Somewhere in the 92-94% range I think. I almost never charge it to 100% so it’s been a couple months since I’ve looked but I think it’s in the 285-290 mile range out of the originally quoted 310, though I don’t specifically remember it ever saying over 300 on the display even when brand new. It falls squarely into the…

The front door is a little different (has a cut for the side camera that extends under the mirror, probably aerodynamic reasons), and the tail lights are different (the center of them is cut out).

Cruise control doesn’t kill people; people looking at their phone while using cruise control kills people.

I mean, does it though?

Right! We were swaying towards a Mach-E because the Model Y started at $66k, but by mid-2023 including tax credit, Model Y starting price dropped to $40k, which made it a much better deal than the Mach-E, and plus we were able to get it within 3 weeks of ordering instead of months.

Tesla had the largest price drop but I’m sure you know why already, with EV price wars playing a part. Tesla didn’t quite seem to know how to contend with a subsequent slowdown in sales, though the company has slashed prices left and right. With Tesla, price is always a moving target.

For Tesla drivers at least, this is how it already works, and how it’s always worked.

EVs as a secondary or complementary vehicle is certainly skewed as a short-term early adopter issue and is trending away from that way as people replace their daily drivers with EVs. While the Nissan Leaf may have been a majority secondary vehicle, a Tesla Model Y is surely the primary vehicle for that driver.

Especially the “However, many households sell their vehicle before they get there” line is dumb, because the vehicle doesn’t stop being environmentally friendly when it moves to its second or third owner. Who cares if it takes until the 2nd owner until it becomes a net positive for the environment if the first owner…

“Nothing so fancy and complicated as the Pontiac G8 but with slightly better build quality than the G5, the Pontiac G6 is a legend to those short on cash but in need of transit.”

Did they manage to get NACS charging into the refresh, or are they going to do yet another mid-cycle refresh to add that in within a year or two?

I only knew to look for it because somebody specifically brought it up. It’s certainly not a common situation and that’s why it’s so many levels deep into the rules. Also remember that most technical recruiters do not work in the HR or legal department and might not even have an HR or legal department on site (often…

I said “most people”, not “all people”, thanks for putting words in my mouth. The reason the Model Y is the best selling vehicle globally is not because it’s the most spacious 7 seater on the market, sort of proving that it’s not everyone’s #1 priority. Most people, read again most people, not all people, don’t need…

Astonishing level of fine print. I’m not a recruiter but I have attended an event with a recruiter before and I don’t remember “foreign individual with an extraordinary ability in the arts” or “foreign individual accompanying an athlete in a specific event” to have come up as cases where we would’ve been legally…

I would guess this is a simple disconnect between the legal department and the engineering department that does job interviews and trade shows. I was also under the impression that because of ITAR/EAR, employment was contingent on US Citizenship. The definitions of what’s allows are buried quite far down in the…

My 1995 Pontiac Bonneville would do that too. Back when the car was my mom’s, she would drive and I would sit in the middle up front belted in. Then when I was older and sitting in the normal passenger seat, we would fold down the arm rest. It looked like this though I think without the wood trim. But I do remember…

Here’s a scatterplot of remaining battery life vs mileage (250k km = 155k miles)

Then take off $7500 for the federal tax credit, so it’s really low 40s for the 7-seater Y.

There are more gas car models for sale with >1000 horsepower than there are EVs with >1000 horsepower so I’m not sure why that’s an EV problem. No regular driver needs a $88k vehicle either regardless of fuel type. Getting a $19k EV like the Chevy Bolt or a $30k EV like the Tesla Model 3 or a $40k EV like the Tesla…