Our brother in law said Ford has come out with an electric truck with such good batteries that they provide a cord so when you see a Tesla out of juice you can give them a charge, he said they're smug enough to list that as a feature. It amazes me how such a total boob as Musk can be successfully PRed as a genius.
And so far as I know the Tesla truck is still not in production.
My son-in-law is an ME with a lifelong obsession with cars, and he tells me Teslas are shit. So I believe it. I do know one here in Houston a few years back drove into a tree and exploded into flames the FD couldn't put out for hours (everytime the extinquished it it burst into flame again). The story seems to have been that the owner and his buddy, after a few drinks, decided to take it out for a spin. It appeared the driver got into the back seat with the passenger to show off the "self-driving" ability of the car.
Tesla insisted that feature was not in use, but no one could explain why what little was left of the bodies (the fire was INTENSE) were found in the back seat. Tesla also didn't do a good job explaining why the car burned so hot and so easily.
I'm old enough to remember when "flaming coffin of death on four wheels" was a TV trope when a car went "out of control" and preferably over a ledge or hillside (usually somewhere near Hollywood). Maybe cars burned a bit easier 60 years ago, but aside from Pinto's in the '70's it's a rare thing in the last half-century. And then Tesla came along, and I remember reports that you shouldn't park them in your garage. Because, you know....
Yeah, anybody with money we decide is a genius. "If you're so smart, how come you're not rich?" I'm no sure we'll ever learn that lesson.
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