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Considering most Tesla owners like using Autopilot (which used to be free) and not pay for FSD (15% of buyers or less), it is Tesla essentially raising the price of every vehicle by $4800 if you assume the average buyer keeps their car for 4 years and doesn't want to use FSD. If you keep your...

Here is my biggest quibble with the article: "This means the mechanical side of things fades in importance behind the software that runs it." Yes, software is important in a modern car, and yes many of the legacy OEMs have lot of catching up to do which seems to be happening with this GEN 3...

My dream scenario is to get an R1T when our R1S lease is up (I really want a truck again), and a Lucid Gravity when my i4 lease is up. Use the R1T for skiing, camping, and around Colorado activities, and the Gravity for kid hauling and road trips. We love our R1S, but the faster charging and...

I had a similar call from Rivian. At the end of the day the trade-in offer on our Gen 1 lease would have left us almost $12k upside down on a new lease. Unless they basically wiped out the negative equity, I'm not trading in my lease 18 months early.

These electronic door handles that fail to unlock from the outside after a crash and require a special procedure to unlock from the inside is a complete engineering failure. How these ever passed a risk analysis / DFMEA is beyond me. Yes, people can learn how to use the override feature, but...

Not true. The current ICE X3 M50 starts at $66k in the US. Here is a link to a local BMW dealership with 14 in stock. The highest priced is $75k with most in the low $70k's. That's about $5k-$9k over starting price. Higher end specs typically come loaded with most options. The iX3 50 xdrive...

This is very similar pricing to the current X3. Base X3 starts at $51k and the X3 M50 starts at $66k. So it's competitive compared to their current ICE X3. I'm leasing an i4 M50 as my daily, and honestly it's a great car. I'll be very interested in the iX3, and personally love the looks. I...

They worked out great. No noticeable impact on range and easy to keep clean. I’ll be putting them back on in November.

When our R1S lease is up, we will definitely be test driving a Gravity. It's the only other 3-row EV that is appealing. We really need 3-rows and a large front trunk. The Cadillac EV would be an option but it's way to big and expensive. I don't need the off-road capabilities of the R1S, but...

Yep. A bunch of people who bought $100k electric super trucks saying they have no problem paying double for all of their basic necessities. Go talk to the other 50% of America who are going to suffer so we can have more products that say "Made in America". The US employs 12.7M people in...

We could make those shoes in another country and layoff 600k people in Vietnam and collapse their economy. Those workers would likely fall back into poverty. Look at China and how many people have been lifted out of poverty because of manufacturing goods for other countries. I work for a company...

VATs are not country specific. They are applied to all goods regardless of origin (or goods in a certain class) within a country. Essentially a sales tax. So they are not comparable to tariffs in any way. They are comparable to sales tax. Most major countries we trade with do not have large...

Do we just bring back automotive manfacturing? What about shoes, electronics, etc? Nike employees over 600k people in Vietnam and a few other countries. Could we find 600k people in the US to make shoes for minimum wage? The global economy has worked extremely well. The US now benefits from...

The Tesla failed to see through simulated fog and rain and ran into the mannequin, versus the Lidar stopped under both conditions. Watch the video before criticizing. Lidar is going to be required for true self driving cars. Fog, rain, snow, and low visibility conditions are 100% real world.

I've been considering an R1T lease when my Lucid lease is up in April, but their lease rates took a big jump in January. Roughly $150-$200 a month. Looks like the really good lease deals are gone for the moment, which will likely hurt some sales.

It definitely looks like fireworks, and reports are now saying firework motors were in the back of the truck. "An official briefed on the probe told ABC News that the Tesla Cybertruck had a load of fireworks-style mortars onboard."...

Edit: Removing my comment because it doesn't appear to be an accidental fire and people were injured.

Agreed. I really wish Rivian had spent the time to iron out the suspension complaints, and develop a lower cost entry R1 variant instead of spending a bunch of resources on a Halo truck that will sell in extremely low numbers. It's cool, but not something I would ever buy. We love our R1S...

Completely disagree. All of the serious athletes I know have Garmin or COROS. No one uses Apple watches. My wife and I are both big cyclists and tried the Apple watch for a couple of years but are back to Garmin. Garmin has superior metrics, ANT+ compatibility, and as others mentioned, the...

If Trump is serious about bringing lots of manufacturing back to the US, then loan programs like this are going to be critical. Many (if not most) companies don't have the cash or credit to build massive factories in the US without access to a loan program like this. If anything, the Trump...