After hearing an episode live from Stuff You Should Know about Biosphere 2, I’ve got the Netflix doc “Spaceship Earth” in my watch list: https://www.hulu.com/movie/spaceship-earth-e3636bb2-0aab-43bf-843c-96a4dde8d9a3

ChargePoint is also one of the companies that is jumping into NACS with Tesla! It will probably take a long time to retrofit all the old locations, but the new ones will surely all come with NACS

That’s what is going on right now. The Tesla plug is being standardized, and other automakers are switching to it. The industry had tried to standardize CCS1 instead, but everyone knows it is garbage, so they’re trying to get away from it. Tesla did it right the first time

This is just Tesla’s first party brand public charging stations in Michigan. Tesla Superchargers are almost all along highways by design:

Going on 5 years with my 2018 Tesla Model 3 Dual Motor / Long Range.

Have you seen any with noticeable panel gaps built in the last 4 years? Munro Live on YouTube has taken a bunch apart down to the frame and noticed huge improvements in build quality. But I guess leave it to the jalopnik authors’ memes to be the actual bearing of truth.

VW ID.4, Ford F-150 Lightning, Cadillac Lyriq, Chevy Bolt/BoltEUV, and all Teslas are the only current EVs in fact that meet the full “made in USA” stamp of approval to qualify for the IRA 2023 $7500 tax credit.

Tesla’s panel gaps and shoddy build quality notwithstanding

I think it was an old CBS report on it I watched yesterday, said they communicated with the surface via “text messages”. I assume they don’t mean SMS, but I’m not sure

It should be! R1 will be via adapters at least next year, and ideally new models will have the port integrated in instead of CCS (I doubt in addition to)

Something similar happened at a Paramore concert within the last couple weeks if I recall. There was some altercation so she stopped the concert and had the people escorted out

There wasn’t a DC fast charging standard here when Tesla was forced to innovate their own. CCS1 and Tesla’s DC came out around the same time. The misstep was that J1772 was not level 3 capable from the start and caused CCS1 to even need to exist

Well, but did they? CCS didn’t exist yet so Tesla had to start their own. By the time Tesla’s was operational, CCS1 had just come out. But Tesla took off way quicker and even today has a majority market share, which is only going to grow as GM, Ford, and Rivian pile on in the next year or two. J1772 would’ve been…

I’m not sure what camera hardware they use, but if you want even a step above that, check out LexiMount. Saw this mind bendingly cool rally video the other day. They have some prototype mount that is similar to the Insta360 invisible tripod, except it has a counterweight and swivels left/right and also forward/back…

When I was a kid, dad would take me to NASCAR races. So as an adult, I took him to drive one of the cars himself!

I guess there is a gap there. But not a complete gap: I stayed in L.A. recently in an EV and used the hotel level 2 charger, which conveniently was also free

Plenty of SUV EVs that are relatively affordable, with that number of seats, with more miles than that, and with massive reliable charging networks!

Level 3 charging satisfaction actually improved ever so slightly, but that’s not saying much since many people don’t have access to those types of chargers.

Absolutely curious on that myself. Goes without saying that it’s the non-Tesla level 3 that is dragging things down, and is of course the business case for Ford and GM’s announcement to switch to NACS

Happens to the best of them. Like the CDC. It’s been long enough that people during the pandemic didn’t realize how crap things were before vaccines. Like how they barely have to worry about dyeing from the flu anymore or don’t have to worry about getting polio, so they don’t think they need to worry about covid. But…