This seems like a typical kneejerk anti-Tesla reaction, especially given there is zero evidence there are Teslas on board, and a large majority of the EVs have already been identified as Mercedes, with the rest BMW/Mini. Tesla are statistically far less likely to catch a fire than any other EV brand, given they are…

Some shipping companies do disconnect both the 12V and the HV battery. But if the car is undamaged, there isn’t a really need for doing so. Given a similar fire has happened on a ship with no EVs (and that ship burned down completely and sunk), I highly doubt it necessarily has to do with the HV battery.

They can if it’s L2. The person can clearly see it was about to run the red light and could have applied the brakes. The system does say in advance if it is braking for a red light.

Actually FSD is guaranteed to transfer to the next owner, as long as the car never transferred to Tesla ownership. If it ever crosses Tesla’s hands, it may be removed to lower the price of the car to move it more quickly (generally Tesla doesn’t want to keep used car inventory). The reason why Tesla puts low value to…

Yep, I looked at some of the dirt cheap EVs now being offered in Australia and by the time they brought the crash test standards up to Australian standards the price wasn’t any better than the Bolt.

The US have allowed them to do that (remember Faraday Future?). Of course the cars will no longer be competitive if they did that, so few companies bother other than vaporware ones that suck up investor money.

Doesn’t look like it’s actually a bad design from the responses of cyclists. Seems like it is a better design then the alternative, which is having no dedicated bike lanes in a lot of the roads.

I don’t have much disagreement with your other points, just wanted to mention Waymo’s real world training isn’t as useful for generalized cases given the millions of miles they travel is in small geofenced areas, sometimes even avoiding specific roads in such areas.

I don’t get ths gist the naming matters. The people that attempt dangerous things with it (like the person in this article) are actually well aware of the limitations, are expert users, and the naming is irrelevant to them. It’s newer users or people that have never used the system (but just are commenting on it) that…

Nope, most systems have a lane to light mapping that either is done by premapping or by AI on the spot. Tesla has one too, but it got confused in this particular one.

Looks like it treated the green light that was for the other road as for it.

That is a highly misleading stat and pushed heavily by EV skeptics. As mentioned in the Toyota article, first of all, the type of batteries hybrids use (power dense) is not the same as BEVs (energy dense), as such the ratio is much lower than Toyota indicates from this factor alone. The second is that BEVs can use…

For styling, the Model S had gone through a major change already with the nose come removal, and then another one with the Plaid that made it much wider looking. I think overall, the styling of the S holds up quite well to the times and is still modern looking.

Getting a 18% margin (dropping only 1% from 19%) is still mighty impressive given the massive price drops Tesla did. Plus as others pointed out, given the Model Y is poised to become the best selling car in the world this year (while still having comparatively large margin, keep in mind the competition at this volume a…

People criticize Toyota because their engines and transmissions, and infotainment systems are kept a long time too. But this is not the case for Model S: the battery, motors, inverters, have been through multiple significant iterations already throughout its lifecycle (not to mention a major interior/infotainment…

PHEVs aren’t popular because they are a middling solution. Their overall cost of ownership or even initial vehicle cost in general many times is more than a real EV. Practically every PHEV owner that have used BEV for a while have switched fully to BEVs. It was a stop gap that made the most sense when affordable long…

From what I can find back in July, there was a report of rumors Omead Afshar was being investigated, but no confirmation. The reports saying he was fired was simply embellishment (a common telephone game done by the media). In November, there was a report of rumors of him moving to SpaceX, again with no confirmations…

As pointed out elsewhere, that is simply a side effect of low supply of Toyota PHEVs, not necessarily higher demand. For example, the RAV4 prime sold 18,567 units last year in US, the MachE sold 39,458 units.

I don’t think looking at Toyota PHEV vs BEV sales are instructive. First of all, they’ve kept PHEV supply low, so while that means inventory is low, it doesn’t actually mean they sold that many.

As others mentioned, I don’t see nostalgic weird/rare cars getting hate. Maybe what you say would apply more if you showed up with a newer performance SUV. Like if you showed up in a Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT or a Trackhawk? But even then, I don’t see people laughing, especially the Trackhawk.