Summary
A leaked State Department document revealed plans for a $400 million contract potentially favoring Tesla, despite earlier denials.
The document indicated an aggressive bid for armored electric vehicles linked to Trump-era revisions, while Biden’s administration had only budgeted $483,000 for a related study.
Experts questioned the feasibility of using Tesla’s Cybertruck due to technical and safety issues, with Musk and the White House downplaying the deal.
Critics and security professionals expressed skepticism about replacing traditional armored vehicles with modified EVs.
Would these be used for military purposes, or for VIP transportation?
Either way I don’t think any current EV platform is suitable, but the Rivian R1S or delivery van might be the closest.
GM actually might be in the best position. They need to electrify Suburbans anyway. They could easily adapt the Silverado platform to suburbans, or the hummer EV to more of an H1 type and then work on armoring them up. But their CEO isn’t pulling the president’s strings like Tesla’s is, so what we’ll end up with it’s a shit ton of government money spent on a product no one will actually want to use.
Nah, the weight differences are huge. An armored EV vehicle would likely need to be built from the ground up.
What about the Hummer EV? Horribly inefficient but a ridiculously large battery to drag 10,000 pounds around. Surely that could carry some armor
can you imagine people going to war in these stupid things lmao
Idk, putting fascists in armored EVs that are known for catching fire or getting bricked could be a good thing.
As a Canadian please Trump gut your military just like how Russia did.
By smashing it against our neighbor?
By having oligarchs embezzle all of the money for it.
I’m mean with less accountable and more corruption weakening it’s potency.
Yeah I was trying to be funny but that’s getting damn hard these days
Did somebody say conflict of interest, because that’s exactly what it sounds like.
No way, Elon said he could identify any conflicts of interest and recuse himself. He wouldn’t have lied about what an honest guy he is!
At least he doesn’t lie about how awesome he is at playing Diablo and PoE2
Do you really think a fascist would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?
After the first four years of golfing at trump clubs and sleeping in trump hotels, all at 3x the normal price, do you think they care?
Nobody did anything the first time, nobody will do anything now. They don’t care about outraged redditors.
Yep, Democrats had 4 years to lock the guy up, and they didn’t, because it was more important to look bipartisan and pick a Republican AG.
I mean, are we blaming now the democrats for everything trump does?
There’s at least two entities I would put more blame on:
-trump
-republicans
The Republicans are definitely the primary party to blame, but the Dems have to take some blame to for failing to do their job and fucking stop them.
It’s like if there’s an intruder in your house that robs you blind and shoots your partner, and the cops show up 8 hours later, take a report, and do literally nothing else, and act like you’re inconveniencing them the whole time. Sure, your primary problem is the burglar, but I’m guessing you won’t have a high opinion of the cops either.
100% with you, but see even in other responses to my comment, many people just skip the burglar entirely and just blame the cops.
Because nobody’s got the expectation that Republicans will do anything good. They campaigned on being assholes, so there’s no point in circlejerking about how terrible they are, we all know.
Democrats knew that Trump was going to be a danger to democracy, campaigned on it even, but didn’t do anything to facilitate locking him up because they were too busy trying to be bipartisan.
Trump has literally done 100s of crimes that are all well documented in the press, and they fumbled it. Can we please just criticise them for that? And their continued failing to be a proper opposition party?
They deserve criticism all right, but I only see criticism of democrats. Same with Gaza before the election. A casual observer will see the discourse and think that democrats really are awful, better vote for the other guy (yeah, the ethnic cleansing one).
Republicans are basically like rabid dogs. They’re going to do the predictable thing of fascism. Democrats are the ones that refused to put it down when they had a chance and instead tried to reason with it.
Unbelievable.
It’s definitely on the justice department for not executing a seditious traitor.
Also, Biden could have just shot Trump in the face and suffered no legal consequences.
https://www.carscoops.com/2025/02/trump-to-cut-off-all-8000-ev-charging-ports-at-federal-buildings/
Trump To Cut Off All 8,000 EV Charging Ports At Federal Buildings
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) under Donald Trump calls them not mission critical.
Good luck charging them all then, I guess.
If these guys’ idiocy wasn’t so dangerous, it would be funny.
They’ll build a new billion dollar facility to charge the armored Teslas and call it a great achievement.
Detained immigrants running on giant hamster wheels to generate the power.
Well, it’s probably easier than farm work or roofing.
Please do, I’ll warm up the popcorn to watch this slow moving
traincar crash
