I wouldn’t say necessarily too ugly, just that it’s too expensive for what it is, likely thanks to the CFRP construction. They also bet wrong on wide appeal for EVs as city cars, when they are more appealing as commuters (for which a slightly larger car is more fit). Cities simply didn’t have the charging…

Yep, mine doesn’t either. Very few solar installations, especially ones installed years ago, have battery backup, even though it’s getting more popular. When the power company cuts off power, the solar panels are turned off (this is to avoid injecting power into the grid, which may electrocute personnel working on the…

Yeah, I see Ego a lot too. It helps they have an entire lineup so you can use the same batteries and chargers for the virtually all your powered tools. That way you always can easily swap instead of waiting for a charge.

NHTSA’s previous investigation pretty said as much. It’s not reasonable to expect AP to reliably react to ANY stopped vehicles that are partially in the lane.

Well any cruise control, ACC, and lane keeping system will also crash into partial lane objects and are not tasked with either automatically changing lanes or stopping for them, so if this is considered “unacceptable” I see a lot of cars needing to be recalled.

Yep, same thought, it was adding functionally that wasn’t there, so not seeing how this can be classified as a safety defect. If this is classified as a safety defect, it’ll probably lead to all L2 cars needing to be L3, as there are many other scenarios where a L2 car may crash into a stationary object on the side of…

That study has nothing to do with drowsy driving, only that drivers may pay less attention when using AP. Again, I’m talking about evidence for the claim that ADAS significantly increases the amount of crashes from drowsy driving (accounting for those that would have driven drowsy anyways even without the system). Or…

NHTSA says in 2019 there were 697 deaths related to drowsy driving:

Yep, that’s the thing people miss. You have to subtract from the accidents the system have prevented from people that were going to drive distracted or drowsy anyways, with the ones where people did that solely because of the system and had a crash. Only if the latter is higher is the system a net negative.

You mean two of the same connector coming out of the same cabinet being able to charge at the same time (not one after another)? Which network are you talking about that allows this? EA apparently doesn’t at least for the 150kW ones (350kW might).

Yeah, that’s what a lot of people miss. They think it’s evaluating the driver, when it’s evaluating the entire driving environment (including the driver). If you drive in conditions where there is high probability of crashing, they don’t want it even if you are a good driver, since it doesn’t matter if driver is at…

Yeah, what you mention is exactly what people that used the chargers have said, and I linked below charging instructions from EA that said exactly what you said: “Only one cable can be used per charger at a time, but we’ve equipped each charger with multiple cables to accommodate different charging ports on various…

That’s the huge mistake that I was pointing out. You would think because there are two separate plugs, that you can charge two cars simultaneously (which seems to be the assumption DOE is making). But that’s not the case!

“First, I never said CCS networks were superior.”

I’m not saying “most” of them are like that. I’m saying a lot of them are. I saw this mentioned in the Tesla forums by people using CCS chargers.

You are setting up a false dilemma. Why not give customers access to other networks even if they were inferior to the supercharger network? It just gives them more flexibility. For the same reason, Tesla includes a J1772 adapter and their Mobile Connector allows easily adapting to all sorts of NEMA sockets (which is…

The ones that charge fast are branded “superchargers” by Tesla and they are DC chargers. CCS chargers are also DC chargers and also charge similarly fast. So the impact on the battery is the same between the two. This adapter only lets Teslas charge on DC chargers that use CCS connectors.

All the other cars listed in the article have pretty good aero, but they don’t have anywhere near the “soap” aesthetic of the Mercedes (pretty fitting description, I couldn’t quite think of a term to describe it). I also think it’s a miss in styling. Only consolidation prize it’s still a ton better than BMW’s latest…

See my post above. I take it you haven’t looked for how much EV adapters or industrial high power sockets/connectors cost, even ones made by knockoff brands. $90 for a simple knockoff J1772 adapter (even to standard type 2) which handles much less power (20kW). Look up how much a 100A industrial power socket costs.

I forgot to mention another thing. There are a lot of CCS chargers with 2 CCS ports, but you can’t use them at the same time. They only have one on each side to enable more flexibility on reaching your car, but two cars can’t use them simultaneously. Some care needs to be used to account for this (not sure if the stat…