Yet another reason to stay away from Vegas immediately before and during that event.

Yes, I know. Apparently the guy I was responding to, doesn’t.

FWIW - we have a ‘19 Bolt, got the new battery under recall, and have never had any charge level restriction after the new battery went in.

Most full size truck buyers *think* they need to tow and haul things, but in actual reality, they don’t. The majority of half ton pickup buyers don’t tow anything (“less than once a year” was the survey answer). A smaller majority rarely, if ever, hauls anything. Most new half ton truck purchasers use their trucks for…

Didn’t the guy in the Tesla use parts store DOT 3 brake fluid when he put those fancy huge calipers on? I recall his brakes failed because the fluid boiled.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes

Yes, which is why it makes no sense to buy an EV with a CHAdeMO connector now, when there are several other options with good charger network coverage that’s only going to get better, while CHAdeMO is only going to get worse.

I doubt it, but who knows? The charge protocol / handshake between the car and charger is different, and the charge connector physical locking mechanisms are on opposite sides - chademo is on the charger side, CCS is on the car side.

If you were going for an add on adaptor, you’d need adaptor plugs with a built in…

Sure, if you never plan on charging it anywhere but home, that’s great. But as the CHAdeMO connectors disappear from public charging places nationwide, your use will be restricted to within range of home more and more. Why cripple the usage of your new EV when there’s several better alternatives that can charge far…

I would never recommend any used Leaf to an EV buyer because they all use the obsolete CHAdeMO charging connector, which is already hard to find in the wild and rapidly disappearing from public charging stations nationwide.

Have been for 4 years now!
And GM has announced that Bolt production at Orion will be extended even longer, through December, furthering their goal of selling 70,000 units this year.

It went poorly. The NV200 compact van didn’t sell well into an overall contracting market segment in spite of a starting MSRP thousands less than the Transit Connect and a 2 year longer bumper to bumper warranty, the NV full size van also didn’t well well, often coming in dead last in monthly US sales in the full size…

Neat, thanks for the info!

I don’t see the cost of water as being a factor in the US, seeing as how we use an enormous amount for farming at an absolutely tiny cost.

Water is now worth $521 per acre foot to Arizona farmers as of 2023, and that amount is ***25 TIMES*** what they were paying before - under $21 per acre foot. This is the highest…

Yeah, it would have been nice if the author had included some explanation of that in the story

Keep up the selective comprehension and pretending I said things that I didn’t, because it’s been working so well for you so far!

Musk chickened out, after being all macho bluster and lies?

I’m shocked. Shocked, I say.

From what i’ve read, the “frame” is actually a subframe with rails and a leaf sprung rear axle, weirdly.

“one ton” with 5 lug wheels?

“unreliable”? How?
Way fewer engine/powertrain/emissions/fuel system parts than any ICE vehicle.

And we’ve been able to buy a heavily subsidized hydrogen Toyota here in California for years, including a free $15,000 hydrogen fuel card with every new Toyota Mirai HFCV. It’s consistently been a miserable sales failure…