Those will eventually come (there is legislation to make it so new homes must be prewired for it), but it’s much easier if there is a critical mass of EVs for the people that it is already practical for. For example if 50% of cars are EVs you don’t think that there would be huge natural incentive to develop charging…

Seems like the same foot dragging excuses that have been used for decades. The fact of the matter is regulatory measures can be pushed back if it ends up not possible, but they are necessary to get things moving.

1) There is so little solar being generated in general, that a grid tie system will pretty much never overload the grid. As for hydrogen, it’s even worse of a storage medium, as you need a electrolyzer to make it. That’s why home hydrogen has mostly stayed in demo stage and have not been practical. We are very far…

1) Efficiency does matter even if your energy is coming from 100% renewable resources! This is because currently it is very limited and it requires maximizing it. If the same solar panels or wind turbines can make a car go twice as far on batteries than on hydrogen, that certainly does matter! It also matters for…

Standard industry EV battery warranty is now 8 years / 100k miles to 70% degradation and pack is expected to last significantly longer than that in automotive use. After that, the modules can be taken out and used for stationary storage (as Leaf modules are for example) which will give it another 10 years. So you can…

Yeah, I was wondering if they include capacitive buttons in that claim, in which case capacitive buttons can be worse than a touch screen given they still require you to look down to use them, but they are typically in a location that takes more to reach than on a touchscreen, plus may be smaller too.

Except they can’t source hydrogen either. It’s not an energy source, it’s just an storage medium, like batteries (except hydrogen is expended and not reusable unlike batteries which not only can be reused, but the materials can be recycled after all useful life has been squeezed out). Their only proposed new large…

As mentioned with the other comment, that was after they already got in contact with each other, in which case remote start could have been used. If there is no original key in range to automatically lock the doors on walking away, the car will not lock itself again, so that is not unusual either.

The second time was when they already got in contact with each other. In that case, the other person can remotely start the car. The car will never lock itself because the key isn’t nearby.

That mode only activates if your car is actually set to be in service at the service center. If you just parked your car at a random service center without actually having scheduled a service appointment that is confirmed, it doesn’t just activate. But in that mode, it shows a border that makes it very clear it is in…

Yep, I have a Tesla, I can totally see a possibility of both phone keys (or keyfobs) being in range of both vehicles given they were parked right next to each other. In a Tesla, as long as you put it into drive, you can keep driving even when the key is out of range (even though it will complain to you). However, if…

There is no “unlock” for Teslas. As long as the key within range of the car, you can unlock and drive. Given both cars were parked right next to each other, it’s possible both keys were within range at the same time. I highly doubt this was a case a key that was able to open both cars.

They have this cell format working already though, and much like the 2170, that allows them to improve efficiencies in other parts of the car (for example the structural pack) and reduce costs. That’s how they are able to give aggressive price cuts which is putting huge pressures on other automakers. So even if their…

I think his point is you can put a less efficient chemistry into these 4680 cells and it’ll work. It’s just a cell format that can fit a bunch of different chemistries (just like the previous 18650 and 2179 formats). They are likely doing that for Model Y given they already surpassed 20k units in the Texas factory…

The characterization is misleading, especially given it’s mixing in the FSD Beta recall, which has nothing to do with this car (which was a very old 2014 model that is based on AP1, which is a much older system that can’t even use FSD Beta in the first place).

While minivans are more space efficient, they weight the same or more than a 3rd row SUV, and typically have practically the same fuel economy. For this reason, I find it hardly a compelling argument to vilify the SUV. For example, one can compare the Odyssey vs Pilot.

There are future station designs planned to have an attached store or restaurant, but it isn’t likely to be viable in many places. Looking for a site is always a challenge, even for the stalls alone. Adding a store is more requirements on top of that.

I feel like they are also killing off competitors at the cradle with moves like this. Many of them just don’t have the margins yet to do similar drops without being in financial trouble. For example Lucid is going to be impacted. If they moved to a new platform, it will be a while before they can do moves like this.

Yep, and the reference to the condition of the car is because modest discounts to demo cars are allowed (which would have use and a few hundred miles or more on them, even though they would be sold as new).

Except it you read the article, they are more concerned they are not getting a cut. If they get a cut (for little to no reason), they are quite happy to have manufacturers sell them. All this means is it increases the costs to the consumer. They don’t care one bit about actual consumer rights.