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What this fails to mention is that in cold weather, my Tesla model Y loses about 4% charge overnight. A recent stay at the airport went from 74% down to 41% in 4-1/2 days. And this is after closing all apps so that the car should go into sleep mode. My Taycan loses maybe 1% per week.

Weird is good! Sometimes. Like in the saying: "Keep Austin weird" . For those if you not in U.S., Austin is the capital of Texas, a great funky city with great music. :)

I'm not sure a receptacle is allowed with a 60 amp breaker (unless you can throttle the EVSE down to 40 amps). If you are using a 14-50 receptacle, its limited to a 50 amp circuit. Anything over 50 amps needs to be hard wired, and you are running a 60 amp circuit. With a 60 amp breaker, you can...

German companies are heavily directed by a workers council. Volkswagen announced it would let go employees in Wolfsburg and move EV production to new factories in different cities. Workers in Wolfsburg didn't like this. It sounds like now VW will try to keep production in their 50+ year old...

When charging at home overnight (let’s say 10 hours), you get: .4 miles per minute x 60 mins/hr x 10 hours = 240 miles of range added

As a current Tesla model Y owner, I beg to differ. My model Y is fine, but it is certainly not the 'be all and end all' car. A friend of mine just got his model Y mid November and he feels the same: its a good car but certainly not a great car. As he said to me "it has its quirks". In my...

I understand that its tough to see benefits today from a higher battery voltage due to the limitations in the 800v charging infrastructure. But ... 800v is inherently more efficient than 400v just as 240v is inherently more efficient than 120v In both cases, you get double the power from the...

Since you are an engineer, you know that power (watts) = voltage x current. If you double the voltage and want to keep the power the same, you can cut the current in half. Or if you keep the current the same, you can double the power. Which means with 800v versus 400v you can: - use thinner...

Indeed they do and in a great location (downtown Montauk behind Naturally Yours sandwich shop). But they are not particularly fast: the best I've been able to get is about 75kw.

Next summer we'll do a road trip to Montauk. :-)

While everyone is entitled to their opinion, what happens if you're wrong and in 20 years, if humans don't make significant changes to the way we live, the entire planet is uninhabitable? What if in 20 years the forest fires on the west coast consume the entire western part of North America...

Where I live, much of the electric power comes from hydro (Niagra Falls). And there's a new offshore wind farm which is the final stages of permitting. So there is something happening. Whether this will create enough electric power to support a rapid change from ICE to EV, only time will tell...

That's one of the problems with Tesla: they spend their time developing 'cool' features like fart mode, games and cool pictures of the car in 3D. But these stupid things take away resources from things which really matter, like making their auto steer work reliably. All you need is one bad auto...

One final thought: why do some car designers think that the shape of an EV can be the same as an ICE? It can’t! To increase the range of an EV you need to consider the aerodynamic characteristics of the car. Examples of good aerodynamics: Taycan, Bolt, all the Tesla’s, the BMW i8. Bad...

Looks like this was 3D printed for the prototype. I have a hard time believing any car manufacturer would put crystal pieces in a high end car.

My feeling as well. My previous EV was a BMW i3, which was great for a two passenger car. It was roomy and had a surprising amount of trunk space. I ran a two year construction project driving that car, and regularly filled the trunk with 5 gallon cans of spackle, paint and tools. It was...