That’s true of all DC charging (especially charging in the cold). It’ll tend to wear your battery down faster due to high C-rate (this is a simplification, in some respects cycling fights calendar aging effects, so the effect is not quite additive).

If it’s like the CCS2 adapter (which is $190 after accounting for exchange rate), it’s mostly just plastic and copper, but given that “dumb” adapter has been tested to deliver 140 kW of power in the real world, it’s probably worth it.

The supercharger network being the best DC charging network out there doesn’t conflict with making an adapter for other inferior networks. Having an adapter for all DC charging types means if you own a Tesla, you have access to all the stations out there, while the reverse isn’t true. That’s a huge advantage for Tesla…

“Where Tesla only has 1266 charging ports in the US”. That’s incorrect. They have that many stations in the US, they have far more charging ports than that as each station averages around 10 stalls per station.

Yeah, I’m seeing this happen in other tech companies too, given during pandemic, people are finding that telecommuting actually works, and employees don’t actually need to be in the Silicon Valley area. Some have just moved to other areas in California, some have moved straight out to other states with lower cost of…

The point is “market adjustments” exactly show MSRP is not a ceiling, MSRP is just that: a “suggested” price. While for Tesla it is a true ceiling. And note they honor the price when you put in the order, even if the price increased before your car was ready or if you put your order on hold.

I gave the permalink, but Jalopnik doesn’t always jump to it.

Same guess. The difference in speed is what matters and it’s likely much lower than 60 mph. Plus by the time of impact they might not be going 60 mph anyways (given even if driver doesn’t brake, there is AEB that slows the car down automatically).

“I find it ironic that most EVs with big batteries simultaneously claim that their superior range is a game-changer, yet they also claim that the long charge times are no big deal if you plan around it.”
Keep in mind small battery EVs charge no faster than large battery EVs on a mph or kW basis (which is what matters).…

It’s not actually that bad, and it’s likely based on outdated data (which a lot of analysis were). There’s also the fact that a larger capacity pack tends to have less impact per kWh due to the fact the whole reason they can fit that pack is largely because it is more energy density (so less materials per given kWh).

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…