Yep they sell refurbs online also and usually have a couple for around that same price. Same warranty as new. It’s really a reasonable price if you do your own work.

Yeah, jack stands are not likely to add safety to this as the car will have a lateral movement when it drops. I did see a guy cut and split some chromoly tubing that he strapped to the piston as a secondary safety. The people who think you will tip this sideways are crazy. Assuming you are lifting a 3000 lb car using…

4 post lifts are rarely less than $4k and 2 post lifts require concrete that is flat and level, 5" - 6" thick, 3000 PSI grade, with embedded anchors, to install. Both are usually so large and heavy that they require a forklift or power hoist to unload, a lift gate is not sufficient. Most home garages are sloped,…

Apples and Oranges

$2-3k gets you the parts of a 2 post lift. You then have to either have a thick and flat enough floor to handle it or you have to cut out a section of the current floor and install flat concrete footings. 5"-6" of 3000 PSI concrete cures in 2-4 weeks. Nearly all home garages have a slope and are not…

Want and need are 2 different things. It also wants to report the location back so that they get more data points. If you don’t give it location data it still works just fine. It just doesn’t report the location back to Apple.

It doesn’t need your location at all. It’s just monitoring for a BT signal.

The lack of agency you seem to think people in wheel chairs have is disturbing. How do you think normal bus driving works? Driver randomly leaves the bus to go pee? No, they are adults that plan for when they will have a reasonable stop. But if they did need to get out portable aluminum ramps exist and are made to be…

I responded to your comment about the emergency pilot being able to being mobility impaired. You think they are getting on and off the non service prototype at random places? No, they return the unit to storage at every break and at the end of the day. If we were talking about the final product I’d agree with you. But…

Sure they can. The equipment would just be independent of the vehicle. This is already how planes, trains, and trams work. They pull up to a level service or ramp. Do you think people in wheel chairs are completely helpless? There’s a limit obviously. Some one who’s impairment includes sight or quadriplegia obviously…

That’s not true, they used a Chevy bolt for their early version and both the lockers and the wheelchair kit are literally mocked up add-ons that aren’t in production to a vehicle they have barely produced and does not come standard with wheelchair access. You can see the image at the base of their own page and the…

It’s a prototype testing unit. IDK any vehicle manufacturer that makes wheel chair accessible prototypes. Seems weird to be mad that people in wheel chairs can’t get into the protoype that isn’t carrying any people other than the emergency pilot.

Still lighter and and in a race you don’t have to remove the rim to change the tube if you get flat.

5th gear: The thing that surprises me most is that the industry as a whole doesn’t make a generic set of chips for the critical systems. It’s not like these are radically different between manufacturers and it would let them share the risk/costs of dev and testing. They already do this with a lot of other components…

Geely also claims that they own Volvo,

Well you should tell Geely to update their site because they still think Volvo is theirs.

The number of times I take a 400 mile round trip is much more often than a 700 mile road trip, in the summer it’s almost weekly. Why buy a PHEV for one trip a year? I think you are considering the price of this to be due to the batteries but in reality its competing with BMW 7, Audi A7 and others in that class. None…

You choose your car off of your least frequent trip? People with the money for this car are grabbing a flight and a rental. Lucid is obviously not looking at the same segment as the volt. That said the Volt is an under rated car. It’s really very good.

The mpgs were only in the 30s. That’s shitty for a hybrid coupe.

Sure, but once you realize most drivers rarely if ever take the top and doors off and like to be able to hear inside their vehicle you realize how much nicer nearly every other SUV/small truck works.

I feel like headlines that are sarcastic should have a tag of some sort.