Unsure if Tesla’s route calculator takes that into account, but it does take into account how many people are en route to the charger, so you can bail and go to a different one that is less crowded.

Exactly. EVs are basically mainstream now, just your average person is driving around in them.

I can’t speak for all EVs, but Tesla shows the estimated charge time on the screen before you stop.

It would be nice if you could still operate the windows, but at the same time it makes sense to lock out those controls, because what if they need to update the software on the window controller?

Where Going We Don’t Need Keys

If you go to the UK, you do actually get more gas per gallon! 🙃

but this seems like a very dangerous oversight on Tesla’s part that she was able to be stuck inside at all.

I think I would prefer to be still conscious and planning how I would catch my fall when unbuckling, versus being knocked unconscious from landing head-first on the ceiling and then have multiple other people fall on top of me.

Despite the lack of a seat belt requirement

Likely heat dissipation and/or fire blocking so if one cell goes, it doesn’t create thermal runaway to ignite the whole pack.

Availability of public spaces being the main reason. While there is a lot of nothing along the totality line that wasn’t in cities, that nothing is owned by someone, who probably doesn’t want you do be there.

At least as far as I’m aware, Cybertruck’s Autopilot software is delayed and not downloaded into any of the trucks yet. So the cruise control it shipped with literally is just cruise control for the time being, no auto-steer or anything like that. Presumably it’ll arrive quite soon, but I haven’t seen any articles…

Likely a copy-paste out of the manual. Last I heard, the software for it wasn’t downloaded into any of the fleet it, and it shipped without it. Just like how the diff locker software was not present when shipped.

Included in the sense that the software license is enabled as part of the purchase price. But it did not ship with the software downloaded, and at least of January the download still wasn’t available yet. I haven’t heard otherwise that they’ve patched it in yet, and I feel like that would’ve been headline news on the…

Dropping the floor and seats out with just a few bolts and a lift, how much easier could it be? I’ve done extensive teardown work on a Fiat 500, and then I’ve taken a few pieces apart in a Tesla, and it’s night-and-day how much more serviceable the Tesla was designed.

Correct, previous Tesla models, the battery mounted to the underside of the floor. Cybertruck makes a lot of things easier and several parts of the interior are mounted to the top of the battery, which speeds up manufacturing.

Note: The auto-pilot is simply a glorified reactive cruise control.

The biggest turn off for me about the Solterra (and the bZ4x) aside from the specs and the price, is that it looks like it has poorly repaired body damage, even when brand new (haven’t gotten that new primer-gray body panel painted the right color yet)

The Subaru Solterra is the same thing, and I don’t think that’s selling very well either

^{I was just pulling it off Toyota’s site. They don’t actually list the Tacoma as being available as a hybrid}