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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.)

I'm not saying that this is the reason, but maybe - just maybe the reason is that in 2023 it was announced that the US would transition over to NACS as a charging standard. If American's have a bias for Tesla for whatever reason, there is no reason for them to want to purchase a substandard car from another manufacturer with a connection method that would require an adapter. Why would anyone do that? I personally would not want to purchase a vehicle were I would need to have an adapter for the next 10+ years. Then after that, the resale value would tank because NO ONE would want a CCS car 10 years from now. If my choices are CCS car now or gas, I think I'm taking gas or better yet hybrid. Not that I wouldn't rather have an electric vehicle. I just don't want to have one with all the problems of CCS. I'm not buying a movie in VHS when I could buy it now in DVD for cheap and in a year or two and get a UHD 4k BLU-Ray version.

I mean seriously Brent, do you even read/comprehend what you write? I can only talk about myself here, but before I got an EV, I had a stick shift and I would down shift and use "engine braking" as much as I could. But even doing that it is in no comparison to what an EV does with regenerative braking. Typically, with my EV I do not even have to hit the brakes until I am at 5 MPH. Tesla Model 3/Y and maybe even new S/X can come to a complete stop without touching the brakes. By you posting that "study" shows you know nothing about the functionality of an electric vehicle. It also shows how little the author of the study knows. That is probably why it was ignored by the "media" except for those with an agenda. As far as tire wear goes, that has more to do with the way you drive than the weight of a car. My personal experience is that I can get the same wear on tires as my previous gas cars by taking it easy. But most of the time it is just too fun to take corners fast and accelerate fast so I accept the added tire wear. But even with that I'm averaging 40,000 mile tire replacement with summer "sport" tires. But that is just one data point. I have not done a study of hundreds of people to get any additional data - other than being part of the EV community and seeing their stated performance.

I think they mean muscle car the same way as gun nuts/nazi/etc. talk about assault rifles. Does it "look" like one? It has nothing to do with the actual functionality.

The problem with this is that even if Thomas leaves the court, since it is so close to an election, the republicans will block any attempt to seat a new judge until after the election because the people will not have a voice in who is elected to pick the next judge.

Well, you have to admit. Trump isn't wrong there. Given a sufficiently large enough glass of water, you could drop it onto a thin magnet and it could shatter the magnet into a bunch of tiny pieces therefore ending the usefulness of the magnet and "end[ing] the magnet". You just have to understand the way people who are 'like a smart person' talk. This is all part of the genius that is Trump.