Lmaoo this is the picture ElMo doesn't want us to see

Thankfully, he can't run for president. And he's doing the exact same thing as Trump who even said publicly that he would become a Republican because they are easier to grift.

Almost all "altruism" and "philanthropy" is just whitewashing/ego stroking some Capitalist's ill-begotten gains.

Yep. He has an interview in a movie called Racing Extinction, and it was watching that that made me realise he only cares about money, he didn't do it to improve anything.

He only wrote that to improve image and sales.

Along this line of thought, what are the chances he’s being (more of) a right-wing chud in order to sell more of his stupid pickup truck?

I'd love that, but the way our stupid society works I think it's literally impossible to lose that much wealth

He'll become the Edison from our era, and I'm just want to stop hearing his name.

So long as we're talking about Tesla knockoffs, gotta love Nikola's attempt to fake it til they made it with absolutely no tech, rolling the prototype down a hill n hoping no one noticed.

They only have 4 models (not counting the cyber dump truck) that are pretty easy to tell apart. Small sedan or big sedan, small SUV or big SUV. Then basically do they have a dual motor badge and is that badge underlined (or does it have a plaid logo on the back). There you go. Almost literally all the permutations of Teslas.

My car doesn't have the model or engine size written on the back either, this is not exclusive to Tesla (although, depending on the make it might be an option to remove it when buying a car).

The manufacturer badge is usually enough, in my opinion. If you can't identify the model on the spot, as long as you can identify the brand and want to learn about the specific model you saw, you'll hit their website or dealership and identify it there. And with a brand like Tesla, that only has 5 fairly distinct models, it should be fairly easy to retroactively point out the model you saw - compared to a brand like BMW for example.

Occasionally they will have the model on a license plate frame.

But the only thing they have going for them is the electric side of things. If you put a combustion engine in a cybertruck it has nothing left.

Yeah... I doubt that.

There's just no reason to.

Why move backwards? Why give up the area where you have first mover advantage, making cars of the future, to instead try to compete with auto manufacturers who have been making that kind of car for the last eighty years. It's a losing proposition. It's not economical, it's not smart.

Newest tesla will be run by using EXPLOSIONS!

I've never heard that word before so I had to look it up. Because obviously my first thought was Ned Flanders from The Simpsons.

For anyone like me here you go...

Flanderization is the process through which a complex fictional character's essential traits are oversimplified to the point where they constitute their entire personality, or at least exaggerated while other traits remain, over the course of a serial work.

Do they suck? Tesla is king when it comes to efficiency. I hate it, I'm in the market for EV and while I'm buying a car on paper of the same spec and at half price.... It is a worse car and I wish someone else did model 3 but not tesla.

Hopefully Lucid or Xiaomi (yes I'd sooner give money to them than Musk) come soon enough.