EV owners of today and tomorrow

[D&D]

now we try to figure out why. So now lots of spare time in hospital chair to read TBN this week, next week??

Damn sorry to read this. Good news, it wasn’t her time so you’ve got more time together.

 

[sd455dan]

I've been in a few of those cars and owned one on that list. The Buick Encore.

The Encore was similar in size the the Nissan Rouge, and a few other brands.

Had a Kia soul and a Chevy versa as rental cars.

The soul wasn't too bad to drive and surprisingly roomy.

The Versa I rented for 24hrs to drive home from the Houston airport when I got stranded there at 1pm in the afternoon. Flight canceled and wouldn't get out till mid morning the next day.

That versa was absolutely horrible.
It was a toaster oven on wheels.

Had a tractor trailer blow past me in texas and I almost got tossed off the road.

I was so worn out driving that thing home, from fighting to keep it on the road

I need to try this in a parking lot, this guy was at a Costco which are a bit tricky

 

[Grumpycat]

I need to try this in a parking lot, this guy was at a Costco which are a bit tricky

I haven't been brave enough.

 

[Grumpycat]

Tried A.S.S. Monday.

First place it started backing out of a parking space, turned the wrong way to come to me. And then I chickened out fearing it was backing into a curb.

Second attempt was in a busy Walmart parking lot. Everyone kept driving and walking behind it even with backup lights on. But it eventually got to the front of the store and stopped diagonally in the lane. I loaded my groceries anyway.

Then my free trial expired at midnight.

I think A.S.S. might be something I could use in the future but am glad to be rid of FSD (Supervised). Lots of times I simply wanted cruise control, but never figured out how to get FSD off the single click activation. Finally figured out how to disable the full screen animation when FSD was selected.

So, no FSD subscription for me. Happy to have my car back to the way it was last month.

 

[Grumpycat]

The haters must hate. This is in the back of my Model Y:

Harbor Freight had on Black Friday sale for $800. So I bought the 2 year warranty for $250. Said to be as good as the old Sears Roebuck warranties.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

They make great generators

 

[Grumpycat]

And now for something different:

 

[sd455dan]

Tried A.S.S. Monday.

First place it started backing out of a parking space, turned the wrong way to come to me. And then I chickened out fearing it was backing into a curb.

Second attempt was in a busy Walmart parking lot. Everyone kept driving and walking behind it even with backup lights on. But it eventually got to the front of the store and stopped diagonally in the lane. I loaded my groceries anyway.

Then my free trial expired at midnight.

I think A.S.S. might be something I could use in the future but am glad to be rid of FSD (Supervised). Lots of times I simply wanted cruise control, but never figured out how to get FSD off the single click activation. Finally figured out how to disable the full screen animation when FSD was selected.

So, no FSD subscription for me. Happy to have my car back to the way it was last month.

I tried the navigate home from inside the Walmart lot, car turned the wrong way also. I did use the parking ap and it did well.

Noticed Tesla sent me an email Your free trial to FSD has expired Would you like to pay $99 a month to extend it? Not yet for me either. I will miss the expanded visualization.

 

[fatjay]

Biden administration to loan $6.6B to EV maker Rivian to build Georgia factory that automaker paused.

So we are going to loan 6.6 billion to a company that is having problems showing any profit. Can I write that loss off on my taxes when the company defaults?

That is more money than the US Department of Interior, Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, most of the departments cost to run, and in return we get...an overpriced auto company from sanfrancisco. One that didn't have enough sales to survive on it's own because no one wants to pay 100K for a car.

What's the point of giving a loan to a company that builds a product that the average citizen can't even afford to buy?

 

[Thall303]

Who really makes this absurd decision?