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I also went all year without getting gas. That also includes the miniscule amount of gas needed for my lawn equipment since I transitioned them (except for a blower) to battery/electric also. But on top of that, my whole house is electric and I just finished the year (our electrical company ends their year December 10th) with a net kWhr reserve of approximately 750 kWhr. Of course, the electric company screwed me over by only paying $0.02 per kWhr for the reserve. It was a good year that my solar generated more energy than I needed to live and travel in my car. Edit to add: my car is a 2018 Model S with 762 hp & 487 lb-ft of torque since it seems that people like to post that about their vehicles...

These are all great ideas. We should submit our names to be part of the new DOGE committee.

See this is where you liberals have it all wrong. This is why we need to have a keen successful businessman as president who is a master at negotiating. Let me try to break this down so even your feeble minds can understand. Standard corporate politicians can't think very far ahead and can only come up with the simplest solution. That is why they make the US citizens (importers) pay for Tariffs. So, if an American company buys 1,000 Acme branded widgets for $10 each and we have a 10% tariff, the American company pays the Chinese company $10/ea. and the government $1 for a total of $11,000. They must then pass that cost on to the American citizens who want to buy Acme widgets. And this is what your lazy incompetent liberal politicians think is a good system. Trump on the other hand with his far superior intellect, business sense, and negotiation skills that the world has never seen before will change all that. Under his plan if an American company wants to import 1,000 Acme widgets, they will pay $10/widget (same price, please try to keep up). The Chinese company will ship us 1,000 widgets and they will get the same $10 as before. So, the Chinese manufacturer is happy their profit is still the same. Then the Chinese government will pay $1,000 to do business here in America. And everybody will be happy. No increase in inflation. We still get the Acme widgets for the same cost. The Chinese company will still make the same money they always have. It is a win-win situation. You see. It is really not that hard when you sit down and actually think about it.

My guess is that is because most people are afraid of change. They don't realize that for the most of them an EV will cover all their needs. plug-in hybrids are a good steppingstone, IMO especially if they actually use the EV part of the vehicle. My biggest complaint of hybrids is that the vehicle (at least the one that I recently rented) did not know how to properly utilize the battery vs engine when driving to get the maximum range out of the system. It had the idea that it would run off the battery first and drain it down to nothing. I can't really fault it for that as the car didn't know that I was constantly immediately heading onto a highway going up and down hills at 70 MPH for 30 miles. Then getting off and onto back-roads where slower speed and flatter ground was the norm. It would burn through the entire battery in the first 20 miles of driving and I couldn't tell the vehicle to run on the engine (unless I coasted down the hills reducing my speed all the way down - followed by flooring the vehicle all the way up the next hill - you know, driving like an idiot). But to improve this, the car would need to be partially designed by software engineers where when you put in a destination into the GPS, the car would map out the best route and then determine when the best times to run off of electric would be and when it made more sense to run off of the engine.

That is because of one country. Look at all the other colors besides red, and they are pretty much stable. What makes that graph go up and down is China (followed by a distant second of the EU). This graph also shows that the US and Canada do not want EVs anymore. It clearly shows what once was a booming and increasing market has dwindled to a tiny sliver. Oh wait....

This is great that Hyundai thought of this. Why is it that America is so behind the times and no one here thought of this. This really highlights the downward spiral that America is taking. I miss shifting gears. My first cars I owned were all manual transmissions. My Nissan Frontier I bought specifically because they offered it with a 5-speed manual. Now if only they would allow functionality of plugging in a Logitech USB gear shifter and clutch petal to change gears.

Since I already own my daily commuter EV, it would have to be the Rimac Nevera. At least until the Tesla Roadster comes out. Although something a little bit more reasonable would be the Lucid Air Sapphire. Straight line it is putting down some impressive numbers. I just haven't seen how well the car corners or brakes. ** I assume by this comment, you were talking about cost no object and I actually had the money to buy any of these cars. **

What we really need is for you, me, and everyone else who is unhappy with our selection to start a grass-roots movement and vote for a 3rd candidate. Or maybe go all "Brewster's Millions" and vote None Of The Above. That is the only way we as citizens will break the two-party system and why each party thinks they can nominate such horrible people.

FIFY If you are going to post this anti-EV FUD, please have the decency to correct the inaccuracies or the narrative that the author is trying to push. Although, to be perfectly honest (without reading the whole or any of the article) if the author included Tesla's charging network reliability in the sample that might have greatly reduced the inoperable stations to probably 20% from the abysmal performance of networks like EA.

Jerry I'm just glad that time is finally over now; where 20 years ago I was forced to buy a gas car.

Isn't that exactly what a CEO is supposed to do?

I honestly wonder why Brent hasn't updated this thread praising the performance of Tesla stock for the past 2 months?

I'm hoping that the DNC will not survive this debate. They were the ones who picked that lame ass person by not allowing for a proper primary.

Brent has admitted when he was wrong in the past. I at least give him that. But in this instance, I think it really shows his bias. He was so eager to show or state something that he thought would put batteries in a bad light, that he misrepresented the quote. He did it earlier in this thread when he was trying to state that batteries are not a power source but only storage, implying that fossil fuels are better in that manner. He says this without realizing that fossil fuels are likewise only a storage medium, just with a much longer shelf life.

No way! Not until the train stops in front of my house so all I have to do is walk outside my door and get on the train. Not until the train waits until the exact time I want to leave and then is ready to go. Not until the train takes me directly to my desired location without stopping anywhere else first. Not until the train is ready to pick me back up at the time I want to leave my desired location and take me back to my front door would I rather be on a train. Until that happens, screw you and your climate change!!! I don't need to change anything.

You learn something every day. I did not know that gas stations take 1,000 kW to operate. They must be a real strain on the aging electrical grid. Oh, oh, oh, I know. All we have to do is close down 1 or 2 gas stations per subdivision. That way when we must be forced to buy and charge our EVs all at the same time, we will not be overloading the grid. Problem solved. Thanks Internet nay-sayers.

And you are just seeing FSD (supervised). This is a big step up in performance for those of us who have had FSD for years. I've had it since they just added automatic lane changes on interstates. But that is why I got it so early. I like to see the development of the system and how it gets better - and in some cases worse - with each iteration. Speaking about corner cases. I was using FSD the other day and in my neighborhood, there was the flatbed truck parked in my lane. The driver was out in a forklift and removing a pallet of sod. The forklift was in the oncoming traffic lane (2-lane road). I thought this would be a good test for FSD so I didn't do anything but of course was ready to take over if it screwed up. My car pulled up behind the flatbed and came to a stop about 2 car lengths back. It sat there and waited for about 2 minutes without doing anything while the forklift driver unloaded the pallet. Pretty much as soon as the forklift cleared the road, the car put on the turn signal and proceeded around the parked flatbed. No inputs from me. Needless to say, I was impressed. It behaved exactly as I would have in that situation (except for the fact that I would not have put on the turn signal as there were no other vehicles around).

7. What has that glacier ever done for ME? It going away does not affect my life directly, so I'm not changing anything.

I tend to think the firing and rehiring of people is more of a reactionary result and not part of some grand plan. Everything that has come out, I think the actual scenario was: Elon to VP: I need you to reduce your department. VP: We have all good people and more work than we can handle. This department cannot afford to be reduced. Elon: Fine, then you are all fired. Elon -> all other VPs: Don't go against my wishes. Rest of the world gets word of this and starts questioning Tesla, Supercharger network, JS3400 connector, etc. People start publicly questioning their commitment to that standard. Elon realizes he screwed up politically and tries to do damage control by stating Tesla is going to concentrate on reliability. (IMO, this statement is probably questionable.) This doesn't calm fears enough, so he is forced to hire back part of the team and make it sound like everything is back to normal. From a business standpoint, it doesn't make sense to fire and hire people. There is a bunch of paperwork needed to do that. IDK maybe with as quickly as things turned around, the people "hired back" were never really on paper fired.

I heard that they fired their whole new products and vehicle development team too. So much for cutting edge vehicles. They only want to focus on FSD, AI, robo-taxi, and Tesla-Bot. Am I wrong? Or was that just anti-Tesla FUD.

That is not quite true. In advanced economies, we CHOOSE to make them expensive. We could also choose to make our offspring live like they do in poorer countries. We could build mud huts for them to live in. Give them only 1 pair of good clothes that they wear to school. The rest of the time they would only be shirtless & barefoot working out in the field to help the family. There is no reason for them to have that expensive IPhone, toys, computers, or a college education. These are all choices we make, not the fact that we live in 'advanced economies'.

I totally agree that it seems way pre-mature, if the goal is to transition to other networks taking over. Especially since they announced version 4 of the supercharger. I can't say for everywhere, but around here, when the transition went from V2 to V3, Tesla did not upgrade V2 stalls. They just built all new V3 stations. That IMO doesn't bode well for V4 stalls. Especially with them announcing that new stations will be very much reduced. That doesn't mean that they could change to now upgrading the existing stations to V4. But I've seen no mention of that in any press.

My guess is soon, someone is going to announce that they are leaving Tesla and start up a business of installing superchargers. Kind of like JB Straubel did with Redwood Meterials. Otherwise, I have to agree. It makes zero sense to reduce that portion of Tesla. I haven't seen the actual details, did the entire organization get eliminated or it was just reduced in size and the media is misrepresenting the facts with click bait headlines.

I hope everyone bought Tesla stock when Brent predicted demise (again). Up 37% this past week. Tesla Inc NASDAQ: TSLA 196.14 USD▲ +53.71 (+37.97%) past week April 29, 12:54 PM EDT · Market Open

News Flash to no one except for Brent - Tesla has been a very volatile stock ever since they started making waves in the auto industry: I guess I could rewrite your narrative as, "Tesla stock now up 9,705 percent!" Shall we compare that to say Ford over the same time period? (Sorry for the two different graphs from different websites, but I don't feel like spending the time searching the web for the exact pretty graph to post in a nonsense forum topic.)