The volume of those cars were a lot more though, and the Vibe especially by platform sharing with the Matrix.

There are increases in production efficiency from having every car have it, so it may cost less than having a different configuration overall if the take rate is decent.

It’s a bit dark, but the bean counters consider the costs of both. Fact of the matter is having people wait a bit for a safety issue of a lower probability costs less than the profits they lose (and costs incurred especially for unionized companies) if they stop production of new vehicles.

They’ve since added 40 more stalls in San Luis Obispo, and a 55 stall station in Kettleman City (plus more in other areas along the SF to LA routes). During holiday times, they also bring temporary stalls on trucks as necessary.

Almost guaranteed to be dual plug like they already did in Europe. There was some talk about adapters early on by Elon when floating the idea of opening up superchargers in the US. However, the federal funding bill already makes it clear it requires at minimum 4 CCS chargers per site to qualify for funding, which…

Yeah, people just don’t know the road if they think 40 is unusual for Geary. It’s a wide multilane arterial road, so 40 really is not too fast.

Actually they can release any video. NTSB is the one that expects cooperating participants to withhold information from the public until they finish their report (consequences for not doing so simply means they kick you out of participating, like what happened to Tesla). There is no such convention with NHTSA. Note…

So if someone is not in a union they aren’t American in your book?

That was a stupid change, but they’ve added it back in a recent update.

But oil subsidies go to the disproportionately to the rich and people seem to have no problem with that as long as they get a cut. I think people supporting policies like this is mostly selfishness speaking.

FYI they already pay for road tax via an annual EV fee, with the equivalent amount they pay being higher than a ICE vehicle of similar efficiency. A lot of states have already adopted this including North Carolina.

If you drive under the daily range, it’s a solar powered car. If it’s above, you have the option of charging it.

It gives them a bargaining chip and they probably save a boatload of taxes anyways that more than makes up for the lost incentives discussed here. I doubt they are losing money on the decision.

If it’s Tesla people here are guaranteed to hate on it much more. People even harp on Tesla for panel gaps which have no practical safety consequences (while an engine failure certainly does). You seriously think 50 motors randomly failing in less than 5k miles for a newly released model no one would care?

If you are buying buses for 1.5 mil each, then the hydrogen bus will only cost even more. And $1 million is for a bare minimum station for cars, one for buses will cost a lot more (see below).

For things like cars and trucks, it costs a minimum of a million dollars to build a hydrogen station (even a small 100kg/day one). You can build a lot of charging infrastructure for the same cost. Hydrogen works ok for smaller fleets like forklifts where you can built a small electrolyzer to generate hydrogen to power…

That’s what I mean, hydrogen is even more of a risk because everything about it costs more money (from making the fuel itself, building the stations, to the storage). For an interim solution, things like biodiesel or natural gas is much easier. You also get a lot more power out of it for the same size engine than if…

Hydrogen is a horrible transition solution due to high fueling costs and not being able to use existing liquid fuel infrastructure. For short haul, battery solutions today are already better than the hydrogen solutions, so it’s quite irrelevant that it might be “obsolete” in 10 years if it’s already better. That’s…

You are just extremely lucky or you never park in public areas (where meter maids can easily give you one).

The impression I get is whatever testing they are doing with Nikola Two is largely insignificant. The testing mentioned in the article is talking about testing Tre trucks (the chassis I linked) with fuel cells. That appears to be the only product making any progress.