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04-18-2024, 2:27pm | #2661 | |||||||
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I'm anti-bullshit, not anti-EV. Being told that a fleet of Cyber"trucks" will save a landscaper $78k per year... bullshit. Being told that Teslas have "zero maintenance", never break, and will apparently go to 500k miles with no issues whatsoever... bullshit. Being told that they help the environment... bullshit. The plethora of cherry-picked, twisted, and spun arguments telling us how great Elon is... bullshit. EVs working in some markets in the Amazon system with the Amazon infrastructure, sure. You want to have an honest discussion about benefits and flaws, great. There are both of those things. Being completely incapable of admitting the negatives and deflecting every time anything comes up, not so much. Putting together a sales pitch completely devoid of reality defending Elon and everything he does at all costs, again, not so much. GSC3 is completely incapable of acknowledging anything even remotely negative about EVs and in turn keeps pitching out absolute nonsense trying to defend them. His $137k Petunia could burn to the ground tomorrow and he'd be on here telling us that it was a great thing because the heat helped him to keep his meal hot. |
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Tell me you have ZERO clue of what is going on at Amazon, without actually coming out and saying you have ZERO clue what is going on at Amazon. Oh wait, you already did. Never mind. |
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The only RE debt I have is less than $100k on my primary residence. The other homes are free and clear and I hope to have my primary residence paid off in 4 years. My last Mortgage payment is Nov. 2025 but I also have $80k in HELOC debt remaining.. Not a lot.
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Central FL is full of the EV Amazon vans. Its all I see anymore. No idea how many miles an Amazon driver goes in day, Id be wondering about range, but perhaps in a small city they aren't going more than 300 miles. |
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The drivers said they use the EV's for in city delivery only, no out of town, remote areas. They also hate the large windshield, sun cooks them, but they have a cooled seat, that barely makes them comfortable. |
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I just read that the Rivian vans have Iron Phosphate battery that can be charged to 100% every day. The vans have about 200 mile range but they are limiting it to 150 to protect the battery and get more years of service out of the vans.
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When you say it, you always exaggerate to things like "heavy trailers across the country in freezing weather through the mountains". No, the limitation is hauling things anywhere beyond a single metro area. Not cross country. Not only in mountains. Not only in freezing weather. You twist it to make it sound like it's some incredibly small percentage who is doing abnormal things. The reality is they suck at hauling things any farther than a local Home Depot. When you talk about road trips you inevitably feel the need to add some bullshit about "normal people", "danger to others", etc, etc. to minimize the limitations. It's not just people that cannonball wherever they are going. I don't know of a single person that wants to sit in a gas station for an hour at a time, multiple times in a day. You spin it so that it's unsafe, abnormal drivers who piss in bottles and tape their eyes open. The reality is that to anybody who doesn't want to stop for hours in a day, they suck for long distances. Again, you always twist, spin, and caveat the limitations to make it sound like it's the drivers that are the problem. Quote:
With that said, I would certainly hope that having to have your car towed is not a common thing in 2024. That also wasn't the comment. You, as you always do, have deflected and twisted into something else. The discussion wasn't about them breaking within a year. It wasn't even about the "minor" things, although I'd imagine most owners who spent a million dollars on a fleet would get annoyed when every 1 of them had a dozen "minor" issues. The comment was directed at your idiotic "500k miles" claims. It was directed at your bullshit that they will somehow drive for all eternity and never break with no maintenance. Again, that 500k mile thing. Like I said. Bullshit. Quote:
When faced with that topic, you deflected to only the battery and some hypothetical future state that doesn't even exist at this point. You deflect. You twist. You ignore the reality. It's what you do. So no, the reliability argument is not BS. The reliability argument is absolutely relevant until you twist it into something else to try to support your Elon narrative. Quote:
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They deliver what's in the van and go swap it for another one that's already loaded. Having short routes and twice as many trucks as drivers so they are always charging as the other is running is what allows them to be successful. |
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I was going to trade in all three of my ICE race cars today and get me one of those amazing cyber****s, but saw this and decided to hold off:
Tesla recalls Cybertruck due to accelerator pedal that can stick https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/19/busin...all/index.html |
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You're correct of course. My 2014 Vette has had two sets of tires. It gets an annual oil & filter change. I've changed the wiper blades a couple of times. That's pretty much it for maintenance in over 10 years of ownership and over 40,000 miles. |
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Good GOD those things are hideous to look at. Just when I thought tesla owner couldn't possibly have worst taste in vehicles. |
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I got a black loaner SUV from Cadillac this week, no tinted windows. I was stunned by how much hotter that car is. I can only imagine that windshield with no tint being terrible. |
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If you are a business, you need your work vehicles to perform a job. It does not matter if they have perfect panel gaps or if the cup holder doesn't stay retracted or that weatherstripping is coming loose. Not sure about frequency of engine failure but it is a statistical FACT that the average car lasts 200k miles. https://cascadecollision.com/blog/wh...%2C000%20miles. It doesn't really matter what the cause is that cars are scrapped. It's usually because repairs at that mileage exceed the value of the car. That's when most cars are scrapped. I owned very very few cars that I owned past 150k miles. Last high mileage cars were my wife's Grand Caravan which we kept to 220k or 230k miles or so and a Silverado 1500 V6 that had 170k miles. I had so many issues with that truck.. Engine and transmission were fine but lots of issues with injectors, fuel system and many other issues. I was wrenching on that thing all the time. Had I paid a mechanic for all the work I did, I would have exceeded the value of the truck many times. |
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