Recent content by Cebe

There is no way to try it without buying it first?

If the utility can control when your car is charging, that's worth money to them...

Get good tires, and RWD is just fine in the snow. Get crappy tires, AWD will help you get going too fast and then you won't be able to stop :) This was a "delivering first production cars" event. Really, it was a public broadcast of a company meeting. The follow up on the site with the extra...

Probably more for "look we're cool" than for practical purposes. Daily average 6 kWh/m^2, 86% theoretical efficiency, available car surface, say 15kWh/day (per car) in the ideal conditions and using currently unavailable tech. With today's tech, probably less than 3kWh/day in ideal locations...

Twice a week, two and a half hour drive turns into three hours, it would get tiring. I'd be asking the same question with $30k on the line between 75D and 100D...

Did that a few times in S 85. In August, 24C, 5 people in the car, Boston to Albany was 210Wh/km (105km/h average.) In October, 10C, 2 people, Albany to Boston was 199Wh/km, also 105km/h average; same time, Boston to Albany was 220Wh/km. You should probably get better rating with the 75D.

That's 2000 sq.ft. of the roof (e.g., 50' x 40' house footprint), and 70% of the tiles? I imagine if I was pricing it, that I'd look at less than 50% (south facing only, then not all of them because of the limitations), and my 2000 sq.ft. house only has ~1000 sq.ft. of the roof, which ends up...

The latest customer privacy policy (it may have been in the earlier ones, but I didn't read it in detail), in a telematics section has ... we may collect certain telematics data, including the following... short video clips of accidents; ... We may collect such information either in person (such...

These types of hack have been around for years. Sometimes software only, sometimes with a bit of hardware (e.g., having Nvidia GeForce turn into Quadro.) This is such a specific case that it would take an actual lawsuit to set a precedent. I agree that it would get expensive, for both sides...

The EV version of this would do just fine...

Yeah, this should go into for sale forum, and it will if nobody wants them for free(*) You pick them up in the Danforth & Pape area, or at Leslie & Hwy 7 around noon on Thursday :) Had a non-repearable flat, decided to go to a different winter tire. (*) Free is good, but I'll also take a nice...

The update that added the repeated nag when you're left plugged in at a supercharger after fully charged? (My car got the update while in the service, and I had to call them to have them unplug the car as I was getting a message every five minutes.)

Same here. Arrived in about 10 days (to Canada, from Sweden.) Easy installation, works as advertised.

I always feel bad about drafting, unless I'm really in a bind. After all, it ends up having that truck burn more fuel, which doesn't feel right both from the environment point of view, bot even more from the "I'm robbing somebody of a few cents while they're working a tough job".

ICE vehicles going 400 miles on a tankful is more of a "I don't have to go to the gas station twice a week" than road trips. I do agree that more range would be nice though. The pain and trade-off is that you carry around the extra weight all the time, for those few times that you need it. If...