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by _ea1k 3y ago
That gives Musk way too much credit.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
You still have to get around when you get to the destination. For a lot of places, that will mean renting a car. Even free can be more expensive than driving.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
I have never heard him tell people not to do any of those things, tbh.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
I'm going to guess that he didn't expect it to work. He never invested significantly, and there must be a reason. The simplest reason seems to be that he expected it not to work, at least with current technology.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
In California, battery storage is already far beyond a "drop in the bucket", and we are still in the early stages of large scale deployments. I see a lot of replies that are using nationwide figures, but there is no reason that th
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by _ea1k 3y ago
I'd guess that most EV owners with home charging do plug in daily, but also limit charge based on the type of pack. For most of us, that means ~80% as a daily limit, if not less. In practice, I don't think EV owners are seeing a m
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by _ea1k 3y ago
That's a fair point. TBH, a combination of GPS (or just smart defaulting) and entering a short code would work pretty easily as well. They could also put the QR on a small screen to make it harder to fake. A little epaper display would
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by _ea1k 3y ago
How do you feed a recent arxiv paper directly to ChatGPT?
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by _ea1k 3y ago
The flip side to that is that you'd only have to setup the app once at your home. If the charging activation is as smooth as chargepoint, it wouldn't be bad at all.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
With an L2 at an apartment, you might be plugging in daily. It'd be nice to keep the steps as minimal as possible. Having said that, something like an NFC card + QR code support would be good enough, IMO. The main thing would be to kee
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by _ea1k 3y ago
> I’m sad to see HN members get so attached to easily invalidatable theories so quickly. Have we really lost our critical thinking skills? Yes? But it is hard, because some things do need data, and I honestly don't know where to fin
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Quality is harder to sell to enterprise customers when compared to feature lists. You have to check the right boxes and entertain the right ears to sell. Being more useful than the others isn't as easy to quantify.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
I think they are still a requirement for NEVI, and Tesla has won a few contracts for NEVI sites. I do expect them to stop eventually though. IMO, part of the reason they exist is that it lets them collect real world data on supercharger and
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by _ea1k 3y ago
TBH, the afdc data badly overstates the number of available locations. Not only do they include a lot of broken or otherwise inaccessible locations, but they include things like this: https://www.plugshare.com/location/
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by _ea1k 3y ago
I'm not sure what you mean w/r/t the adapters. It sounds like most manufacturers will just use Tesla supplied adapters. I doubt they will be very bulky. They might even be easier to use than native CCS1. :)
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by _ea1k 3y ago
I think they will keep installing them for another few years. NEVI requires it and there are still quite a few CCS1 cars on the road. All of the cars that are switching will still ship with the CCS1 port next year too. They don't fully
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by _ea1k 3y ago
I suspect the US would have done the same thing, if manufacturers had done CCS2 instead of CCS1. Also would have helped if the US had done "bring your own cable", which seems to be common in Europe. Interestingly, the new NACS sta
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by _ea1k 3y ago
It actually is very similar to USB plug styles. NACS communicates the same way that CCS does. Converting between NACS and CCS1 or CCS2 connectors should be easy. The biggest issue is the amount of current involved.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Honestly, the Model 3 Performance is the best bang for the buck in performance cars right now.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
That's possible. This data doesn't break it down by model, but it might even be true. No other make would be as heavily influenced by it as Tesla. EVs are less than 10% of sales for most other makes, so the impact would be nearly
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by _ea1k 3y ago
I've used pro pilot on a Nissan on the highway, mostly because the steering felt too light otherwise. In general, that analogy applies, though. Just like cruise control allows you to effortless maintain a speed, autosteer makes lane ce
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Some of their best years in the US were years when the tax credit wasn't available. Interest rates were a lot lower back then, though, which makes a surprisingly big difference.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
I've never met a Tesla owner that bought because a politician told them to.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
This is specifically among people who are shopping for insurance. There will naturally be biases in the data.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
I'd guess that most of those are owned by older drivers and not driven nearly as much. Most don't rack up tons of miles. Probably accidents per mile would be high, but I doubt accidents per vehicle would be notable.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
It'd be interesting to see more data from this. Were the accidents tied to the specific vehicle? Or to all the vehicles requesting the quote? Also, age and other demographic breakdowns would likely be telling. Seeing RAM at the top giv
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by _ea1k 3y ago
It is like everything else with Tesla. They add the wrong part of the solution first. Hey, we have this new vision based TACC! But first... we remove the radar, then later we'll make that actually work. Get used to phantom braking and
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by _ea1k 3y ago
I'm happy to see that this transition is finally nearing its end. TBH, I think most of us expected certain drivers to take a long time, but I've been shocked at how long it took for some other basic things to happen. Synergy suppo
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by _ea1k 3y ago
> Or is the yoke on a Tesla so sensitive that you don't turn it far enough round for it to be an issue? That seems to be the intended direction longer term. Cybertruck is designed with drive by wire and very sensitive steering at lo
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Agreed, the VW approach here looks pretty good. It might even have fewer physical controls than the id.4?

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