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Wibla posted:Welcome to the dark side, we have superchargers Praise Elon
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Yuns posted:Apparently all 2200 Polestar 2 delivered so far have been recalled due to some allegedly irrecoverably bricking themselves while driving. Huh, guess they made good on their commitment to compete with Tesla on quality after all. 
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Oct 3, 2020 19:44
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So the VW dealer decided the best thing to do was email everyone who make an id.4 reservation with everyone on the to line. On one hand I know how many people ordered with that dealer selected, and on the other people can never resist replying all
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Oct 3, 2020 20:24
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Email was a mistake.
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Oct 3, 2020 20:31
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Reply all with goatse don't actually do this 
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Oct 3, 2020 21:31
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Westy543 posted:Reply all with goatse Do it but from a burner email, duh Even better if you make the email look like someone else’s name from the list
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Oct 3, 2020 22:01
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Wibla posted:Welcome to the dark side, we have superchargers Notwithstanding anything else, the actual order process for Tesla is fantastic. We went to a test drive in Paramus, came back, and picked our car out of inventory and had it ordered in less than an hour, including the time it took to go through the credit checks and update insurance. No janking around with getting GEICO to fax an insurance binder over, having to get a certified check, any of that crap. The "normal" car buying process feels like knuckle-dragging troglodytery.
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Oct 3, 2020 22:23
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Spark EV weird sound update!! As suggested here, it was the aero panels after all. I pressed around them and didn't feel anything loose, but when I finally got on the ground and looked around I noticed a gap on one side where the bumper cover connects to the rear aero panel.  The clips connect at the blue circled areas, and the clips in yellow had bent and weren't sitting right. It was loose, and the noise was it moving around, slapping the other panel. Removed the panel, bent the clips back, put it all back together (no leftover parts!), and no more sound! Aside from installing the backup camera and replacing the cabin air filter, this is the first time I've fixed my own car. 
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Oct 3, 2020 22:55
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chutwig posted:Notwithstanding anything else, the actual order process for Tesla is fantastic. We went to a test drive in Paramus, came back, and picked our car out of inventory and had it ordered in less than an hour, including the time it took to go through the credit checks and update insurance. No janking around with getting GEICO to fax an insurance binder over, having to get a certified check, any of that crap. The "normal" car buying process feels like knuckle-dragging troglodytery.
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Oct 3, 2020 23:37
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RZA Encryption posted:Spark EV weird sound update!! Yay! Yuns posted:Our experience was not nearly as smooth with Tesla (also in NJ). Yes ordering a non-inventory model was quick but the rest of the process involved lots of failures to communicate and weirdness capped off by a delivered car that went straight to a body shop for repair before delivery. I've noticed Subaru now calls them retailers instead of dealers. Are they trying to copy Tesla?
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Oct 4, 2020 00:27
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Charles posted:I've noticed Subaru now calls them retailers instead of dealers. Are they trying to copy Tesla? I feel like this has been a thing for years now, trying to replace the words “dealer” or “dealership”. I don’t know if it’s a nationwide thing but at least around here Ford ads always call it the “Ford store” which sounds very strange. “dealership” might as well be a 4-letter word, so I’m not surprised any company would want to get away from it in their ad copy.
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Oct 4, 2020 01:52
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I have a quick fast charging question. The premium plans for both Electrify America and EV Go. EV Go has an $8/mo plan, and from what I can gather, it includes an $8 charging credit. So theoretically I can activate the plan when on a trip requiring it, and essentially have a "free" discounted charging price right? Am I reading that correctly? And EA has a $4/mo sub but it does not include a credit, so I'm paying $4 to have the lower prices?
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Oct 4, 2020 03:36
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Yes, that's right. The EVGo sub fee becomes account credit. Some months we don't even dip past that $8. Afaict the EA subscription doesn't give you credit. chutwig posted:I feel like this has been a thing for years now, trying to replace the words “dealer” or “dealership”. I don’t know if it’s a nationwide thing but at least around here Ford ads always call it the “Ford store” which sounds very strange. “dealership” might as well be a 4-letter word, so I’m not surprised any company would want to get away from it in their ad copy. Honestly if I hear "the Ford store," my lizard brain tells me I can go pick up a Ford there without having to haggle or negotiate, even if that isn't actually the case.
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Westy543 posted:Yes, that's right. The EVGo sub fee becomes account credit. Some months we don't even dip past that $8. Afaict the EA subscription doesn't give you credit. Thanks! Just theorycrafting some small road trips for next summer if it's safer to do so
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Oct 4, 2020 04:16
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chutwig posted:I feel like this has been a thing for years now, trying to replace the words “dealer” or “dealership”. I don’t know if it’s a nationwide thing but at least around here Ford ads always call it the “Ford store” which sounds very strange. “dealership” might as well be a 4-letter word, so I’m not surprised any company would want to get away from it in their ad copy. It's possible it has been happening for a while -- I haven't been looking until recently. They are trying to do online sales though due to covid.
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Oct 4, 2020 05:24
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EVs are a very sensible choice in sports events, no fumes, no noise. Here, an e-NV200 timing van in the London marathon: The bikes should be electric too. I guess two up on a Zero is probably not very comfy. But you only need 42.195 km of range at 18-20 kph.
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Oct 4, 2020 08:21
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Ola posted:
I just assumed they weren't, but isn't that a BMW C Evolution? 
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Oct 4, 2020 08:43
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Ola posted:EVs are a very sensible choice in sports events, no fumes, no noise. Here, an e-NV200 timing van in the London marathon: Extra weight if you’re two-up, but it should be doable still, right? Fortunately most marathon routes are fairly flat as well.
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Oct 4, 2020 08:57
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harperdc posted:Extra weight if you’re two-up, but it should be doable still, right? Fortunately most marathon routes are fairly flat as well. Very doable for any electric moped or motorcycle. Looking at the race now, I'm sure it's a C Evolution. Couldn't hear any engines noises either. The base model has a 60 mile range, the upgraded has 100. So 2 up with heavy camera gear is still no problem.
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Oct 4, 2020 09:29
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When I did a trail race last year the local TV station had a guy on the back of a 2-stroke trail bike taking video. It was ahead of me filming for a few minutes chucking out smoke and fumes, really not nice. Electric bikes would be perfect.
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Oct 4, 2020 10:17
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Ola posted:EVs are a very sensible choice in sports events, no fumes, no noise. Here, an e-NV200 timing van in the London marathon: This goes back to the Munich Olympics (1972) where BMW had electric 1600’s for the marathon. As a corollary I raced USCF cycling in the late 1970’s and I can affirm that a 1975 Peugeot Diesel is NOT an ideal pace car.
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Oct 4, 2020 18:05
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Thanks to whom ever suggested a Sea Sucker bike rack for my Kia Niro EV. It worked.
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Oct 4, 2020 18:13
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Woah that's rad. Also nice truck there.
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Charles posted:Woah that's rad. Also nice truck there. Policeman who lives across the street. A cool guy who was a motorcycle officer for a while (BMW).
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I just want to complain and say that the audi software is the worst garbage in the world. e-tron started charging yesterday during the day (despite being configured to only charge from 11pm to 5am) which coincided with super spike electricity rates so I would up charging while electricity was $1/kwh. Also 9 times out of 10 the stupid app throws a 500 ISE.
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Shamino posted:I just want to complain and say that the audi software is the worst garbage in the world. e-tron started charging yesterday during the day (despite being configured to only charge from 11pm to 5am) which coincided with super spike electricity rates so I would up charging while electricity was $1/kwh. Also 9 times out of 10 the stupid app throws a 500 ISE. Sounds like peak Audi.
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$1/kWh is nuts, that's like $80 to fully charge an E-Tron at that rate.
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I know the VW ID is selling very well, but I'm kind of surprised anyone thought VW/Audi adding more electronics to their cars would be a good idea. I just listened to a very interesting podcast about lithium, but it's pretty dense so I'm going to have to listen again to fully absorb it. It's a TSLAQ podcast but very little touches upon Musk/Tesla so even the bazingas here should be able to listen to it. Particularly worth listening to is the part around 15 mins where he talks about lithium not being a commodity and 99.5% pure lithium from different mines not being interchangeable for batteries as it's what's in the 0.5% that matters more than how pure the lithium is. The guest also predicts a rise in lithium prices by 2022, which if true is going to make all those graphs showing the steady decline in price per kWh inaccurate in not too long. Sorry the podcast always starts off with a poem, not a huge fan of that. https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/758369/5731507-episode-46-joe-lowry The guest also has his own podcast that gets even more detailed, so if you REALLY want to know more about lithium he has a large number of episodes available (I haven't check it out yet): https://www.globallithium.net/podcast
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Tesla solar panel update: they finally did permitting and the install is scheduled for later this month. I'll let everyone know when my roof catches on fire.
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https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/5/21502379/tesla-modely-roof-flies-off-convertible-quality-issue How in the world is the response to fix the car rather to give them a brand new car?
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lostleaf posted:https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/5/21502379/tesla-modely-roof-flies-off-convertible-quality-issue If the QC is bad enough that these kinds of defects are happening, I think getting a brand new car is the worse of the two options
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They didn't start their tweet to Elon with "Love the car but..."
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It's just bonded in there, all you have to do is glue it back in. How is "give them a new car" the correct response? edit: obviously an unacceptable failure of QC etc but "you get a new car" is not a normal response to a fairly easily correctable manufacturing defect from any OEM
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:It's just bonded in there, all you have to do is glue it back in. How is "give them a new car" the correct response? My concern is that a major defect slipped past the QC. I would be left wondering how many minor defects are not noticeable until the end of the 7 day return period.
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MomJeans420 posted:I know the VW ID is selling very well, but I'm kind of surprised anyone thought VW/Audi adding more electronics to their cars would be a good idea. How much of a battery’s cost is lithium? A 50% increase in lithium prices would for instance increase the battery pack price of a nickel-manganese-cobalt (NMC) 811 battery by less than 4%. Similarly, a doubling of cobalt prices would result in a 3% increase in the overall pack price. https://about.bnef.com/blog/behind-scenes-take-lithium-ion-battery-prices/
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Nfcknblvbl posted:$1/kWh is nuts, that's like $80 to fully charge an E-Tron at that rate. We pay wholesale rate through Griddy. So most of the time were only paying 1-2c/kwh and when there are spikes we just turn off the a/c, lights, etc. ERCOT updates pricing every 5 mins and most spikes don't last more than half an hour. .IMO it's a pretty good system as long as all your IOT devices are willing to play along.
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Got it. Sounds like it’s worth buying an EVSE capable of taking advantage of the 5-min plan you have!
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VideoGameVet posted:How much of a battery’s cost is lithium? Good point, I forgot that while the DOE says that materials are ~40% of the cost of a lithium ion battery, it's not the lithium that really adds up.
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Looks like official epa range is in for the Polestar 2, at 233 miles. That's a good bit short of the targeted 275. They're using a 78 kWh battery with 75 usable, which I think is the same as the model 3 which is rated at 322? That's really unfortunate, I hope it doesn't hurt their sales too much. (I bring up the Model 3, because Volvo said it was intended as a direct competitor) Source.
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Westy543 posted:Looks like official epa range is in for the Polestar 2, at 233 miles. That's a good bit short of the targeted 275. They're using a 78 kWh battery with 75 usable, which I think is the same as the model 3 which is rated at 322? That's really unfortunate, I hope it doesn't hurt their sales too much. (I bring up the Model 3, because Volvo said it was intended as a direct competitor) It's definitely more thirsty than the Model 3. Bjørn Nyland got 189 mi range at 75 mph, vs 243 for the Model 3. 270 vs 324 for 90 kph. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S53F2CtjPFg (Numbers at 15:10 and 21:45)
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