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While the 100% Chinese EV tariff was probably much higher than it needed to be, the moves Biden was making seemed to be all the right ones. It was driving a big investment in US EV supply chains. Even at 50% it probably would have provided the space needed to develop US based EV supply chains...

Musk Robot driven by Telepresence? :biggreen:

This seems like FUD. How much time do you spend in your car? Do you do much data sensitive tasks involving security while there? OTOH, how much time of day do you spend attached to your probably Chinese made smartphone? Do much data sensitive tasks involving it? I'd be much more worried...

What are you some kind of Robot Racist? Those are Red-Wired American Robot jobs we are protecting in those dark factories. How else will Lord Musk get his next Trillion...

Did you actually watch that? It has, what sounds like the first Robot Voiceover ever done, totally disconnected from the video.

Just a like a new ICE Honda, or a used ICE Porsche, I find these kinds of comparisons Apples vs Oranges. People buy new Honda for new car warranty, and lower maintenance costs. The same will apply to new Leaf vs an Old Porsche EVs. "Hah!, I'm driving a used Porsche for the price of a new...

PHEV existed as a term for a quite a while before Volt. The idea didn't originate with Volt and Plugin Hybrid seems to be a widely used term before the even the original Volt concept was shown in 2007. It's just the obvious term for it. https://docs.nlr.gov/docs/fy06osti/39614.pdf...

Also. Tesla licensed drive train tech from AC Propulsion. The AC tZero was the inspiration for the Tesla Roadster which surely would not exist without it. https://www.autoweek.com/car-life/classic-cars/a35673804/tesla-before-it-was-tesla/

That's more dismal than I would imagine. I wonder if there are additional factors, like higher prices (Tariffs?) or limited supply on the sedans.

Name recognition, First mover advantage, Tesla Superchargers (unaware they are open to other brands), oblivious to recent (past 3+ years) events??

If it's not street legal. I consider it a race car, so it should be compared to other race cars.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzBt2XGQMxo

" SpaceX last month acquired Musk’s loss-making AI startup xAI for $250 billion." Another day, another Oligarch scam...

Soldered in Storage really bothers me. But my concern stops when storage is replaceable without a soldering iron. You can add tons of external storage pretty easily.

Is your complaint that Apple made it harder than just using standard NVME cards? It's more involved, but you an change/upgrade the SSDs in a Mac Studio, and you can buy the modules from third party companies like Polysoft. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mQae-1mOdE

The closest things in the PC world to a Mac Studio, are Halo Strix machines. Halo Strix has soldered in RAM as well. Theoretically someone could do lower performance socketed RAM but no one does.

I don't think it was hard to see this coming. It always seemed like the ARM Mac Pro was a legacy specialty card support machine. 6 years is a reasonable amount of time for most of the HW to transition to external Thunderbolt/USB-C boxes.

It's a hefty price to pay for PCIe slots that most people just don't need. I think this leads low unit sales, so much harder to make a business case for.

If Apple knew they would never ship a car, they wouldn't have invested. At some point they must have projected a profitable business case. OTOH Mac Pro likely sold in such low numbers, that unit profit never pays back the R&D. IOW no projected profitably business case.

Yet we are still stuck in the loop of Full ATX boards being the most popular route to housing one card (the GPU). I only wanted a GPU slot but I still ended up buying full ATX because that is where the decent affordable MBs were...