Yeah, trying to find out what they mean. A lot of people take Teslas to non-dedicated shops to do service when it is general stuff that any shop can do.

If Toyota didn’t go down the EV naysayer path, and made an EV Prius when Nissan was doing their Leaf, I probably would be driving one now. It’s an unfortunate turn of events that because of their leadership in hybrids, they are so focused on maintaining the status quo to milk that cow as much as possible, that they…

They can put income limits (just like they do with current EVs subsidies). Just because lower income families tend to buy used, doesn’t mean there are zero new car sales from them. Having a subsidy can mean they can afford an EV vs a gasoline car.

It’s easy to frame it that way because Lyft contributed 95% of the funding for prop 30 and also paid for the signature gathering that got the proposition on the ballot. So this was a measure pushed by a large corporation, which Californians seem to view negatively, even if the measure seems to match California’s…

Probably talking about the fact the number of Teslas on the road outnumber CCS cars and charging stalls by a lot.

The thing is the conductive parts (the two DC pins) and the actual power conductors are essentially the same size.

Sure but that is only for the Chinese factory. That allows the parent company still keeping some trade secrets, even if they learn all the vehicle assembly steps. SAIc still did not have cars competitive to foreign makes even with GM joint ventures. It was after their MG acquisition that they finally had cars of their…

Auto manufacturers won’t rush to do it (except perhaps as an additional connector), but the charger manufacturers would likely rush to add Tesla connectors to their chargers, as that opens up the addressible market for them drastically (without needing Tesla owners to get adapters).

Volvo and Polestar are Chinese companies actually (owned by Geely). They bought Volvo out so that they can get all the tech, and Polestar basically came out from Volvo. Cadillac and Buick are still owned by GM though.

It’s very rare it’s just one person. Judging by how most people drive, I would be willing to bet a vast majority of the people involved didn’t leave enough following distance for the conditions (or even in general). That makes it hard to blame only one person.

The older Teslas don’t have a physical key, they use an RFID backup system when the keyfob has a dead battery. If you read the article, that system was able to unlock the car but for some reason it wasn’t able to start the car (maybe the reader in his car was broken or it could be his fob had other physical damage).…

He probably has an older Model X that didn’t work with bluetooth. I have a Model 3 (which launched with bluetooth) and this would not be an issue at all (and actually has far more backups).

Yeah, he was using the backup system, but for some reason it wasn’t starting the car (he was able to get into the car however). The second backup (LTE car start) didn’t work because his car was in the parking garage.

That’s a fairly weak excuse given the apps and software by the “traditional” automakers aren’t any more reliable. See all the problems the Mach E is having, as well as the ID.4.

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…