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Not sure what this has to do with temperature readings.... Alarm bell go off in my head when I see aluminum wiring. Used correctly it can be a good, strong, conductor. Used in household wiring it's often a fire hazard. What charging station do you have? Are the wire connectors compatible with...

It will certainly take time to reach profitablity. But even 5 years is too short for cost accounting to the individual cars. Normal useful life of the more expensive parts of the plant rang from 10-15 years for industrial robots to 20-30 years for stamping presses. (According to quick searches.)...

From what I understand, there are two design constraints sort of opposing each other: * Short term rate of charge/discharge--dictates both acceleration and Regen braking. When combined with the size of the battery, this is Power Density. * Amount of energy stored. Paired with size this is Energy...

This is the same fallacy as was levied towards Tesla in the Tesla Death Watch, $TSLAQ days. You do not ever amortize the capex of a factory over just one year of production. 90000 vehicles at $11000 (from your argument) is $990,000,000, the $1 Billion you were positing. Same with capex spent...

The earlier video that @Saksak posted: Tom talks about why a dual mode NACS to CCS1 is a bad thing starting about 6:15.

Tom explains why that is a bad idea. At the end of the video above he shows an adapter exactly like that and the safety issues with it. I also suspect using that LeTough adapter on the Ford EVSE could damage the car or the charger as it would tie the AC power output pins to the DC power input pins.

See State of Charge's video for the A2Z adapter needed for this.

I have to backtrack just a bit here...there do exist such beasts: Ford and GM both make them for bidirectional charging. The DC pins are used for powering the house from the car's battery. These are not, however, on the public charging networks. See this video for more details...but you still...

Please note: there are no charging stations that have CCS1 and output AC. More correctly, CCS1 uses the communication pins of the J1772 connector and adds two heavy duty pins for high voltage, high current DC power. The AC power pins of the J1772 are not used at all. Using a J1772 to NACS...

I believe the answer to both is "yes"

It's 100% full: * 50% water * 50% air

See the Road to Lucid Gravity video series.

Tesla named biohazard mode quirkily, but it works very well. I drove from WA to San Jose during the Carr fire. Visibility was often reduced, but there was no smoke smell in the cabin and my partner's allergies did complain. But it's not just filtration. They also run the fans fast enough to...

Gravity already has dual charging.

My understanding is the electronic components in the Inverter have what is referred to as a bathtub failure curve (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve). They do burn in tests in manufacturing to try and weed out the majority of infant mortality cases. But some small number will slip...

I don't know the cause of your delay, but I doubt it's due to the car being on its default settings. Power negotiation doesn't take long.

That article has a quote from Winterhoff that makes a point a lot of people don't recognize: "It's sometimes embarrassing. We have such a fantastic car, by the way," he said. "Under the hood, in order to make that car perform like it performs, **is tons of software that all works** [emphasis...

I had this happen once recently. Switched to another screen (either HVAC or NAV, I forget which) and back to home and it was OK.

Do your lug nuts have the plastic covers on them? That's happened to others here.

Are you charging to 100%? Any time the battery is at or near 100%, regenerative braking will be reduced since there's no battery capacity to take the energy. As you drive and use energy, the Regen braking begins working with less restrictions, and finally operating normally. Regen can also be...