It’s really odd for Americans to shit on an American car company being on top isn’t it?

Could it have something to do with traditional car sales and gasoline suppliers feeling threatened and astroturfing to “fight back”? Bet your ass it is.

Is it painful to be that stupid or to repost something that fake?

His 12v battery died. It’s literally the work of 5 min to open the frunk with backup power and connect a temporary battery a replacement is a few hundred.

Absolutely. I adore my Model Y. I’m never going back to a gas vehicle or a non-Tesla vehicle. Just checked my charge stats. I paid just over $500 Cdn charging for an entire year of driving. Amazing.

Shame they couldn’t leave a few hundred volts live on the wires when not connected to a car for charging. That would cut down on thefts.

That’s all you have? lol.

You must be thinking of the old cameras before they were redesigned. You aren’t keeping up at all are you?

The good news for Canadians is that we now get our vehicles from China, instead of California.

I do not see this as good news in any way.

It’s actually pretty reasonable now. It actually tends to drive a little too safely at times, annoying human drivers into making aggressive driving choices around it. When we can take people out of the mix entirely it will be great. Most people are really poor drivers.

Cool ty. FSD is still beta for now. Maybe when it’s final. Fingers crossed.

Please link that. I’d like to see it.

Calling it Autopilot was always a marketing decision. It’s a driver assistance feature, nothing more. When used “as intended”, it works great. I drove for 14 hours during a road trip using AP and arrived not dead tired and still alert. That’s awesome, and would never have happened in a conventional car.

I have the “FSD” beta right now. It has potential, but I still always keep a hand on the wheel and am in control of my car.

At the end of the day, if the car makes a poor choice because of the automation, I’m still responsible as the driver, and I don’t want an accident, injury, or death on my conscience.

Ya I never ever got the sense it was a war. Tesla was just doing their own thing, largely not caring what other automakers did. Maybe their competiton saw it as a war, but I think Tesla just didn’t really care what they were up to.

That said, I think now they see significant opportunity for revenue from their charging network if managed properly.

Blowing past ever other ice on the road while being smug about not paying for gas.

Then your opinion is sort of irrelevant isn’t it?

I agree, a fairly reasonable essay on the current state of charging.

My only disagreement is at the end where he goes into the weeds a bit about how he doesn’t like plug and charge and would rather pay separately with a credit card or other payment system that’s not “tied to the car”. And tries to equate ev charging to filling up with gas (which is a strange angle as he’s been driving an EV for some time).

Almost seemed like a bit of John Cleese “would you like to have an argument?”

Makes good sense, I’d like to see some examples of the difference in charging prices before and after the change.

I’m so happy with my car I’m unwilling to grab a pitchfork.

It’s also being made into a news item now instead of just a sale between nations. They’re definitely using this as a non subtle warning to China.

Since some easily ruffled $0.50 mod erased my post let me explain. Anytime someone does something China doesn’t like they immediately cry racism about it.

It’s all bullshit and we all know it.

It’s long past time for the world to stop putting up with China’s crap and let them know they’ll be entirely cut off from the world if they can’t learn to play nice.

Oh look, I’m being brigaded by downvote bots, it’s just so pathetic.

It’s nice that it’s out in the open now. Let’s China know it’s place and that everyone is tired of their shit.