Recent content by srkz

Plenty of EVs on the road in NY, just 10x fewer than in California lol. San Francisco has like... 8 service centers.

Well he is in California, the nation's capital for vehicle sales, EV sales, EV service, and EV charging infrastructure. So... yes. A little. At least in terms of delivery timing.

In my decades of CA driving experience... A CHP or Sherriff who is not currently engaged in a speed trap will not pull you over for speeding unless you're going 90+. A CHP or Sherriff who is engaged in a speed trap will always pull you over if you're the next one to pass his laser, even if...

Anecdotal but my gen 1 R1T has had basically everything replaced by now except the HV pack - from the glass to the trim to the drive units and suspension and electrical and HVAC and more - but service has been no slower to book than my recent experiences with legacy dealerships, they’ve comped...

Because nobody knows those things lol. All we have is a teaser image. The best possible case is that it will be the same as R2 except with all the R1 features and apps that R2 doesn't have yet.

This is an interesting thought experiment really. The switch makes perfect sense to me because it functions the same as all other window switches. Pull to open and push to close. I'm not thinking about the orientation of the switch to the Earth's gravity when I activate it, I'm using...

I'd love to be excited about this one but it's just a re-skin. The only "quality of life" improvement in OS2 is being able to swipe the music pane to the near side of the screen, at least as far as I can tell. But you pay for it by having to re-learn where everything is lol. Hopefully there's...

I think you're onto the answer without realizing it here. It is comparatively easier to make a very large, resource-heavy but very performant AI model than it is to distill the same level of performance down into a smaller less-powerful platform. So here's the situation: You will always want...

You assume they're still developing models for the Gen 2 chipset right now. They've been talking about RAP1 publicly for 8+ months now, which means they've been developing it for longer. I think it's entirely possible that they've spent the last 6 months developing a much larger model for RAP1...

A lot of the people you're seeing trade from R1 to R2 are a mixture of brand enthusiast, people who make money on new vehicles through content creation, and people who have FOMO and value "new thing no one else has yet" very highly. Many of them will probably trade their R2 for an R3 as soon as...

I guess we’ll see over the next few years, but I have my doubts. China having banned “power-dependent” door releases from 2027 and being the de-facto global leader in EVs at the moment, as well as a similar bill making its way through the US government as we speak so far with unanimous...

Not all makes. European cars are mostly double pull, Honda and Toyota and others are single pull to unlock and unlatch. You’re welcome for the clarification? 😗

Honestly my parents never used them, I’ve never used them, and I’ve never been in a car where they were being used on purpose. So mostly indifferent. The child lock story is a red herring as far as eLatches are concerned. They don’t do anything better, they just accomplish the same goal with...

Both of these things are possible and currently implemented in cars you can buy today using mechanical latches and handles. Basically there's just a button on the driver's door that you can press that mechanically engages and disengages the child locks on the rears. This way you have central...

I find it hard to believe this is true but I also can’t test it because my R1 has been in the shop for two weeks lol. edit: the owner’s manual doesn’t say anything about needing a key, it just says “if the door is locked, pull twice to open”