Traditional automakers are coming to give Elon a wedgie. Their experience and cautious approach moves slowly and doesn’t break things.
All that said, the inside baseball on the F150 lightning is that ford didn’t expect to sell nearly as many as they are going to. They expected to dip a toe in the electric truck market but consumers (probably not the workers that Farley refers to) really want their product
I kinda believe aptera will get there under very limited conditions if they ever actually sell a vehicle
Never needing to charge through regen violates thermodynamics. Even if you imagined a perfect regen system that reclaimed 100% of kinetic energy, most of your losses in EVs come from drag (tires and wind resistance) and you don’t get that back
Do you think that DHL and FedEx have enough excess capacity for the additional load? UPS processes a huge portion of the market and all of these companies are pretty lean by design
A good portion of LiberaPay was written in a coffee shop in NE Ohio
They do, but never at the scale Tesla does. No legacy automaker would be fucking around with “autopilot” marketing language and overselling it so extensively, for example. They also tend to have a pretty good idea when their products will become available, unlike the cyber truck thus far