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DOGE goes way beyond any advisory committee that we've seen and the incoming administration is treating them as if they are an official arm of the government. Their Mean Tweets are having a very real effect on the EV market even without the creation of an official department or the backing of an...

I don't think I've seen this behavior, but I charge indoors and live in a relatively warm climate. The battery may have throttled due to low pack temperature if the ambient temperature was in the 20s or below.

The CT headlights are recessed behind the bumper so I bet the problem is even worse for them.

Even Ayn Rand cashed her social security checks and used Medicare. She twisted herself into a pretzel trying to justify her hypocrisy like every other moral absolutist out there. Musk is probably twisting himself into a pretzel trying to justify his criticism of IRA/NEVI subsidies after Tesla...

"They're not actually going to do that." ™️

Please send this link whenever a Tesla fanboy complains about the loan: https://www.energy.gov/lpo/tesla The RIvian loan is obviously a much bigger bet but hypocrisy is a binary state.

Just wait until they start throwing subsidies for fracking in in National parks. OK, I'm exaggerating, but the EPA nominee is a quarter billionaire CEO of a fracking company and I'm sure they're not talking about clean energy when they say they want to make America a leader in energy production...

They're projecting $300 million in regulatory credit sales per year. It's not insignificant and would disproportionately affect the startup EV companies over Tesla.

Selling more R1s is good for the company, full stop.

I am one of the people who @bdwalters is describing. It doesn't matter if it's most people, killing the tax credit is going to affect a market that needs to be selling as many EVs as possible to gain the magnitude of scale to compete with Tesla. I can assure you that the tax credit is a...

I don't think that's true. In the USA regulatory credits are are based on state government fuel efficiency standards. If states lose the ability to set their own standards due to the incoming administration, it would affect the regulatory credit market because more polluting automobile...

That's exactly the plan and it's a setup for a domestic monopoly. Kneecap rival domestic EV manufacturers by limiting their ability to sell domestically (tax credits) and export (trade war). Ruin the economics of import of EVs from friendly and non-friendly countries with tariffs. Tesla will be...

We wanted something smaller than the Lightning that could tow our trailer comfortably. The tax credit made our decision to stick with an EV easier.

We would not have traded in our Lightning for an R1S if we couldn't claim the pre-IRA tax credit. At the time we were also considering a Ford Expedition, so we would probably have either stuck with the Lightning or bought the Expedition if the tax credit was (edit: wasn't) there. We are not...

I favor an arduous approval process for devices you want to implant in human brains.

All he cares about his fortune and power. He now finds himself in a position to direct the regulators that oversee all of his businesses. There is so much conflict of interest in this arrangement, but...

I never said it was imminent but that its dangerous if companies are completely dependent on Tesla's infrastructure, especially since Musk is so unpredictable. If you can't see that you've drunk the kool-aid.

It's evidence that the CEO is at minimum complicit when the domestic EV market gets choked by the incoming administration. NEVI will be next and there will be even less capital available for charging network expansion. If the supercharger network remains the dominant provider in the US, other...

Well, Musk was against the EV tax credit and has said that Tesla will have a large advantage if it is eliminated. Do you honestly think he was not involved in this decision and/or didn't know this would be the outcome if the Republicans won the election?

We also would be subject to a being kicked off the network at the whim of Tesla's CEO. I have nightmares that the EV provisions in the bipartisan infrastructure bill and IRA will be targeted under the next administration which will make the competitive environment worse for Tesla's competitors...