With FSD Beta evolving quickly, it’s fun to imagine where this technology takes us in a few years. Here’s some “Robotaxi Fan Fiction”: a couple of short stories about what the world might look like once this software is mature enough to enable driverless operation. Curbside Pickup Evelyn kneeled under her desk, unplugging her phone […]
On Sunday I was stuck in a nightmare scenario. It was the Sunday after Thanksgiving, and all of California was heading home from visiting family over the holidays. What’s normally a 5 and half hour drive between Los Angeles and Silicon Valley became a nine and a half hour drive, with much of the day […]
Missy Cummings is working hard this weekend to erase history after more than 35,000 people signed a petition to review her appointment to NHTSA for bias and conflict of interest. I’ll have much more to say on this later, but for now I just wanted to post the petition so that it’s still on the […]
We’re in an interesting spot in the EV revolution. On one hand, electric vehicles have gained enough momentum that it now seems more or less inevitable that they will grow to consume the entire passenger vehicle market in time. On the other hand, how and when that will happen remains a subject of fierce debate. […]
My stalker Aaron Jacob Greenspan and his fraudulent charity PlainSite have been hard at work on some new FSD misinformation that Green and a few others have commented on, so I wanted to share my thoughts with you here today. Greenspan and his short-selling “charity” have published the results of a freedom of information act […]
Hey, remember that large legacy automaker that made flashy promises about switching entirely to electric vehicles after they got caught cheating emissions tests and poisoning customers? I wonder how that transition is going? BERLIN (Reuters) – Volkswagen faces a fine of more than 100 million euros ($121 million) for missing EU targets on carbon dioxide […]
Ramping production of a new vehicle is absurdly expensive, and Rivian is learning that first hand as it pushes to bring it’s R1-T electric pick-up truck to market this year. The beloved electric vehicle startup has raised a fresh $2.65 billion in a new funding round that closed this week. Not only is Rivian working […]
It’s funny. For years, TSLA-Qanon has been assuring us that “the competition is coming”, and once it arrives legacy incumbents will wipe the floor with Tesla. Well, the competition is finally starting to arrive –– and it’s embarrassing. That’s right –– German luxury giant Mercedes-Benz has a new “urban entry model” EV, a compact SUV […]
Oh boy. With a headline like that, you know the story’s gotta be good: ZWICKAU, Germany—Five years and nearly $50 billion into the auto industry’s biggest bet on electric vehicles, Volkswagen VOW 2.05% CEO Herbert Diess and his guest, Chancellor Angela Merkel, stood in anticipation as the first ID.3, Germany’s long-awaited answer to Tesla, rolled off the assembly line. […]
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