant - even a really shitty one - is not dirtier than a diesel truck engine. The coal powerplant, especially if a modern one, has a much higher overall efficiency, and can have its emissions filtered much more efficiently as…

Agreed! In Tesla’s early days this site did nothing but talk shit about them on a daily basis and didn’t change their tune until everyone else in the world was gushing over them after Model S was winning every award imaginable. Now they want to constantly talk about FF that has done nothing but show incompetence…

I take it you’ve never heard of the term “totality of circumstances”? The GM ignition switches were not authorized with the knowledge of potential death. If they had been, then execs would be facing jail time. It was accidental, not on purpose like the VW emissions cheating devices.

Obama even told illegals to vote...

As if firefighters don’t have training available to them to handle what you’re talking about:

People fear things they don’t understand. A lot of built in safety features and lockouts are incorporated into electric cars. When first responders show up, they will disable high voltage by cutting a circuit that supplies power to the high voltage relays, or pull a service disconnect. Some manufacturers call these…

The common thread is Diesel. Which is shit.

Hatchbacks always have overstated cargo-capacity because they have height:

Woah there, I never said anything about the quality of the product. I think they have earned their place through consistently solid quality and good design.