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I was at Tysons yesterday and stopped by the Lucid showroom. Their car is there but they don’t have it turned on and you can’t sit in it —it’s labeled “preproduction”. They have a few displays of their impressive engineering (motor, battery pack etc) and a front seats, interior mock-up (also...

I liked Doug a lot better before he was a star and was just being Doug with all his quirks and features. Now I get the impression he’s working very hard to include every one of Doug’s quirks and features in each video. His expressions of amazement at certain features —key card, frunk, air vent...

I’ve found with my Model 3 the trick to not taking my eyes off the road to use the screen is to learn and use the voice commands ...much of what I want to do can be done without taking my hands off the wheel or eyes off the road to engage the UI. Admittedly, having grown up with slide controls...

Serves me right for being specific when I should have just been general! When you lose cellular... regardless of where!

Teslas don’t have Sirius/XM. It’s all streaming which, yes, might be an issue out on a fire road somewhere when you lose connectivity. Then I’d just switch to my phone library til back within coverage.

I like the black on black. It’s the sort of urban minimalist thing. In pictures, I like the warm brown wood and the black seats as well. But, I see what they’re going for with all black.

I’ve just gotten rid of the second of my two, current generation Jeep Grand Cherokees (daily driving a Tesla Model 3). They’ve been good. I’d seriously consider one of the new, next gen ones if they were offering some form of electrification. Instead, I can get one of the two engines offered...

I was so excited about my new Tesla Model 3 that my wife demanded I return it. Needless to say, I kept it and named it (and, yes, Tesla literally let’s you name it) “The Mistress.” As these things go, my wife now actually really likes having The Mistress around. So much so, she agreed to the...

I’m in Northwest DC here and have a Launch Edition R1S on order (preorder placed last July).

I too was wary of Tesla. I waited until they’d figured out the Model 3’s manufacturing and other flaws. My 2020, however, has been one of the best cars I’ve owned. But, regardless, there isn’t another Tesla model that can meet my needs. Rivian has figured that out with the R1S. (So, hopefully...

As a Tesla owner, I can also report that there are times (temperature, charge level, no preconditioning etc) when Tesla superchargers haven’t given me the level I was hoping for either. And I found myself jumping between stalls hoping to find better...and not. Sometimes the car’s BMS or the...

As a former journalist, I guess I’m allowed some cynicism here. This is a more interesting headline/story because the author managed to run out of charge. There would be far fewer clicks if he’d actually planned his trip.

We know inductive charging from our phones. But it’s been too expensive for car charging —this new standard may drive it towards OEM status. While I find plugging in my Tesla easy, the convenience of this is hard to deny —and then my wife would automatically charge at home as well. I don’t know...

Man, I’m not going to be able to unsee the Dyson thing.

:CWL:

Well, I’m just hoping the roof stays attached to the truck: https://electrek.co/2020/10/05/tesla-model-y-roof-fall-off/ (My Model 3 has been great, for the record. And I don’t mind the glass roof at all. I will say the kids have put screens up in the back for longer rides to cut some glare on...

So, before I got my Model 3 “stealth” performance, I was concerned about the approx 300 range. Around town with home charging it’s irrelevant but the occasional road trip would be my concern. What I came to realize was that my family itself has a range of only 150 to 175 miles before someone...

I posted that video in another conversation thread and another member said that Rivian engineers have since indicated they’ve reengineered the seat to fold flatter than that prototype. I hope that’s the case (though I don’t know that it would change my order). I assume they’re not totally ready...

That's awesome to hear!

This is a pretty good walk around of R1T and S (and, yes, the video is by a kid) from back in February. At various points, you see launch edition and yellow accents ...also see the third row fold nearly flat on R1S (5:25 mark).