Don't forget maintenance! Nobody sane would disagree with you on the regional dependence issue. Nearly every major energy category, from coal, solar, wind, oil, nuclear, hydro...all are regionally variable. Busses, trains, cars all regional.
Even with LiDAR and radar on top of vision, Waymo today operates only in arid climates and literal deserts lol
For this one your 'study', if it existed, had to be taken wildly out of context. The Leaf drove 100% of its driven miles on Electric. The Volt, did not even approach that. Since there were/are many more Leafs that Volts even raw miles are a visual impossibility.
This was my experience driving around in southern Europe a few years back. Language barriers and all kinds of other issues. Sad to hear it hasn't improved much.I ended up only using superchargers and Tesla destination chargers.
I think the assumed takeaway here was that Volt owners were using 100% of their battery almost every day - a luxury they had because the car would just switch to gas when the battery was exhausted. Conversely, Leaf owners, due to the modest battery size back in the day, would sometimes "not take the Leaf" for any "one way" trip greater than say 40% of the overall battery range as they didn't want to risk running out of juice in a round trip (especially when DC charging was a lot weaker) - as a result, those folks would often take their "ICE" car for those trips...hence the term "garage hybrid".
Have you driven S/X? Both just got refreshed too.
Clearly. Me knowing or not knowing isn’t the point really. I maintain it’s odd for Tesla not to adjust inventory vehicle pricing by the same amount. It’s not like the inventory vehicles are old or used. It just rolled off the line without a buyer. Either demand warrants a price increase for all vehicles or it doesn't.
Hmmm - I've got boots on the ground and I have to tell ya - it's sometimes quite foggy in SF. (That said, much less so the last 10 years or so, which is greatly concerning to me and yet more proof, albeit anecdotal, of climate change.
fyi....demo vehicles are also inventory vehicles.... and these have discounted prices
4” can make a very big difference for some things but not sure it does here. I was coming up with a 19” average on Google.By whom?
Arid regions by definition receive little precipitation—less than 10 inches (25 centimeters) of rain per year. Semi-arid regions receive 10 to 20 inches (25 to 50 centimeters) of rain per year.
SF averages 23.65 inches a year per this link
Indeed! And this is a reply to a reply 10 pages ago!
Don't know how it does currently, but in the end it will be have slightly better than human vision and superhuman attention. Lidar is not much better with fog, at least the non-military grade lidars. Radars do better with fog for object detection, but good enough on sign reading etc to make a huge difference in driving through fog. Any human or computer driving through fog will have to accept that driving very slowly is the only way and that you are not safe from humans driving too fast.
