The Phaeton was developed just for VW. The idea was to move VW upmarket to compete directly against Mercedes, while Audi was used to compete against BMW.
After the Phaeton failed to deliver, they bought Bentley. And *then* the Phaeton was rebodied as a Bentley.
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Hydrogen is either a fossil fuel, or a *really* inefficient electricity storage medium (via electrolysis).
Once created, the distribution and retail infrastructure is enormously expensive to implement. California has had Hydrogen as its preferred zero-emissions tech for 20 years. And there are still only 20 Hydrogen…
Gas stations in California dropped markedly from 2010 to 2014 - but then the numbers started growing again - they’re back up at 2010 numbers again, currently. Not what I was expecting to find, tbh - but the stats are pretty clear.
In California, gasoline filling stations are up by 15% or so since 2014.
Tesla reckon their sales are going to rise dramatically when they release their Model Y crossover.
The Model 3 is not a crossover.
It’s Tesla’s equivalent of the VW Golf Plus.
Ignorantia nihil excusat
“ something Smart called the Tridion Safety Cell.”
As long as the savings on the much smaller battery pack outweigh the cost of the ICE, it's fine.
‘green’ methane already exists - you essentially produce it from silage. It’s currently fed into the UK’s national methane grid.
Like this?
Tesla has a Chademo adaptor for S & X (but not 3)
Tesla has CCS built-in to 3 in Europe (but not S & X)
Tesla are talking about making a CCS adaptor - a standard that disallows adaptors. They don’t currently have a CCS adaptor for any cars.
There’s a sharing economy charging provider in the UK. It’s about 12 months old.
The two big changes seem to be the extra range, and bringing the S & V up to spec for V3 Supercharging.
I’m now wondering if the only reason this wasn’t announced at the V3 Supercharger launch is that the dramatic drop in S & X sales meant they had old-stock onboard charger units to use up before they could announce it.
“it might take a decade to put enough of those chargers anywhere just in one country for them to be useful”
There are 8,000 Tesla Supercharger fast charger chargepoints across the USA and the EU.
“Companies/countries really have to get together on a standard plug”
Audi, BMW, Chevrolet, Hyundai, Jaguar, Kia, Land Rover, Mercedes, Renault, VW and Tesla all use CCS, with Ford, FCA, GM, Lucid, Skoda, Seat, all signed up to use it.
The e-tron’s been delivered to hundreds and hundreds of people.
“I’ll do you one better. Why is 370 miles?!”
No - *S* is 370 miles.
Cars seem to use off the shelf door handles more often than electric cars use off the shelf motors.
Is there equivalent greenery data for the comparison between US front-plates, and Rest-of-the-World front plates which actually sit in the front plate recess?