Well, the “real” ones cost in the $130,000-240,000 range.

I never noticed it was “removed in 2022" as they stated in this article (I think maybe they meant stopped including on new vehicles), but I’ve had Smart Summon in my Model 3 car since around 2019. One of the first times I used it back then, pre-pandemic, was when I sat in the back seat with a colleague in our work…

One thing is solves is the arbitrary goalpost that the “gas 4 life” people set is that it has to be equal or more range than a gas car. Realistically even getting into the 400s is more than a lot of gas cars, especially performance cars. But 500 really seals the deal. I’ve definitely never owned a gas car with 500+…

Ship of Theseus situation then rather than a true legacy style “generation”. There is almost nothing the same aside from a squinting side profile between a ~2012 Model S versus a ~2020+ Model S. The entire interior is completely different, facias are different, motors, battery, etc. 

The drive units and batteries also depend on year. From the surprisingly comprehensive Tesla Model 3 wikipedia page Specifications sub-heading:

For the record, I don’t like Elon as a person. I don’t know why everyone makes that assumption. Tesla makes great cars, that by the way are not designed or built by Elon himself, but by a team of tens of thousands of other people, and are globally renown, as evident by the Model Y having several crowns for being the…

I still can’t do the drive from my in-laws to my house in a day on the 500 mile car. That is 850 miles.

2017, 2018, and 2019 don’t even share the same glass. I’ve got very obvious 2017/early-2018 roof glass on my mid/late-2018 and I get asked about it a surprising amount.

Because Elon Musk works for SpaceX, and Elon bad. So why would Jalopnik talk about positive things tangentially related to him?

Possible but somewhat implausible scenario. It would be quite foolish to fully charge an EV if you’re going to be going down a long steep grade (and just to charge to 100% anyway is a real edge case due to how EVs work)

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