It is actually probably very easy for them. The most expensive part of an accident is people. If you can avoid an injury by avoiding an accident, or reduce the speed of the accident and reduce injuries, it would pay for it self pretty quickly from an insurance stand point. If you look at the iihs... which basically…

I think the issue is how Tesla functions as compared to traditional car companies. Once a model is fixed for production for traditional automakers, they don’t make any significant changes until a new model, and some minor ones for a refresh. They will churn out a bunch of parts for repairs, and retain the tooling to…

Or some people like me, I purchased a PHEV 3 months ago, and now I have a level 2 charger installed. But I’m A. Not sure about a Hyundai and B. not sure about a pure EV either. But I’d be up for trying it for a month.

The belt parkway in Brooklyn going towards Manhattan. Near Exit 26 Hamilton parkway. I have never encountered a time without traffic, even 2 am. And it’s 4 lanes of traffic merging into 2 with all the great driving skill of people in New York. The FDR is a joy by comparison.

This is something I have discovered in the past 2 months with my PHEV. I have no less than 6-7 apps on my phone just to charge at the local chargers I go to in the NYC/Jersey area. On top of that, sometimes the chargers are just broken, and sometimes. I have seen Teslas just parked in the public charging spots, not…

I always hated the way they played games with it. How about show me how much something costs, and I can figure out any savings myself? I don’t mind if you want to show me what rebates etc I am eligible for based on location, but the “cost post savings” is like a slap in the face for anyone remotely intelligent. It…

I ordered my Audi Q5e in Sept 2021... I took delivery in Dec 2022. I didn’t step into dealership until the day I picked up the car. 

I feel like we should tighten the rules a little to get more cars out to enthusiasts.

I can kind of sense myself how this is going. I know there’s going to be alot of people who say no way, that’s not possible. But this is my experience from my own new ownership of a PHEV, not a full EV. I purchased mine in the beginning of Dec and I have had about 2 months and seen my power usage and gas usage. So I…

Except isn’t it illegal to run? The NHTSA requires that any EV moving under 18.6mph emit a minimum 56 decibel noise since 2020 I thought.

To properly incentivize EVs we should make it very simple. I don’t care of AGI caps, or Vehicle cost caps. Using some back of the napkin calculations, if the EV does less than 1.2 miles per kWh, it is no more efficient than burning gas. We want to incentivize high efficiency per passenger.(luckily even the Hummer EV…

I agree that all this classification stuff is basically nonsense now for EVs. We’ve allowed far too many carveouts for far too long. I actually think it should be stricter that that. Any vehicle that the primary duty is carrying passengers, in which I would actually put any vehicle/truck that seats more than 2-3 (one…

Surprisingly I’d say for the next 3 months you can get kinda close. The Chevy Bolt is 26,600 for the base model for 2023. Until the new guidelines are released in march they qualify for the full 7500 tax credit. That and Costco is offering 500$ until 1/3 (narrow window of 1/1-1/3) to make this work. But that’s 8000$…

In general in North America the chargers have become standardized. J1772 is the default Level 1/2 charger with CCS (basically J1772 with 2 more pins under it) for DC charging. You can still use level 1/2 j1772 to charge a car with CCS. The other standard is Tesla (which has it’s own plug basically) But now Tesla has a…

That would be the one where you spend 4 hours filling out paperwork first, then get rejected for a random bureaucratic reason, and have to reapply another day.

It’s 10$ a banana, unless you want it gift wrapped and boxed lol.

It’s not the shifter I dislike, it’s that they changed the way it functions compared to normal shifter, without saving really any space lol. They could have it act like a normal shifter still instead of the toggle behavior.

I’m a fan of most of the Audi layout. It looks similar to the one I had in my 2018 SQ5. The only changes I would make would be the gear shift knob, as I didn’t find it to save much space compared to a more traditional shifter (even if you faked one) Also there’s no need for a headlight switch now probably. It should…

We will have to wait to see how long this holds out. Genshin impact made 60 million it’s first week. I’ve been playing Diablo Immortal with my brothers and we all paid for the month pass and stuff (probably about 25$ a person in spend) but It’s waaay worse than any Gatcha game we have played before, and that includes…

An OG Nissan Leaf from 2010 with only 60% of original battery capacity on a Long road trip.