North America is actually a better market for EVs because we have so many people here with garages, while it’s rare in Europe. As for infrastructure, it’s all an excuse. Hydrogen has even less infrastructure and Toyota has been cheerleading that much harder. If Toyota was serious, they could invest in the…

AEB is only intended to reduce the severity and likelihood of a crash, it’s not intended to prevent all crashes. And the former is all that is necessary to significantly increase the safety of cars today (as cars without this feature previously did nothing to actively prevent crashes).

Although some of it may be underreported, comparing to the amount of complaints it would appear at least some of them are actual thefts.

Given it is part of a federal vehicle standard, it is irrelevant the safety implications (that’s a debate for when they wrote the rule), manufacturer is required to meet them.

They are not compelled to fix TSBs. And if you are out of warranty they don’t even have to offer them. That is the major difference. Recalls however they are required to fix no matter what.

Doesn’t have to have NHTSA involvement, it can even be completely voluntary. As long as it is related to the safety or regulatory requirements, such that even if you are out of warranty, you are entitled to a fix, it’s called a recall. There is no alternative term even if it was purely software done OTA.

Yeah, I thought it was a criminal case given the reference to “mob boss”, but it seems this is purely a civil case with someone just throwing everything possible on the wall to see what sticks. Musk and his company is a subject of tons of similar lawsuits and most of them go nowhere.

The thing is you don’t need that many stations, all you need are enough along the route.

Beat me to it. This is exactly the Hyperloop idea (low friction electric train in a vacuum tube). The Las Vegas tunnel the Boring Company did has nothing to do with Hyperloop. I’m not sure if journalists are purposefully trying to be obtuse, but the difference is very clear.

I had the same thought, but given it was sent to everyone in the plane, it could be the flight attendants that notified the pilot about this being an issue too.

Not exactly. There is a 20% quota allowed to be PHEVs in 2035 and that PHEV needs at least 50 miles of electric range, which after the Volt and Polestar 1 got discontinued no PHEV meets.

Here in the US if you have a car that the manufacturer can’t fix, you can always claim lemon law and be done with it. I’m surprised a country in Europe wouldn’t have even stronger protections.

I think it’s scapegoating to pin it all on the rich and ignoring the core issue. In the country where the aging population issue is worst, Japan, they have an wage system there that doesn’t result in the same “top 1%” like western systems, and their executive pay is much lower. Yet they are having the problem of the…

Depends on how you look at it. In poor countries what you say may apply, but in richer countries, declining birth rates combined with increasing life expectancy means a lower working population, people not being able to retire until later, and drastically more burden on younger people to support the older population.…

They can always pare back if it is obvious the goal isn’t going to be met, but then if it is done like the previous ZEV mandates, all it really means is companies that can’t meet it will pay fines, so it won’t be the end of the world (putting aside this only affects new car sales, so plenty of cars still available for…

To be fair to them, they did release some raw videos on their website of other tests where this wasn’t the case, but it is true that in the actual ad video, they cut in footage from invalid tests. Camera work was also terrible and you can’t see what the screen is saying (although in one of the raw examples, it was…

From what I read, they interviewed the pilot and co-pilot separately and both testimony was consistent with them looking at their laptops. Presumably it’s trivial to verify they had laptops with them and schedule open, although didn’t see reports saying NTSB verified. Also they were able to respond immediately when…

3. Use the government money from Biden’s recent bill to fund EV infrastructure to add CCS cables to their superchargers. Only 4 stalls per location need to have this done to qualify for federal funding.

Tesla does not encourage drivers to drive distracted either. In fact they have one of the more strict systems, where not only is there nagging when it detects no hands on steering, you get locked out of the system for the rest of the drive if you get 3 strikes.

Nader is muddying the waters. The FSD Beta being tested by 100k vehicles have not been involved in any serious crashes (only curbing, worst one was hitting a bollard) despite people like him sounding the alarm when it launched more than a year ago. If you worked out the statistics on miles travelled, you would expect…