Nearly every discussion in the last 6 months on here has been about how Toyota leadership was so smart to stick to hybrids and not make a BEV totally ignoring the hundreds of millions spent on hydrogen instead.

Why do car companies push hydrogen?  Because it has a more distant timeline that electric so they can continue making ICE vehicles?

Because they made a big bet on hydrogen being the future of personal vehicles but did next to nothing to actually get the infrastructure off the ground. This is the problem when an org gets too big, execs get excited about developing something new but when the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing, they…

Don’t get why the folks praising Toyota for having the wisdom to not get into battery electric forget or ignore that Toyota simply made and continues to make a worse bet on hydrogen.

Anyone who has ever dabbled in DIY car detailing would know that metal fallout is a common issue and affects all cars although it is not as apparent on painted/clear coated vehicles. Metal fallout is small particles of metal from lots of sources (industrial plants, brake dust, trains, etc.) that are carried through…

Toyota needs to create an EV conversion kit for the Mirai. That would be less wasteful than selling cars that cannot, for most intents and purposes, be driven.

Budget and time constraints mostly. It’s not just cars that are heavy enough to be considered commercial, a lot of luxury vehicles that don’t either have significant sales volume or the manufacturer paying for a test don’t get ratings. Big luxury sedans like the S-Class don’t have ratings, a lot of the Mercedes when I…

Some key info here: The Cybertruck *was* crash-tested. It had to be, to get licensed for sale by the NHTSA. The results of that test were filed with NHTSA so that Tesla could legally affix the sticker to each CyberTruck that says it conforms to the FMVSS (49 CFR Part 567).

What NHTSA does is *independently* re-tests…

Exactly my point actually - $10 for premium connectivity is hard to complain about. Need it for traffic-aware nav, since they’re disabling that on hotspot now, but that’s it. Blazer is $50 a month.

Yes, but that’s back to the shareholder issue: Tesla’s stock has gotten spanked harder than anyone’s the last few months because they cut their prices with aggression that the established manufacturers never will. Even though Tesla probably has the leanest per/unit cost for EV’s, and thus can go cheaper than anyone…

I went to the Chicago Auto Show on Tuesday with a friend of mine. The Blazer EV was something we took our time to look at, and we found it quite nice! Then came the fun part:

That’s not an old car. This is an old car.

he was three times over the legal blood alcohol limit to drive

As a person who’s owned a Macan and owns a 911 (997.2) in addition to my Tesla Model 3 Performance, here is my take on it.

Personally I’m a skeptic of the self driving projects but I think its a little premature to hint this was due to local animosity towards Waymo. From the description of the event it comes across more like general rioting. 

+1 Anyone who is advocating hydrogen fuel cells over EV is either an industry shill or completely uninformed.

Hydrogen fuel cell cars are worse than EV’s in every conceivable way.   And they still need a battery.

Weird, it’s almost like under-funding consumer and industry watchdog agencies hurts people.

or is Tesla assuming that volume input from steering wheel buttons means that hands must be on the wheel?

In general the nags aren’t that bad if you’re actually being a decent driver. I’ve got a few alerts to pay attention while checking the side mirror for longer than usual or fast forwarding on a podcast by looking at the screen to drag my finger. But I haven’t had any of the actual “strikes” on Autopilot in the last 30,…