The battery pack replacement cost (with labor included) is around $15k for a Model 3 at Tesla. You can find used packs on eBay for much cheaper and probably hire some someone to replace it for you. And that pack has twice the capacity of the i3's.

I don’t personally like it either (whether the more natural examples or the artificial ones), but apparently some people do.

Maybe people don’t think the interior is as bad as some people make it out to be? Infotainment makes up a lot of the negative experience in surveys like this, and Tesla happens to have one of the best OEM ones (despite not having Carplay/Android Auto). It also has a decent stereo system that generally gets good…

That’s not patina, that’s just clear coat fade, which looks completely different.

They’ve been offering wraps since 2020 in China:

Actually Musk had been quite clear that the current implementation is not self driving, he just continually gives missed deadlines on when that would change.

This might irk some people here, but look at how guns are marketed and see how much liability they get from it. And those are the extreme cases. And if a defeat device was used in those cases (for example mods that convert semi to burst or fully automatically), that might also kill the arguments for the few cases that…

If you use a defeat device, that is prime example you know the limitations. If an accident happens, it’s a slam dunk case for Tesla: they can just blame the defeat device.

The naming is a red herring. As soon as the system nags you, you know very clearly it doesn’t drive itself. The naming only plays a role if you are a naive first time user of the system, but those users naturally do not trust the system, and so far there haven’t been cases that show such people getting into serious…

Yeah, it’s another BS claim that has been thrown before when people try to skirt blame by blaming AP, and courts don’t buy it. Given FSD Beta nags you also and does stupid things all the time (especially back in 2022), it’s impossible to not know you must maintain control. There’s not even evidence it was even active…

FYI open standard does not mean patent or license free, it only means the license can be obtained in a FRAND manner (fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory).

Yeah, it seems to just be a bunch of drunk partygoers in the middle of Chinatown, and the Waymo was there in the wrong place at the wrong time. They first put graffiti on the car and smashed it with random objects. Then because they happened to have plenty of fireworks with them, someone ended up putting one into the…

Lithium is not what is targeted to be recovered in recycled lithium-ion batteries. Despite it being in the name, lithium isn’t actually scarce. Rather higher value metals like nickel and cobalt is what is the target for recycling. Right now the popular chemistry is LFP (lithium iron phosphate) which does not use those…

EVs are still sustainable even with current tech because the batteries can be reused or recycled. Batteries are not the same as fossil fuels.

Steam-methane reformation uses methane as per the name, which is a fossils fuel. Electrolysis uses electricity but the hydrogen process (electrolysis, compression/liquifaction, transport, hydrogen fuel cell) to electricity is drastically less efficient than batteries, to the point you can drive 3x the distance on the…

Revoking or suspending a license often does not work because the person needs to drive for errands, so they will just risk getting caught driving without a valid license. However, if a limiter is installed (whether it’s a breathalyzer or speed limiter) it allows them to still drive if they need to, just restricted.

Your own article on the European ISA: “No, Europe Didn’t Just Force Automakers to Install “Speed Limiters”” and that in that law, the mandated tech only warns you about the speed limit, but does not stop you from going above.

My one sighting of an Ocean saw one stopped in the middle of the freeway, probably the same loss of power issue. It eventually caught back up, but it must be fairly scary for it just to lose power for no reason in the middle of a travel lane.

I’m pretty sure the pick and pull even be happy to give it away free, even given it’s not free to properly dispose of toxic chemicals. If they get some money out of it, that’s just a bonus.

I’m curious also what was the change. Hard to know what to think of the results without older data to compare to. And given the latest Tesla recall has nothing to do with self driving (it was dash symbol font being too small) it kind of shows the respondents are probably clueless about what the recalls entailed.