I drove a Polestar 2 for a week recently and was surprised there hasn’t been some sort of recall over their current lane assist tech. I was expecting it to be similar to Tesla’s Basic Autopilot on the highway, but it would randomly just go wide over the lane lines and/or randomly turn off without any sort of auditory…

Besides one’s subjective opinion on the styling, what exactly makes it the worst engineered vehicle on sale?

The charging issue is more or less solved. Pretty much all (or all?) manufacturers have committed to switching to the Tesla connector (“NACS”) by 2024/2025. And if you take a look around at the charging network, you’d be shocked how large it actually is. The big difference is that they don’t have big signs along the…

While encryption and digital certificates would certainly be a problem, domain names and hard coded addresses would not, since that stuff can be super easily hijacked at the router. At my office we have entire .com domains that point to a different thing if you visit them while in the office versus if you’re not at…

Pontiac G8, but as a Tesla Model S / BMW i5 competitor

I’m just in New Hampshire, and that’s about average for non-management employees in their mid 30s at my company, and I know my employer pays less than some of our nearby competitors. Of course this is pre-tax pay, the feds take away quite a lot of that (but no income tax or sales tax here).

Ford’s is also right by the edge of the door pillar so I think the same issue could still present if the driver door was closed and the passenger door was open, while the driver was reaching for the button, even though it has a little nub to grab onto.

keep the scam running for two years. Barbosa estimates she took in nearly $1.4 million during that time.

The Jalopnik authors couldn’t be bothered to post a screenshot from the manual or anything, so here it is.

On par with a Ford F-150

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