68% y/y on a low number is still a low number! That’s 4,342 vs 2,574. That’s another misleading way to present data (kind of like how people quote super high percentage growth for some of the lower volume EVs and say they are doing amazing compared to Tesla, when the hard numbers tell a different story).

Those people were talking about driving off the person after that person was pinned (implication being actually getting out of the car and seeing where the person was and which direction to drive to get off if was even possible), not just blindly driving forward not knowing where the person was.

Well, I compare to the Prius because that was the example brought up in the article, plus it’s pretty much the iconic representative hybrid (everyone thinks of it when talking about hybrids). Just to show how misleading it is to look at weeks of supply as an indication of demand.

Yep, that part is a total lie too. It’s more like the opposite, Tesla is selling well more than 3x the EVs than Toyota is selling PHEVs. If Toyota put their heart to it, they should have been able to do lot better in EVs (for example back then if they released a Prius EV instead of naysaying), but instead it is…

I didn’t look at 2023 because the numbers aren’t fully in yet, but the Prius isn’t doing any better in 2023. So far they sold only 25,654 units as of end of September. If Q4 is like last year they might squeeze in another 10k for around 35k-36k sales in 2023, still worse than the closest EVs from GM and Ford.

They just posted Toyota PR without verifying it with hard numbers. I posted in a different post the Prius they are saying is selling well compared to EVs (which they use misleading comparisons of the F150 Lightning supply vs Prius) actually is selling worse than mediocre selling EVs, much less hot sellers like the…

Quite misleading, Toyota’s EV sales suck because their EV sucks and is not competitive.

The problem was the CRZ was neither efficient nor sporty. Unless Honda drops the ball hard, it’s fairly hard to make the same mistake with an EV. Given Honda is using GM tech, they can just take the Bolt drivetrain (which already makes 200 hp and gets a real world 0-60 under 6.5 second, even quicker than a Civic Si)…

Smog is the haze from pollutants from cars and industrial activity, but it doesn’t cause the same low visibility conditions as fog and smoke.

Travel savvy people typically have a credit card that already has rental insurance coverage (which the guy mentioned), so they always opt out of the car rental insurance. The problem is Turo is not technically considered a rental car company, but more like a car sharing company. That's where this guy got tripped up.

“Being replaced by a program called Clean Cars 4 All which aims to do what the CVRP was supposed to do in the first place: help low income buyers purchase EVs.”

I think the problem is while every manufacturer has their own approach to making their EVs look different, Tesla went with a design that still looked largely sporty and conventionally “good”. Same deal with the Taycan and the Audi equivalents. The EQS instead looks too much like an egg.

People actually already did tests years ago, it won’t even crush a banana:

I don’t have a Model X, but I have a Model 3 with a powered trunk lid and it also senses resistance and stops. I imagine the X works works the same way. As others pointed out, the kid seemed to have slipped out before there was even any resistance at all.

Yep, anti-pinch sensors are not anywhere perfect and can’t be reasonably expected to be perfect. I’m sure the Model X has them, but this is a case where it failed.

They’ve been using both from the start. The FritoLay branded ones are hauling chips, the Pepsi branded ones are hauling beverages. Naysayers of course say they are all hauling chips and Tesla Semi can’t possibility go any decent distance hauling heavier loads, which this test disproves. Also, I’m skeptical the load…

Not for vehicle fires on scene in a scenario like this. The main goal on the scene is to extinguish it such that you can save people possibly trapped inside, and it’s possible with plain old water. If necessary to preserve the remains for crash investigation, afterwards firefighters may run a smaller stream of water…

But the goal in this case isn’t to eliminate all possibly of reignition (even after thermal runaway has been stopped, internal shorts in the battery can start another new thermal runaway event). Thermal runaway ceases when the battery is below the reaction temperature, just that a new event can happen due to shorts…

Not true, it’s possible to extinguish them in minutes using just water (as linked by others). But the dry chemical extinguishers in most portable extinguishers are largely useless against them (although it may help with the fire driven by other flammable materials in the vehicle).

The sales figures are actually opposite of what you say. They have continued to have strong growth YoY, so their current strategy seems to be working just fine. I don’t think the market values full platform changes as much as you say they do.