And 4C is not particularly cold. Pretty dismal result, it has to be said. 

I’m not so sure the glass roof is too much of an issue. My Polestar has a glass roof. I’ve only had it a few weeks so not experienced summer, and of course UK summers are not exactly crazy hot, but on the Polestar forums people raised this exact question and owners in places like LA said it was not too excessive at…

That second option does sound sensible, co-locating the two high-speed lines out of LA.

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.