Reid Fenton

[Reid Fenton @RFenton]

@ResidentSponge Yes, especially when it comes to anything Musk related.

Also, who’s the Globe and Mail? Not joking, I’ve never heard of them, lol.

[Reid Fenton @RFenton]

@drewstweet @TechOperator What do you mean by especially the far north? Do you mean that there isn’t reliable electricity or that they don’t work in the cold? If the latter, I would point out that almost all cars sold today in Norway are electric. They work fine in the cold.

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@TheRealJamesFB @DJSnM @Erdayastronaut As @Erdayastronaut later posted, the corps is 42% women, so that’s not really true. Dominated implies a heavy majority and by adding very to that statement implies even more so. 58% hardly qualifies.

As to the original point, I for one thought the Gif was funny, not political.

[Reid Fenton @RFenton]

I like it, but I admit, without knowing who you were, I probably wouldn’t listen to more than a second or two.

YouTube is getting pretty cluttered with bot generated content, so generally if I don’t see the actual person talking pretty quickly on videos like this, I assume it’s just more bot content. There are other ways you could show this, but that’s probably the easiest and cheapest.

[Reid Fenton @RFenton]

@TheEVuniverse Awesome!

[Reid Fenton @RFenton]

@TheEVuniverse Hi Jaan, wondering if you’re going to do any more EV sales updates like you did for 2025 H1? https://t.co/1qxUwPcl6y

It was really great and I show it to people all the time who ask about owning an EV. But, it’s getting a bit stale as it’s a year old now.

[Reid Fenton @RFenton]

@mse47 @SciGuySpace Launching once every 12-18 months is basically just not competing when your main competitor is launching every 2-3 days on average (with Falcon 9). Yes, it’s a smaller rocket, but that’s neither here no there.

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@Jimnsheila2015 @SciGuySpace Well, if you take Jared’s view that we’re racing the Chinese to the moon and that a ‘28 landing has to happen to beat them, yeah, this kind of is devastating. SpaceX is behind schedule which is why the first couple of launches were awarded to BO this week.

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@better_huma_ity @SciGuySpace @blueorigin Which part is an exaggeration? Seemed pretty fair to me. The article basically said things will be rebuilt, but it’s going to take a while and that has an impact on NASA’s moon plans and US launch capacity.

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@andyweirauthor @DJSnM Too much astrophage!

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@TheEVuniverse I really don’t understand why legacy auto makers make such crap EVs then blame it on the market. I guess they just want to cover up their own failure, which I give @Ford under Jim Foley credit for owning their mistakes.

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@tomwarren Don’t they lose money? Not a surprise they’re trying to shore things up. Money losing and losing subscribers, prices will go up there just like in the US.

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The problem is that you’re comparing federal and state gas tax to just this proposed federal EV tax. In my state the state charges $175 to register an EV so adding this in would bring it to $305. My state also charges a per KW charging tax and they’ve raised those taxes 3 times in the last 3 years. Obviously this varies by state, but so do gas taxes. If you’re comparing combined federal and state gas taxes you have to compare them to combined federal and state EV fees. Not doing so is akin to the logic my state used to implement their per KW charging tax. They did so because they had no road taxes on EVs and that wasn’t fair…of course they forgot to mention the $175 a year registration fees that only EVs pay and that those funds go into the road repair fund…or the fact that six months prior they had raised it from $75 using the same reasoning. but you know, those were fees, not taxes.

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@JezCorden Yeah, I prefer digital, but it’s a shame to walk into Target and see zero XBOX games. I’m part of the problem too.

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@BillCassidy it’s unfortunate you lost, and I commend you on bucking the Republican trend to say elections were stolen when they weren’t, but I also have to say you fucked us by confirming the Democrat Kennedy.

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@PaulTassi @JezCorden Add a robots.txt file and block Google from indexing your page if you dislike it so much.

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@DMCtooTM3p @TeslaCharging @MdeZegher If I could add one and only one super charger location it would be Rice Lake. Spooner wouldn’t be bad either, but Rice Lake would be my first choice.

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@BouTreeFidy @SawyerMerritt @Tesla Yeah, they have to do that for other vehicles too. The chart accounts for that cost for both vehicles. I fail to see the lie.

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It’s $7,415 per car per year. For the four new ones that’s $29,662 a year, for all 9 they now have that’s $66,739 (assuming the existing ones have the same savings). That’s a lot especially considering they consider them to be better vehicles.

And yes, there’s plenty of room in the back for offenders.

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@theevwire Rivian for sure, though I’d like to see a Cybertruck in the mix.