Tesla provided these features for free with no expiration for a long while back. They switched to 8 years only recently in July. And this is only for the internet connection part (presumably when the 8 years expires you would have to pay for the internet connection), they aren’t charging for the app features…

They might be forced to do more by a lawsuit, but this will not be a recall (for same reason NHTSA isn’t really doing anything). This is because federal standards do not require immobilizers and it is not a safety issue during the operation of the car. So neither provision to force a recall applies.

From previous articles, cars made after November 2021 have actual factory immobilizers. They will also be rolling out a software update in mid 2023 for some of the older cars, but no details what it will do. I’m surprised also they are going with a third party add on and not figuring a way to retrofit the new system,…

I looked into the detail, it’s not just 2% reduction in power. The 2% is the part used to heat the steam into high temperature steam. The process is still electrolysis, except it is high temperature steam electrolysis (HTSE). That means all of the electricity of the reactor is still going toward making hydrogen via an…

I can’t find any commercial scale hydrogen production using whatever process you are describing (do you have a link)? It sounds like whatever process you talk about only produces a tiny amount of hydrogen (enough to cause explosions if uncontrolled, but not enough to provide enough for commercial use). The hydrogen…

Hydrogen can’t be collected, it’s produced as it likes to bond to other molecules. There is no naturally occurring hydrogen on earth ready for collection. The renewable way to do it is using renewable electricity to do electrolysis on water (which gets you less energy than you put in). That electricity is better used…

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.…