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You can tell it’s bullshit because they don’t just tax vehicles based on weight. They’re specifically exempting SUVs and trucks. so, yeah, punishing.

@daveo4EV have you test driven a lucid yet ?

My fundamental problem with driving Tesla is they are designed by people who want computers to drive. Anyone who says Tesla steering is good … like i can’t even. It’s some of the most numb and over digitalized electric steering I have ever experienced including a host of rentals and econo...

that so weird my DC fast charging doesn’t take home charging amounts of time to finish and I never get billed for more than 30 minutes …

Taycan is still the best handling and best chassis and suspension of any BEV now or in the very near future. Maybe that changes in 3+ years. Maybe it doesn’t until we see the $300k level of supercars go Bev. When Lucid or Mercedes or BMW builds a sedan that is as enjoyable to drive as a...

The Lucid has some great range, and I’d compare it favorably to a Tesla, especially build quality and interior. that’s all I got.

"Yes, absolutely, sir, that looks great on you"

yeah, it’s a great first showing, but for a 1000hp, it struggled and shows it really doesn’t have anything else. it Is a big improvement for Tesla, and it puts Porsche in a competitive spot. The traditional manufacturers really need to up their game. This is just the beginning of the EV ring...

EU folks seem to be moving to EV faster. I’m deeply skeptical that this is a “young kids in America are totally different than kids in Germany”. There are places in NA where EVs are rare enough to be kinda exotic. It won’t last but I get it. The instant torque is delicious and in many of...

Tesla has rightly earned a lot of its customers faith for being the first high performing EV available with a number of nice advancements. It took Porsche over 7 years to get into the game, and pretty much everything in between the Tesla and taycan sucked. however Tesla won’t remain...

Well it’ll never be a consumer vehicle without an entirely different chassis. Still as an aspiration, 3300# with 1000hp is a beautiful dream.

that would be a wild turn of events. I’m not sure what would induce it though. The power train tech already exists. The new model S plaid gets almost the target performance. Shed a little weight and put on better tires and use 4680 batteries and you’re done. I don’t follow why folks are...

Note this isn’t a public statement, but a “source” so i take it with a high uncertainty value https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-4680-battery-production-hell-details/ but if Tesla has hit 70% yield now, then 4680 batteries are real and the difference is “only money”. Which might make the...

so I expect it’s delayed to end of 2024, first deliveries 2025. Yes that’s just a guess. but I’m not nearly as pessimistic about the fundamental technology. The 4680 cells can get the roadster done. the car is quite large. It’s not a Cayman, it’s about the size of a model 3. It’s going to...

Everybody is bad at these exercises the first time. Your first day isn’t nearly enough time to do more than begin to familiarize yourself with the car and the weight transfer behavior. Most of the instructors are professional race drivers. Even if you were an exceptional amateur, they’d still...

even professionals can have weird takes on a vehicle that don’t agree with the owners or market consensus. The initial reviews of the McLaren 765LT look nothing like the owners’ consensus. It’s still not clear how well the 992 gt3 will fare on typical public roads, but whatever the answer is...

pretty sure they are exactly going after the S class. Tesla and Mercedes have been going at it over BMW’s market share

it’s a little difficult to compare, but back of the napkin looks about 5x more expensive than hydrogen. Maybe it does get a lot cheaper, that‘s a dream, but still all bleeding edge science stuff for now. we have decades of experience with H2 in flight. We call them rockets. Only SpaceX uses...

you mean like this ? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-hydrogen-southkorea-insight-idUSKBN1W936A nuked a soccer field sized chunk, killed 2, one was blasted away. Yeah, I want one of these in my neighborhood.

synthetic fuels are far far more expensive than hydrogen. We haven’t seen much progress towards electrifying large shipping vessels. Not saying it has to be hydrogen but there might be a useful niche here and in heavy industry airplanes are challenging for battery volume and weight. and...