The i3 was designed to re-use the first 330e’s battery pack. The 3-Series PHEV came first.
Yep - and even Tesla uses CCS in Europe, on the Model 3.
It has CCS outlets on its European Superchargers.
CCS is used by Audi, BMW, Chevrolet, Citroen, Ford, Hyundai, Honda, Jaguar, Kia, Land Rover, Mercedes, MG, Mini, Opel, Peugeot, Renault, SEAT, Skoda, Sono, Tesla, Vauxhall, Volkswagen. With Bollinger, FCA, the…
Cutting a shape out of plate, then putting multiple straight-line bends into the cut sheet, one at a time, is only cheaper than a one-operation stamp and crop if you’re doing it at sufficiently low volume to offset the cost making the stamping former - and if you use soft tooling (ie only good for stamping 50,000…
Partly, the creative accounting is not following the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, aka GAAP
Partly, it’s redefining veihcle gross margins to exclude all the model line design cost, against standard industry practice, which inflates their vehicle gross margin when compared to any other industry participant.…
“Every time Tesla said they would be profitable, they were.”
Well, they said they were going to be profitable from Q3 2018 onwards.
And stopped being profitable in Q1 2019.
So far, they have lost an average of $3k for every vehicle sold in 2019.
You may laugh, but I once had a... er, generously-proportioned American couple over to visit. Between their combined weight, and their airflight luggage allowance, they took my car to within one just-one-more US thigh of the maximum rated weight capacity.
The Saab and the Insignia were both based on the prev gen Vauxhall/Opel Vectra, I’m pretty sure. And both used the GM Europe Ecotec 2l engine.
There are many people - particularly in the USA - who are genuinely ignorant of the facts that:
- the climate change going on now is weirdly unlike the climate change that “has always happened”
- it’s speeded up by a factor of 50
- it’s broken out of the ranges of the last 400,000 years plus of Ice Age after Ice Age,…
“Classic British Liberal” is a Conservative with an emphasis on personal liberty and freedoms.
The Liberal party were a splinter group from the original Tory party.
The NHS is not sacrosanct to any of the authors of “Britannia Unchained” - Patel, Kwarteng, Raab, Truss, and Skidmore - who are now all Government ministers.
“Nobody (that matters) is denying that climate change is real. The climate has been changing since the beginning of time. The argument is not weather or not the climate is changing. The argument is what is causing the change.”
USA: 400 billion tonnes CO2 emitted (Gigatonnes, Gt)
China: 200 Gt
Russia: 100 Gt
Germany: 90 Gt
UK: 77 Gt
(The Global Top 5)
That one country is still above the 1990 baseline, and increased from 2017 to 2018 (the two latest whole-year measures).
The i-Pace is definitely fun. It’s a car that is also electric. The i3 is pretty fun.
Universal healthcare, in all the rest of the developed world, is half the cost of the USA’s partial healthcare, on average. At worst it’s 75% the cost of the USA’s partial healthcare.
“Shame on you for not doing the impossible!”
Even doing the possible would be a great start for the USA.
Because Greta is not happy about too little too late or about a day late and a dollar short.
“I certainly don’t go around telling others that they are idiots and that we’re all going to die because of something that no scientist can prove.”
No one says we’re all going to die. So, with that strawman out of the way: