Thousands. Close enough to 10k added since January.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-retreats-next-generation-gigacasting-manufacturing-process-2024-05-01/#:~:text=Tesla%20has%20been%20a%20leader,of%20hundreds%20of%20individual%20parts.
Tesla are dropping their next generation of gigacasting. May be to concentrate on self driving technologies instead of sales volume.
I was just replying but I realised the post it may have been written in jest. There was an article in indo this week saying that the inflation rate got reduced but prices still rising :) doh
Sales dropping still means more cars....
Am i the only one seeing benefit in the EV sales dropping? Less queues at the chargers with less people using them.
Re: the climate, i'm quite sure we're already screwed to the point of no return but nobody in powerwill admit it for fear of having to drop stealth taxes so that's not a concern. So in the meantime I can charge my car with less fear of queue
Posted in the Random EV thoughts thread the other day.
I thought this was interesting when I came across it today.
https://www.polestar.com/global/news/how-we-charged-a-polestar-in-10-minutes?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social-organic&utm_campaign=hq_organic-feed&utm_content=storedot_&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaaTyBCjEndVSlr6XG-MTIUl4AePMCO7b1xWmfIxlYEnhNwdX-z3XHD_Eys_aem_AZwrMdeyg7kChwdB_U8WUkZnO0167CI6lsIlbPKCH-_s0TcXKol331APPZwtwLbsNHch5fRv7z0FGay4j0Edlu4j
Nope. You can drive an N1 class of EV up to 4.25t on a standard licence here. All those are pickups and would get the N1 designation.
You can see it here from the RSA
is there not an issue that they are so heavy that you (or your wife / kids) cant drive it on a normal licence ?
They could do the same thing as the Model S and just not do a RHD version
I'm guessing there'll be a few imported in via the EU or Norway, considering the F150 is being sold in small numbers
Personally I prefer the look of the F150, it's probably the first pickup I've seen that I'd actually like to own
With your username you could fix it with chewing gum and silver paper 😏
It's a high silicon content SiC anode, not a battery per se. Storedot claim the anode can be plugged into any existing chemistry (NMC, LFP, LMFP).
Yeah. But the real question is can they sell them here (EU).
I'll happily take an LHD one too, btw. The first one of the F150 EV, GMC Sierra/Chevy Silverado EV,Hummer EV or Cybertruck to be sold here I'm all in.
A cynical person may suspect there'll be a few good deals on them in a year or so once the influencers who bought them have moved onto something else 😏
Booked Cork 17-24th June. If it ever gets there…
Got the same email. I've booked in for Dundrum.
I mean, obviously the cybertruck transcends all the stuff I said above. If they ever bring it here.
Just got an email that Cybertruck will be in Dundrum on the 15th and in Sandyford 10-14th. 😁
L.E. June sorry
It's had one effect on me anyway, and that's to never buy a tesla again unless its for cash and an older one, as the volatile pricing makes it a fools errand otherwise.
Me thinks you're right…
Ya it's having an effect on the perception of ev vehicles.its not a good thing. People won't buy because they hear 2 things. The cars don't hold value. And then all the nonsense about battery's blowing up.
They aren't a car company they're a tech company and they'll take car companies down with them.
Teslas price war may be having an effect:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9rznkq3vqro
As an aside, that Polestar 5 looks absolutely gorgeous. Probably will cost a fortune though. Especially with that battery pack if they go ahead with it.
Charge curve on that battery is ground breaking as well. There is none.
now that’s cool.
Need more stuff like this and less of the boring EV vs ice stuff on this forum.
Getting back to EV matters, Polestar have successfully tested StoreDot's silicon based batteries by charging from 10 to 80% in just ten minutes.
You should change the brake fluid! It’s hygroscopic. Your brakes are not what they were.
Near spit my tea out.
Well if you were doing 900km every single day you'd get that milage up in a year. Maybe that's what happened? And they had a Flintstones Flap so they could drop their feet through the floor to stop.
... actually why am I arguing with someone who thinks 325k brakes are grand. Even at high miles they'd be 11 years old. Crazy shenanigans.
So in other words it's unsafe because you say it is. And you still don't know the age of the pads.
I'm aware that you work on your own vehicles and only recently got an EV. I recall a post from not too long ago where you mentioned cutting a brake disc off with an angle grinder. Given that I also work on my cars and despite infrequent pad and disc changes, have never had to do anything like that, which of us needs to examine our approach to brake maintenance?
Also I have a different 25 year old car family owned from new that has never had the brake fluid changed or topped up and is on original brake lines, calipers and cylinders. Have had many confident individuals tell me over years that not changing brake fluid was going to cause all manner of problems including rusting the brake lines. Bollocks - brake lines rust from the outside in.
And to bring this back to the topic of EVs, if not changing brakes often enough (by your definition) is unsafe, then there goes one of the maintenance advantages of EVs that fans like to boast about. So the car isn't wearing its brakes - but it'd be criminal not to replace them anyway.
EV fan ? My friend I've just bought an ev in Feb. I run a diesel van and 3 petrol motorcycles. I service my own vehicles. Currently today replacing the injector in the van as she's running soft, leak down test showed that injector 2 was returning 46 percent more fuel to the line. So not gone but going.
Anyone running brake pads to 325k needs a kick up the hole. Visual checks will not tell you how the aged material is performing being that old in weathered condition.
I said criminal yes because it's not safe.
So EV fan, sure why not. But all vehicles that move. More accurate.
I'd also suggest bringing your vehicle to a different mechanic if he's advising you that they're OK.
