It seems like the writer made up their mind about the press release before reading it. 

Oh look, they mondeo’d the I-Pace. 

Well, converting a car from FWD to RWD must be hard. 

Why?

Maserati makes horrible cars that should be sold for half off MSRP
Alfa Romeo makes unreliable, uncomfortable, uncompetitive cars even though they spent a buttload of money making a new engine and chassis for the brand
Fiat is a cheap brand that had nothing going on for it except for the Panda and the 500, neither…

The fellowship of the Grille prohibits me.

I don’t know if the inhouse armored 7er has self closing doors, but I’ve seen a lot of people with armored 7ers with self closing doors... at least here those are common.

Really, the extra weight of the door is handled by uprated hinges... armored car doors aren’t harder to operate than regular car doors so long as…

Oh boy, I’ve been caught. 

Don’t ask me why I know this, but people who buy those for bulletproofing absolutely love the soft close mechanism, because the bulletproof glass makes the door heavier, and closing it like a regular door makes the entire car move about.... So instead they get their chauffeurs to gently align the door and let the…

How satisfying are the soft closing doors?

Mexico City airport doesn’t allow private jets, so people who use them need to drive out to Toluca airport... and let’s just say Toluca is not nicer than Landcaster. but it still feeds a gigantic market. 

Which also brings another issue, how do you classify non-commercial flights? Owners don’t actually use their…

So I question, how exactly do you ban private jets? I’m not saying it’s a bad idea, I’m just saying that the criteria necessary to impose a ban would be either too specific -and thus apply to very few- or too general -and thus apply to none due to loopholes.

Mexico tried to tax aeroplane owners, and we failed because…

My knowledge of private jets is exclusive to that scene in Iron Man with the pole and the hot sake. 

Jalopnik: Hey! don’t buy special cars just to put them away in a garage to sell them in BaT in twenty years!

Also Jalpnik:

Here’s the wikipedia page about the handshake... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_Charging_System#Charging_communication

All fast chargers need HLC, meaning the Supercharger already has it... which reinforces that it can be adapted to CSS1

Teslas can have adaptors for the CSS1, the Chademo, and any other socket; you can charge a Tesla at a supercharger or at any other charging station.

There is an electronic handshake, but that’s true of any EV. Tesla chargers aren’t different from regular chargers; the port is just of a different shape.

In europe Tesla…

Around the world, Tesla is already making the standard adaptors for each region-except for North America and probably Japan- so that’s not going to be an issue in the global market.

This of course, ignoring that it’s literally just the socket. Everything else is there; the cabling, the transformers, the station.…

I could understand if you were against Tesla using a proprietary port, or not allowing public usage of their stations... but I don’t think it’s bad that they have their own stations.

any competition is good competition. 

“Decent” specs?

400hp for a car the size of an XC40 is amazing....

Also, it’s not clear if this is a PHEV or a BEV...

At some point is not now, and probably not within the first Taycan’s product cycle.

I’m not saying it’s the only choice.... It’s just a better choice than any of the other stations.

Because of the supercharger network, Tesla has a marketing advantage over the other manufacturers.