The Model Y is a better all-arounder, in your terms. The Model 3 is a nice sedan, while the Model Y is a bit larger (taller and wider) which means people are a bit more comfortable in the back seats, and has a lot more internal storage when you need it.

As for charge speed, all batteries charge faster up to about 50%,…

That’s why people buy used cars and finance cars - the average price paid for a new car price is over $47k, which is certainly more than people can typically afford to spend all at once. Spread the payments over 7 years and that’s how people pay for cars.

And of course, most people buy used cars instead of new cars -…

Tesla didn’t claim that the person in a robot suit was a real robot, it was quite obviously a person in a skin tight suit, which didn’t look like the mock-up of of what the actual robot body might look, and in fact Musk joked about it, They were quite clear that the project was just kicking off, was over a year away…

Yep. Making an EV is only about 10% worse than making a gas car - all that steel, plastic, etc., is not great for the environment whether it’s a gas or electric car. But afterwards, an EV is much better for every mile driven, since burning gas is much worse than even the dirtiest electricity source, to the point where…

There were many EV companies, and many car companies that had everything they needed to make good EVs, and they didn’t - only Tesla got everything right (car design, efficiency, battery efficiency and safety, high speed charging, performance, etc.) that succeeded in the marketplace when the rest didn’t. And, before…

It was earlier than that. Apple got out of the printer business, and scaled back to only selling high-end monitors, in the late 1990s, in return for negotiating to get all the printer and monitor companies to support Mac in their standard products. This ultimately helped Apple sell more Mac computers, making them more…

There are more cheap EVs these days - The Cooper Mini EV is $30k and is quite nice, the Kia Niro EV is $32k, etc. And internationally, of course, there are EVs down to $5k, though at that price point there are clear tradeoffs.

And, of course, you’re ignoring that there are used EVs - most people don’t buy new cars,…

Toolchain updates pretty much never break apps. The exceptions are when you ignore “this API is deprecated” warnings for 5+ years, after which you might have some work to do, but that’s pretty rare.

Requiring devs to recompile their apps every few years, so they’re using the current compiler, etc., has nothing to do with monetization. It just means that ancient apps get recompiled so they run on modern hardware (e.g. 64-bit, Apple Silicon, etc.). The vast majority of the time it’s just a recompile and quick…

This is not all bad. Apple and MS have opposite positions on APIs evolving over time. MS’ position is that all old APIs should work forever, which means that the OS over time has to retain DOS, old Win32, etc., making the OS increasingly complex and hard to enhance and maintain. Apple’s position is that over time…

The issues that Consumer Reports complained about in that survey you’re referring to aren’t “reliability” but are were all little build quality issues that Tesla fixes for free - trim, panel gap alignment, etc., that they come and fix in your driveway after you report it, and they ignored all the scheduled maintenance…

The average new car price paid is over $47k. EVs are on the market down to $30k (in the US, lower in other countries). So while there are certainly high end EVs that cost a lot, not everyone needs to buy a new, high-end sports car. And of course there are used EVs, just like there are used gas cars. So it’s not like…

Exactly. The reason that EVs are taking off now is that battery costs have dropped radically, and are projected to keep dropping. 1 kWh cost $10,000 in the 1970s, and around $100 now, which is why EVs have been dropping in cost and increasing in range over the years.

For a data point around pricing, the auto…

Hybrids are more expensive to maintain and operate, as having two power trains adds to both manufacturing and maintenance costs, so all-in lifetime cost is higher than a BEV. I’m not sure how paying less is “rich-guy entitled”.

Tax credits are intentionally only useful for relatively wealthy people, because unless you pay more in income taxes than the credit (i.e. you are high income) you lose the tax credit, so they don’t actually make EVs cheaper for people making below-average income or no income (retirees, students, etc.). The BBB…

I’ve been driving a Model 3 LR since 2018, and the range (325 miles) has never been a problem - there are chargers every 50 miles or so along major highways, and typical charge times are 15 minutes every 3-4 hours, so road trips are a pleasure. Of course 95% of driving is close to home - the average daily drive in the…

Right now EVs are a little more expensive than comparable ICE vehicles, around 10% typically, but you save more than that on gas (70% less) and maintenance (40% less) so the all-in cost is significantly lower, which is why fleets, which are cost-optimized, are shifting to EVs. And EV prices have been dropping compared…

Apple long ago made the strategic decision to kill off their internal (and highly profitable) monitor business in return for which they get all the major monitor manufacturers to guarantee that their monitors were Mac compatible, which helps Apple sell more computers more easily. The exception is the very high-end…

That’s why the rules are written in general terms, e.g. reducing emissions, not in terms of specific technologies. It’s up to industry to figure out which specific technologies to use to satisfy those goals. Toyota spent decades chasing hydrogen, with near-zero sales so far, but the government isn’t telling them to…

No, battery prices have been dropping for decades, and according to the battery manufacturers, are projected to continue dropping going forward. There’s a short term shortage of raw materials while new mines and refineries are being built, which is going on already, and when supply catches up to demand the prices will…