CCS cars definitely aren’t obsolete. Companies building new fast chargers still have to have CCS plugs on them in order to get federal infrastructure money, so for the forseeable future, chargers are going to have CCS and Tesla plugs.

Tesla inventory is way below gas cars, and far, far below other EVs. These EVs are sitting because they’re a bad value compared to Tesla, especially in light of their inferior charging network, inferior dealer experience, inferior software, etc. And the latest federal tax credit removes the purchase credit for EVs not…

Pretty sure most chargers are going to have the Tesla connector and CCS, even if most people switch away from CCS. The government is currently requiring that chargers be built with CCS to get their infrastructure money.

And how did they come up with the average. Did they take Teslas average for 500k cars (16 days) and Hummer average for 100 cars (100 days) and just average that together? Seems likely this whole thing was thrown together as clickbait (not specifically Jalopnik, but in general).

I don’t think I had them quote me any alternate panels, just two different versions from Buffalo. I wanted the ones made here, anyway. This was in 2018.

I have 34 solar panels made in Buffalo on my roof.

Tesla probably accounts for 80% of EVs that are actually road-tripped, so that could be it.

Agreed. It’s only the specific Lightning charge station that’s for bidirectional charging that uses CCS1 for L2. I don’t know of any others. I was just saying that technically one exists.

It wasn’t even true a few weeks ago. No one “prefers” CCS-1. There’s no reason to objectively prefer it except “if I use this, I don’t have to admit Tesla’s solution is better or [possibly] pay Tesla to use their network.” Everyone else was just HOPING that the CCS network would get competitive so they could avoid…

The F-150 Lightning’s bi-directional charging station uses a CCS-1 plug for Level 2 charging, so technically, you can do it, but it’s just unnecessarily large most of the time.

Strong rebuttal. You’ve convinced me and all the Lightning owners who have experienced otherwise in the real world. Oh, and Ford, the EPA, and people who have specifically tested this in the real world (instead of a dyno) and found far smaller losses due to weight.

Yep, the big questions are: How often are you doing long distance driving/towing? How far?

The base Lightning has 2235 lb of payload, but the bigger battery and all the “luxuries” of the Platinum model (tested here) eat up a lot of payload. Probably not a ton of people hauling with a $100k Platinum anyway, but yeah.

This is just an “personal finance advisor” commuter vehicle for those to insecure to drive a Prius/Bolt/Leaf because they are worried people might see their ED.

Doesn’t pass the sniff test.

Beat me to it. That comment makes no sense. Even the insane 180 miles/day example would be GREAT for an EV because the fuel savings would be massive.

We’ve had 5 Ariya’s and 2 Leaf’s or our lot for over 60 days now.

The big problem for GM is that many of the people who buy EV’s won’t buy an American car.

But fossil fuels are 85% of LA’s night grid.

Coal isn’t even 20% of the US grid mix, anymore, so that would be a silly unit.