TomServo
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I bet the car magazines are ready to do a cross country road trip challenge. I can see the cover of Car and Driver now: Sea To Shining Sea with a family of four. VW takes on Tesla and the winner is ???????
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VW ID.4 Free Charging for 3 years! Who wants one?
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alexcue
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Your Loaner car will be a diesel...
Oh, we already know the winner. They probably will rave about the instant acceleration and won't even think to say anything like "When rolling into the accelerator from a stop, the powertrain feels almost sluggish until 30 or 40 mph."
I wonder what percentage of electricity used in a Tesla is purchased from a charging station? I expect that for 95% of people the perceived value of free charging greatly exceeds the actual value. So good move by VW like it was for Tesla.
I paid 8.1 cents for electricity last month in Chicago. Even if the 3/Y had free supercharging I would not use it.
I paid 8.1 cents for electricity last month in Chicago. Even if the 3/Y had free supercharging I would not use it.
No, but you can't find a Tesla SC everywhere you go either. Like Charleston, South Carolina for example. But there just happens to be an EA there.....
Yep, all of I26 is missed (but there is an EA in the middle).
And there are some pretty big gaps in southwest Georgia.
Reeler
Decade of Pure EV Driving
There are more CCS superchargers and stations than the proprietary Tesla connector. Not as simple to use since they are separate systems and require payment each time, but cross country is very doable now with standards-based charging. Tesla is now the lightning connector in this standards war. That EM allows for a cheap CCS adapter for Europe and not North America is just cruel. On that holiday weekend when you are waiting in line at one of the busier Tesla supercharge stations, think about it.
Koolio46
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Omg... what a clusterfu** that e-tron owner experienced. That is the type of experience one can get when buying an EV from a company that isn’t vertically integrated.
For example, if Audi’s dealers weren’t franchises, they could’ve had a dealer drive a loaner car to them and let them continue their vacation while taking care of their car.
Valore
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They are selling tons of ID3 over here in Europe.
I am sure ID4 will be the same or even more, and they have some huge ships to ship them to the US by the thousands: VW uses low-emission freight ship to transport cars | This is Money
Norway deliveries this month:
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Yeah lucky the guy has a sense of humour - he even videoed some of the BS. Imagine how frustrating this must be?
Considering people now are comparing the Tesla plug to the lightning plug that Apple uses (as a negative instead of using a national standard), I would say yes, yes they are
Koolio46
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Unplugging an EV is the most basic thing...pathetic they can’t get that right. You know this guy will be worried every time he plugs in. And I’d have the same attitude as him: they’re buying back that car. He should’ve gotten a Tesla!
Reeler
Decade of Pure EV Driving
Order placed. Way better value than anything Tesla currently offers. Maybe when they sell the $25k model in a few years.
Apple CarPlay, heated steering wheel, instrument cluster, Silver paint, more room, decent build quality, no $10/mo media/map charge, etc.
Apple CarPlay, heated steering wheel, instrument cluster, Silver paint, more room, decent build quality, no $10/mo media/map charge, etc.
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