There’s also the fact you can buy a Nissan Leaf for less money ($27k MSRP) and it has more range 149 mi.

Yep, that’s my impression too. Geely still owns Volvo in the end, but they are clearing up the ownership of the China portion so that it’s owned by Volvo instead of Geely directly. Yeah, I don’t see any mention of Volvo buying out itself overall from Geely.

Nope, none of the major production EVs are using hub motors and they all just use the same traction motor that accelerates the car to do regen braking. So regen has nothing to do with the brakes in the hub, which are just conventional hydraulic brakes.

“Keep maintaining, fixing, and driving whatever old car you already have.”

I think people would be generally let it slide if the extra credit was more like half/half for US made vs Union made (as it apparently was before). But changing it to only $500 for US made and $4500 for union made kind of steps over the line. Everyone knows this is catering to the unions donors, but it’s a bit too obvi…

If they are going to cater to unions, at least make it 50/50 between unions and US made. Giving only $500 to US made and $4500 to union made is complete BS.

BMW doesn’t show their pack weights separate from the vehicles, others have posted a chart although it may not necessarily be applicable to the BMW lineup.

Note acceleration is no evaluated as part the metric, likely due to predictable complaints given Teslas are known for their acceleration.

Just looking at i3 specifically, they started at 22 kWh in 2013, went to 33 kWh in MY2017, now 42 kWh in MY2019. So 1.9x vs 2013. Pretty sure they can squeeze even more in if they wanted to (Bolt has 60kWh and is similar size).

Doesn’t matter if it’s not possible, they can pare back the requirements if necessary when the time comes or the automakers can pay fines until they get into compliance. Automakers have long used such excuses that it’s “impossible” for a long time, when they know that if they tried, it’s very much within the realm of…

Tesla China had made a decision to use the legal process to push back against negative social media posts a while back. This may be overstepping (don’t see any justification for it, unless there was an NDA signed that this person was violating), but in previous cases it was Tesla owners in China that called for Tesla…

There is a first activation message for every AP feature, but it doesn’t show up on every drive for confirmation. The only thing that shows up is the hands on wheel warning if you leave you hands off the wheels to long, but I don’t think that’s what the OP is talking about.

They do that already, but only on first activation. It’ll be very annoying to have it activate every drive, much less every 15 minute. I think the whole name thing is a red herring anyways. I know of no accidents that happened because the driver was unaware the car couldn’t drive itself. As soon as it disengages once,…

You missed where I pointed out Tesla does closed course testing also, as I linked above, as well as virtual testing (as below starting 8:04).

Yeah, a lot of people (including reporters) treat NTSB and NHTSA the same due to similarities of their name (I’ve even seen reporters use the two interchangeably), but they are completely separate. NTSB makes recommendations but has zero enforcement powers. As others pointed out, this is probably by design so that…

“Really? You best run out and tell the people developing ADS systems. Either that, or they are telling us completely different BS than Elon is.

Yep, Toyota was the most prepared for the chip shortage which has a lot to do with them supposedly doing better than others(be even for them, they have been hit). Right now it’s a supply issue more than a demand issue.

We’ll see if Elon follows through on only that being the criterion with nothing else. He said back in March he’ll launch the button in 10 days and that didn’t happen.

Well then any car with cruise control, ACC or lane keeping would need to get off the roads under that standard, as none of those are tasked with detecting solid objects and stopping for them. For L2 that doesn’t matter because the driver is always there to intervene.

I’m not suggesting you said it was illegal, I’m just pointing it out given a lot of people don’t know it’s not (I had to look it up myself when I saw first videos of cars testing there). As for swerving, it’s actually very obvious to the driver when it does that, both visually and from the steering movement. That’s…