She has been out for a few days. She is back in now. Will find out the deal specifics I do know her previous Tesla was less than three years old and the range started declining that she could not make it from Bethlehem PA to Red Bank NJ and back on a single charge. Will find out the monetary loss she experienced from having to release a new Tesla.
I think storage and charging tech will improve very rapidly, although yes, storage tech probably has a lower ceiling so more gains might be found in rapid charging.
This "debate" is getting too dumb to ignore.
So I got the details from my co worker. The car was just over (1 month) over three years old. She had 73000 miles on it when she sold it to a private car buying company. Even though it was out of warranty and Tesla did offer her an "allowance" in the purchase of a new Tesla, she opted to sell it privately and according to her got substantially more selling it privately. She rolled that money into a new tesla.
Chevy has a hard time building reliable ICE cars and they have been building them for decades. I can only imagine what their EV reliability will be. I see a lot of recalls with both chevy and ford EV's
This is very odd. She is so disappointed and dissatisfied with her Tesla that she bought another one? This doesn't add up....
Tesla's battery warranty is good for 8 years and 100k, 120k, or 150k miles depending on model
Where did you get that she was "so upset"? I never said she was upset and in fact she said she loves her new Tesla. She took a big hit on the initial price $62k for a car that was three years old in my opinion but she was not upset.
I had a GMC Suburban, which is basically a Chevy Suburban, for 20 years with nothing but very minor issues, none which affected driving. It got totally abused the entire time by me and then by 3 kids who learned how to drive in it and then used it all the time.
For two decades I drove nothing but American cars. My first two American cars were gems. Then I bought two jeep cherokees limiteds and it was nothing but problems. After my second jeep literally died in my driveway with 43k miles on the odometer I said never again. My last two cars have been Japanese makes. First a Toyota which lasted me for 330k miles and now a 2017 Mazda which has 140k miles with no issues so far.
If anything is bs , Is those ridiculous numbers you just put up , again my question is the safety in these tin cans being built for those mark up prices , I paid 32k for my 2012 f150 Lariat fully equipped .It's not $90K for a battery.
My post said a conventional ICE Platinum F150 runs $74,000. I redid the configuration, and it actually costs $80,000, plus sales tax. To purchase the ICE F150 Platinum, you would pay $85,000.
The price of the F150 Lightning Platinum is $90,000, and minus the tax credit, it is $82,500, and no sales tax.
So, the Lightning version of the F150 is $2,500 less expensive in 2022.
The car fire numbers are BS, per Car and Driver. Score more fake news from the prime source of fake news, the New York Times. Yes, the same newspaper that reported Poland invaded Nazi Germany when the opposite happened. Don't believe everything you see on the interwebs.
Want to LOL now?
No, Millions of Cars Are Not Catching Fire Every Year
A New York Times story about U.S. car fires references a study that gets the frequency wrong by a factor of at least 60.www.caranddriver.com
Dude, I am going on what I was told. Do you want me to conduct an “on camera”
My driving experience is fine. I turn on the car and it gets me from point A to point B more efficiently than an electric car. When I am
The average EV weighs 1000 pounds more than its comparable combustion engine, therefore they will be more expensive to build. Lower fuel and maintenance cost should equate or lower total cost over time. But because they require more materials, ones that are diminishing in supply, costs to build will never be lower than gas cars. At least in any time Frame that I can see.
This is one of the more moronic things I’ve ever read.PG&E's Tesla battery facility catches fire in California
Reuters) -A fire outbreak at PG&E Corp's energy storage facility on Tuesday that uses battery packs made by Tesla Inc has shut down part of Highway 1 in California.
This came about a year after another fire broke out in a Tesla's "Megapack" battery unit in Australia during testing of one of the world's biggest energy storage projects.
Power producer PG&E said it was working with firefighters to stop the fire from spreading at the California facility, which is one of the biggest utility-owned, lithium-ion battery energy storage systems in the world. The incident has caused no electrical outage for customers, it added.
Glad those Tesla batteries are so clean they are spewing white smoke toxic chemicals into the atmosphere. Science has proven “white smoke” toxic chemicals from electric battery packs are much better for the environment than black smoke fossil fuel smoke. LOL!
Hahaha! Oh your “mom” car Volvo is soooo much better than my Toyota. I just bet you wear tortoise shell glasses. LOL!
Men don’t drive “soccer mom” cars and brag about them. At least straight men don’t! LOL
Hahaha! Hang around at playgrounds, Is that what you do? Police APB:”be on the lookout for a guy who drives a sweeeet Volvo S60 soccer mom car and wearing horn rimmed glasses. He likes to hang out on playgrounds. LOL
There's an old episode of top gear where they tried to kill an old Toyota hilux pickup and couldn't. One of my favorite episodes actually.
My Toyota lasted for 330k before the water pump went. That was the only major
