Well good thing EVs don’t use lithium batteries (the most common being the non-rechargeable types use in things like hearing aids and garage remotes). They use lithium-ion batteries. There’s a major difference in that lithium-ion batteries don’t contain metallic lithium (which is what reacts with water). A lot of…

The requirements are lower and relaxed for smaller EVs. Look at the Wuling Mini EV for example, it’s pretty much the same as older NEVs which basically will never pass any full passenger vehicle crash tests.

His point is NHTSA’s findings are irrelevant to the given vehicle, given it can’t run that software at all and can’t be upgraded to support that software. The recall mentioned does not include that model year at all.

Except they didn’t, the car in question predated FSD and can’t be upgraded to support it...

The car in question never had the FSD option and can’t be upgraded to include it. That makes all the talk about FSD irrelevant.

Some of the recalls (like disabling the boombox feature) are just removing features they added with a software update that came out after the car was sold. These type of recalls wouldn’t have happened with “traditional” automakers given they wouldn’t update the car in such a way (although this is slowly changing).

Seems like they are predicting that the cars will have more recalls based on extrapolating recall history. That can be a bit misleading.

The Leaf gets you into a dead end DC charging standard though and it has limits on DC charging (due to having a passively cooled battery). Maybe for a commuter it doesn’t matter as much, but that has to be factored into the price.

#1 is why I opted out of data sharing from the start. From my understanding, these were employees that did data labeling of sample clips to improve the AI (Tesla fired a bunch of them recently and there’s a lawsuit for that too). And it’s not really the cabin camera that was the main issue (the examples discussed were…

Yeah, coming from a formerly all Toyota family, if Toyota got into EVs earlier like the other automakers did, with something like for example a Prius EV, I would probably be driving one. Gave up waiting and got a Tesla (as did other people that I know that owned a Toyota models like Prius previously).

Except they did that with hydrogen. BEVs are far more proven and up until recently, Toyota insisted on hydrogen.

Blue hydrogen is the only practical proposed way to make enough of it to be worth pursuing. It’s still crazy expensive, and green hydrogen is even worse. If blue hydrogen is this bad for the climate, then that calls into question a lot of hydrogen initiatives being pushed (especially nations that are fully pursuing…

I don’t think the production number necessarily changes anything. This was never going to be a volume vehicle and production was always going to be slow just due to the nature of the vehicle. You can see in other cars that have no set production numbers, and there are similar things that happened during initial…

Because it may create an oversupply. Even now they have not sold all their allocation at 3000 units. Most manufacturers probably want to play it safe especially in this economic climate.

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.