Friday July 12th is the first I saw of the new 363 mile range battery pack trim level. Considering designing in this new trim and getting regulatory approval to be eligible for the tax credit surely takes several months, and the news of this broke publicly last week with deliveries starting in a couple weeks, it’s a…

Do you have a few examples of models that had only a 3 year refresh cycle? Just off the top of my mind I can’t think of a single one, but I’m sure there are some that exist.

And the Ratruck sells how many hundreds per month?

Tesla does changes including body-in-white during mid-production. In general they don’t hold off changes for years and then apply them all at once, they do it incrementally every few months. Take the gigacasting, for example, where new Model Y now has a single piece rear underbody, where it used to be 70 pieces welded…

Missing: Tesla Model S

1st Gear: Tesla’s EV Market Share Falls Below 50 Percent

Of course! Tesla motors and batteries have been in the DIY market for years.

I’ve got a 2015 Abarth as a rally car build project, and love it. I previously drove a 2015 Pop as my daily driver for 3 years. Awesome little machines

I’m getting the new gen Fiat 500e as a rental car on a trip to Europe later this summer. Excited to try it out! I had a 2015 Fiat 500 Pop as a daily driver for 3 years, and also now own a 2015 Abarth as a rally car project

Fiat 500 would be my #1 pick. Maybe if Americans were into that stuff in the first place, we would’ve had access to the GR Yaris which I vastly prefer over the GR Corolla we ended up getting as a consolation prize

A quick eyeballing through some of the wikipedia page documenting EV fires (with real incidents listed chronologically), it does seem like they are mostly crash related with very few charging related

“highway vehicle” is a technical term to mean road-legal vehicles like cars, trucks, motorcycles, dump trucks, etc. But to exclude things like golf carts and scooters. Not related to the geographic location where a fire occurred.

Yup. They needed somehow to deflect that they had been talking about Tesla’s slower than usual Q1 sales, but of course posted this rather than that the Q2 sales are back up.

Actually, quite to the contrary! Only 5% of ICE vehicle fires are caused by collision.

While they were being stored there, they were in fact all customer cars and not just dealership inventory. Hopefully the business’s insurance will cover it instead of each owner individually having to file claims since it happened outside of the customer’s control.

The point is that a 12v lead-acid battery, regardless of the powertrain of the vehicle hooked up to it, is known to be a regular wear item.

If the 12V is dead, there are leads behind the front bumper’s tow eye cover that pop the hood, then there is a normal 12V battery you can jump like a gas car

It baffles me how a vehicle designed to hold 16 gallons of gasoline in its fuel tank cannot keep a 12 volt battery topped off with an alternator.

Tesla’s whole lineup is fairly unique with their glass roofs.

Having the option to buy big rims is definitely not a Tesla exclusive problem. We opted for the smaller wheel option to have a larger sidewall and less cost, but that’s something I would do buying any car