The better and more accurate statement probably is The United States federal government prefers CCS because every other automaker thought they could make a better charging network with a different standard than Tesla’s. Them agreeing to use Tesla’s is essentially “If you can’t beat them, join them.” coming to fruition.

White House is still in the denial stage of their grief. They will get over it and the sooner they move to acceptance stage the better.

Except here, NACS is superior to CCS in the US. Your analogy to lightning is not accurate as lighting does not have the same technical performance as USB C and USB C is a mess as there are multiple standards under that umbrella. NACS is easier to handle, smaller and less prone to breakage. Combines L2 and DC Fast…

$100K Platinum Lightning will probably be used to:

Ah, sweet. Not quite enough for me yet, but I’m holding out hope for a HD version some day.

Which Nissan has a payload of 1400lbs of rocks?

Or Fully loaded Lightening has enough range for most people to only need to charge once a week

“it’s not uncommon to hear someone driving 50+ miles a day. Those kinds of distances won’t work for EVs”

Yep. Nissan has the least competitive options right now. People thought the Ariya would change things (to be fair, it is significantly better than the Leaf), but it turned out to be a fairly mediocre offering that is priced a bit too high compared to the competition, especially with recent price drops and the…

Or people just don’t want Nissan’s EV offerings....

It wasn’t the biggest factor—the lack of CarPlay was way bigger an issue—but it was certainly at least a tiebreaker.

I hate Apple but they still control the market narrative for what’s important in phones and personal computers. Shit they even convinced people to this day that their boneheaded “bump” hardware design was somehow a benefit instead of a compromise to create a solution no one asked for, and other companies started…

Gonna call BS on this. Compared to driving a Model Y, a comparable gas car is like driving a farm tractor. They outsell everything globally, and clearly they are worth whatever Tesla decides to charge.

I don’t know where you got the “nearly double the price” but from, but up here in Canada the Bolt has an MSRP of $41k, and the Equinox EV is $37k. More vehicle in a more desirable size and at a lower price, the Bolt just makes no sense.

As others have pointed out by others, there have been new ICE cars with fire issues and associated recalls. Shoot, Ford has a recall on Mavericks, Corsairs and Escapes where 39 burned down in recent years. Doesn’t make the news like 1 Lightning fire.

Go to a Toyota dealer and try and find a RAV4 prime. They are 6 months out. Its not that people don’t want them, its that they aren’t building enough of them.

If you had asked me last year I would’ve said it’s hard to say. Now now that they are ramping up hiring, have an actual factory to build it in, and people have taken video of it driving around in public with testing equipment, and on private test tracks doing suspension testing, it is obviously moving along.

“With companies like this, a plateau is just as bad if not worse than an actual decline. With EV markets expanding at light speed, they’ve been flatlined since Q1 2021.”

It’s not really that Tesla’s piece of the pie is shrinking, but rather the pie is growing. EVs as a whole are gaining market share against ICE, which is the real battle to fight. It was never Tesla’s goal to achieve 100% EV market share, but to create an environment where a rising tide lifts all boats.

What does that phrase even mean? Intellectual property is a noun.