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Exactly: this is what I meant with the cultural disadvantage. It took them half a decade longer than should have been the case. Fine, better late than never. But now their own ranks are fighting it! Normally, I'd say this will resolve itself with time... But they don't have any to spare. They...

In terms of self driving, I would claim Waymo is still ahead of everybody else in terms of fully autonomous. I would claim Tesla is ahead of everybody in terms of the learning/deployment platform (number of cars fully deployed with hw, data gathering + learning cycle, deploying updates every 2...

Well, that's the other shoe that's going to drop: Chinese OEMs and the Chinese market. Everybody keeps writing Lucid/Rivian/Porsche/MB will now kill Tesla. When the only real threat IMHO is Chinese OEMs. (Actually, Musk has said as much) (The same is true the other way around: I don't see Tesla...

Thanks for the link, looks like some interesting content! Wish I shared your optimism. So far I've seen a lot of loud statements, but IMHO these usually just showed how little they understand: They all have grand plans to hire 10,000+ software engineers. This is not the salt mines. They don't...

Do you have a link? Though I suspect I'll have to wait and see. I've seen sooo many reviews in Germany lauding the new version of BMWs, MBs or Audi's systems .... They must be looking for something completely different, or just very biased to report positively. The nav systems in those cars...

Well, here in the PNW Lucid service can't possibly be worse than car dealers we have here. I would take my chances. (Not interested in the Air for other reasons, but that wouldn't be the reason I'd stay away from an Air)

The interior is a big bet on the screen and the software. I've yet to see an MB car with decent software... so this will be interesting. (I've owned more than one, and I really liked them for a lot of reasons, but software was never one of them). I'm also not fond of those stupid blue led lines...

I think the point of comparison for a new Taycan is a new Model S. They both get 150-200 miles in 15-20 min. I'd call that even. (If you take the exact values, Tesla is technically ahead, but not enough to matter). I think the Raven Model X that my wife currently drives is actually already close...

IMHO, at the end of the day, what matters is real world performance from a customer perspective, not some mile/kWh efficiency or kw charging metric. All of those of course impact real world, but the total package is what matters. So: (1) how far you can drive with the battery at 80% (daily, or...

Sign me up.

:CWL: Exact same here. That was my first one, and I've been on MacBooks (and iPhones) ever since.

And the kicker is: app stores existed. Just not with the same conviction on user experience, seamlessly integrated etc. Apple was just the first (or at least most successful) to focus ruthlessly on the key user journeys and making those friction-free. Easy to see how that enabled things now...

I'm plenty comfortable where I sit. I'm just reacting to the fashion of discrediting innovative companies post-fact when the disruption happened. I was involved in pitching EV related software features to folks in the automotive industry in 2014. Believe me, the consensus was still "This is...

Sure. Elon was at the right time & place for financial transactions to go online At the right time & place for EVs to start. At the right time & place to push for a fully digital car. At the right time & place for commercial space to take off. At the right time & place for satellite internet...

Then I can see how the transmission is not a problem for you. There's no "worthy vs. not worthy" in my book. If the car does what you want it to do - great! I'm just saying for me personally, the transmission has been a downside. If I could switch out the rear motor + transmission and install...

So, you never use sport mode to accelerate past 60-70mph? You never drive in normal/range and then accelerate more than just a bit? Interesting. Not how I drive my daily driver... but to each their own. That does explain why you don't feel it. I love the suspension, I love the steering. But...

You realize that even Diess has credited Tesla? It's a widely held opinion - not a new argument of mine. I'm not talking about software being introduced... but I'm sensing I'm getting nowhere with this... nevermind... you can stay over there, I'll stay happy over here.

If you don't feel the shifting, you either got the "special edition", or I want some of what you're smoking.

Let's start with: I really doubt we'd have the Taycan if it weren't for Tesla starting/accelerating the EV wave. They also introduced OTA, the notion that cars can have decent entertainment/media software, phone as a key, decent apps for a car, mobile service, decent supercharging network, in...

Can't agree more: 500 miles seems like overkill. You're lugging around 100s of pounds of battery that you need for the 2 road trips a year. Even for those, it seems like 300-400 miles should be plenty.