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Where did you get the idea that manufacturers put out a product with new technology, new risks and no answers for what to do when something goes wrong? Tesla released their earliest “Emergency Responder Guide” (the official document providing best practices for first responders on high-voltage...

Thanks for the trip report. Sounds like a good one! I noticed you said the outbound trip was "primarily 70-75 mph" and the return trip was simply "sustained freeway speeds". Small changes in cruising speed will have a relatively large impact on efficiency. So, regardless of the many miles...

The impact in the cold is real, but very overblown! If you have a long winter trip (the only time winter range hit could even matter) and you preheat before you leave and keep speeds reasonable to the road conditions, the range hit is really minimal, especially compared to what all the EV...

I'm impressed with your marketing ability! You make it look easy to pimp the layering of a less durable material onto the nearly indestructible hardened stainless steel shell. That's a tall marketing order, but you are exceptionally talented at marketing! After 2+ years of harsh use, my...

You lose me when you have to cite a total edge case (towing huge trailer in winter/headwind 300 miles). Light consumer pickups are not the tool of choice for towing huge trailers long distances. Sure, somebody might do this, like a retired RV'er, but it's a niche market for consumers and even...

Even if we assume the REV MPG in gasoline mode matches an ICE truck (which I doubt), what kind of operator is going to want to take the risk of the truck being in the shop an excessive amount of time? Reliability is the number one consideration once you start including generating/charging power...

That sounds exactly like what I felt, but it was so subtle I wasn't sure if I was imagining it or not. With the most recent update ANC is gone from the audio menu. Not gonna miss it but I hope they have just recalled it to calibrate it better.

Of course not, no matter how Stellantis tries to market it, it's obviously a plug-in hybrid. Cox has separate data for BEVs (pure electric vehicles) and "electrified" gas hybrids. Electrified gas vehicles includes all hybrids (including PHEVs). Why is this even a question? Battery Electric...

Nice! I run the DuraTrack R/T's more than half the year and the OEM Wrangler Territory that came with the Foundation model for the 3 months that I don't need the lugs. The one thing I miss every time I put the bigger lugged tires on is the road handling. The noise is not bad, I don't like it but...

LOL! Efficiency won't be in the "high 90%", we already know that. The first part of the conversion process (from gasoline to electricity) will be in the 30-35% efficiency range, at best. Then around 5-10% losses on top of that to charge the batteries. When run on gasoline exclusively it won't...

Cost disadvantage: Check Service downtime: Check People sometimes forget that small fleet operators often need to pay one of their employees to drop off and pick up vehicles from a Service Department. The complexity of the truck with the V-6 and oil/filters will ensure it can't compete with...

Yeah, true. But auto/truck manufacturing is based upon high volume sales to get the price down. In other words, the REV is a money-losing project that doesn't make sense from a business perspective. It's already a failure, Stellantis just can't see it yet. The F-150 Lightning falls into the...

That could be, but "closeness" doesn't count when you're talking about whether it's an EV or not. We have 4 EVs and would never do that if each one had an auxiliary gasoline engine. The distinguishing feature of an EV is it doesn't have a gas engine. Saying it's "close" doesn't cut it for me...

I can't consider it a "pure" EV as long it has to go in for regular oil and filter changes. These have to be done on schedule even if you use it in EV mode all the time. And you had better not do that because the gas in the tank will gum up! If I had to regularly tow anything long distances I...

I doubt Tesla will close the proof of concept diner in L.A. anytime soon. They have 80 Supercharger stalls there and it's pretty popular. Based on it's success, they plan on opening more at other large Supercharger sites. Elon confirmed it again last month when he posted “More Tesla Diners...

I was using a cash machine across the ally from a local fire station. Their second story window looks down on it. Two of the fireman said they saw my Cybertruck and had to rush down to check it out in person. They were super positive and enthusiastic and wanted to familiarize themselves with it...

True. DEI hiring practices favor applicants based upon sex, race, religion, sexual "identity", etc. What politicized the conversation was the accusation that anyone with a dim view of DEI hiring policies was racist. If anything, it's the opposite, and taking violent offense to an innocuous...

Discrimination isn't complex to me, and that applies whether it's based on race, religion or sex. Discrimination based on irrelevant things shouldn't be tolerated. Full stop. There is no ambiguity. Don't hide behind "complexity" to try to fix past wrongs, it's just perpetuating it.

I was actually more offended by the vitriolic response to your comment than your actual comment. Racism/sexism are terrible things, and I hate to see it continued with policies that mandate considering the sex of a person or their race when hiring or firing. The sex/race of a person has nothing...

FSD does not get stripped when you sell it to the next owner, it remains with the vehicle for life. In fact, I've never heard of Tesla stripping FSD from a Foundation Series even after they accept it as a trade-in. Tesla has sold a number of Foundation Series Cybertrucks on their...