This doc is a pure badass.

Disconnect what? Basic EV operarion. Power supply to the contactors iscut if airbags deploy. This disconnects the HV pack from the car. First responders will physically sever a circuit or remove a lockout depending on the car just to be sure high voltage is no longer present when they go cutting into the body to…

Who? Doge Demaro?

Tom’s doing it right again....

De-badge or re-badge.

“Used Magnums”

I was so ready to hit the CP button until I continued reading.

They still have to run all the accessories and lights and things, and that’s still all standardized on 12v. When the car is on, there’s a DC-DC converter that siphons some 12v off the HV battery pack, but when the car is turned off the main pack is shut off and totally isolated from the rest of the car for safety. So…

12V powers all the computers, etc, on the car. It needs to be there to do safety checks and then power on the high voltage battery relays. Those are off when the car is off for safety.

I read the article and I’m trying to understand exactly how you are supposed to use this system, what benefit it imparts. It seems like it’s just glorified adaptive cruise control, which MB has had for 10+ years and is common on workaday vehicles like Jeep Cherokees. It dictates a safe speed in a single lane given the…

Uhhhhh, is it just me or should saving 500lbs be worth more than just 0.2seconds in the quarter mile?

Damn you and your typo. I thought for a second there might be a new Model S trim.

“We want them in the loop during lane changes,” he said. “That’s really the gist of it. It wasn’t a priority to our customers to have that feature.”

Yeah, I definitely need to spend more time at Oppo and learn from y’all. I’m opinionated: sometimes from knowing things and other times from assuming I know things, but I will call out my own madness. Thanks for a fun chat!

The difference between a Cactus and a BMW X1? A Cactus has pricks on the outside.

FCA and Land Rover just high fived each other and anxiously await the day they’re not at the bottom of the reliability list......

I think there’s absolutely no need to label a woman a “slut” for appearing in a photo. Or really for any other reason.

I thought the episode where everyone rated each other had a happy ending. She escaped that perverse world of trying to please everyone and the ending hints at a new friendship. That’s about as happy as could be expected.

At what point when you’re driving around with no roof, no doors, no windscreen etc... do you stop and think to yourself... “y’know, this would have been a whole lot cheaper if I just bought a motorcycle instead.”

I wish there was one to only use dirt roads.