This is the issue. It needs to connect all the way into DTLA. If there was a magic money tree, all the way to LAX, and let people connect onto it like it was another flight, like how the high-speed trains link right into Schipol Airport in Amsterdam or de Gaul in Paris. 

There’s a shift towards this here in the UK. Most of them now will just take a tap from a contactless bank card or Apple/Google Pay on your phone, at least for new installations. Tesla’s being the major exception in newer stations.

Apparently the backlighting is coming, along with a better infotainment unit. The system in my parents’ Skoda Enyaq isn’t *that* clunky once you get used to is, but it’s certainly not amazing. And is very slow on initial boot. 

Absolutely - and I think most people these days would think about the 737 MAX, for exactly the same reason. 

I’m presuming these keys still have an immobiliser chip in them though, right? Not just a plain metal key?

London Heathrow already has autonomous pods shuttling out to some of the car parks

Worth pointing out that those Level 2 charging times are a bit of a swizz- the vast majority of Level 2 home chargers pump out less than 11kw - most around 7kw. 

Is this not something that’s been around for a bit? Or at least something similar?

Hyundai/Kia is up there with Tesla in terms of EV tech, especially with their 800V architecture that is already ahead of Tesla in terms of charging speeds.

Well.... Ish.

Anyone else getting major Fiat Panda vibes from this? Even the ‘circles squares’ thing mirrors the ‘squircles’ that Fiat went on about during the Panda’s launch.

My mother-in-law has one of those Buicks.... it fits her well, in her quiet, dull, Cincinnati suburban life. And there’s a good reason we don’t go to Cincinnati much.

It sounds like this system is a progression from what is already on my parents’ Skoda Enyaq- although it may be fully defeatable and stay off unlike the new law.

This. I don’t get why people would want power seats without memory- that just seems pointless. But with memory, it’s great if you share your car with your partner. 

I have to say I don’t get the hate for stop/start. Maybe it’s only annoying in an automatic? With a manual car, it’s super easy and doesn’t hold you back- by the time you’ve got it into gear, the engine is running again no issues.

I don’t personally agree about the seats in the Polestar 2, but that photo is of the base spec, which has completely normal cloth. The ‘WeaveTech’ seats are these.

Well... Lets go through the cars they were selling at the end of the GM days.

I’m not sure- Opel/Vauxhall frequently have cars topping the sales figures. They’re not as big as the VW Group, that’s for certain, but they’ve never been insignificant. Vauxhall was the 5th most popular brand in the UK in 2019 (everything went weird after that so kind of tricky to tell), ahead of brands like Toyota,…

Mine was a basic 1.2 VW Polo. It was 7 years old when I got it, and the most basic of base spec- no central locking, hand crank windows, no A/C. The only modern tech weirdly was electrically adjustable mirrors. Would definitely have preferred central locking over that, but there we go. It was known as Rex, as the…

The VW Group MEB platform cars have drum brakes on the rear which are sealed units and supposed to last the life of the car. Of course we’ll see how well that pans out, but they’re saying that disk brakes will be more costly and require more maintenance than drums because they will hardly be used because of the regen.