How so? He might be the best billionaire of the tech bunch, not that that's saying much. The man's companies are actually making things that people want and need. Beats the hell out of consolidating retail, or media, or running a real estate scam, or any of the predatory pricing scammers out there.

HURF DURF HE MAKES WEIRD CAR SO HEAVY FALCON DOESNT MATTER ANYMORE FUCK SPACE etc

shut the fuck up

Take 'em

Wait until you see who's gonna be driving around in them.

I assume the Eco Protectorate will be using these to track down the Solarbabies.

That made me spit out my coffee. Well played, Zircon.

Older models are supposed to be pretty easy to work on SolRo, although you have to source the parts. Could be a good way to make some money now that the older models are out of warranty. I don't know how many shops are out there working on them.

Easy to work on isn’t the best quality for a repair job.

Though I wonder if Tesla owners are significantly more tolerant of fuckups, poor quality and delays given their ownership experience

True, but easy to work on, with little competition and mostly wealthy customers might be a winning recipe until more mechanics catch on.

Winter is already being phased out.

I live in Chicago, my cousin has a model S with no complaints. But yeah, it lives in an indoor garage at his apartment complex. He doesn't have a charger though, Chicago passed a law putting chargers in all parking garages, so he charges it while he's at work.

If these things catch on, there's gonna have to be some sort of solution for those of us who park on the street. I can't exactly run an extension cord out my window and I only park in garages at work when I'm building them.

All that said, I'm excited about the crop of electric pickups coming out. I'm pretty much stuck driving a pickup or a van to work no matter what so I'd love it to be electric. I'm not too excited by Tesla's design choices, but whatever. Hopefully there will be some options when I'm ready to scrap my Colorado.

It's moot right now because there's not enough lithium available to make a large scale switch to electric cars possible, even after we install a puppet government in Bolivia (which has some of the largest untapped lithium reserves in the world, hence our recent increased interest in them and the CIA totally not having anything to do with the right wing military coup, let's just ignore those recently leaked tapes of right wing opposition leadership talking with unidentified Americans about the need for a military coup).

Electric cars could be a good thing, but they're more of a marketing gimmick until we figure out the battery problem.

Anyway, the fact that they made an ATV pretty much belies any ideas about environmental concerns being a high priority here.

Never mind, it has come to my attention that they didn't even build that ATV, it's just a stock Yamaha with an electric motor retrofitted.

It’s not like Tesla has had a high profile accident where the car door handles wouldn’t open from the outside and the unconscious driver burned to death...