A lot are on summer tires (and even the all seasons are designed for efficiency) and people get overconfident because they have AWD. But this is true of a lot of people with AWD cars.

Even though I would like AM in my car, which doesn’t have it, (there are some stations my parents might occasionally listen to), I think the claims are a bit dubious on how many people still tune into their car’s AM/FM radio, even in an emergency. Most people I know either listen to internet radio or they have their…

The Model X stumbled on the same rear area shape as the X6 (the slope on the back), but it was for aerodynamics (drag coefficient of 0.25), while for X6 it was a styling/market decision to have a “coupe” SUV (drag coefficient 0.34, not a whole lot better than the boxier 0.35-0.36 of the X5). The two are very different…

I’m not apologizing, just saying it is unlikely that the accident was by a car running FSD Beta.

Just hours before, a pileup happened that didn’t involve a Tesla. I travel there regularly and accidents happen there regularly. I would put it down as coincident given relative to the whole Tesla fleet, relatively few people have the FSD option and even less people have signed up for the Beta option.

That’s a bad analogy because Apple owns their own shops. Instead GM car dealers are independent, so they can work on all sorts of cars if they wanted to. They may even carry different brands, especially used vehicles (have you seen Apple stores sell used HP laptops?).

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.