Yep. Nissan has the least competitive options right now. People thought the Ariya would change things (to be fair, it is significantly better than the Leaf), but it turned out to be a fairly mediocre offering that is priced a bit too high compared to the competition, especially with recent price drops and the…

Vehicle footprint isn’t the primary consideration of most cars. The advantages of the sedan were already pointed out in the article: it’s more aerodynamic (which saves money in fuel), less expensive to make. I should add typically they also are easier to make stiffer, ride lower (which improves handling and reduces…

Yeah, riding mowers are pretty much the only market that so far electric still needs more development for something competitive. But if it’s anything like cars, the industry just needs a kick in the butt to get started. It’s not that it’s not possible, just that there has been little demand for the industry to develop…

Except lower power does not translate to more range for EVs. Higher power drivetrains actually can be more efficient because there are less resistive losses. And people don’t buy cars based on “need”, they buy it base on wants. Otherwise people would be buying the cheapest stripped out econobox and there would be zero…

The ones given as examples below $30k all have higher power options than base:

Model Y would smoke it at 0-60 in 5 seconds and has well over twice the HP. Jalopnik use to care about performance specs, but people suddenly treat that as if that is worth nothing because it’s a Tesla.

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.