The Ioniq is much bigger than the Golf. It’s 4.6m long / 1.9m wide vs. 4.3m / 1.8m. I have an Ioniq 5, and it looks much bigger in the metal than in pictures. It’s huge inside compared to a Golf-class car also. I do agree that it’s stupid to call it an SUV, when it’s clearly just a large hatchback.

Not really. The reason you need LiDAR is because our human “cameras” are accompanied by a brain that understands billions of on-the-fly scenarios that cameras connected to software can’t. LiDAR helps make up a small amount of this massive deficit by “seeing” more than cameras do.

I guess what I mean is that Tesla also has no magical advantage over any other manufacturer in terms of its level of technical innovation. They’ve probably collected more data, but to what end?

The other factor is the casual way in which Musk and many others talk about how much better machines are at driving than humans, which of course is also complete rubbish. It’s one of those classic logical fallacies - because sensors of various kinds are more accurate than humans in judging distance, for example, then…

I can’t handle that people still parrot the “neural nets” and related nonsense language. The Emperor really has no clothes here. It’s almost all 100% fabricated, in the sense that nothing Tesla has is any different that any other manufacturer’s adaptive cruise control system. There is no secret room at Tesla filled…

That may be true, but I live just outside Toronto where we get occasional bouts of weather well below -20 celsius, and more often -10 or below. I’ve never seen anything close to a 50% drop in range, even in these temperatures.

Yea, this was a pretty major error / misunderstanding in the article. The last thing you want in the snow is a really wide tire.

But what EV could you have bought in 2015 that was equivalent in performance to a Mustang GT? It would have to have been a Tesla Model S, with the 70D having a base brice of $76k, compared to I think about $35k for your Mustang.

I understand that, but I don’t see how without some extremely creative math you can break even simply by adding in gas and maintenance costs. I mean a Hyundai Kona EV is literally almost double the price of its ICE equivalent. A Tesla Model Y is probably $15k - $25k more than most of its Q5, X3, GLC and similar…

3rd Gear: This seems unlikely to be true, unless the comparisons are being made with EVs at a similar price point to ICE vehicles, but which are in fact smaller and / or truly a different class of vehicle.

It’s not three tons. It’s just over two tons. Weight is 4,795 lbs, not the 5,700 quoted in the article.

Steering feel is pretty good on our Taycan GTS. It’s definitely not like driving an older 911 with hydraulic vs. electric power steering, but it’s equal or better to most other sports sedans and wagons I’ve driven.

95% of Ioniq 5 issues are people complaining they can’t get the rear wiper to work.

For that growth stock analysis to work, Tesla would have to have a path to accumulating something like 25% of the auto market. Tesla has never been valued in a way that reflects the reality of how many cars it can actually build and sell, and at what margin. That’s why Musk constantly has to invent imaginary business…

I’m not sure they have a choice. European fleet emissions regulations mean they can only sell a very limited volume of naturally aspirated six-cylinder engines. Porsche know they will sell very few GT3s, GT4s and GTS 718s, and will make it up with 4-cylinder and EV Macans, e-hybrid Cayennes and Taycans.

It doesn’t seem like a fair comparison when the chart shows that the cars with “estimated” vs “verified” range fare much better. It seems more likely that the estimates aren’t as accurate as the more extensive data in the verified group.

Not sure about that. See the reaction that enthusiasts had to the 4-cylinder turbocharged 718 Boxster and Cayman, which were much faster than their flat six predecessors. This reaction almost certainly led to Porsche giving the GTS the 4.0 naturally aspirated 6-cylinder.

It is pretty sad that the regulatory environment in which public companies are supposed to operate seems so broken. So much of what Musk has said has been designed solely to encourage buyers of Tesla’s stock. We have laws that specifically prohibit public company insiders from providing false information to influence…

I completely agree with you, but anyone who is buying this car is almost certainly doing so because they want to impress people. This would have to be their motivation, given the wild irrationality of having $15k to spend on a car and choosing to use that money for one of the most unreliable engines of this era of…

Yea, this model year is a disaster, just a ticking time bomb. Let’s say the buyer gets two years out of it, at which point it’s basically worthless. They could simply have leased something brand new and much more likely to impress people, if that’s the buyer’s jam, for $800 / month and still been in the same position.