America Is Just Now Entering the Age of Tesla

The Jeep Wrangler was built to drive out past where the power lines end. Watch any ad for the car, and you’ll surely see it surmounting boulders and conquering muck in places far from the beaten freeway. Electric-vehicle chargers may be scarce in the wilderness, but even a military-derived four-by-four must keep up with the times. To the delight of Earth-loving off-roaders, Jeep has announced that the first all-electric Wrangler is in the works. The icons of combustion are going electric, if they haven’t already. Over the next few years, a battery-powered Chevy Silverado, GMC Sierra, and Ram 1500 will join the Ford F-150 Lightning as electric pickup trucks, adding to the several dozen other EVs that are now for sale in the United States. Even the Corvette, America’s paragon of V-8 bombast, will soon plug in to power up.

Things are very different from just a few years–like pickup truck, and its self-driving mode to hundreds of crashes, some fatal. Then there is Musk’s erratic behavior: According to a , the biggest reason Tesla Model 3 owners got rid of their car was “disapproval of Elon Musk.”