It is also, Kia says, “bigger” and “bolder,” which are both bad.

Part car, part ambulance, all Krankenwagen.

Oh, I see the communication issue here. Lithium batteries used to power electric vehicles work differently than the 12V lead acid battery pictured there. Yes, that 12V battery needs every cell to work for it to function. Lithium battery packs work more like a series of a bunch of batteries. That is why batteries that…

Whoops. I am not sure how I read Krankenwagen as Frankenwagen. I guess I will need a different cover or a good find and replace throughout my manuscript.

Ambulance Car Frankenwagen is a story in which a mad scientist/mechanic brings an ambulance back to life by putting its engine/brain into a car. The car responds to medical emergencies without any input from its driver, blocking real emergency vehicles from the scene.

Sorry, things got glitchy. I posted the same thing twice.

Sounds like more of an issue with programming than battery. If the failure of one cell renders all cells useless, you aren’t programmed to move to the next cell on a failure. Vehicle batteries should always be paired with technology that can move to the next cell when one fails.

Have you had 500 separate power cells fail simultaneously without prior indication of problems?

Yeah, I assume this test was not thorough. I would be really interested in seeing thorough testing of these systems and how they respond to a variety of conditions.

I think whistle tips are far dumber than car bras or brush guards. Especially if you actually take your pickup into the brush.

I think “phantom breaking” is when you find a crack or missing piece without hearing/feeling/seeing a cause.

The 74 second time is already bad, but I am confused how night added almost a full 3 seconds to the steering wheel sensor delay. A system that relies on zero visual input should be pretty consistent, regardless of time of day.

Steve, I hope you keep watching kaiju movies and forcing analogies with them. There are hundreds of episodes of Ultraman, all the Godzilla, and so many more, and I would like to see how you work them all into automotive articles.

If you switch to the next battery in the array while the problem battery power cycles, you can come back to it. This has hundreds or, more likely,  thousands of power cells (for reference the R1T has 7777 cells, one of which is in the flashlight in the door), so if you end up with a completely dead cell, the range hit…

Probably pretty similar to the procedures with a problem in the fuel line.

Only dealer sticker I left on was because the dealer offered free carwashes as long as the sticker was there.

As a person who works in a place with union and non-union tradespeople, I have a very different experience. The union folks work hard and do quality work. And they choose to stay with union contracting companies rather than go non-union in-house (plenty of offers have been rejected), because they value their unions.

I do own things I would recommend. To people for whom they would be good fits. I don’t go searching for criticism to rail against or try to claim that my brands are better for all use cases.

And I know that early Tesla strategy was to give people credits for convincing others to buy a Tesla, so they definitely know the power of monetary rewards for vocal fans.

Exhaust whistles. I hate loud exhausts already, but these decided that we needed something even worse.