That explanation was taken pretty much verbatim from the NHTSA letter about the China recall:

Ditto on hating the mustache. The rest of the car looks ok.

I think it will come to if all 8 smelled, how bad it was, and if there were other passengers that also smelled but didn’t get kicked off.

AEB generally only works going forward. Tesla did add reverse AEB, but it has much more limited functionality. Plus when the driver is applying throttle and steering in a very deliberate action it likely overrides the AEB anyways.

I’m scratching my head about the latter. Tesla very much does not cover up battery degradation. In fact it’s the exact opposite. It shows it front and center in a number that is easy to understand. The EPA rated range displayed by the car (which you can toggle to show battery percentage instead) is simply the usable…

If that is the case, then degradation is only 9-11% over 4 years, meaning the cars are well on track to outlast the 8 year warranty (which is 30% degradation).

Yeah, comparing it to real world range vs EPA messes up the analysis. The article mixes this up too by throwing in the 70% warranty. The 70% warranty is pack capacity which the car displays as a EPA rated range number. This is different from the real world range, which is what this data shows.

A vast majority of the OTA feature improvements are free (including this one). There are only a few locked software options (like FSD, performance boost in long range models, and some models with software locked range).

Yep, UK EVs of that era were slow, short range city cars. Also DC charging was relatively rare and not enough to make frequent long distance driving viable for most owners. As such the EV data would be heavily skewed to city driving where there are pedestrians, and the amount of time per mile spent on the road is much…

The absolute price isn’t the core factor. If there were 200 million EVs sold per year and they have been selling for decades, then even at $20k for a new pack there would be plenty of third party refurb or clone battery demand. But right now most EVs are selling more on the order of 10k units per year, and most of…

If the battery is damaged, any EV is expensive to repair. As for the other parts, I don’t think there is much difference from other new premium cars. It’s just the parts lead times may be longer, so you pay more for storage if your car is sitting in the repair shop waiting for them. Also there aren’t many if any third…

I saw in the Tesla forums experience of some nightmare Hertz purchases with damage. Basically the ones they are selling off are probably the worst examples and like most rental cars, treated like crap.

That’s a widespread myth, but exists neither in the California DMV Handbook nor in the actual law (even though even some police officers believe this myth). The only “3 second” rule that exists in the Handbook is the following distance.

The problem with yield signs is drivers tend to pretty much ignore pedestrians and don’t actually yield. With stop signs, when people are around, the cars at least make an effort to stop.

For the Bolt, it actually made sense given there was actually a higher fire risk due to the recalled defective batteries (same with some BMWs that had engine recalls). But a blanket one doesn’t make much sense.

Foam (and other methods that try to suppress the oxygen supply) is actually ineffective against lithium ion fires because the battery itself has its own oxygen supply.

The car carrier fire actually didn’t involve any EVs. Instead it was assumed the fire started with the EVs and the media carried that with them. It’s myths/assumptions like that why people think EVs are more likely to catch on fire.

Yeah, if the cop knew there was no one down the path and did it just out of spite it would be a shitty move. But the gist I got was there were lots of pedestrians down the road, so there was nothing wrong with what the cop did.

Well they haven’t gone quite to Apple level yet (like encrypting components and not letting you use it with your device if it’s not an Apple authorized part), just that there isn’t an industry yet to offer aftermarket battery parts and repair.

Yep, latter part is the reason why. The market was simply non-existent a few years ago because the packs were not out of warranty yet. Only right now is it really starting to be a thing.