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Got my license plate the other day, looked into removing front bracket, would leave 5 holes. May try plugs eventually. Currently using this metal logo plate I got off eBay.

If Elon Musk got fired from Tesla, Tesla stock would rise 50% within one year. Elon Musk is literally a boat anchor to shareholder value at Tesla and elsewhere. OK, that is good. Now if only EVs were cheap enough to replace a large chunk of the existing fleet of passenger vehicles in CA right now. For the most part, brand new EVs are NOT CHEAP, and the median price of a new car is about $40K. The market is crying out for more affordable EVs if were are to reduce car-based pollution.

Regarding Tesla - it's either love or hate with these vehicles. A college friend I'll be seeing when in SoCal next month has 2 of them, and I'll probably be riding in both of them - one is his sleeker S model and I forgot which the other one (that his wife drives) is. In certain places, people have a lot of disposable income and having a Tesla goes with the landscape. Minimalist(ic) isn't necessarily bad. We all remember the adage "less is more." I'll vouch that the workmanship of the interior is good and I can also vouch that the overall look (including the centered everything on one display) is ugly. I will say that EV motors are supposed to last a long time but the battery replacement is very expensive and the range is currently not that optimal. I did not like the model Y I had for less than 1 day. Also, its exterior is mostly ugly. That's my opinion. This isn't a discussion I want to get into. I would much prefer a more user-friendly EV ... and not just yet. - - - - - What I was randomly going to say: I'm not sure whether I'm in shock or still feeling surreal as to what happened in Baltimore. At first, I thought a ship just hit something on a bridge. Then I saw the footage and that's the surreal part ... the domino-like collapse of the entire structure and the size of the ship. I remember having to figure out the forces of either tension or compression on each member of a truss-like structure when I was in school. A group of us sat there for about 3 or 4 hours one night - with some Mountain Dew - to work that out. I don't believe I've been on that bridge since it's on the outer beltway, but it's numbered as part of the U.S. interstate system. From looking at the map, it is the major bridge on the entrance to/exit from Baltimore Harbor. I hope they find the 6 individuals who were working on it fixing potholes in the middle of the night who fell down with the bridge. The ship giving a mayday is what allowed them to shut down both approaches to the bridge just in time. The weird thing is that it happened on March 26. IIRC, the deliberate (domino-like) implosion of the reinforced concrete Kingdome in Seattle happened on March 26, 2000 (no rain that day) and people were sitting on slopes overlooking downtown to see that happen. But that's how it is with planned implosions. I went there that morning and have photos of the Kingdome's last day somewhere. https://www.seahawks.com/video/kingdome-implosion-hd It was indeed March 26, 2000. I was one of the few who liked the Kingdome.