I’ve been driving EVs for 9 years, parking outside exclusively, in one of the coldest regions of the contiguous 48 (northern NY state), and I can say quite confidently that parking in the cold isn’t a problem for level 2 overnight charging like these vehicles would be doing.

Temperature extremes are only a problem for…

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Every indication I’ve seen or experienced says that Tesla’s batteries are a hell of a lot more reliable in sub zero temperatures than the Texas grid is, and as far as I can tell the Tesla battery in Australia has only made their grid more stable, the Australians certainly seem happy with it.

Not that you’d have any idea from reading this article, but the Beta he’s talking about is only for people who have paid for FSD.

What he’s offering is the beta that allows cars with the FSD option to navigate city streets, intersections, traffic and stop lights, basically do all the driving for you but still under…

When the power goes out and gas pumps aren’t on, how much range does a gas car have? Anywhere from 1-600 miles, pretty much randomly based on when you last filled up. I refuel my electric car everyday, so unless I’d only been home from a road trip a few minutes when the power went out, I’ll always have 250+ miles.

I’m not making it out to be an end-all-be-all stat, but its clearly worth a few percentage points. At the top end of any sport, its the athletes who have collected as many of these small percentage point advantages as possible who win, whether its equipment, body morphology, strategy, recovery, or coaching. A couple…

Battery swaps seemed like it might be a good idea back before there was fast charging infrastructure, and at the time the fastest available was 90kw charging a Model S with 265 miles of range. You were looking at an hour or more to charge every 3 hours of highway travel. The promise of a 2 minute swap at least made…

Take a moment to google Robert Bobroczky if you’re still not convinced that being tall regardless of body mass is an advantage. Adequate hand span to palm the ball is an advantage people >6' get that’s just not available to shorter players. If you have enough muscle mass to not be feeble, and again my point is about…

A lot is uncertain on this topic, but one this I can say with confidence is that with all other things being equal being tall is an advantage in basketball. That may the least controversial hot take that gets posted on this article.

I would argue that height, for example, is a competitive advantage in several sports. I have not seen any evidence of testosterone suppressing drugs decreasing the average height of transwomen. Maybe if you did it from a very young age, but not if you start years after starting puberty. While height probably have very…

Its an unfortunate fact that being a biological male comes with lasting physical advantages (skeletal size, bone density, muscular development) that don’t just disappear instantly even if someone transitions hormonally. In a random sample of the population these differences won’t make much difference, but when you…

Like almost all Formula E tracks this is a city course with very short run off areas and no gravel. We can’t see it in the video, but he was still moving damn quick when he left the frame and wouldn’t have scrubbed much more off before hitting the wall.

Every analyst who’s claimed that Tesla was demand limited up to this point has been wrong, so maybe but its hard to believe without evidence. Rumor is their Autopilot chips are produced by Samsung in Texas, so there could be supply chain interruptions there on top of the global chip shortage.

Replacing the bolts that break isn’t the problem, its extracting the rest of the bolt. The fastest way to turn a 10 minute job into a 5 hour one is snapping the head off a bolt.

The only things that won’t be all electric in the next decade or two are freight shipping, racing, some aviation, military vehicles, and historical/collector vehicles. Those are the places synthetic fuels might make sense, everything else electric will just be way more economical. Nothing else has nearly the cycle…

A friend and I considered a forward control pickup EV conversion as an attempt to win a million nickles from the Lemons organizers. The idea was that it’d allow swappable battery packs that would be mounted on rollers in the bed, allowing for refills as fast as the average gas Lemons car. This Jeep is good evidence…

I mean the reasons people are buying Teslas more than other EVs are the charging network, the software, the range, and the performance, so if like this article you copy the first two and ignore the last two then sure.

I suspect the number of f**s Tesla gives about the Chevy Bolt is roughly the same as the number of V8s they have in production.

Do you really only piss every 5 hours? If so you need to drink more water. If not plug in when you piss and you’ll pretty much never run out of charge in a Model 3.

This is a real challenge to automakers.  They need to start making electric cars if they’re ever going to catch up to Tesla’s tech lead, but when they don’t have the range or performance of a Tesla for the same or greater price, it ends up being a Tesla endorsement instead.