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It can wade through about 2.5 feet of water.

What's unreliable about the Model Y, other than some fit-and-finish issues? Does it have battery failures or mechanical/electronic problems? Most MY and M3 owners I have talked to …

You speak for all Canadians? Because I know a lot of Canadians (and I'm from there, myself) who are quite disenchanted with the Liberal Party.

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Pre-Trump, I had a paid online subscription to Guardian for a time, because it was so well written and informative. After 2016, however, they seemed to adopt a firm anti-MAGA stanc…

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Why not? What do you have against the 139,999 employees of Tesla who are not named Musk?

It’s nothing to do with my liking or disliking them. Maybe try formulating an argument that doesn’t have the word “you” in it.

And they have too much power, and sometimes abuse it. Or do you imagine that these agencies are completely perfect and free of corruption?

Electric cars do have an effect on urban air pollution, though. Chinese cities have really cleaned up the air and become more breathable recently, for example. You used to have bla…

If such bizarre actions were to actually take place, Tesla’s brand will be the least of our problems. It’s like saying that if Musk unleashes a billion Optimus robots to take contr…

Like many unicorns. During the Dot Com era, when Oracle chief Larry Ellison was briefly thought to be lost at sea on his sailing yacht, Oracle’s stock tanked, then recovered after …

Many such bureaus have been established over the years that have extralegal powers existing basically outside the Constitution. I’m thinking of the NLRB, CFPB, FBI, IRS, and severa…

The permanent bureaucracy exists outside of checks and balances.

Tesla is not just cars. Their large scale solar power storage business is growing, they manufacture batteries, they have the largest charging infrastructure for end users, massive …

Also, Elon != Tesla car owners.

I can find no evidence that Musk was involved in the Bud Light boycott. Do you have a link?

A smooth and picture perfect launch, docking, and return to Earth. Congratulations to SpaceX, NASA, the astronauts and all personnel involved. I’m surprised there isn’t more intere…

The Chinese are ahead in the mass manufacturing and commoditization of electric vehicle batteries, but there are still some interesting innovations coming out of the U.S. and Europ…

I’m also a data point for excellent Toyota service from the dealership where we bought our Prius. From the concierge who holds your hand throughout the visit, to the free lunch vou…

Standard supply side theory. Reduce tax overhead, reduce size of government, increase availability of capital for private investment, give people back the money to either spend, st…

Less than 1%. 45,000/400 = 0.89%. It was reported that they were not critical workers. Perhaps some will be rehired. A review of hiring procedures is underway. It's recently been r…

Lack of MagSafe is disappointing. How much would it have cost to include? It's an intriguing feature that distinguishes iPhones from Android competitors. I wonder if the intention …

> "Maybe those jobs were important." It's been reported that 400 new hires on probationary status were let go. None of them were involved in safety related operations. The FAA has …