Like any other car manufacturer, Tesla’s profit margins don’t come from wheels or engines, they come from leather seats, nav systems, paint options, and other add-ons. Tesla’s problem is that it can’t build cars fast enough to compensate for the lowered margins of the base models that don’t have those add-ons.

That was my reaction, too. No bodily harm was done, after all.

The prius is a better hybrid though, and the insights saw battery issues late in their life (which is why the prices are so low).

Ask Jalopnik: https://jalopnik.com/2010-honda-insight-first-drive-5128524

The 2nd-gen Honda Insight is pretty comparable, but it’s less likely to be overpriced, and I’d argue it’s a lot more handsome. Plus, it doesn’t have some of the Prius’ irritating interface quirks.

Overload the capacitors, and these’ll fart blue smoke, too!

All they needed to do was to give the keys to some summer software interns and tell them to break it, suitcase-gorilla style. They could have avoided all of this.

Or the Leaf Nismo.

For the same reason that the car has no mirrors. It’s all about the focus groups.

Well, I don’t see you holding any bees there, mister.

Counterpoint 1: You don’t try to save a movie theater by no longer selling coke and popcorn. Drivetrains are Tesla’s forte, but cheap features like Sentry Mode are what bring home the bacon.

You’re unlikely to see many Republicans voting for a Democrat if one of the more radical candidates wins the primary. The best you can hope for is that they stay home.

Okay, serious reply this time, because you have some very good points that deserve to be talked about. Let’s lay out the game theory/political calculus:

You cant just ignore this kind of shit when all the info is right out in the open.

You miss last week’s news?

≈34% by my count (ULSD is diesel). But yeah, there will still be some demand for crude oil. Just... not nearly as much.

And the effects reach far beyond the immediate auto industry. Think of all the oil drilling platforms, refineries, mixing/processing terminals, and all the semis to ship gasoline. There are a lot of middle men in the oil industry.

That is weirdly high pitched for an EV motor. Very high RPMs. That tells me that Hyundai is making its own bespoke motor rather than borrowing a larger, slower one from Bosch, for example. That’s great news, of course, but it does sound like a quadcopter.

but I’ve got a pretty strong hunch they’re not, say, harvesting these fluids and using them for mind-control devices or sending them up to HAARP.

The front-engine Porsches are on my bucket list. Not just to drive, but as EV conversions. They’re 2+2 liftback coupes with surprising amounts of room under the hood and trunk for batteries, and they’re designed for low horsepower so you don’t have to shell out for a Tesla motor.