Agreed. And as you said, many of the articles from the more mainstream news sources like AP, etc. have simply given the facts.
And it appears to be more than just a "font change" on a warning message.
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Agreed. And as you said, many of the articles from the more mainstream news sources like AP, etc. have simply given the facts.
And it appears to be more than just a "font change" on a warning message.
Damn.
"Lundeen said he was so shocked by the manager’s frank explanation of Tesla’s part failures that he wrote it down: “All I can tell you,” the Tesla manager said, “is we’re not a 100-year-old company like GM and Ford. We haven’t worked all the bugs out yet.”"
Guess maybe "legacy auto" ain't all bad then. 🙂
Wonder if that article contributed to the nearly 4% drop in TSLA trading today.
So wait. Tesla knew about the potential steering and suspension issues and discussed internally but when they actually happened to their cars in the real world, they turned around and tried to blame the owners of their cars? LOL. I gotta say, that's very Big Three Automaker of them.
I mean why stop there? Blame the media too for their suspension and steering issues.
I mean why stop there? Blame the media too for their suspension and steering issues.
Our Chevy Blazer EV Has 23 Problems After Only 2 Months | Edmunds
Our 2024 Blazer EV is very, very broken. A road trip from Los Angeles to San Diego revealed a number of faults, but when we got the diagnosis from the dealer, we were shocked at what we saw. Read up on all our EV's problems right here.
www.edmunds.com
Nearly half of Buick dealers choose buyout over investing to sell EVs - Autoblog
About 47% of Buick's 1,958 dealers chose to take a buyout from General Motors instead of investing thousands of dollars to sell EVs.
www.autoblog.com
Nio ET7 Goes 649 Miles On A Single Charge, New Big Battery Available As Upgrade For Older Cars
When the electric sedan completed its journey it still had three percent charge left
jalopnik.com
This 5 year owner of a Model 3 with enhanced autopilot is in complete agreement. It drives like a 16 year old nervous wreck in many of those situations and makes me a nervous wreck wondering when I might need to grab the wheel. I also wish the traffic adaptive cruise control (what I use most of the time by far) didn't have autopilot in partial control, often making similar odd braking decisions when unnecessary.
Do you work for the Associated Press or Yahoo News?
Asking for a friend. . . . . 😉
Maybe they could use Jay Z's song 99 Problems for their advertisement?Our Chevy Blazer EV Has 23 Problems After Only 2 Months | Edmunds
Our 2024 Blazer EV is very, very broken. A road trip from Los Angeles to San Diego revealed a number of faults, but when we got the diagnosis from the dealer, we were shocked at what we saw. Read up on all our EV's problems right here.www.edmunds.com
Quite the tensest:
"displaying a map centered in the middle of the Pacific Ocean"
Bad joke ahead--"Blazer" is a bad name for an EV, since they catch fire so frequently. . . . . .
Every time the Turnpike speed limit changed to a lower one, it would abruptly apply the brake.
Like by the airport, the posted limit changes from 65 to 55.
I had to override to prevent the guy behind me from having a heart attack.
You saying this is easily the least surprising thing in this entire 290 page thread.
I’m sorry to disappoint any conspiracy theorists about where Tesla critiques come from but…no.
I’m a teacher that stood in line to reserve my 3 in 2016 so I’d get the full original tax credit in order to afford it in 2018.
So a thread started on the Lightning forums about a creaking noise near the passenger side A pillar, and a bunch of people have the same problem. A Ford rep got in that thread and reached out to those that posted, and they have escalated the issue, which is a minor one. They are listening and being proactive, which is nice!
Have I mentioned the gas guzzler tax I had to pay for one of my recent cars? Or how freaking loud it is when over 4500 rpms? Two kinds of pollution at once. The good news being the Tesla vehicle drivers hear me coming when I pass them, so they put their hands back on their yokes.
Reason #69069 why I love my ICE vehicles. 😀
By god, if I knew how great it would feel to post like a total douchebag on social media, like that Xwitter user, I would’ve started way younger than I did. Woo hoo!
it's no wonder why those rolling coal guys relish posting their antics on social media. Every action causes a reaction.
I actually think people that roll coal are douchenozzles too, and although I have no way to be sure, I'm guessing they were doing that long before EVs started becoming a thing. 🙂
But as bad as the attitude of the coal-rollers is, they're no worse than that Xwitter numbnut.
I wonder if seeing this tweet caused people to buy tsla today. I see the stock is up 3%
That guy needs a kick in his vagina yesterday.
The problem with that is the only way to achieve it is to compromise handling. It’s a compromise many are okay with. But I personally would hate it and prefer to compromise in the other direction, sacrificing ride softness and comfort for better handling.
Well, okay. I don’t disagree. OTOH, I wouldn’t want to be in that car, in whatever mode it was in during that video, if the need for accident avoidance handling arises.
I’m not gonna disagree that my preference for stiffer chassis settings is more the exception than the rule. Even in my SUV, I tend to put the chassis in its stiffest settings, which most owners of the same car seem to never use at all.
I don’t understand what you mean by that. It’s very easy for software to make that differentiation, given the proper sensors.
When it comes to EVs, designers greatly prefer low drag to downforce. So while downforce is a factor at highway speeds, it’s not one that changes rapidly unless the car has experienced something really bad at high speeds, like driving over an object in the highway at 90mph that causes it to raise its nose to the point where aerodynamic lift occurs.
And at that point, comfort and handling are irrelevant and it’s more about all the crash safety features ’cause the car is gonna flip and/or roll. It’s gonna be really bad.
Probably the most rapid downforce altering thing a typical EV will experience is a hard braking event from extralegal speeds. And even then the event cannot be mistaken for a bump. And the total amount of change, in an EV, is relatively small because, again, not that much downforce designed into most EVs to start with.
Downforce does matter when it comes to suspension design. Because cars designed for high aerodynamic downforce necessitate a stiffer chassis, a stiffer suspension with stronger wheels, and tires with stiffer, stronger sidewalls capable of coping with the potentially very large downforce increases at higher speeds.
All of which is achieved at the unavoidable expense of ride comfort.
GM is literally killing it in EVs. First the Edmunds Blazer fiasco, now:
www.firerescue1.com
Li-ion batteries burn at GM's electric vehicle plant in Detroit
Fire involving lithium-ion batteries near the loading dock led to a shutdown of production
www.firerescue1.com
Tesla at it again 😁
www.cbs42.com
Alabama firefighters use 36,000 gallons of water to put out 1 Tesla on Christmas
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Thousands of gallons of water and over 10 rescue organizations were used to put out a single fire from a Tesla vehicle in Alabama on Christmas. In the Pine Level community…
www.cbs42.com
1 Tesla requiring 36,000 gallons of water to put out versus 170,000+ ICE car fires.
