Recent content by spottyq

Nicely found, and thanks for making that timelapse. It really makes it clear.

Just to be clear, in the EU the only cable you are supposed to bring with you is the Type-2 (and eventually the Type-1 in France…) The Type-2 one can buy is only capable of AC charging (220V 1-phase or 480V 3-phase) 110 V does not exist in EU and all DC fast chargers (including SuperChargeurs...

Just try without it at first (only using the NFC card), only then decide for yourself if you actually need to have a phone and which one. You can use the car with only the card. Things you'll miss : - preconditioning the car (it's less of an issue than a gas car, in the winter at least, because...

LPG car are forbidden in underground garages because LPG is heavier than air. In case of a tank leak (even a small one), all the gas would collect in the garage, having nowhere to go and just waiting for a spark to go boom. That's not the case for H2. As it immediately reacts with air, if you...

En règle générale, toutes les bornes de chargement rapides hors Superchargeurs Tesla sont 50kW théoriques, 35-45 en pratique (contre 145kW en théorie, 100-120kW pratique pour Tesla). Ces chargeurs ont une prise Chademo et/ou CCS; ils est possible d'utiliser les chargeur Chademo avec un...

First of all: thank you, @lymex2018, for testing this and sharing your results with us. :) Really going on a limb here : could it be the security package ? It was for some time not available in the US but available in the EU (no idea about China). Maybe it is now in included in every car ...

So a little list of problems : - high voltage DC power electronics are not really marketed/sold to single persons… so you've got to jump through hoops to even get a price, let alone buy something - as a consequence of the above, it is only possible to get good prices when buying in bulk - you'd...

You are both right; I have not considered that it might be a mockup. @mongo, do you mean the plug on the truck might be different from these I talk about ? Like for the S/X/3 where you need a UMC to connect the car (proprietary plug on US models) to any standard plug ? That's obviously not a...

I wonder what is the use case for these chargers. I originally thought that there were not supposed to be an on-board charger, that all charging would be DC. Or maybe a small, 1 to 10kW "charger" to "run climate control" while idle and not really charge the battery. Visibly, I was wrong. And...

All car (ICE included) have the same problem. Some energy is required to power minimal electronics (at the very least key fob detection) and batteries (both the 12V found in any car and the high-voltage found in EVs) will self discharge. The self-discharge is quite low (in the order of months to...

Il me semble que sur l'écran de charge, lorsque le cable est débranché, le bouton pour régler l'ampérage de charge indique l'ampérage maximum. Donc sur un chargeur double avec le câble débranché, il devrait indiquer 32A, sinon 16. Je n'en suis absolument pas certain par contre, donc à vérifier.

On a P85D, even pulling the fuse won't help you… the car enters some sort of front-wheel drive power limited mode. (Road&track article from june 2015)

In the same great video, it is possible to glimpse on the left screen some sort of control for air pressure (with psi units); which means it probably is an important feature.

For the Semi, Tesla can spend some time educating prospective buyers, enquiring about their trips. That would especially make sense for the first deliveries; after that the industry will have a better grasp about the real-world capabilities of the truck.

Why couldn't it have a gearbox ? It's not because they couldn't find a supplier for the original Roadster that none exist now. Rimac has made 2-speed gearboxes for their cars for a few years now. Reading the specs, it is rated at 450Nm of input torque, with "available reduction ratios" of 1:3,5...