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In a sense yes. But roadtripping in Europe to other countries and trying to use other than Tesla chargers is a nightmare. I drove last summer through Sweden to Denmark, tried to charge a couple times at a different fast charger and it was just impossible. Process: 1. Download some danish app...

out here, IONITY charges 0,79 €/kWh. Tesla superchargers peak rates are 0,41 €/kWh. So nobody uses Ionity, apart from some mercedes owners who get a cheaper rate tied into car purchase.. So I would not trust oems to build any viable chargers.

I thought all swedes were still on strike against Tesla

I know. But perfectly legal in most of Europe. In Finland they changed the laws to allow this just a few years ago.

Yes, but on a street like in that photo you are allowed to park facing the other way. As long as its a 2-way street.

Why? England is same as most of europe, you can park facing either direction.

if there's a will, there's a way https://ubitricity.com/en/charging-solutions/ac-lamppost/ As of now, over 8000 chargers in London, using already existing infrastructure.

Cybertruck has arrived in Europe.

I'm looking at evtol stocks.. Joby and Archer Aviation seem to be the furthest on development. Opinions?

now its up 95% 😂 Edit went up 125% and market was halted

so whats caused the 40% rise today?

Does anybody actually believe these were the guys responsible? Its all about as credible as that bear in the old joke about russians. KGB are told to find a rabbit, after 20min torture they have a bear who has confessed to being a rabbit.

Finnish transport union (akt) is now on full strike. Does not relate to Teslas swedish strike.. but relates to Tesla and EVs. Its a political strike against current government cuts to employees rights and will probably last 2 weeks. 2 days of strike and gas stations are running out of gas, and...

Unfortunately I have no way to change configs in current firmware. You'd have to downgrade a couple years back.

"The 0-50 km/h acceleration is in 4.9 seconds, and the 0-100km/h acceleration is yes." 😃

"Now the trade union IF Metall is easing the blockade that prevents workshops from handling electric car manufacturer Tesla's cars. Between February 19 and April 30, the union introduces a temporary dispensation so that cars that cannot be used can be repaired. This is reported by Swedish Radio...

Yeah, how do you even count that percentage? Y underbody is cast from 2-3 parts, model 3 welded from dozens, so are they 1 part or lots of parts? the whole metric is silly

Since IF Metal pays the 130% salary for those mechanics that are on strike, they must know exactly how many are on strike. They are not saying the precise number in public, to me that implies its less strikers than they would like. Of course Tesla also must know who shows up to work and who...

I drove it for 2 days, returned it and rented a model 3. Found the 3 much more spacious and altogether a fun car to drive.

Well that might be better. The one I had was a 2022 model. Still I doubt the car being that much better. Tight and cramped interior was a big issue for me. Felt like Volvo S60, big on the outside, cramped on the inside.

Heat pump gave up on my Model Y, and while waiting for parts I rented a Polestar 2. Meh. Car was just boring. Center console is so big that I almost felt claustrophobic. Nothing like a roomy tesla. Driving mechanics, boring, and in snow fwd was awful.. hard to get the car even moving from...

I wouldn't mind being on leave from work with 130% pay. it's actually amazing so few mechanics have chosen to strike. PAM, finnish trade union for people working in private service sectors, are organising a 2-day political strike in Finland. They will compensate everyone who strikes for 2 days...

So.. how big was Elons stake of Tesla shares until he sold like half of it to buy the bird? Just saying..

Finnish transport union is on sympathy strike, but so far it only concerns dock/port workers. It could expand to service. it's possible a Tesla employee belongs in the transport union. The sympathy strike only affects swedish cars, so if Tesla sweden sent cars to Finland for service, these...

Unions carry some benefits. I can only speak for Finland, but I'd wager sweden is not that different. for example: you get fired without a legal reason. It happens. If you're a union member, their lawyers will sew your former employer, and if the court degeees that termination was illegal...

Its certainly not the first time the union is striking to get a company to sign a collective agreement.

I would think Sweden has pretty strict laws against firing anyone for being on a union strike.

Tesla has their own supercharger service technicians, so SC's would be serviced normally. I think theres around 50 supercharger stations in sweden, and of those a few have 40 stalls. A lot of chargers.

IF Metal had a full page ad at todays Helsingin Sanomat, which is by far the biggest newspaper in Finland. I estimate the price for this kind of full page ad on Sunday is about 30k€. Front page ad would be about 70k€. That union has too much money and the way they are spending it is...

There's also something like 1000 railway cargo carriages that have been confiscated by Finland. Fortum lost assets worth about 2 billion euros to Russia. You could say that investing to Russia was an idiots errand..

Sounds like if Tesla left sweden, she would see it as a big win for the union.

I have been talking with other Tesla owners here, consensus is that IF Metal has gone too far, and as said its trying to force Tesla to join even when Tesla employees wouldn't want to. People would be disappointed if Tesla gives in here. Which I don't think will happen, Tesla will just go on...

As I understand, not exactly. A company can either join an employers collective and take their agreement, or they can negotiate their own individual agreement with the union. Veli-Pekka Säikkälä was interviewed by finnish tv news. He actually said that they are worried thar if Tesla will not...

Yeah its silly really.. they'd have to unload the ferry at Hanko, then trailer the cars some 800km to Tornio to get to sweden across land..

Shouldn't the amount of pension just depend on your salary and how much of it goes towards your pension fund? I'm not familiar with swedish pension model. So how exactly do tesla workers get less pension? Here a part of your monthly salary goes to a pension fund, and when you retire, your...

Today is the 106th independence day of Finland! You can watch a nice independence day parade here (its a bit long and spoken in finnish) https://areena.yle.fi/1-66673774

Yes. Finland has now completely closed the russian border, since Putler started sending asylum seekers from 3rd world countries across the border. Whole thing was ridiculous, russians would drive these people close to border, them give them bicycles. They actually crossed over with bicycles...

Zeebrugge is not that far.. its where they unload most cars anyway

This is getting out of hand. I'm quite certain that if AKT (finnish transport union) went on sympathy strike for a swedish union, it would be seen as an illegal strike here.

All these swedish news outlets are just so unclear and confusing. So far we have if metal claiming that 50% of mechanics are on strike. But its unclear whether its 50% of all Tesla mechanics, or 50% of mechanics that are union members. Säikkäläs statements are purposefully unclear, so I'm...

Are you serious? You never have unions go on strike with companies with collective agreements? Like now when inflation in europe was historically high and unions wanted wages to be raised by as much, they never went on strike? You gotta be kidding me

There is no legal requirement to comply and to sign a collective agreement in sweden. Lots of companies do not belong to a union.

Collective agreements are not in law in sweden, like they often are in Finland. There is no yleissitovuus in sweden. Also union membership is really not mandatory in Finland either, and I'm quite sure Tesla has not joined any employers organisation. But those collective agreements that have...

Looks like you're right. Tesla sweden is after all a small company, so it would not make sense to go into an agreement without joining an employers organization.

Did some googling. All the swedish collective agreements are here: https://www.av.se/en/work-environment-work-and-inspections/foreign-labour-in-sweden/Posting-foreign-labour-in-sweden/swedish-labour-market-model-and-collective-agreements/ scroll down, you will find IF Metals agreements with...

Maybe find out? Shouldn't be too hard to see if kollektiva förhandlingarna are public ir not?

Hang on.. thats not how it should work. A collective agreement is negotiated between the union and all the companies of that field. Its not something that Tesla and IF Metal negotiates between themselves. Thats why its called a _collective_ agreement. And thats why it should all be public...

But are the agreements secret? even that seems very strange to me if they are.

What did I just read? Company has to sign an agreement without knowing all the details of such an agreement? That can't be right

unions collective agreements should be public in sweden, no? At least here its all public information