That doesn’t even work reliably for grease and much less relative movement so I’m skeptical about thin gear oil.

How would you seal that to prevent the gearbox oil from leaking out and dirt getting in?

The proper nomenclature is social market economy or social democracy.

BMW has also cut down on physical controls significantly. The iDrive Controller and the assignable favourite buttons for example are or will be gone.

Individual cells are small but in total you need every bit of space that you can possibly spare.

More relevant than ever especially with EVs that have very different reproducibility of performance between them.

And Teslas are notorious for high vampire drain so it will be even less of an issue on most other cars.

Not just that but also extremely shoddy programming that meant a single random bit flip could cause the engine to be stuck at WOT:
https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/pubs/koopman14_toyota_ua_slides.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKHa7rxkvK8

That’s not misleading why would the average customer care about charging rates? Range gained per minute is the charging speed most customers will care about.

Depend on if it was a forced recall or not. If the manufacturer does a voluntary recall I’d take that as standing by their product.

Considering how expensive these things are to design and build that’s actually kind of reasonable compared to collectible classic cars.

If they were limited by the charger (which they are not here) then yes it would take longer to go from 10 - 80 %. If that’s not the case then on the cell level it’s the same as the competition as you can see here.
In theory their large number of cells should help them on a range gained per minute basis but the mediocre cells and the methodology employed here seems to negate that.

The 10 - 80% charge time for Lucid is around 32 minutes so not extremely quick just state of the art. They use of the shelve Samsung 21700s so that’s not surprising. 900V doesn’t make the cells charge quicker it just helps with amperage for the charger, cables, busbars and connectors.

I kinda like OOS test as well but realistically I am going to charge for how long my car tells me is best so that should also be a test case on top of what OOS and Edmunds are doing.

Tariffs and subsidies in China and the US are getting ridiculous. The EU needs to get on the same level.

Depends on the cells you use but aside from fast charging and reduced drive power that’s also possible without any preconditioning unless we are talking extreme temperatures below -20C

Storing cells at freezing temperatures does not cause lasting damage.

Have you tried a new BMW or any premium brand aside from Lexus?
Lexus using older tech is kinda their thing. If you want the best reliability in a luxury car that is how they do it. If you want cutting edge tech try BMW or Mercedes.