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High c-rates can reduce lifespan and increase degradation. Porsche knows this and even offers an option in the Taycan to reduce DCFC speed to extend battery life. The effects are not as black and white as to how quickly and how much though. As battery chemistry improves, these effects are...

Lower nominal voltage is a big reason why the US EVs charge at lower C-rates. The Model Y charges pretty fast for being a 400v nominal car. The Cybertruck can charge at 800v on a V4 supercharger and . If a Model Y could charge at the same kw as the Cybertruck (221kw average), it'd really fly.

No EV anywhere offers 500 miles of EPA rated range and charges in 10 minutes. There are some cars with big range, and some that have high C-rate charging, but not both. There are some Chinese vehicles with overall good specs, and they are the overall leaders for sure, but to say they're "5-7...

Voltage and current (amps) are different. Most Tesla SCs only operate up to 500v, so their power is limited to around 250kw as they are also limted to around 500A of current. A lot of non-Tesla DCFC support up to 1000v and 500A, though even "high voltage" cars here are 800V nominal which is...

If you're having this system installed, you should talk to your installer about what to put in a presentation. They will likely be more equipped to sell the idea. That's typically part of their job anyway. They might accompany you or even do the presentation on your behalf in the interest of...

Toss sodium batteries in there as well. They have a lower fire risk. NMC batteries aren't typically a great choice for solar unless you're repurposing batteries from an EV, or you have a really tight space constraint and need the energy density of NMC. They are more expensive, have a higher...

Tesla uses BLE as well. My 2015 and 2019 Model S didn't have PaaK, but the fob was always reliable. It has limited range so the car wouldn't always unlock when you were trying to unplug, but if you were close to the doors or near the front of the vehicle, the doors always unlocked. It was...

I dunno, I think purple can be pretty nice as long as it's dark enough to not look like grape bubblegum. A little over 20 years ago I was shopping for a 95M Miata in merlot mica: I also shopped for a 2nd gen Honda fit in blackberry pearl: If I were getting another Rivian, borealis would have...

I'd probably get the gen 1, but I'd find one with the wheels/tires you like and the tonneau cover. $8k narrows the gap significantly, though you can recover some of the cost by selling the 22s. Rivian doesn't force you into all-purpose mode on the quad.

Same hardware here. My PaaK sucks at home, though it's better than it was a year ago.

Even better is not even having to tap anything, just literally plug and charge. If you have an Ionna account with a card on file it'll bill directly, just like RAN, EA, and Tesla. This is even better than a gas pump. Only issue I've had is when the session didn't initiate due to an issue...

Further, I find it frustrating that you can't even see how many amps you're drawing. It does show kw, but even that is flawed as it doesn't show the actual draw from the wall. I have my EVSE set up to allow 40A @ 240v, so that would be 9.6kw, sometimes a bit higher in winter as the actual...

Surprisingly no, they still allow you to customize the left scroll wheel function, including temperature control for the HVAC. I don't think it's as intuitive as the old system, though I admittedly never owned a 3 or a refreshed S.

The earlier Model S/X had a similar physical steering wheel interface to the Rivian with scroll wheels, but you could customize what some of the buttons did, including the right scroll wheel. One of those options was temperature, another was fan speed. On my 2015 when they still offered a...

Yeah, but the hardware is the hardware. Everyone bought hardware. I had a powered tonneau installed on my truck post-delivery. My original post was asking for any software features that were arbitrarily limited to gen2 even if they will work on gen1.

Isn't it about time we started answering rhetorical questions?

I've seen some weird things when the rear seats climate zone starts messing things up for the whole truck. Double check that someone didn't set the rear to "hi."

None of those are software updates.

Your '24 has elevation. That was well after the switch. Even my '23 has elevation. You can double check by looking at the door speaker grill and seeing if it says Meridian.

What's worse is that these energy saving modes make the vehicles a lot worse to drive. Kicking you out of sport mode, re-enabling auto ride height, and forcing disconnection of the rear motor all suck. I've mentioned this in a lot of threads about drive modes, but the quad's best undocumented...