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I shared this so people can understand my viewpoint. I can appreciate Tesla’s vehicles without signing off on Elon’s every decision. I can support both Tesla and Rivian. I’m confused by those who spend all their time bashing one or the other. There’s enough nuance to appreciate.

It may seem like I’m overly critical of Tesla, but that’s because I expect a lot from the company arguably doing the most to usher in an amazing future. 🚗💨 After 3 years and 60,000 miles, I can confidently say my Model Y has brought me more satisfaction than all my previous vehicles combined. It vastly surpasses the performance, comfort, and cost efficiency of the 15 or so vehicles I had before it. From Chevy to Mercedes, Nissan to Freightliner, there’s just no comparison. The software suite is smooth and reliable, and the maintenance is dirt cheap and easy as pie. Every day I drive Turtle, it still feels like a new vehicle. For most cars, that newness wears off around the one-year mark. With Tesla, part of what keeps it fresh is that the car keeps growing in capability. Waking up to a new option from an update isn’t all that rare when you drive a Tesla. That’s absolutely unheard of in legacy auto. ⚡ So take my complaints with the understanding that I know Tesla is superior, and it’s not even close. I expect a lot from Tesla, and they’ll still probably blow my mind with what they end up producing. 🤙🔥

You should delete your comment so you don’t keep sharing pro-tax sentiment when what they’ve already attempted is a sick type of punishment to drivers who are making your air cleaner to breathe. At 30 mpg, a driver would need to drive roughly 40,000 miles a year before a $250 federal EV fee would even begin to make sense. The federal gas tax is 18.4 cents per gallon, so $250 assumes about 1,359 gallons burned annually. At 30 mpg, that’s about 40,700 miles a year. Most people drive nowhere near that. So no, a flat $250 fee is not ‘fair.’ It’s an inflated penalty on EV ownership pretending to be math. Do you understand this now? $200 combined state and federal additional tax would exceed that of most gas car drivers. That your knee-jerk assumption is EV drivers need to pay more shows how effective legacy auto’s propaganda is. Be a critical thinker.

@GuyDealership Thanks for informing me. EVs still need to pay their fair share to keep the roads in good shape.

[NEWS] Congress is pushing a new federal fee on EV ownership: Republican Rep. Sam Graves plans on introducing legislation in early April, charging EV owners an annual fee to fund U.S. highway repairs. The proposed fee is $250 a year for EVs and $100 for hybrids. It follows: • A failed 2025 attempt at the same measure • A Senate proposal for a $1,000 tax on new EV sales • The elimination of the $7,500 federal EV tax credit in July under the OBBBA • And last week’s news that the DOJ is suing the California Air Resources Board Bottom line: Dealers navigating softer EV demand and fewer consumer incentives are now facing yet another headwind. Read today’s top automotive stories, presented by @lotlinx : carguymedia.com/4bxMzBj (Source: Reuters / Electrification Coalition)

@FreeBird_2023 @RpsAgainstTrump Mister zero jobs growth and $5 gas

@RpsAgainstTrump Missing the correct text at the top

JUST IN: Trump’s handpicked Commission of Fine Arts approved a general design for a 24k gold commemorative coin for the U.S. 250th anniversary featuring Trump’s image. “I motion to approve this as presented, and with the strong encouragement that you make it as large as possible, all the way to three inches in diameter,” the commission’s vice chair, James McCrery, said. Separately, the Treasury has said it plans to issue a $1 Trump coin that the Commission of Fine Arts approved in January. Straight-up banana republic stuff.

@__DigitalDealer @StockMKTNewz Many such cases. Money is a skeletonkey

@StockMKTNewz spent years building an export control regime and the co-founder of the supplier was the smuggling operation the whole time. you can't regulate what the inside man is selling

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@butala_aryan @EthanPh @MilMileBattery Yep. Around 3% above the estimated purchase price. That’s impressive considering how long ago the price estimate was released. I agree it’s a bargain

@EthanPh @drewbits @MilMileBattery Dual motor awd was initially unveiled at 49,990. So yeah the 59k cybertruck was a bargain for the comparable inflated price of 49k in 2019 to 63k in 2026

Not a single vehicle will be delivered to Uber for Robotaxi

@butala_aryan @EthanPh @MilMileBattery I’m just pointing out that your excuse for the Cybertrucks’ price doesn’t match reality. Mathematically, criticizing the company closer to their price promise doesn’t equate. I think the Cybertruck’s a great deal at $60k, and the market seems to agree.

Bro did you not just read? Tesla launched a 59k cybertruck and it sold so much they had to raise the price to match supply. 59k is less than 60k (you said they wouldnt launch one under 60k). I do not see rivian selling their cars out whatsoever. I honestly dont care if Elon's predictions are crazy or too optimistic. If you aim for the stars, you will get to the moon. The moon is a pretty great achievement too. "Its better to be an optimist and wrong, than a pessimist and right"

@butala_aryan @EthanPh @MilMileBattery If it was just inflation, we’d be talking a $50,700 Cybertruck and a $47,080 R2. There’s no plan for a Cybertruck below $60k, no? After adjusting, that puts the R2 closer to their target (+$3%) than the Cybertruck (+20%). It’s important to use the same measures when comparing

@drewbits @EthanPh @MilMileBattery The same measure would be adjusting for inflation like I said. Given the cybertruck was announced years before the production, time passes. With that, inflation.

@butala_aryan @EthanPh @MilMileBattery Sounds reasonable, but if you’re going to measure a company’s reliability by their price promises, use the same measure for each of them.

They launched the 59,990 Cybertruck for a short time. 59,990 is actually CHEAPER than the same spec dual-motor cybertruck unveiled originally due to inflation. As people are getting accustomed to it's polarizing design on the roads, it is becoming more mainstream, especially at that impressive price point. It has such high demand that new orders were showing delivery in April 2027. This is why they has to raise the price again until supply can match the demand. The Cybertruck's max output at GigaTexas is upwards of 100k units a year. This means they have gotten close to that amount in orders.

@butala_aryan @MilMileBattery I hope they succeed! I’m stoked to see developments by both companies. Tesla benefits from their scale. I’m concerned that Elon’s radar/lidar decision puts Tesla at a disadvantage. We’ll see whether vision-only has enough redundancy to keep edge cases from becoming accidents.

Tesla's scale at which they are making predictions are at a much higher order of magnitude than what Rivian is projecting for their coming years. It is like comparing apples to oranges (Rivians delivery predictions vs. actual deliveries) whereas Tesla is expecting millions of cybercabs produced yearly. Even if that number looks like a stretch, their acutal output of cybercab yearly could fall short at 750,000 units a year. This will still dominate the robotaxi market. At the very least, Tesla has a working prototype that is in its final stages before mass deployment. Rivian and Lucid are insects in the market in which they are just making statements about robotaxis. Tesla is already there.

@EthanPh @MilMileBattery Also, notice that I included both Rivian’s misses and beats. They were definitely shaky up until 2023, regularly revising expectations downward and missing even those I’m not biased towards or against either company. I drive a Tesla, it’s an amazing ride. FSD is a modern miracle

@EthanPh @MilMileBattery Where’s the $45k Cybertruck? Seems like Rivian’s offering is close to their estimate than Tesla, currently the cheapest Cybertruck is $70k. They have a hands-free system, even if it’s not everything a Tesla fanboy requires. Mostly highways and no stopping. It’ll improve.

Because they’re working with Nvidia, not some garage startup. Nvidia already powers or partners across a huge chunk of the industry, including Rivian, Toyota, GM, Mercedes, Volvo, Hyundai, JLR, Lucid, Aurora, Continental and others. Tesla’s already proven AI-driven highway and city driving can function in the real world, even if it still needs supervision rn. The hardest part isn’t whether AI driving is possible anymore, it’s getting from competent ADAS to robust unsupervised deployment. Rivian doesn’t have to invent the whole stack alone, and if you had to bet on who has the compute, tooling, simulation, and track record to close the gap, Nvidia’s about as strong a partner as you could ask for Saying they don’t have ADAS now is cope. It’s just limited to ~4 million miles of road in North America. It’s not anywhere close to FSD, for sure. But this deal provides extra research capital needed to make the next leaps.

@drewbits They don’t have a competent ADAS system now, why the fuck would you think they have an unsupervised self driving system 5 years from now lmao?

That’s pretty shallow reasoning. They have a decent track record since 2023. Elon’s made far more promises that never materialized. Rivian’s execution used to be shaky, now it’s decent. Arguing otherwise leans heavily into bias/reality mentality. Elon said in 2019 Tesla would have robotaxis with no human drivers in 2020. That did not happen. Elon also said riders would be able to “sleep” en route and that Tesla expected a dedicated robotaxi by 2024. That still hasn’t materialized. For posterity, Rivian’s miss in 2022 was a mess; they cut guidance from 50,000 to 25,000 vehicles, and then produced just 24,337. Supply chain was blamed for it. Rivian again missed in 2024… it started the year estimating 57,000 vehicles, then cut it to 47,000–49,000. Again blamed on parts. However, they did beat that estimate by 1.5%. Starting in 2023, their guidance has improved in stability and execution. They beat delivery expectations by 10% that year. So again, why do you think they won’t produce a single robotaxi?

@drewbits Rivian’s execution track record lmao

@OracleofMusk Why are so many Muskies rooting for Rivian to fail? Do y’all not believe in the benefits of healthy competition?

So uber will burn cash too. Rivian can't make a $25000 cybercab, would take a decade to get there. Short both

@KevinMelnuk @RJScaringe @cersmiami @Uber Definitely bulk deliveries. They’ll prioritize this, as it’ll be an amazing advertising opportunity. Rivian’s comrort level and fit and finish really shine.

@RJScaringe @cersmiami @Uber Absolutely love this! Curious if they’ll get bulk deliveries or scattered amongst regular customers. As an investor I love this and knew it was coming. R2 is wonderful for mobility.

I’m excited to announce a partnership with @Uber. As part of this, Uber plans to invest up to $1.25 billion in Rivian and deploy up to 50,000 R2 robotaxis. This partnership accelerates our path to Level 4 autonomy and supports our goal of building one of the safest autonomous platforms in the world—across both shared and personally owned vehicles. The combination of Rivian’s rapidly growing data flywheel, our in-house RAP1 inference platform (800 TOPS), and our multi-modal perception stack provides a powerful foundation to scale autonomy quickly and responsibly over the next couple of years.

@BouTreeFidy @cybrtrkguy Yeah, but diesel is $5/g and comes with a higher pollutant burden. Let that sink back out.

@cybrtrkguy BMW was making full sized cars that got over 40 miles per gallon average in the early 2000s. Let that sink in.

Cybertruck uses less energy per mile than a Toyota Prius Let that sink in.

@ponzisseur Man, your audience has some experience in the multiverse. For 30% to be confident that she’d lead us into this war (despite Biden not doing the same during his four years), is some insane cope. He got nearly 50x the amount she got from Israel, they knew he’d be easily convinced

Settling a debate… would the war in Iran be happening under Kamala?

@briandstone $110/mo for my Model Y Performance. The cheapest (per mile) vehicle I’ve owned Everyone knows these magazines outsource their facts to the highest bidder. I mean, aside from the target audience which can be identified by the knucklemarks and pools of drool they leave behind.

Why in the world is Consumer Reports quoting these insane, unrealistic insurance rates for Teslas? I’ve never heard of anyone paying $400/mo to insure a Model 3.