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It’s only niche because people mostly don’t understand it. But the fact is solar isn’t difficult, especially expensive nor does it require any maintenance. It just quietly does its job in the background for 30 years and saves money. I mean try putting gasoline collectors on your roof. My point...

I think your cost would be $.20/ mile using public chargers. My 2018 Tesla S gets 3 miles to the kWh so using a supercharger that’s 16 cents per mile. If I charge at home at my utilities price of 12 cents a kWh that’s 4 cents a mile and if I factor in my solar it’s about 2 cents. Last I read...

So many people repeat this but never bother to look up the data. According to NFPA statistics ICE cars are 58 times more likely to burst into flames than an EV. Yes 58 times!

But you forget maintenance which is not nothing. In 8 years my car has been in the shop exactly twice. For tires. Imagine how long you have waited for oil changes etc. my cost to drive is $0.025 per mile.

It’s still 1/3 to 1/5 the cost of gas to drive an EV. Who cares how much the batteries cost.

This is said a lot but if one simply looks at the timeline you realize Tesla only had the Roadster when Elon bought in the company in 2004 and the concept of the Model S debuted in 2008 and wasn't sold until 2012. The founders had very little to do with the S and nothing to do with the X, 3, Y...

Or conversely look at what they have already done with their battery packs being the most reliable ones on the market. I mean you can cherry pick only the negatives but I choose to look at the successes and I could not be happier with my Teslas.

Looks a little hoky to me. Any new battery chemistry has to go though many years of testing before it would be released for use in a car.

That is wise. Tesla has been saying they will be converting as many of their cars to LFP as practical. For the same reasons you give.

Tesla has said nothing about such a model and there is so much guessing it's impossible to know if thats a thing or not. Personally I think Tesla will switch most of it's manufacturing capacity to robotaxi if the testing in June goes as they plan. This would tend to explain why lately Elon...

I take issue with your statements about how EV look terrible and perform terrible when it seems most of the problems you had were operator error. Although I suppose I would complain about an ICE vehicles utility and efficiency if I had to fuel one using only a one gallon gas can. And yes I use...

If it had one of the best battery management systems it would not suffer from all those troubles and low efficiency you describe. Neither of my Teslas have those issues. Your troubles are obviously some of the reasons this brand didn't make it.

This is easy to look up and it’s as you would expect. Most fatalities are caused by human error and stupidity.

Interesting study on vehicle longevity in Nature. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-024-01698-1#Abs1 Tl;DR not really a shocker. "When comparing petrol and diesel, our baseline estimates indicate that a petrol vehicle survives for 1.9 more years, but covers 44,000 miles less compared with a...

Again you are working off old information, FSD uses all clues available to it to determine the road location. Painted markings, pavement edges, temporary cones, signs, reflectors, posts, other cars etc just like human drivers do. Except with IR and low light capability it can see much more then...

120 people each day die in auto crashes so I think it's a good thing companies are working on making something better.

That and the experiences most people know about, without actually driving one themselves, are dated and irrelevant. The system keeps being updated and the advances that come with each new software version aren't small but in fact huge improvements.

I just came through some pretty bad blizzard conditions in a mountain pass a few weeks back in a Y. It went whiteout as the trucks passed and I was sure the autopilot would disengage but it never did. I was very happy to have the help and for safety reasons always drive with it on. I agree with...

Why recorded video clips of the people who came near my car while it was parked, of course, as every Tesla owner does.

Yes it’s amazing the things he has accomplished yet so many can only concentrate on the negative. Also I feel sorry for the people who bet on failure and dumped a bunch of money into shorting Tesla stock. Ouch.