What’s the difference between ‘rarely’ and ‘not so often’?

You should not ask qualitative questions in surveys as they are open to subjectivity and therfore do not result in good data. You need to ask quantitative questions (like “once a week”, “once amonth”, “less often than once a month” etc. )

To get up a hill you have to input the energy based on m*g*h. Note how time isn’t part of this equation.

The losses that you can affect by speed are wind and rolling resistance. Both of which go up as your speed increases. So slower is better.

…to a point as there are consumers in your car that are independent of driving. E.g. your AC/heater, lights, and simply keeping the cars computer running also draws some power. So there is an equilibrium point where crawling even slower will no longer save energy.

It’s a combination of lots of small optimizations that allows Tesla to have such good efficiency.

Most of all they don’t compromise on aerodynamics. However it’s also tiny things like scavenging heat from everywhere in the car to minimize heating needs for interior and battery temperature control (they scavenge heat off of the charging connector, for chrissakes)

Make it DCFC faster

Do nothing else

Profit

Problem is that charging speed is dependent on battery size (and type). To make the Bolt charge faster you have to put in a way better (and more expensive) battery. Which negates the ‘Profit’ part unless you make it more expensive.

How about instead of complaining about the slow pace…try leading? By example? You know the thing you claimed you were doing?

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You’re not leading, Mary…and it doesn’t amtter anymore.

I’m intrigued to know your thoughts on how the future will justify the pricing of fully electric vehicles

By shifting price perception from ‘sticker price’ to ‘total cost of ownership’ (which should have been the way people think about any purchase since the dawn of time)

EVs are very efficient. This means they don’t have all this waste heat sloshing around as in an ICE.

On the down side this means an EV has to get some energy from teh battery to supply heating (but compared to the amount of energy you use for driving the energy for AC/Heating is tiny)

On the up side this means you get heat/cold instantly and don’t have to wait for a motor to heat up. It also means you can precool/preheat your car from the app and you neve have to fiddle around with AC/heater controls while driving.

ADAC only counts reliability (i.e. how often cars actually broke down and needed to be rescued by someone else). Software problems usually don’t lead to the car being undrivable.

German ADAC begs to disagree.

(4.9 EVs per 1000 needed assistance vs 6.9 per 1000 for ICEs)

https://www.adac.de/rund-ums-fahrzeug/unfall-schaden-panne/adac-pannenstatistik/

Actually this was supposed to be mandatory in all of the EU by July 2023

(Deadline was moved to July 2024)

Also note that this is only mandatory for charging stations built from then on.

Try the same trip in a Tesla. Night and day.

ABPR shows me that you would have done the trip in a Model 3 LR in 6hours 44 minutes

https://abetterrouteplanner.com/?plan\_uuid=1523e8c5-47db-4d77-8083-6c7436d593db

Why isn’t there Tesla specific service centers?

Becasue there are?

I have a Tesla service center within 5 minutes drive and another within 15 minutes drive.

Is there a chance that your employer provides some chargers/outlets?

It’s a lifestyle car. The people who buy stuff like this want it when it’s new. The enthusiasm for a pure lifestyle product drops after a few years.

Compared to not making them (and keep making ICDE cars)? Definitely.

The “Tesla grin” is real.

Good for them!

…however the ones who should be afraid isn’t Tesla but legacy autmakers. BYD is eating their lunch - not Tesla’s.

The vast majority of cars never see anyone in the back seat. The buyer demographic for sedans is there.

However, what the customer wants (much less ‘needs’) has very little to do with what the industry is willing to produce.

Currently it’s just that SUVs sell well and traditional automakers aren’t making a lot of EVs…so they might as well make SUVs because there they make the most profit.

Producers will adjust what they produce to keep prices stable.

Other cost factors willincrease as economies of scale start to vanish (and people start seeing the need to combat climate change…which will mean higher taxes on CO2 emissions). So if anything gas will become more expensive. Hopefully at an increasingly rapid rate.

It won’t hurt the battery. You can charge once a week or every day. Doesn’t matter. You can slow charge at home or fast charge at fast charging station. Doesn’t matter.

Really the only thing that matters is that you don’t run your battery too low (say, less than 5%) AND let it sit at that state of charge for days…or charge it too high (say, above 95%) AND let it sit at that state of charge for days.

In each case you’re pushing lots of lithium ions into the anode/cathode respectively which makes them swell and can develop microcracks (which is what degrades battery health)

To make it clear: it’s perfectly fine to charge to 100% if you need the range and leave relatively soon (e.g. within an hour) when you reach that state of charge. Similarly it’s OK to run the battery down to 0% if you immediately plug in to charge again.