Musk is a cunt and Tesla are shit

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65981876

Desperate - these are two of the richest and most powerful men this planet has ever known.

Would prefer a pistol duel so we'd at least have a 50/50 chance of losing one of them. Even better - get Tesla to make a ray gun, which would inevitably explode and take them both out.

Can we persuade them to stage it in a submarine? Musk owns one, after all.

What a pair of fucking losers

It's a fight that I hope they both lose, but if I had to choose, I hope that Zuck kicks the absolute shit out of him.

No chance this will actually happen in a meaningful way

For years, now, Tesla has rigged their car dashboards to exaggerate the potential range and has a special team to deal with (and mute) the inevitable customer complaints.

This could strand drivers and their passengers in dangerous situations, but sure, trust this gimp to sell you a car.

How dare you doubt the real life iron man who has single handedly invented, electric cars, hyperloop and space travel!

That make so much sense reading/watching people who suddenly ran out of power (like the one in Westfield blocking all the drivers from exiting), and their range is impressively long for an EV.

Do electric cars have a clutch? My milk float didn't. Does a modern EV have a way of disengaging the drive so you can push it around?

You put it in neutral

Teslas have a tow mode which disengages the brakes and motors to allow the wheels to spin without resistance.

I assume most other EVs have exactly the same.

If you look at that Tesla breaks down story, a car ran out of fuel in November, 10 other cars were briefly inconvenienced before they were guided past it. Breakdown service then turned up.

If you do manage to completely flatten your Tesla there is an emergency connection behind the cover for the front towing eye.

Looks like Twitter is finally going from iOS. Threads time?

I deleted twitter / x from my phone today - cba with it.

There's a twatter thread already full of x-rated rants
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/131401/?offset=1000#comment17069294

Sounds like you need a way to select tow mode when the battery has run out. I bet there is a way. You wouldn't design an EV without it, would you? Perhaps a case of RTFM. But maybe the manual can only be displayed when the battery has some juice? Some things need to be on paper.

Seems pretty obvious

To start, you’ll need to open the fuse box in your vehicle and locate the “N” brake-shift interlock relay. Next, depending on the model of your Tesla, remove either one or two relays from their clips.

You’ll then be able to slide them down so that they are free from their clips. Now insert two small paper clips into the two holes for each relay.

Admittedly loads of different methods came up, all with no reference to model or anything. Definitely not what you'd want if you'd broken down in the middle of the road (or car park ramp).

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As long as he goes first.

I didn't know about the starlink being cut story before. But if anyone needed another good reason not to touch musk with a bargepole.

Must delete my twitter fully.

I don't have any sympathy with him - in particular his decision to close it down on operations that he didn't fancy.

However, he's probably not wrong that his company didn't develop it to be used in wars. I imagine he either needs to extricate himself from it, or (better) the governments involved need to do similar.

his company didn't develop it to be used in wars

The problem Musk has is that SpaceX has been funded directly by the US department of defence on multiple occasions - so it has been co-developed to be used in wars

Also he volunteered it to be used in the war

Also, he’s a cunt