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From my experience with EVs, I'd like to point out the importance of this feature: If you're driving in cold weather you can maintain comfort more easily with a combination of seat heating and less cabin heat. That will decrease the electrons spent keeping your passengers warm and instead use...

That sounds like it might be the console wiring issue, which would definitely make it a Service item.

That must have changed over time. My 2018 Model X has the satellite version.

GPS signals are much weaker than cell signals. Your phone needs to receive signals from 4 GPS satellites to obtain a location fix. The satellites continuously broadcast extremely accurate time codes and over time send their orbital ephemerides data. As the satellites are at different distances...

If the warranty costs affect the whole fleet, I agree. But if they are reflective of finding fixable flaws in production (e.g. cable routing errors) then the high service costs will diminish over time and they should be accounted in the costs of starting the factory.

Cost per car is a meaningless metric when the company is investing to build at scale. Same canard was used against Tesla until they turned profitable. Creating car factories is capital intensive, and you won't make profit on them when running at a fraction of the designed production capacity.

One way to have an extended test drive is to rent one through Turo. Availability varies by location. We rented an Air GT and drove 800 miles one weekend through some twisty mountain roads before ordering the GDE we're still waiting on.

That's the perfect world fallacy of software development. And it can be true enough in a single-core microprocessor that is doing something simple. But the moment you add multiple cores, multiple network-connected systems, real time control, unpredictable inputs (we humans are far from...

You think you jest.... In high school we had a Wang 360 "desktop calculator" (https://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/wang360.html). The programs were hand punched using a Port-a-punch using a stylus (there is a picture of it on the above page. These cards were locked into a bed-of-nails type card...

I wrote Fortran on IBM Hollerith cards! Sequence numbers are your friend when you drop a deck 😊 Also wrote assembly using coding forms that we then sent to be keypunched. Yes, the company had a pool of keypunch operators.

I felt the same at the start of my test drive. I have a 2018 Model X. But then the SA pushed a button on the pilot panel to remotely drop the 3rd row seat headrests. That gave visibility much better than the X, in my opinion.

Several EVSEs have the ability to share a circuit or simply coordinate usage. I have two Tesla Universal (Gen3) wall connectors. They allow either car to charge at 48 A, or both to simultaneously use 24A each. IIRC, this can be set up to share power between up to 6 wall connectors, each with...

I was told I had a pre-VIN for my DE earlier this month. Ordered GGT late March, upgraded to GDE a week later. After the email from the CEO, I asked for an update and was told production should start in "September"...

It could be something as simple as bad wiring to a controller/antenna that is used both for detecting the fob inside the car and for NFC reading of the card key.

Old school: * Access car: open the unlocked door. Use manual key to unlock door if needed * Start car: use manual key to start car Early Fob/keyless entry: * Access car: keyless entry. Often requires button press or touching door handle. * Start car: use physical key Modern fob: * Fob enables...

Only if you have ordered a Dream Edition. GGT is refundable until it goes into production.

I'm assuming you have phone as key set up? PAK works locally via Bluetooth. Most other functions require the phone to communicate with Lucid's servers, and the servers to contact the car via the car's cellular modem or WiFi. The spinning circle is during the time it takes to make these server...

I haven't found anything specific about the Alps S26 ultra, but I did find a forum thread detailing the S24 Ultra. It is very likely that the real version of Android on it is very old. The S24 claimed to have Android 14 but was actually on 8.1 So yes, a cheap Chinese knockoff.

It's easy to identify older Tesla chargers from their post labeling. The posts are labeled 1A,1B,2A,2B, etc. None of these will be compatible with Non-Teslas. There are also 72kW Urban Superchargers that look nothing like the others. These are also not going to be compatible (AFAIK). Posts...

Popularized by Admiral Grace Hopper's bug story wherein a moth was found causing errors in a computer at Harvard. https://daily.jstor.org/the-bug-in-the-computer-bug-story/