Those are not changed because if you look at articles where the authors actually did journalism instead of speculating, the changed numbers are related to a new EPA rule that is mandatory for the 2024 or newer model year (optional for 2023), where automakers have to average their different drive modes.

Your article strongly implies that the range changes have to do with the probe, but there is no indication they are in any way related.

Saturn didn’t fail because of no-haggle pricing, it failed because GM’s other divisions didn’t like how it was operating in a unique way (and initially got a lot of resources when it was highly successful at launch). Later they changed things to operate more like other GM divisions (shared parts and spread out…

Yeah, then the video came out, people were claiming he fled just for expired tags and not having a license, but that made zero sense to flee for. It makes sense now knowing he had an illegal firearm in the car.

Good catch on the 500V, I was thinking it might be this also.

That’s false, at least as it relates to the OEM Tesla CCS adapter. There is a locking pin that sticks out from the adapter on the Tesla side. When you plug it into a Tesla, that locking pin pushes against the car body and pops out the other side, engaging the CCS latch on the CCS connector. This prevents the CCS…

Well to be fair, this wasn’t an issue until the Kia boys. Some of these cars are more than decade old and the trend only happened in recent years.

This is just the estimated parasitic draw for Model 3 when awake (even when Sentry mode or Summon Standby is off).

Except you don’t need to charge at a CCS station (most Tesla owners never do), while to charge your iPhone you need to use a charger.

Not really. They only beat Tesla in Q4, Tesla still is the top for 2023. We will see what happens in 2024.

Many of the third party CCS to Tesla ones do not. Ironically, the Tesla one that is being criticized here is one of the few that actually was designed to not allow you to pull out the CCS cable, while the adapter is still locked to the car.

Yep, the overhead losses of running the car computer can be as high as 200-300W, which means even with the higher power USB-C connection, it might not be able to charge at all.

That’s how Chinese makes have been doing things for a while. Copy some elements from multiple different cars and then they can claim it as “unique” as long as the whole is different (sometimes the copies of some parts are so exact, the parts actually fit the original car). The copyright law is lax enough that they…

Yep, it looks a lot more like a Taycan to me. I believe they even said that was the car they were aiming for during their launch, so they weren’t shy about where they got their “inspiration”.

If the frame didn't get deformed, why would it be difficult to fit the panels?

It doesn’t have to be a sculpture of a magnifying lens, the same thing can happen with highly reflective windows on a building with a concave shape (up thread, plenty of people posted examples). Such a building would concentrate sunlight into one small area, which can cause parts to get hot enough to melt, something…

Many who work at charities aren’t volunteers either, they are paid. For example, Red Cross has roughly 35,000 employees. Having volunteers and employees are separate from whether a business is a charity.

I just don’t think it’s as easy as you put it. I’m in SF where I frequently see self driving cars and whenever two or more of them are together, they easily confuse each other (you would think they have a way of communicating with each other wirelessly to plan everything, but apparently not).

Tesla have only been able to make a successful charging network because the Tesla owners subsidized with via the vehicle sales. It’s much harder for third party networks to replicate this, closest thing was subscriptions, but now that Tesla is opening up their supercharger network, who wants to send money on a…

The article mentions nothing about the amount of profit the California franchises make (as a percentage or otherwise). So the article doesn’t address the point at all.