737-MAX was a disaster in terms of the design of MCAS and the resulting effects, but as pointed out, my impression was the aircraft was still a sales success leading up to that terms (so Boeing’s read on the market was still on point). From a quick search, with the issues fixed, the orders are resuming and it seems…

It irks me when auto journalists can’t even get the basic units for energy (kWh) vs power (kW) correct. That statement is as senseless as saying this engine makes 10 gallons of gasoline’s worth of power, which makes zero sense.

To be fair to them, this is not like the many incidents by other agencies whee it’s the agency that calls in the car as stolen. It seems in this case the prior renter was at fault, while Avis handled the aftermath poorly.

I saw this brought up before in EV forums by people talking about their personal experiences at gas stations. An EV does allow you to avoid them, which might be useful if you typically are forced to refuel in sketchier parts of town.

Just because you didn’t have it happen doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen to people. Again it happened to someone in this thread and it was trivial to find people complaining in forums about it happening to BMWs. The point is the button design has obvious advantages for frameless door use, and Tesla’s not the only one nor…

As mentioned by others (and linked also) solutions that use a manual handle and a separate sensor typically still allows the glass to rub against the trim if you open the door fast enough. The button avoids that given it's electronic, so the car can time it perfectly (only unlatch after window already dropped).

It’s possible to do it by microswitch, but that still allows the window to rub the seal if the door is open fast enough. Examples linked:

Yep, that was what the buttons avoid. With a manual door handle and sensor, there is still a chance of the window rubbing on the seal, given the window dropping happens afterwards (not before).

They actually didn’t need to do that either. They just need to enter a destination in the nav and it’ll automatically route the car through charging stations if necessary. It's actually one of the easiest EVs to use if you are clueless about charging stations.

It’s because of the frameless doors. The button allows the glass to drop down first before the door latch opens. The Corvette had electronic releases for the same reason.

I never had a car with them and didn’t know they were that bad. People who had them seem complain a lot about the Model 3 not having them, so perhaps they like the light being on even when it’s safe to change lanes.

Except they have no such ability nor desire to do so. Automakers don’t want to get into the charging station business (in their eyes that’s like building gas stations for cars, which traditionally is not an automaker’s role). The closest thing was Electrify America (funded by VW in lieu of fines for diesel gate) and…

NACS is being adopted into SAE as an official open standard (something that Tesla actively pushed for and was actually pushed back against by others, not the other way around), so it’ll be under FRAND terms. So there is no risk to using it, certainly not any worse than the existing CCS standard (in fact CCS is more…

No, the trailers don’t just bring in level 2 chargers, they were fully sized superchargers!

It’s been known for many years (your article points to a 2015 example) Tesla sometimes hauls in generators to handle peak demand, especially during holidays. No one gives a shit because it’s negligible in terms of impact, as it doesn’t change that probably 90% of the charging is still done using much cleaner sources.…

I expect the way they implement it is a coating on the glass and a strong projector instead of something like a transparent OLED which would be much more expensive.

The lost of sales from the bad press that will happen, and the lawsuit that will happened due to breach of contract?

They have some goodwill upgrades in the past for special cases (free acceleration boost, HW3 upgrade, slight range bump to unlock parts of LR battery for cars that had the batteries before they officially updated EPA), and given the population affected is tiny, they might do the same this in this case.

This is to make it slide under the tax credit limit. I’m sure there will be people pissed, but given it only happened for 2 weeks, that amount of people will be negligible. And if it’s a software lock, Tesla can easily offer a free unlock if necessary.

It would only be annoying if the system has a lot of false positives. Tesla’s system is pretty bad at this because it’s mainly relying on the steering torque (only recently switching to more camera). Steering torque is very prone to false positives given it requires the user to hold the wheel in a certain way to avoid…