Tesla isn’t the only NACS charging station provider. You can use a chinesium Amazon-special adapter on your Mach-E to charge at a NACS connector ChargePoint brand station and Tesla doesn’t know and doesn’t care. Part of the point of making the “Tesla connector” an SAE standard is so anyone can build to the spec and…

1. Tesla’s policy through the link you posted says:

As MuyBounchy replied, there wasn’t actually an industry standard at the time. They first came up with whatever that weird plug was on the OG Tesla Roadster, then made the actually great connector we now know as J3400 NACS at the same time CCS was being developed. It was just an ego thing that the mainstream car…

This car has to be the most will they, won’t they product in recent memory.

But even most drivers of electric Ford and Rivian models do not yet have access to Tesla chargers because the companies have not received enough adapters from Tesla.

I have a Pontiac G8 and it’s actually not that loud, it’s perhaps actually sleeper quiet. I would say my Fiat 500 Abarth is way louder.

Awesome! Congrats, the Ioniq 5 is a real looker

Perhaps, but modern EVs use liquid cooling rather than passive air cooling like on brake rotors.

It has become abundantly clear that Americans prefer leasing when getting behind the wheel of a new electric vehicle

Hybrid vehicles and to a greater extent electric vehicles use little to no friction braking, because they make use of motor resistance to recharge the battery (“regen brakes”). The brakes may be identical, but they just won’t heat up as much because they won’t be used as much. I can do my whole 25 mile each way suburba…

I only stopped for fuel and a bathroom break every 400 miles until I reached my destination. We’re guys, of course we’re going to try to make up time on a road trip by holding it in until the car needs gas.

Doesn’t present-day SpaceX have higher reliability, in terms of launch success rates and landing success rates, compared to NASA from the Apollo through Space Shuttle eras? Boeing of course has a poor track record as of late, but don’t mix that up with the track record of SpaceX or even Roscosmos

Both are just buzzwords used by manufacturers to stir up sales. There are probably very few parts actually shared between a 2017 and 2024 Tesla Model 3, it’s just that they didn’t save up all of the changes to slap onto some new sales gimmick, they just added more of them slowly over time. Different batteries,…

I very much disagree. I’ve been daily driving a Model 3 for 6 years. If you actually take care of it and don’t trash it like it’s a rental car, it will still look and act like new.

Let’s math some maths with citations.

Basically completely different on the front, except for the placement of the “T” logo. Not a single line is the same. Overall ‘look’ is of course similar, because it’s the same model of car. Almost every car maintains the same overall look between refreshes and between generations.

When inflation among other things made the average gasoline car cost $48,000.

Tesla Model 3, long range RWD with 363 miles of range, is currently $34,990 after federal incentives, or $29,990 in states like Colorado.

Move to Colorado and it’s $29,990 for a new Model 3, pretty close. Average new gas car is $48,000 so it’s doing good price-wise regardless.

Mustang is on a 9 to 11 year refresh cycle. F-150 is on a 5 year refresh cycle (longer than Model Y, so far, which has only been around for 4 years).