honestly? even if the the last guy wins next time (I’d say his name but I don’t know if it trips automod to delete this for politics) and decides to outlaw electric cars, I don’t think he’d carve out an exception for Tesla, he seems to not like Elon very much, which is extremely funny to me tbh
yeah the whole aspect of the culture is a little… distressing lol
they DO benefit from that, that’s their entire business model, no almost about it
yeah, oil market is really complicated, we sell and buy back and resell and rebuy and stockpile and pull from the stockpile and cycle in and out and all kinds of other bullshit, it’s really fuckin stupid tbh
they play the long game, it’s been working out well for them
yeah and Ford brought Transit Connects over with extra seats they threw away when they got here, I would rather just get rid of the stupid tarriff than cause more stupid bullshit to get around it
nooooooooooo kiddin
probably some bullshit Elon said on twitter, which like, that dude lies so fucking much lmao
yeah let’s just check and see what the CEO of the company says about unions
uh ohhhh lmao
I am going to try to link an article about why this is but IDK if it’ll run afoul of the various rules about links and politics here. It’s a Salon article about someone who went to the NADA conference to see what dealers were doing with the EV transition and what they saw there.
if it gets nuked or something, let’s just say that a Certain Political Ideology common in car dealership owners is EXTREMELY Anti-EV on an institutional level. There’s an anecdote about someone the author talked to near the end that said that dealers are going as far as declining to sell fords any more at all rather than do the EV transition to Ford’s standards. Grim stuff.
wish we didn’t have the fuckin Chicken Tax in america so we would have a snowball’s chance in hell of getting cool stuff like this
Ok this doesn’t say whether it was confirmed by industry testing standards or not so I’m just gonna assume it’s Tesla lying as usual until the SAE gets involved
Ok this doesn’t say whether it was confirmed by industry testing standards or not so I’m just gonna assume it’s Tesla lying as usual until the SAE gets involved
yeah they’re all aimed like shit and don’t work right because tesla’s QC is abysmal and always has been, tesla lights are the worst aimed shit on the road, I can’t stand it when they’re behind me at night, I’ll slow down on the highway forcing em to pass me just so i can fucking SEE again, whether I’m in the lexus or the miata
that’s the car community at large tbh, they just weren’t as good at hiding it
lotta folks in this very subreddit who think they’re good at hiding it too
facebook is absolute dogshit for figuring anything out, it’s only “good” if all you want to do is post pictures of your car for seventeen likes
i basically only use reddit on desktop any more because they made the mobile experience so goddamn shitty, and i’ll be damned if i pay out the nose to fund reddit’s stupid ass API choices
to be fair the search on reddit is absolute dogshit and always has been
except now they don’t, because every time I search for anything (and I grew up on the fuckin forums so I know how to search properly) I get dozens of threads of asshats going “USE THE SEARCH FUNCTION” as a response to any question and no sign whatsoever of the actual answer to the questions that any of the OPs or I are trying to get answers to.
Forums are dead because the old heads drove off all the new blood doing shit like that, so everyone went to other websites to hang out instead.
They didn’t put all their eggs in one basket, they’ve still got a couple different types of hybrids AND regular gas cars AND are starting to come out with battery EVs like the BZ4X or whatever cat-across-the-keyboard thing they named it. That’s at least three baskets!