TBH Lucid also seems to have terrible QA. They have frunk issues (won’t clsoe all the way, may set off alarm) and the UI randomly reboots.  They also are primarily funded by the Saudi’s which is a whole problematic thing unto itself.

“ACC, a battery joint venture in which Stellantis is the largest investor, has plans for three gigafactories in Europe”

If you are fine with it that’s fine. I think the general population that is already on the fence about EV’s doesn’t want one more thing to deal with. It seems like the user experience of waiting for a charger is already annoying but to add in having to mess with an adapter based on what charger you are using (which…

The U.S. is finding new and exciting ways to kill billionaires every day. Like no one had to get guillotined they just voluntarily off themselves.

As a former government contractor I can tell you that any small change that on paper should not be an issue is in fact a massively expensive ordeal.  Since the chargers are getting paid out by government grants they are going to contractors that want to make decent money and know how to play the game.  Any change…

I got it backwards and meant to say CCS to NACS. Either way, my point stands that they will go from one charging style to a different one and people won’t want to use an adapter on a shitty charger.

Playing an American composer.  John Williams FTW.  USA! USA! USA!

Well both of those have been around since the late 90's while the Wagoneer died off long before. Jeep could’ve kept the Commander and turned it into a premium model instead of half ass spinning off some luxury brand of Wagoneers. They introduced the Grand Wagoneer before people even knew about the Wagoneer and it…

Not to mention the bread and butter Ram’s price all shot through the stratosphere with the new I6T engine dropped. Outside of fleet sales no one wants a V6 base model Ram and the gulf in price between that and the base I6T is huge.  At least the tradesman V8 was somewhat affordable.

I know they set aside a large part of the bill for EV infrastructure but a lot of those wheels that were put in motion were before everyone said we are going with CCS to use Tesla’s supercharging system. That will mean every charging station that was installed with a NACS will now need to go to CCS or it probably…

Good, I will continue not buying a Harley it has worked great so far.  Sorry to the people that were at risk of buying a heavy overpriced motorcycle that gets terrible gas mileage.  Guess you’ll have to just save some money by buying a more reliable brand now.

I had to do a case study on boycotts in business school and by and large they aren’t effective. The important things for boycotts to work are 1. very few and very clearly defined goals 2. large scale participation 3. specific targeting. The best example is the Montgomery Bus Boycotts but tbh other than that there…

“but you’d just wish they had given the story a second look-over.”

I sometimes disconnect the battery if its sitting for awhile, I just put a little plastic cap on the negative terminal and leave the cable off to the side.  This cable is just nowhere in sight.  I’d probably also have connected the cable for photos of a car I’m about to sell because people like to test drive a $2ok…

300, Charger, Challenger, all dead. Chrysler has 1 product (Pacifica around since 2016 with little changes). Dodge consists of the Hornet and the ancient Durango which will either go out of production or get replaced. The Ram no longer has a V8 (and a Hemi at that) and good luck trying to market to the same people…

“and Audi app store access for the center infotainment screen”

Highlander Connor MacLeod edition.

Anyone else wonder where the negative battery cable went?

A hand crank version would be hilarious.  I hope someone makes one.

It finally lived out its Italian destiny.