If you already have solar at home then you likely already have offline power storage.

Same here. Have an EGo mower and leaf blower. Just bought a string trimmer to go with them. I have a townhouse lawn so one charge on the mower battery lasts pretty much all summer. Went to go mow a month ago and the battery was low so I just grabbed the battery off the blower and tossed it in and away I went.

I have replaced all of my lawn equipment with Ego equipment (and my snow blower as well). I have a pretty typical suburban lawn and I can cut the entire thing without using even half the battery. Then the blower, trimmer, and edger all can run off a single battery that swaps.

“According to the agency, Tesla did an over-the-internet software update in late September that was intended to improve detection of emergency vehicle lights in low-light conditions. The agency says that Tesla is aware that federal law requires automakers to do a recall if they find out that vehicles or equipment have…

The question is not if drivers are inattentive because we all know that drivers are inattentive regardless of the amount of automation in the car. The key question is if these automation systems are safer than human drivers. I personally know 2 people that damaged their cars when they fell asleep while driving and…

Correct. Like the insurance risk monitors (Progressive Snapshot, etc), this system is actually measuring environmental risk, not individual driver performance (though the two may be correlated). Because Tesla wants to deploy their FSD software in situations where it will be least likely to encounter situations it…

I’d like to see a video of you charging two EVS simultaneously on the ABB Electrify America DC fast charger. 🤣 Electrify America has stated themselves that there are two connectors per charging station for ease of plugging in as ports on vehicles are in different locations and not standardized. As for third-party CCS…

Because: More better.

Better can always be improved. I haven’t looked at stats in a year or so, but I thought Tesla had more chargers, and way faster speeds overall. I know for a fact that in my market there are 8-10 superchargers downtown, all capable of 350kw, yet only a single CCS @ 20kw. I have to go 30 minutes…

An A5 wagyu steak is objectively, subjectively, better than a steak from the Keg. But if you’re really craving one tonight and didn’t make a reservation to a restaurant that serves it, or order one from Japan, you can still go to the Keg to satisfy the craving even though it’s inferior. Same thing. Just cause people…

It comes down to ease of use and reliability.

Not a Tesla fanboy, but c’mon.. How do you not recognize more is better? They’ve obviously been able to survive just fine for the last decade with their current network (which is in fact, WAY better than any other), but in some markets, on some routes, a CCS might be better. This is for the 5% of the owners who asked…

Dammit people! Teslas are not autonomous. There is no substitute for an attentive driver...

I work with a lot of tech companies - a LOT of them are making similar moves and have been for the past year or so. These are big operational moves, usually out of California. There’s a lot more to this than I think you’re willing to explore here, and I also find it pretty absurd to wave-away the discussion about cost…

other manufacturers use the MSRP as a ceiling

I think it is a shame you won’t write the same thing about every volume manufacturer doing exactly this. They constantly offer different discounts depending on the month = a DIFFERENT PRICE FOR THE VEHICLE. That means, and this is going to be a shocker to you, that everyone else is charging different prices on…

First off let me say that I think it’s a shame that the base Model 3 is now over $40k. And especially that the base Model Y was discontinued earlier this year so now that starts at $55k.

Lmao no, nothing about this is unique to California. The police don't care about cat theft anywhere.

The real solution is designing the catalytic converter so that it’s so deeply buried inside the car that it’s faster to steal the car rather than chop off parts. It’s much easier to deter theft of an entire car and track it than the individual parts that make up the car.

To some degree this is already happening. Ford,…

Yep, I’m guessing the Telsa might have been going 60, but the car it ass-end was going something like 45, so the impact speed difference was 15 mph or so.

That’s when we’ll know Tesla has really made it.