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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • Unsurprisingly, Musk has disparaged Tesla Takedown as something astroturfed by wealthy liberals (and conflated the peaceful movement with attacks in which suspected arsonists threw Molotov cocktails at dealerships). On Saturday, he claimed without evidence on X that an “investigation” of some kind had revealed that wealthy philanthropists including George Soros, Reid Hoffman, and Leah Hunt-Hendrix were funding the groups behind Tesla protests through the Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue. Aside from misrepresenting how ActBlue works — it doesn’t fund anything but is rather a system through which donors can send money to Democratic political candidates and liberal organizations

    “It couldn’t possibly be the consequences of my actions, it’s wealthy liberals conspiring against me!”

    He deserves it and so much more.


  • Oh I meant more that I would be more comfortable using the Leaf for road trips if I could reliably fast charge without degrading the battery. Not so much worried about fast charging for around town use.

    I hope you’re right, but I suspect it’ll still be many years before those 1000KM range models trickle down to the used market and even then, like the 7 seaters I mentioned, they will still probably retain a higher price. I actually think demand for EV’s is going to increase in the the next couple of years, especially if this government or the next enacts the plan for RUCs for all vehicles.




  • I don’t think I could stomach that amount for a car too! Unless I win lotto or something.

    Honestly I think it’s a pretty good time to keep an eye out as EV prices have dropped a lot and there are more popping up as used. I’ve been looking at car listings every couple of days for weeks. If you don’t mind Chinese and Korean cars, there have been 2-3 year old Kia Niros, BYD and MG’s showing up every so often around 28-35K. They usually get sold pretty quick too. Can also find the older 2018-19 Ioniqs for less than 20K. In fact there are a couple here in Hamilton for around 15-18K. Unless you need something much bigger, then you’re going to have to wait I think! Hopefully in a year or two there will be even more models available.

    I contemplated changing the Leaf instead so we can not worry about fast charging when out and about, but we really need something bigger first.