But the point is you don’t have to jump through hoops to get your car at MSRP, and your cost is locked in when you order (not have a nasty surprise when your dealer decides they want more profit when delivery nears). If MSRP doesn’t fit you, then don’t buy the car.

The Bolt is faster actually, it's rated at 0-60 6.5 but performs a bit faster in real life.

Probably talking about the center of the logo:

Same thought. The Aveo may not be a hybrid, but it likely is still fairly fuel efficient.

This is true in older cars too. My old 90s used Camry had a full sized spare.

You can always cherry pick different cases an come to different conclusions (even ignoring the fact 600 lbs is nothing vs overall impact of trucks).

Even with all the big deal made about lithium supply (which the raw materials aren’t from China anyways, it’s that it’s processed there into lithium hydroxide since it’s cheap), we only get it from other countries because it’s cheap there. We have plenty of lithium raw material supplies in the US, we just don’t…

But China’s situation is a bit different in that although they do try to control access to outside news, the control is weaker than in other nations (jumping the firewall is very common). The populace is placated mainly due to continual economic growth (padded with fake numbers or otherwise). When things upset that,…

Yep, a lot of Tesla owners are still on older versions because they don’t like the new UI changes. It’s easy to let others be guinea pigs and install updates later.

That’s stuck out to me too, the total amount doesn’t actually seem that much for over 50 people. Maybe they thought it would fly under the radar or there are cases that they weren’t caught for.

Yep, a junkyard salvages the most valuable parts. There’s lots of battery modules from scrap yards that sell for good money on EBay. While I don’t doubt there may be scrap yards out there still ignorant about EVs and might just crush the car, I think that will be rare going forward due to economic incentives not to do…

The updated studies say it’s actually a lot better than previously estimated, given previous studies largely assumed the battery production was powered by dirty electricity sources like coal, when in reality the energy mix has changed and gotten cleaner. Batteries also are using less materials per kWh (the main…

“if we are crap at it with cell phones and laptops why will we suddenly be good at it with BEVs?”

I saw the picture and immediately saw that road is definitely not meant for 90mph (no way it would have an intersection like that).

Thanks for posting that. I would have never known that reading the above article or headline, which instead strongly suggests that someone was browsing MAGA sites and pasted the wrong link.

Yep, there’s a local subway project here and it’s way over budget, way late (by years). Near the station it has also disrupted residents/businesses due to constant sidewalk and road closures to install the necessary infrastructure. It also has potential impact on the strength of local foundations (they needed to do…

The monorail wouldn’t run through their neighborhoods, the subways would.

I think their argument is that by the letter of the law, as long as the PWS emits enough volume at the given bands, they have met the law. That is easily accomplished by playing both the PWS sound and the boombox sound simultaneously. From reporting I have read, Tesla did testing that demonstrated this and also fought…

There are minimal sound volumes that is required at every band, so not any random noise will work. There is however no specific standardized sound required. But Tesla can meet that by playing both the PWS sound and the boombox sound at the same time. I presume that is what they were doing given the recall note does…

But the law itself does not say that’s an issue. It only has minimal sound volumes it requires at various bands. Does not specify it has to be a sound that is recognizable as a vehicle.