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I think they’ve said that they ship with L3-capable hardware (sensors, required amount and type of compute capability) but will be only L2 from launch. The gap is developing the software/AI/algorithms to understand the world. And that’s where the billion miles comes in. Tesla’s system is...

I believe it has been stated that yes, that storage space beneath the second row seating does disappear with the 180KWh pack.

Should be a really good event; hope you folks enjoy. If anyone fancies asking when UK preorders will start being taken, I would certainly appreciate knowing the answer. Suspect it will still be “we’ll announce that when we’re ready”!

And do we expect that configurator to be open to people without preorders to play, do you think?

Surely those sharp lines on the cyber truck aren’t going to make production?

Kinda minor, but I’d like a page on the infotainment system showing energy consumption of various parts of the vehicle; battery management (heating, cooling), accelerating/decelerating the vehicle, heating/cooling the cabin, etc. EDIT: actually I probably meant power rather than energy (being...

To be fair to them though, part of what they want to test is the limits of the vehicle, and that includes potentially breaking it. I have no off-road experience, but understand what you’re saying. This isn’t your standard off-road jaunt though and is about testing the vehicle, not about...

RJ has said that a 180KWh pack vehicle will be available for under $90K. So call that $89K. So that’s $20K for 75KWh additional battery capacity, so that’s $267 per KWh, so 135KWh model should start around $77K. It is also said that standard equipment will vary across the battery pack size...

I don’t think I could purchase a Tesla. I think their approach to autonomous is wrong. A vision-only system* can be fooled by optical illusions, and I think they will always be chasing the corner cases to try to make the system capable of handling it. Yes they have *lots* of vehicles in their...

Whether your utility company wants your generation or not, whatever you generate and don’t consume will go to the grid for others to use. If you use it instead then that energy not going to the grid from your generation will probably come from fossil fuels. Whether you believe climate change...

That’s not quite true. If you’re consuming solar that could be being fed into the grid and reduce the amount of fossil fuel needing to be burned then it is costing the environment something.

Having had a near miss with a large deer tonight, I’d like to see the night vision animal detection you can get on the Audis. I also like the adaptive headlights and HUD.

Although reading https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1329375 sounds like NXP were maybe already in automotive and the acquisition of Freescale just increased their share of the market.

I think they’re one of the newer entrants into the automotive space, I think when they acquired Freescale; Freescale were long-time players in the automotive space though I believe.

But I guess they must also consider what happens for someone, admittedly stupidly, not wearing a belt.

This reads like you’d be able to, as the owner of the vehicle, define who was allowed to do what. Autonomous driving functions, today at least, need an alert driver. If the driver doesn’t understand the capabilities then they can get themselves into trouble. So if the vehicle is being used by...

LMGTFY ;-)

Trees don’t solve the problem of local pollution from particulates etc.

I’m sure someone that went to the Atlanta event, or maybe some event prior, reported that RJ said that they would “definitely” be able to test drive before having to commit. My understanding being that the commit point is the point of configure. So that would put test drives early next year...

I doubt the Rivians will be much different. It’s a question of energy - if you want to spend energy to warm the battery prior to departure then you can reduce or remove that regen limitation. Many cars allow you to set departure timers to warm or cool the cabin and battery. Is Tesla not one...