Of course you never want to reduce their effectiveness. I was just commenting on how due to how infrequently used they are (in an EV), unless you’re doing some seriously spirited driving, I can’t imagine they are really that much above ambient temperature to begin with

A couple years ago TFL (The Fast Lane) drove a Ford F-150 Lightning from Colorado up to Deadhorse Alaska, the furthest road you can continuously drive up to. They did need to do some Level 2 slower charging in several places once they got up that far.

Definitely a dumb idea, but at least this particular item is on an EV, which barely uses the friction brakes thanks to the regenerative braking system. Unless you’re track driving it probably wouldn’t be noticeably worse. Unless debris gets caught of course, unsure how close the clearances are.

I had been looking forward to seeing Polaris Dawn, originally supposed to launch earlier this week, delayed for weather, now delayed for this.

But now that Volvo has a bunch of EVs on the roster, wasn’t it really just kicking the can down the road, and they ended up having to do it anyway, only a couple years later?

It’s kind of odd imagine how the landing of a booster on a drone ship at sea, regardless of its success or failures because it is not a mission critical objective, would be cause to delay any launches. It’s not like humans are ever on board the booster when it makes a landing attempt, and it’s not like this is the…

Polestar 2's starting MSRP of $48k is spot on the average new gas car price, so I think that’s fine. Of course the bang-for-buck ratio when comparing specs against Tesla for example isn’t great.

Not specifically at that brand station, but my point is there are so many other brands, both of chargers, vehicles, and adapters. Some that are complying, and some that are dragging their feet

and by larger I mean higher off the ground

Polish, wrap, PPF, tint, ceramic coat, etc. Common things for people to do delivery week of a new car

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…