The C8 Z51 Stingray is a very good sports car. Honestly, I found it a little too clinical and kind of boring. It looks the part but it doesn’t sound it. I saw one on youtube with a hooker exhaust and headers that sounded much more lively. I find a Huracan has more presence and the sound adds theater. Haven’t driven a Z06 yet but if prices keep dropping for a few years, it might become an irresistible choice.
Having driven a few Porsche vehicles, I wasn’t really impressed. They are comfortable, precise, stable and confidence inspiring vehicles but not exciting to drive at all.
The new silicon oxide batteries are claimed to double energy density to over 500 Wh/kg. They have been developed and will start entering the market in the next few years. Solid state batteries exist but are too expensive at the moment. Toyota is hoping to build a cheaper version with fewer rare earth metals to bring the price down towards the end of the decade. That remains to be seen and hopefully SSB will not become another nuclear fusion situation where it is perpetually just beyond the horizon.
I agree. Unfortunately, they are also way too expensive and therefore lack mass market appeal.
They are too expensive to buy new for most people and so many are waiting for them to hit the secondhand market. The mass market is buying them at lower prices hence the depreciation. Luxury german cars have been depreciating like this for decades yet they still sell well new. There are plenty of people with money to buy these luxury vehicles new and upgrade quickly to the newest version while eating the depreciation after a few years.
Even the base Taycan with the big battery (so the longest range version)
The base Taycan has a 79 kWh battery. There are many models with the larger 93 kWh battery pack like the performance battery plus models and the GTS model which is the range king. The GTS does get 300 miles of range.
Some key takeaways:
Bryant Walker Smith, a University of South Carolina law professor, called the judge’s summary of the evidence significant because it suggests “alarming inconsistencies” between what Tesla knew internally, and what it was saying in its marketing.
The judge said the accident is “eerily similar” to a 2016 fatal crash involving Joshua Brown in which the Autopilot system failed to detect crossing trucks, leading vehicles to go underneath a tractor trailer at high speeds.
The judge also cited a 2016 video showing a Tesla vehicle driving without human intervention as a way to market Autopilot. The beginning of the video shows a disclaimer which says the person in the driver’s seat is only there for legal reasons. “The car is driving itself,” it said.
That video shows scenarios “not dissimilar” than what Banner encountered, the judge wrote.
“Absent from this video is any indication that the video is aspirational or that this technology doesn’t currently exist in the market,” he wrote.
The extended period of low interest rates and rampant speculation of collector items that followed has boosted a lot of NA supercars to insane prices. This has only been amplified for the push to electrify and higher emissions standards leading to smaller turbo engines.