Good point about hope, it reminded me of the MV Sewol incident. There was a lot more coverage of that, no doubt because there was still hope of rescuing people trapped inside, given the size of the ship relative to the people it carried allowed viable air pockets to keep people alive for extended periods of time. The…

Objectively a Titanic tourist sub being lost in the depth of the oceans is a more interesting story because of its uniqueness and suspense from the limited oxygen supply. Unfortunately, refugee ships capsizing are fairly common occurrences, so while they still make headlines, it’s generally a far less interesting…

“Lines and longer waits seem inevitable, and it would be understandable that they’d be frustrated when forced to wait for a non-Tesla to finish charging.”

It doesn’t make sense because Jalopnik can’t resist finding an anti-Tesla slant to everything and put wording that doesn’t exist. The actual exception isn’t worded that way, instead it excludes car companies that never had franchised dealerships in the state before the law came into action.

It doesn’t make sense because Jalopnik can’t resist finding an anti-Tesla slant to everything and put wording that doesn’t exist. The actual exception isn’t worded that way, instead it excludes car companies that never had franchised dealerships in the state before the law came into action.

A fine theory except for the fact similar exceptions have been carved out in other states well before Musk’s turn to the “dark side”.

Even standards adopted by standards committees have some level of patent encumbrance, just that it is supposed to be RAND (reasonable and non-discriminatory).

Tesla has irrevocably waived their rights to sue for ALL their patents long ago (the list includes the two design patents that cover the connector and inlet respectively). However it is subject to certain terms, which others have deemed as “poison pill”. Essentially any party that uses Tesla’s patents can’t sue anyone…

Yeah, people don’t seem to get that the resources are far better utilized improving NACS than sticking with CCS. GM themselves said they estimate saving $400M with this move vs investing in their own CCS network. Putting some money in to develop the supercharger network into something all EVs can use makes a lot of…

It IS the same connector. NACS delivers both AC and DC on the same connector and inlet. The EVSE or charger communicates with the car to deliver the appropriate thing. So that matches your idea of that was what you were asking.

This move is like adopting USB-C (Tesla NACS) instead of USB 3.0 Micro-B (CCS, which similarly slaps an extra section to support extra functionality, with micro-B the analog to J1772). USB 3.0 Micro-B would have maintained backwards compatibility with older connectors, but I think most people agree the advantages of…

The only people who seems to feel this is bad are those that dislike Tesla. They can’t stand Tesla “winning”. The rest objectively can see NACS is the superior connector and this is a better direction to go.

Some supercharger locations have separate level 2 chargers (which aren’t actually technically chargers, they are EVSEs), and sure, you can use them, just like some people already do with adapters.

400k is only the amount with FSD. The amount with Autopilot is 830k as per end of article. Also as per warning by NHTSA, the data gathering by manufacturers is not equal.

Comparing to the cheap prices in China is quite misleading as much of it is due to lax regulation in China. The cars would cost substantially more here in the US just to meet minimal safety requirements.

Another thing is unless people have been living under a rock, every company has seen what has happened during Covid. Too many companies put all their eggs into the Chinese manufacturing basket and the entire world suffered for it. A similar thing is poised to happen due to all the saber rattling about Taiwan. So it ben…

Yeah, I was about to point out the same thing. These journalists seem to lack very basic logic. After 2021, Tesla sales exploded and Tesla made AP standard. Any comparison needs to normalize the absolute numbers to this (ideally by miles also, given people travel different miles). If you take this into account, it…

Apparently not. Police aren’t able to even open the door. If a car gets completely stuck, Cruise has to send a vehicle to rescue it, which typically takes about 15 minutes, depending on where it is.

SFMTA, the city regulator, has long protested and wants to force the operators to keep having safety drivers until they demonstrate this will not happen or at least have a way for emergency responders to move the vehicles to the side manually when it freezes, but those calls fell to deaf ears.

Except that is not the case. There isn’t a zero sum in battery materials (even though EV naysayers like to assume there is) and the amount of materials required per kWh is not the same between hybrids and BEVs (hybrids need power dense instead of energy dense batteries and up until recently they were using Nimh which…