And the lane assist and distance maintainer are legal to be used there, as in any other car

The lawsuit wasn’t about autopilot, it was about “full self driving”, and Tesla can’t do that, so they committed false advertising.

I went by what I can order from the manufacturers right now.

The longest range Model Y that can currently be selected on the german Tesla website is the long range with 500km range.

The trump card is no trump card anymore considering how fast Ionity is growing in europe.

You are mixing US prices with german prices

I’m in Germany, so WLTP counts and the Tesla website says 300 miles, which I would view as equal to the BMW, even more so if BMW contiues to undersell as they used to do with engine power.

BMW saw that there was no money in electric cars at the time, so they didn’t continue(they obviously did, but didn’t roll out anything until now). The car is also far from half-assed. The battery is of similar size to the Model Y, but in a nicer chassis. And as it is a very popular chassis, it will be easier to sell…

If you spec a 30d with the stuff thats standard on the iX3, its over 60k, so it looks like it has the usual electric car surcharge.

The battery seems to be very good, it’s 80kWh in a chassis that was originally designed for ICE. I believe BMW now assumes the point from where there is money to be made with electric cars, and rolled it out.

The WLTP range is competitive with the Model Y, while the price is about €9k higher. As the BMW will be the nicer car to own, it doesn’t seem like a bad deal, and I would expect BMW to offer incentives, bringing the car closer to the Y.

According to the german websites, it has 25km less range than the Model Y. If the 77.000€ is accurate, it’s 9k over the Model Y, but it comes with more stuff and much nicer interior and body, and a service network with a good reputation.

Just casually refilling the blinker fluid.

Here in Germany the machines check for the barcode and refuse any bottle that doesn’t have a deposit code on it, thus making it impossible to return a foreign bottle. You’d think setting that up is something most interns are overqualified for. That’s why I was baffled to find out that Ohio doesn’t have a deposit after…

The airport bottles may be exempt, as a large portion would be sold to people leaving New York.

The FIA was happy with the design process Racing Point demonstrated, but it might not have had complete access. Also, the FIA had approved DAS, only for Red Bull to find a previously overlooked weakness. Apparently the brake ducts are in a grey area, because they could be bought in last year, but can not this year.…

To be fair, they did not replace him as chief engineer when they made him team manager, and the position is shared between him, the engine boss and the chassis boss. This looked weird last year, and it never got better.

Ferrari should have gone for Andreas Seidl when they axed Arrivabene.

Cans are not refilled, they are recycled as regular scrap metal. The return system exists to keep the aluminium available to the industry instead of in the landfill(and trash off the street). Fresh aluminium is still available, so this looks more like a production issue.

Return rates have no influence on supply of fresh cans.