Well it's not a Tesla or a lame ass leaf but I did place an order to build a 2022 Jeep Wrangler 4xe PHEV. Lease deals are insane right in now, was originally looking at Kona EV and VW ID4 but 4x4 and towing package on a 61k vehicle for the same monthly payment is nuts.
Just hope it arrives by May so I can capitalize on the equity from my Subaru lease. Carvana vroom and CarMax are offering 7K over buyout already.
Tesla has another recall...this time because of the Boombox feature. For those unaware, newer EV's need to have a pedestrian speaker that emits a noise when traveling less than 18 mph. While Tesla's made after 2019 or 2020 already have the speaker that emits a noise, Tesla added a feature called "Boombox" where you could upload your own sound to play while the car is driving or in park. The NHTSA didn't like the fact that owners could use the feature to say troll people with the Ice Cream Truck sound while driving so now Tesla is doing an update to remove the option to use Boombox while driving.
https://www.space.com/spacex-starlin...magnetic-storm
40 of the 49 Starlink satellites launched last week fail to make orbit due to a geomagnetic storm.
https://www.space.com/spacex-starlin...-deorbit-video
Yesterday, they burned up over the skies of Puerto Rico.
Biden still refuses to acknowledge Tesla as the leader in EV's mainly because they are non Union. Musk has even gone so far as to invite the UAW to Freemont recently. The big thing that most people don't understand is that they voted before, and the employees didn't want to go Union. The argument is that they are paying above Union wages and if they go union, people will leave for other jobs with better pay.
Musk has challenged Putin to single combat. Jake Paul claims he's going to make the fight happen.
Maybe two of my favorite headlines in a while.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1503327421839417344
https://twitter.com/jakepaul/status/1503437754331541515
I think this is probably the least important detail but why 10k retweets? Does he need to gauge interest in a Elon/Putin 1v1 fight? Are 10k retweets supposed to be the biggest obstacle in arranging it? Is he just exploiting an invasion for social clout and twitter numbers?
Jake Paul seems like a huge asshole but I'm 100% sure he is just joking lol
i enjoy that Elon is wagering Ukraine like if he loses it's gg lay down your arms soldiers
A South African that moved to the United States of America is going to fight the pseudo-czar of Russia for either the ownership or freedom of the Ukraine.
This is probably actually fairly close to the future that the founders of the League of Nations dreamt of.
If dude was going to go to the trouble of spelling his name in Cyrillic he could at least write it correctly.
Man truly is a space case. >.>
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61253171
US District Judge Lewis Liman has rejected an attempt to stop a SEC investigation into Musk's tweets on taking Tesla private. Musk said the SEC was infringing on his free speech.
Elon Musk has lost a bid to get out of an agreement made with regulators requiring oversight of his tweets about his car firm Tesla.
The settlement was made after he tweeted he had "funding secured" to potentially take Tesla private despite a deal not being close.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) accused Mr Musk of misleading investors with the 2018 tweet, which caused Tesla's share price to fluctuate.
Mr Musk's lawyers argued that the SEC's pursuit of him "crossed the line into harassment" and interfered with his right to free speech.
"Musk cannot now seek to retract the agreement he knowingly and willingly entered by simply bemoaning that he felt like he had to agree to it at the time but now — once the spectre of the litigation is a distant memory and his company has become, in his estimation, all but invincible — wishes that he had not," Mr Liman wrote.
The agreement in 2018 required Mr Musk and Tesla to pay $20m each in civil fines and for him to step down as the chairman of the electric car maker.
It also required Mr Musk to obtain approval from Tesla's lawyers for tweets and other public statements about the company.
The SEC's probe is about tweets Mr Musk posted on 6 November, asking his more than 80m Twitter followers whether he should sell 10% of his stake in Tesla.
A majority of those who voted in the poll said he should sell the stake and Mr Musk has since sold more than $16bn worth of Tesla shares.
Tesla's share price fell in the wake of the poll and the SEC is investigating whether those tweets were cleared by Tesla lawyers before they were posted.