This kind of goes against my personal experience. We somewhat recently drove to around 8 dealerships and most had 0 or 1 of any given EV model currently on the lot.

Selfishly it ended up lucky for me, because that car was about to be passed down to my sister in a few weeks, but then obviously wasn’t, so I was able to sell her my car instead off-market that I was about to list

Where can one drive that far on the goat trails of Afghanistan and come upon a large capacity diesel fuel station?

My guess is that you’re not legally allowed to collect cash, because then it would be taxable and might count you as a gig worker or employee of some sort. The “Acceleration Boost” is just a tune, like what gas cars have had around for decades. You can still pay cash ($2000) instead of 9500 points.

Right! In some other thread, somebody had an anecdote about how they had an older Chevy Bolt that only had J1772 and not CCS1, and they were pretty worried about their local charging stations updating to CCS1 which would cut them off from being able to charge there at all

Present day, any CCS1 vehicle can already charge at the “MagicDock” Tesla Superchargers (New York and California have about a dozen so far), which I think is evidence to say that there aren’t really back deal things going on to enable this. If a Lucid, Rivian, Ford, Chevy, VW, Hyundai, etc can already charge there…

The charging protocol itself is CCS, which is the same as what most non-Tesla DC fast charging already uses in the US (and Europe)

As I said in my post, the points can be redeemed for things like electric charging stations and performance upgrades. But you can also use it for charging, clothing, roof racks, all weather floor mats, etc.

Compare against the diesel Humvee which was a 350 mile range and a tiny 150 horsepower.

They’re absolutely hyperbole and just riding the Elon Musk hate train.

This entire premise of this article is based on a misunderstanding of what’s going on and what NACS is.

On the 8 or so hour drive I take to visit in-laws, it used to be pretty sketchy back in 2019 because it was only V2 and really spread out. But now there are probably 5-to-1 new V3 chargers in the same territory so if I skip one I can stop again in 10 minutes. I imagine over enough time they might just get rid of some…

The referral thing isn’t anything new for Tesla

Tesla Supercharger V4 (1000v) is being tested in Europe right now, so it’s only a matter of time before that makes it to the states too

Absolutely! My step-mom actually got hit by a tree a few years ago. Yup, you read that right. She was driving and a tree randomly fell out of the woods and landed on her car as she was driving by. If she was about another fraction of a second forward she probably would’ve had a head injury!

RE: 1st gear; Tesla

I drove through Tunnel Log in Sequoia National Park a few years ago. It was certainly my first time driving through a tree

Already the case even before this decision, as I’m sure other commenters have pointed out, where each continent already had its own plug standard. One of the major perks of NACS versus CCS1 in the US though is the size, which directly translates to human usability. The NACS connector is small enough to hold and plug…

Duct Tape.

Small cars aren’t just going away in the EV world, they’re going away in the gasoline world too. Ford and Chevy both stopped making sedans and hatchbacks, for example, and their only coupes are sports cars.