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ICE cars will be gone, but many West Virginians will still consider consider family reunions a pick-up scene.

Usually when I go to the coast it’s a near thing and an L2 is enough. We were able to hit a hotel near downtown last time. Problem is L2 chargers are pretty unreliable. When I was staying in Yuchats a few months ago I managed to hunt down 3 dead ones. Fortunately I found a newer fee based L2...

I’d want to be able to go to Florence, play on the dunes, and get home. Right now there is no charging station in Florence so… yeah 300 miles. There are also some fun off-roading places near Oakridge and I think some near Bend. Considering how unreliable non-Tesla charging stations are, I’d...

Assuming it has a 300 mile range, I’d pay $40k for this. Of course it likely costs $150k, has shit range, or both.

Your definition of a startup seems to relate more to willingness and ability to raise outside capital alone. I find that idea kind of nonsensical. Lots of independents never raise outside capital or finance their business through traditional small business loans. SpaceX just recently did a...

I find that definition weird and a bit arbitrary. Sort of eliminates cautious founders who achieve profitability early on. If I build a company that is profitable in 6 months (perhaps a software company) is that not still a startup? After 20 years people might retire from Rivian, never having...

Yep. Cracks me up when Rivian gets called a startup. I don’t understand why Scaringe has lasted as long as he has Mostly my point was that the market is vastly different at this point then it was when Tesla launched. There was a window of opportunity for launching EV companies and that window…...

This was in California, a few decades removed.

One of my previous co-workers would buy a car for cash and never register it. Instead he would scour the junk yards for a license plate with current registration and put it on the car. Got pulled over 2-3 times and each time, the officer was so confused about how to report it, they just let...

Rivian makes really good trucks, and not-so-amazing factories to build those trucks. They also have a massive cost structure. I think their cost to convert raw materials into a truck is higher than most big auto companies and much higher than Tesla. They also don’t have the advantage of scale...

His post reads fine. Tesla is not making chips and will not. Musk has said this at least once. Tesla does consolidate components to reduce the number of chips required (an/ or damned near any other component they can eliminate). Sometimes they use custom chips. Not sure what your point is.

I know 2 3 wheel companies that deserve it. One of them is based here in Eugene. For Tesla this isn’t a big deal, but for Arcimoto, it would be huge. They sell their FUV for $17,000 - $25,000 and according to my friend who works there they only make money when people max out their purchase. If...

Someone somewhere in this vast universe has created a Cybertruck and FSD works.

in case you missed it.

Yeah, apparently rock dings are such a problem there is a black market for hood quality hoods.

Making a blanket statement “EVs have terrible resale values” which doesn’t apply to 70% of EVs is just lame. Saying “most EVs” but then separating out Tesla is just factually incorrect. Teslas literally are most EVs (at least in the West). These idiots don’t want to piss off their advertisers...

Yes. Kind of impressive they managed to crank out that many in just a few months. I think they’ve passed GM and Rivian combined.

I’m pretty sure I’ve never walked up to your car and checked if the tires were inflated properly. What kind of car do you have anyways? Why would I do this?

Yeah, this is not a critical update, it is genuinely not a big deal if this takes a month to get out. Only thing which might be concerning about this is if its an indication of how long their process takes.

It’s all part of the software development lifecycle (SDLC). It takes one day to write the patch. Next it goes to the bundling team, it normally takes three days to bundle it, but we’ve got a holiday coming up and everyone knows productivity drops the week before a holiday. After bundling, it...