Tesla Motors

Why do Teslas never have front license plates even in states that require them? Did they not design for that?

There are continual arguments in every EV owners forum as to how much front license plates disrupt aero efficiency with little in the way of convincing results one way or the other. The dealer for my Mach-E asked me if I even wanted the front plate bracket installed. I chose to leave it off - I'd like to believe that the extra 0.01 in aero (or whatever it is) does matter.

"Stick around TeslaBros, we'll show you how to make deep-dish pizzas on the dash of a Cybertruck using only the power of a burning sun in a climate gone mad - but first, we have to have a serious talk about pedestrian deaths. You're not killing enough hahaha!"

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Beyond Thunderdome / Tron auxiliary vehicle

Honestly thought the revive was about this

https://jalopnik.com/whistleblower-drops-100-gigabytes-of-tesla-secrets-to-g-1850476542

well that's fabulous news

phantom braking it just happens nbd

It's just their way of making sure you're awake. Better pay for that blue check before your car goes HAL 9000 on you.

Better than Audi's "uncontrolled acceleration!"

There are continual arguments in every EV owners forum as to how much front license plates disrupt aero efficiency with little in the way of convincing results one way or the other. The dealer for my Mach-E asked me if I even wanted the front plate bracket installed. I chose to leave it off - I'd like to believe that the extra 0.01 in aero (or whatever it is) does matter.

Are front plates optional for everyone?

I live in Maryland, where front plates are required, and saw two Teslas with front plates this morning. I think you just have to have the holes drilled. I had never heard the aerodynamics argument previously - only "it makes my car look bad!"

Front plates are required here, don't know if you'll be pulled over but you may be ticketed when parked. (Often - always? - the same thing for backing into parking spots.)

There are plenty of gasoline-powered cars which have aerodynamic fronts.

I live in Arkansas, a one-plate state. When I moved to Minnesota, a two-plate state, I had to get a bracket installed on the front. And when I moved back to the one-plate state, I kept the license plate on the front as a souvenir, at least until the state trooper stopped me and said I couldn't have two different state license plates on my car.

(Which makes sense, I guess.)

When I lived in North Carolina, there was a cart in the mall where you could buy novelty plates to put in your front plate holder.

We've got an airbrushed pegasus on ours, bought as a joke 15 years ago, but now, I wouldn't be able to find the car without it.

_There are continual arguments in every EV owners forum as to how much front license plates disrupt aero efficiency with little in the way of convincing results one way or the other. The dealer for my Mach-E asked me if I even wanted the front plate bracket installed. I chose to leave it off - I'd like to believe that the extra 0.01 in aero (or whatever it is) does matter._


Yeah but I’m pretty sure states that have two license plates require that both be displayed, front and back. I see this phenomenon on other luxury vehicles too, Teslas just seem to be the worst offender. Not sure how these guys aren’t being stopped by cops.

plus they may be cops

No one may ever get the chance to make pizza on that stupid dashboard, because it's barely a car or truck: "Leaked Tesla report shows Cybertruck had basic design flaws.

time to load my tree into my new vehicle and carry it triumphantly home through the snow

Cybertruck struggles to get up a small, slippery hill while carrying a Christmas tree. pic.twitter.com/H13KMzA59W

— 🎄 Blue Tesla 🎄 (@BlueTeslaEV) December 12, 2023

Canyonero!

I'm sure this has been mentioned somewhere before, but I just realized that the Cybertruck reminds me of Danger Mouse's car, the Mach III

https://occ-0-2794-2219.1.nflxso.net/dnm/api/v6/9pS1daC2n6UGc3dUogvWIPMR_OU/AAAABb_28aFggX22mGKbCVkJv8XTbadAvyhGJ-a8NPPEcp_Y-TFqt5K1ajqXOkmV9rkX_ewN89kUx5wyxfcJgOVnVtxLLFVUNHjl-nL9yHKSw5SBRscBU2s8j7Rq.jpg?r=dee

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/r8iGirYfejw/hqdefault.jpg

Not only is that Tesla Truck struggling, it appears to be struggling even while being winched. Which is to say, rescued.

I hate to give them any credit, but off-road wheels aren't the same as hauling junk on roadways wheels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQx3_aCWQsU

Oof:

Shares in Tesla plunged as much as 11% after the market opened Thursday, wiping $73 billion off the company’s market value hours after it warned of slowing growth in electric car sales and an existential threat from Chinese rivals.

lol none of that is news, what is up with investors

I don't follow this stuff that closely, outside of passive schadenfreude, but I guess there was just an earnings presentation with bad news. Bad news always hits worse when it's coming from the actual company.

https://wapo.st/3UD1Iu2

ya so i ride my road bike on this relatively short, narrow, very winding, very very rich road probably 2 maybe 4 times a year in summer. i use a road, witter, that turns off this road about half a mile before the crash location. it's a lovely spot and nowhere to drunk drive or autopilot. because you know what? you belong in jail.

Current WaPo headline:

A Tesla employee often used Full Self-Driving. He died in a fiery crash.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

(Spoiler alert: he was also drunk, which probably didn't help things.)

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