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Great questions Lefty. I am purely guessing, but I think all the free charging has had unintended consequences. I read that Tesla did it at first to overcome buyers resistance due to range anxiety when traveling. But no one expected it would be used by so many for primary charging around home.

I believe EA prices are very reasonable. Only looking at raw KW cost is flawed economics. Like a restaurant only looking at its raw food costs. The cost of a 350 kw DC charger per pedestal is about $100k, installing is $40k to 150,000. Plus site acquisition, rent, insurance, back end...

Agreed. We have owned two. I was told years ago by Audi AG that Audi US is deathly afraid of hurting SUV sales. And Audi US decides what to import. Was Recently in the UK and you see Avants everywhere. Far more than SUVs

We adoreed our S7, which is basically a A6 lift back. Amazing amount of easy access storage, both with rest seats up and down. Nearly as much as the Avant.

Sorry, I strongly disagree. What you say is true for fork lifts tires but not passenger tires. While the load carrying capacity may go up slightly up, everything else, above a few psi, goes down: contact patch, handling, wear, ride. Every tire engineering site I have seen says 3-5 psi is the...

Great, that is still best practice (using four floor jacks) in an automotive garage that does not have a lift. Having worked in Porsche Audi dealers in college, it was done for efficiency: all 4 wheels dismounted, then all 4 tires removed, 4 reinstalled, 4 balanced, 4 remounted. We used 4...

Go to your climate control screen. Turn on all three outputs: high/windshield, middle and floor. AC defaults to the mid and feet. The windshield output, made for defrost, cools your head. I now use the AC keep on mode all the damn time when I am out and about. It uses almost no juice...

Audi engineers told me the puck is just a buffer to keep the jack from gouging the plastic underbody, and the half moon indentations in their lift point is just to insure proper line up of their puck with the jack cradle. Since the floor lifting point is flush with the floor pan, it can be...

My Lucid is far more robust when I use a Bruins puck. You can try to use a Ranger or Islanders puck at your peril.

That is correct. Not just Lucid, but Audi, BMW, Porsche. Just insure you use the designated lift point. I have seen Audi's and Porsche's severally frame damaged when a tire jock misses the welded lift point and lifts from an unsupported section of the floor pan.

Any flat hard rubber puck will work. Like a standard hockey puck. The red puck is urethane and made especially for Audi lift points. It has the lip to fit into a notch in the Audi lift point. The black is a standard hockey puck. Have used the black puck on my Air three times. Works...

I called Service, not CS, after I bought, and was given the service history.

Hard wired ChargePoints are rated to use a 70 or 80 amp breaker, but even with those big breakers, the unit only allows you to set a max output setting of no more than 50 amps, the rated max for that unit. versus 48 amps output on a 60 breaker. That's why CP recommends and most use the 60...

You are making me hungry. Had breakfast at Northside yesterday. We live a few miles up the mountain from Northside in Wildridge. Brand new EA chargers just opened in Moab. The Glenwood EA had a great vibe, as there are often EV factory teams there, doing the famous Denver Glenwood Denver...

Yes they do. But it's semi hidden. You need to select a Touring GT and not Touring as your car. Then all the frunk and trunks show up as an option. Tuxmats screwed up their drop down menus. The same Tuxmats frunk and trunk mats fit all our cars, GT, Touring,Pure. Only the second row...

350 including parts for the first one

To this day, my blood pressure rises when I think about chasing Lucas we electrical gremlins. Didn't Bosch buy Lucas?

My mother, rest her soul, would tell friends how one morning, when I was in high school, she found me passed out asleep on the kitchen table: SU carb body still in one hand, it's piston in the other. We used to call British auto wiring "spaghetti." Get it wet, and it fell apart.

Setting points. I still have the feeler guages. Remember the horrible Lucas ignition on British cars? Popular MG bumper sticker: "Lucas Electrics and Refridgeration - the reason why the British drink warm beer"

Also, will do any open service campaigns - I had two for them to do. They also check all fluids (two coolant reservoir's), including a check of the brake fluid for contaminant/water content. And they hook the car to a computer and do a full system scan of all modules for communication and...