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Jaguar I-Pace How it started: in 2018 Ars Technica told readers to "forget about that Tesla", because the Jaguar I-Pace was "the most compelling EV yet". How it's going: it was so compelling that Jaguar stopped making…
Dyson EV How it started: in 2017 the BBC reported Dyson would spend £2bn on an electric car to take on Tesla, on sale by 2020. How it's going: Dyson scrapped it in 2019, saying it couldn't make it commercially viable.…
October 2026, Norway: Tesla 1,548. Best October EVER, beating 2024. Model Y the best-selling car in the country. France: 47,609 so far this year. Already MORE than all of 2024. The BBC ran "Tesla sales plunge after Elon…
When Visa and Dell put money into Trump Accounts, the BBC covered it. SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell and her husband are giving over 2 MILLION of their own SpaceX shares to children aged 11 to 17 in low income areas.…
Forbes writer Brad Templeton just got a Community Note. What he got wrong: • Tesla told Senator Markey remote operators only step in as a rare last resort, at 2 mph, not on normal trips. • He knew about that limit and…
2025, the BBC: "Tesla shares slump after European sales fall." "Tesla sales plunge after Elon Musk backlash." 2026: Tesla Europe UP 72.5% in September. France: 47,609 Teslas in ten months. MORE than all of 2024. Reuters…
Forbes headline: Cybercab "probably not unsupervised". Remote staff helping when a car gets stuck? Every robotaxi has that, Waymo included. Someone watching every Cybercab full time? No proof, just a guess. But a guess…
Skeletons are cruising round Austin in a car with no driver this Halloween. The @BBCNews still hasn't written a word about it. Too scared? 💀
Musk's midterm money gets a BBC explainer and a podcast. Bloomberg has put $60m behind House Democrats since September. The BBC hasn't written a word about it. Big money in politics is only a problem when it's Musk?
Toledo train crash: Starlink switches on FREE phone signal the same day. Madrid wildfires: same again. 270,000+ people connected. BBC reports on both: 8. Times Starlink got a mention: ZERO. Must have lost signal? 🛰️
Electrek's editor: Musk is "buying the midterms" because he's "afraid of democracy". In 2020, Bloomberg spent over a BILLION of his own cash on a short campaign. Billionaire political spending is only a crisis when it's…
EV sales are surging in the UK, says GB News. The two best-selling EVs driving it? Both Teslas. The safest. The longest range. The quickest. The best software. Funny how that part never makes the headline.
CNN's headline: Musk is the largest disclosed donor in modern American politics. Same article, much further down: the Democrat he's up against has raised $146m, more than 6x his rival's $22.3m. It only became news when…
The safest. The longest range. The quickest. The best software. No wonder Teslas are the UK's two best-selling EVs this year.
The BBC headline: Elon Musk's "toxic" X. The BBC then posted on X 659 TIMES in a single week. Four BBC accounts. 117 MILLION followers between them. Its main Threads account? 6 posts. EVER. The BBC doesn't hate X. It…
April 2025. The BBC: "Tesla sales plunge after Elon Musk backlash." What the headline left out: Tesla was retooling Model Y lines in ALL FOUR of its car factories for the new model. Tesla said the same day that the…
Petrol beats electric on road trips, right? Not in real life. London to Glasgow is about 400 miles. Nobody drives that without a break for the loo, a coffee and a stretch. The petrol driver fills up in minutes, then…
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